LIEUTENANT 

Joshua  Hewes 

A  NEW  ENGLAND  PIONEER 


UNIVERSITY  OF  CALIFORNIA 
AT  LOS  ANGELES 


LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA    HEWES 

AND  SOME  OF  HIS  DESCENDANTS 


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LIEUTENANT 
JOSHUA  HEWES 


A  NEW  ENGLAND  PIONEER 

AND  SOME  OF  HIS  DESCENDANTS 


WITH  MATERIALS  FOR  A  GENEALOGICAL  HISTORY  OF  OTHER 
FAMILIES  OF  THE  NAME 


AND  A  SKETCH  OF 

JOSEPH  HEWES  THE  SIGNER 

EDITED  AND  CHIEFLY  COMPILED  BY 

EBEN   PUTNAM 

Member  California  Genealogical  Society,  etc. 


PRIVATELY  PRINTED 
1913 


J.   F.  TAPLEY  CO. 

NEW    YORK 


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CONTENTS 

PAGE 

Preface,  by  David  Hewes X1 

Introduction xv 

Origin  and  Distribution  of  the  Name,  Hewes,  Hughes,  Huse       1 
John  Hewes  of  Royston,  and  Some  Account  of  the  Foote 

Family ® 

Lieut.  Joshua  Hewes  of  New  England 19 

Joshua  Hewes  of  Boston,  and  His  Immediate  Descendants  .      91 

Descendants  of  John  Hewes  of  Lynnfield,  Mass 143 

David  Hewes  of  California,  an  Autobiography 225 

Joseph  Hewes,  a  Signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence  265 
Descendants  of  George  Hewes  of  Salisbury,  Mass.    .      .      .311 

Descendants  of  Abel  Huse  of  Newbury,  Mass 371 

Notes  on  the  Occurrence  Prior  to  1800  of  the  Name  Hewes, 
Huse,  Hughes  in  the  United  States.  Massachusetts, 
399.  Essex  County,  400.  Middlesex  County,  404.  Suf- 
folk County,  408.  Boston,  421.  Western  Massachu- 
setts and  Miscellaneous,  425.  Plymouth  Colony,  428. 
Connecticut,  433.     New  Hampshire,  440.     Vermont,  449. 

Maine,  450.     Rhode  Island,  453 399 

Soldiers  in  Colonial  Wars  from   New  England    ....   455 
Other  Families — Pension  Records.  Pennsylvania,  462.     New 
York,  465.     Virginia,  468.     The  Carolinas,  Alabama  and 

Georgia,  484 462 

Pensioners,  War  of  1812 493 

Appendix  I-  Anna  Maria  Lathrop 507 

Appendix  II.  Letters  Written  by  Mrs.  Ruthe  Tapley  Hewes 

Swain  to  Her  Son,  David  Hewes,  1850-1851    .      .      .      .518 
Appendix  III.  The  Righteous  Remembered — In  Memoriam — 

Col.  Joel  Hewes 541 

Appendix  IV.  Notes  on  the  New  England  Ancestry  of  Col. 

Joel  and  Ruthe  (Tapley)  Hewes 545 

The  Tapley  Family,  545.  The  Putnam  Family,  550.  De- 
scent of  Ruthe  Tapley  from  Charlemagne,  Alfred  the 
Great,  and  Henry  the  Fowler,  Emperor  of  Germany, 
554.  The  Norden  and  Copp  Families,  555.  The  John- 
son Family,  560.  The  Smith  Family,  563.  The  Well- 
man   Family,  565.     The   Cogswell  Family,   569    . 

Appendix  V.     The  Last  Spike 571 

Appendix  VI.     The  David  Hewes  Building,  San  Francisco    .    583 

Addenda  et  Corrigenda 599 

Index 605 


1973! 


ILLUSTRATIONS 

David  Hewes  of  Orange,  Calif Frontispiece 

Tabular  Pedigrees.                                                                                          facing  page 
Partial    Pedigree    of    Foote,    showing    connections    of    Lt.    Joshua 

Hewes 1~ 

Pedigree  of  Goldstone 38 

Royal  Descent  of  Mrs.  Ruth  (Tapley)   Hewes 554 

Coat-armor. 

Hughes  of  Gwerclas,  Wales;  Heugh  of  Kent,  Hewes  of  Somerset- 
shire, Hewes  of  London 6 

Arms  of  Lathrop 512 

Autographs. 

Joel    Hewes,   Ruth    Hewes,   Jacoh   Wellman    Hewes,   James    Hewes, 

David  Hewes,  Samuel  Hewes,  George  Hewes,  Edmond  Dolhear     .  122 

Lieut.   Joshua    Hewes    Homestead 20 

Site   of   Lieut.    Joshua    Howes    Homestead,    Roxhury 28 

Plan    of    Roxhury,     1650 ' 44 

Site  of  First  Free  School  in  Roxhurv 54 

"Charter"  of  the   Iron   Works,   1645 64 

Page  from  the  Ledger  of  the  Hammersmith  Forge 66 

Page  from  the  Ledger  of  the  Braintree  Furnace 68 

Power  of  Attorney  given  by  Lieut.  Joshua  Hewes,  1663 76 

Gravestone    of    Lieut.    Joshua    Hewes 84 

Plan   of  Old    Boston,   showing   Hewes   Sites 92 

St.   Paul's   Cathedral,   Boston 100 

John    Hewes    of   Lynnfield,    1711-1817 143 

Page  from  the  Genealogical   Record  of  Jacoh  Wellman   Hewes      .      .      .  144 

Mrs.    Ann    (Wellman)    Hewes,   1748-1824 146 

Family  Record  from  Bible  of  Col.  Joel  Hewes 154 

Jacob    Wellman    Hewes,    Joshua    Hewes 160 

Joshua  Hewes    (No.  38),  Daniel  Hewes   (No.  39) 162 

James   Hewes   of   Lynnfield,  John   Hewes  of  Cincinnati 170 

Jeremiah   Coney,    .Mrs.   Sophia    (Hewes)    Coney 176 

Joel    Hewes.   Jr..    Mrs.    Sarah    (Marsh)    Hewes 180 

Aaron    Tapley    Hewes.    Mrs.    Ixmisa    (Smith)    Hewes 182 

Mrs.    Clarissa     (Emerson)    Cox 184 

Benjamin  Cox.   Mrs.   Mary   Ann    (Hewes)   Cox 186 

Ebenezer  Tilden   Abbott,  Mrs.   Ruthe    (Hewes)    Abbott 188 

Rev.  Charles  Wesley  Hewes,  Mrs.  Rosa  Miller   (Grafton)    Hewes     .      .  190 

David    Hewes,    Mrs.'   Matilda   C.    (French)    Hewes 194 

Ranch    House.    Orange,    Calif 196 

Hewes  Park,  Orange,  Calif 198 

El  Campanil,  Mills  College,  with  Chime  of  Bells  given  by  David  Hewes   .  200 

Susan  Lincoln  Mills,  Luella  Clay  Carson 202 

George  C.  Richards,  Mrs.  Lucy' Ann   (Hewes)   Richards 204 

Orrin  Hewes  (No.  17),  George  Warren  Hewes   (No.  36) 206 

Mrs.  Mary  Cleveland    (Hewes)    Peahody 208 

Henrv  Augustus  Hewes   (No.  80),  George  Warren   Hewes   (No.  79)      .  210 

Rev.   Granville   S.   Abbott 214 

Mrs.    Susan    H.    Abbott 218 

David  Hewes,  1854 225 

Allen   Rowe,   Mrs.   Phebe  Lvnde   Rowe,  The  Rowe  Homestead     .      .      .  228 

David  Hewes,  at  Andover ;  About  1855;  About  1860;  About  1869     .      .  232 

Destruction    of    Sacramento,    1852 236 


x  ILLUSTRATIONS 

FACING  PAGE 

The  Pluto,  The  California  Pony;  Pioneer  Engines 241 

The    Oregon    Pony 242 

Hewes  Market,  Los  Angeles:  Hewes  Building,  San  Francisco,  destroyed 

1906         246 

Billhead   used   by  David   Hewes   prior  to   1860 248 

The   Golden    Spike 250 

Award  to  David  Hewes,  and  Stockholder's  Ticket,  Lewis  and  Clark  Cen- 
tennial  Exposition 256 

Presbyterian  Church  at  Tustin,  Calif 258 

Residence  of  David  Hewes  at  Tustin,  Calif 260 

Hewes   Market,   Los   Angeles,  Calif 262 

Plan  of  David  Hewes'  Ranch  —  Anapauma, —  Orange,  Calif 264 

Joseph  Hewes,  Signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence     ....  278 

Site  of  Tan-yard  of  George  and  Robert  Hewes,  Boston 318 

Liberty   Tree.   Boston 322 

Dr.   Joseph   Hewes   House,   Providence,    R.   1 326 

Shubael   Hewes   House,   Boston 330 

George    Robert    Twelve    Hewes 334 

The    Boston    Tea    Party 338 

Green   Dragon   Tavern,   Boston 342 

Mary  Washington  Monument 468 

David  Hewes,  Mrs.  Anna  M.  (Lathrop)  Hewes 507 

Lathrop    Homestead,    Albany,    N.   Y 508 

Leland  Stanford,  Mrs.  Jane  L.  Stanford,  Leland  Stanford,  Jr.     .      .      .  512 

Lathrop  Memorial,  Albany,  N.  Y 516 

Mrs.    Ruthe     (Tapley)     Hewes 518 

Rev.  Charles  W.  Hewes,  David  Hewes,  Rev.  G.  S.  Abbott,  C.  W.  Coney, 

About    1860 520 

Lemon  Label,  Hewes  Park  Brand 528 

Orange    Label,    Transcontinental    Brand 534 

Samplar  Worked  by  Sophia  (Hewes)  Conev,  1818 536 

The    Tapley    Tomb"  at    Lynnfield,    Mass.     ." 548 

Site    of   Johnson-Hewes    House,    Boston 560 

Driving  the  Last  Spike,   from  a  painting  by  Thomas   Hill     ....  572 

Key  to  Painting  of  Driving  the  Last  Spike 574 

Thomas    Hill    .".... 580 

David  Hewes  Building,  San  Francisco;  Main  Entrance,  Steel  Skeleton, 
Floor  Plans,  Certificate  of  the  International  Association  of  Bridge 
and  Structural  Iron  Workers 587-597 


PREFACE 

The  Psalmist  has  written  that  "  the  days  of  man  are  three 
score  and  ten,"  and  yet  the  cases  are  numerous  where  the  Master 
has  permitted,  for  His  own  good  reasons,  the  extension  of  in- 
dividual lives  far  beyond  this  period,  and  it  is  with  a  heart  filled 
with  gratitude  and  love,  I  acknowledge  His  mercies,  protection, 
and  loving  kindness  vouchsafed  throughout  my  long  and  varied 
life.  It  has  ever  been  a  great  pleasure  to  me,  from  time  to  time, 
to  dwell  upon  the  pleasant  relations  I  have  ever  maintained  with 
my  kinspeople,  and  to  observe  with  much  gratification  how  the 
younger  generations  have  followed  in  the  footsteps  of  their  pred- 
ecessors. 

Being  the  youngest  of  a  large  family  of  children,  it  has  been 
my  privilege  to  enjoy  association  with  an  unusually  large  num- 
ber of  nephews,  nieces,  grand  nephews  and  grand  nieces,  even  to 
the  third  generation,  and  to  watch,  with  pride  and  pleasure,  the 
development  of  certain  hereditary  characteristics  which  have 
seemed  to  me  to  have  directly  and  positively  descended  from  our 
Hewes  ancestry. 

My  father,  Col.  Joel  Hewes  of  Lynnfield,  was  a  man  of  intense 
energy,  with  whom  to  think  was  to  act ;  who  knew  not  the  word  de- 
feat ;  and  who  to  the  day  of  his  death,  which  occurred  at  the  early 
age  of  forty-one  years,  was  ever  positively  and  prominently  in- 
terested in  the  daily  occurrences  and  duties  of  life. 

This  same  indomitable  will,  fixity  of  purpose,  and  activity  of 
mind  and  body,  existed  in  his  brothers  and  sisters,  naturally  in 
some  more  than  in  others,  but  there  were  the  same  general  phys- 
ical and  mental  characteristics  affecting  the  whole  generation. 
Among  the  cousins,  all  of  whom  have  now  "  passed  on,"  appeared 
these  factors  of  intensity  of  purpose,  marked  ability,  triumph 
over  difficulties,  ignoring  of  seeming  discouragements,  and  the  in- 
herent faculty,  to  use  a  colloquialism,  of  "  making  good,"  the  few 
exceptions  merely  proving  the  rule. 

The  records  of  the  descendants  of  Joel  Hewes  evidence  a  deep 
religious  feeling  influencing  the  entire  family.  With  my  father 
and  his  brothers  and  sisters,  religious  faith,  the  church  and  its 


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work,  were  embodied  in  their  nature  and  life  work,  and  acknowl- 
edged duties  willingly,  promptly,  lovingly,  performed.  And 
while  they  were  successful  in  the  accumulation  of  worldly  wealth 
and  success,  no  sacrifice  of  faith  or  honor  marked  the  same,  their 
prevailing  thought  ever  being,  in  advancing  their  own  prosperity, 
to  do  so  without  hardship,  loss  or  detriment  to  others. 

Our  family  generations,  from  the  time  of  Joshua  Hewes,  the 
founder  of  the  family,  show  these  stable  and  honorable  features. 
As  these  records  will  show,  while  never  seeking  to  be  in  the  fore- 
ground, in  the  early  history  of  this  country  he  made  his  influence 
for  practical  good  felt  in  a  manner  which  will  be  remembered 
throughout  all  time.  And  as  to  his  personal  nobility  and  sense 
of  honor,  could  there  be  a  more  striking  proof  than  the  sacrifice 
of  his  own  welfare  to  aid  his  uncle  Joshua  Foot?  Of  him  his 
posterity  can  be  pardonably  proud.     As  Shakespeare  writes : 

"His  life  was  gentle, 
And  the  elements  so  mixed  in  him 
That  nature  might  say  to  all  the  world 
This  was  a  man." 

Philosophers  assert  that  the  worth  of  a  family  largely  depends 
upon  the  women  who  are  the  mothers  of  the  race,  as  through 
them  are  introduced  new  strains  of  blood  which  may  weaken, 
modify,  or  strengthen,  the  main  family  characteristics.  In  look- 
ing back  over  our  record  it  is  evident  that  the  women  of  those 
representative  New  England  families  into  which  the  males  of  our 
line  have  married,  have  nobly  contributed  to  perpetuate  and 
strengthen  the  traits  I  have  mentioned  as  having  come  under  my 
own  observation  in  the  last  three  to  five  generations,  and  without 
arrogance  we  have  reason  to  take  a  pardonable  pride  in  our  New 
England  ancestr}^. 

With  such  a  heritage,  and  such  a  record,  the  sacred  duty  rests 
upon  all  descendants  to  keep  this  strain  of  honor,  integrity,  phys- 
ical and  spiritual  health  pure  and  undefilcd.  Let  the  characteris- 
tics of  the  men  and  women  of  our  lineage  in  the  past  be  the  test 
for  the  husbands  and  wives  of  our  family  in  the  future,  and  in  this 
way  preserve  for  all  time  to  come  the  same  traits  of  patriotism, 
religious  dependence,  physical  and  mental  ability  which  makes 
families   and  individuals   honored   and  useful   in  their  lives,   and 


PREFACE  xiii 

transmitting  to  their  posterity  a  priceless  heritage  when,  their 
work  well  done,  the}'  pass  on  to  the  land  of  the  hereafter. 

This  volume  I  design  as  a  memorial  to  my  parents,  and  to  many 
of  my  kinspeople  who  have  always  been  near  and  dear  to  me.  If 
in  some  parts  it  seems  too  personal,  it  is  for  the  reason  stated. 

In  formulating  my  plans  for  this  Avork,  and  in  the  execution  of 
those  plans,  I  have  been  aided  by  several  persons  to  whom  I  feel 
under  many  obligations.  To  those  relatives  who  have  so  kindly 
seconded  my  endeavors  to  preserve  the  records  of  our  ancestry  for 
posterity,  I  am  under  especial  obligation.  There  are  some  whom 
I  would  like  to  mention  by  name ;  one  or  two  who  have  particularly 
contributed  toward  the  success  of  this  memorial,  in  the  publication 
of  which  I  have  felt  such  a  keen  interest.  I  also  wish  to  men- 
tion the  generosity  of  Mr.  Horace  G.  Hewes  in  placing  at  my  dis- 
posal all  that  he  had  gathered  concerning  his  ancestor,  that  stren- 
uous patriot,  Robert  Twelve  Hewes,  and  of  the  kindness  of  Mr. 
Dexter  H.  Walker,  whose  collections  pertaining  to  Joseph  Hewes, 
a  signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  were  also  placed  at. 
my  disposal.  I  have  always  felt  that  Joseph  Hewes'  ancestor, 
William  Hewes;  George  Robert  Twelve  Hewes'  ancestor,  George 
Hewes,  and  my  own  ancestor,  Joshua  Hewes,  were  probably  kins- 
men. I  am  much  gratified  to  discover  that  Mr.  Putnam,  while  he 
very  properly  adheres  strictly  to  what  the  records  tell  us,  has  a 
similar  leaning,  and  that  he  thinks  that  not  only  were  Joshua  and 
George  Hewes  near  kinsmen,  but  that  William  Hewes  was  of  the 
same  stock  as  my  ancestor. 

The  material  for  the  book  has   been   chiefly   collected  by  Mr. 
Eben  Putnam,  or  under  his  direction,  was  arranged  by  him,  and 
except  where  credit  is  given  to  others,  is  his  work. 
Anapauma  Ranch. 
Orange,  California. 

David  Hewes 


INTRODUCTION 

The  compiler  of  the  genealogical  and  historical  information  pre- 
sented in  this  volume  did  not  undertake  the  impossible  task  of 
constructing  complete  genealogies  of  any  of  the  numerous  families 
of  Hewes,  Huse,  Hughes  mentioned  herein.  The  publication  of 
these  pages  will,  however,  serve  to  make  the  task  of  future  his- 
torians of  those  families  lighter  than  would  otherwise  be  the  case. 
Parish,  town,  county,  and  state  archives  of  New  England  have 
been  examined  for  information  concerning  any  person  bearing  a 
name  pronounced  Hewes.  In  the  case  of  the  lesser  records  this 
examination  was  made  only  in  localities  where  it  was  likely  individ- 
uals of  such  names  had  lived.  Moreover,  with  a  few  exceptions, 
the  examination  did  not  extend  much  beyond  the  period  of  the 
American  Revolution.  National  records  and  other  sources  were 
searched  for  information  regarding  the  Revolutionary  War 
period.  The  gleanings  from  these  various  classes  of  records 
have  been  arranged,  where  practical,  according  to  family  connec- 
tion, and  under  convenient  heads. 

Three  principal  families  were  found  to  include  nearly  all  of 
the  name,  under  varied  spellings,  who  had  attained  prominence  in 
New  England.  These  were  the  families  founded  by  Lt.  Joshua 
Hewes  of  Roxbury,  George  Hewes  of  Salisbury,  and  Abel  Huse  of 
Newbury. 

In  Virginia,  Maryland,  the  Carolinas,  and  in  Pennsylvania, 
New  Jersey  and  New  York  are  found  families  bearing  the  name 
Hughes,  sometimes  Hewes,  who  are  descended  from  colonial  ances- 
tors. In  the  brief  period  devoted  to  the  work  of  compilation, 
limited  to  the  winter  of  1909-1910,  it  was  impossible  to  gather  in- 
formation which  would  permit  the  arrangement  in  genealogical 
form  of  the  material  obtained  concerning  these  southern  families. 
Thanks  to  the  courtesy  of  Mr.  Dexter  H.  Walker,  the  New  Jersey 
family,  to  which  belonged  Joseph  Hewes,  a  signer  of  the  Declara- 
tion of  Independence,  has  obtained  space  in  the  volume  in  some- 
what more  extended  manner  than  could  otherwise  have  been  ac- 
corded. For  notice  of  certain  other  families  of  the  middle  states 
and  of  a  Connecticut  family,  which  have  received  the  attention  of 


™  INTRODUCTION 

family  historians,  reference  should  be  made  under  state  headings, 
where  details  regarding  the  printed  accounts  will  be  found. 

This  book  is  due  to  the  enthusiastic  interest  in  his  family  felt 
by  Mr.  David  Hewes  of  Orange,  California,  who  has  met  the 
entire  cost  of  its  preparation  and  publication.  Mr.  Hewes  is  a 
descendant  of  Lt.  Joshua  Hewes  through  John  Hewes  of  Lynn- 
field,  Mass.  It  was  his  desire  that  the  information  gathered  in 
searching  the  archives  for  the  purposes  of  completing  his  own  an- 
cestral records,  should  be  made  available  for  any  person  of  the 
name  who  might  be  interested  in  his  family  history. 

It  is  thought  that  whatever  omissions  in  family  connections  oc- 
cur will  not  interfere  with  the  intelligent  use  of  the  materials 
herewith  printed,  and  that  the  index  will  enable  any  investigator 
to  turn  readily  to  the  famity  or  individual  he  may  be  interested  in. 

Where  the  ancestry  is  known,  the  names  of  ancestors  appear 
within  brackets,  and  the  numbering  will  be  found  consecutive  in 
the  different  family  groups.  Where  indications  of  a  possible  con- 
nection are  found,  cross  reference  has  been  given. 

Sources  of  information  will  be  found  indicated,  sufficiently  full 
to  enable  those  sources  to  be  examined ;  but  the  intention  has  been 
to  give  all  essential  facts,  and  no  small  amount  of  labor  has  been 
expended  in  running  down  clews  which  promised  additional  and 
more  exact  information.  Tradition  has  been  discarded,  and  only 
what  is  of  record,  unless  otherwise  stated,  will  be  found  in  this 
book.  Lest  it  be  imagined  that  unpleasant  features  have  been 
omitted,  because  of  the  excellent  characters  which  nearly  every 
person  bearing  the  name  seems  to  have  sustained,  it  is  proper  to 
state  that  all  matters  of  importance  found  about  any  individual 
have  been  printed. 

The  courtesy  which  prompted  Mr.  Horace  G.  Hewes  to  place 
his  materials  for  a  genealogy  of  the  family  of  George  Hewes  of 
Salisbury  at  the  disposal  of  Mr.  Hewes,  as  well  as  the  help  given 
by  others  in  gathering  information,  is  gratefully  acknowledged. 

Eben  Putnam. 
San  Francisco,  May  1,   1910, 
708   Hewes   Building. 


ORIGIN  AND  DISTRIBUTION  OF  THE  NAME  — 
HEWES,  HUGHES,  HUSE 


ORIGIN  AND  DISTRIBUTION  OF  THE  NAME  —  HEWES, 
HUGHES,  HUSE. 

It  is  a  matter  of  interest  and  of  great  importance  in  attempt- 
ing to  trace  the  ancestry  of  the  founders  of  New  England  families, 
to  know  in  what  old  world  localities  the  name  is  found,  the  forms 
in  which  it  occurs,  and  its  origin,  as  this  may  furnish  clews  re- 
garding variations  of  the  name. 

Hereditary  surnames  were  generally  adopted  by  the  English 
people  in  the  thirteenth  and  fourteenth  centuries.  Prior  to  that 
period  hereditary  surnames  were  uncommon.  Exceptions  are 
chiefly  found  among  wealthy  land-owning  families,  among  whom 
territorial  names  early  became  fixed,  in  some  instances  as  early 
as  the  Norman  conquest,  but  commonly  not  prior  to  the  twelfth 
century. 

Names  of  individuals  were  originally  derived  from  personal 
peculiarity,  local  circumstances,  or  occupation,  and  became  in  time 
hereditary,  and  fixed  as*  surnames.  Consequently  similarity  of 
name  is  not  proof  of  blood  relationship,  or  even  of  common 
national  or  racial  origin.  There  is  also  a  modern  tendency  to- 
ward uniform  spelling  of  names  sounded  alike,  in  marked  contrast 
to  ancient  times  when  individual  eccentricity  in  representing 
sounds  by  letters  caused  immense  variation  in  spelling  of  names. 
Thus  we  have  Hewes,  Hew,  Huse,  Hewghs,  Hues,  Hu,  Hughs, 
Hughes,  Hugh.  Because  Hewes  and  Hues  are  variants  of 
Hughes,  a  typical  Welsh  name,  many  persons  bearing  these  names 
assume,  without  other  reasons,  that  their  origin  is  Welsh. 

There  is  little  question  that  in  Great  Britain  at  the  present  day 
the  majority  of  persons  bearing  the  name  Hughes  —  the  forms 
Hewes  and  Huse  are  uncommon  there  —  derive  their  name  from 
Welsh  ancestors ;  but  this  is  probably  not  true  of  the  16th  cen- 
tury. Guppy's  study  of  the  distribution  of  family  names  showed 
that,  starting  with  350  to  10,000/  the  proportion  of  landowners 
in  the  English  and  Welsh  counties  bearing  this  name  diminishes  as 
we  travel  toward  London.     The  territory  in  which  it  is  prominent 

iln  North  Wales. 


2        ORIGIN  AND  DISTRIBUTION  OF  THE  NAME 

is  a  wedge-shaped  district,  with  the  point  resting  in  Buckingham- 
shire. North  and  east  its  place  is  taken  by  Howe  and  Howes, 
and  Haw  and  Hawes,  and  south  by  Howe,  House,  Howse,  and 
Hussey. 

A  genealogist  searching  the  records  of  any  county  on  the  bor- 
ders of  the  wedge  above  described,  if  hunting  for  mention  of  the 
name  Hewes,  would  be  obliged  to  take  notice  of  Hughes,  Heuse, 
Huse  (which  was  a  modification  of  Husse  or  Hussey),  Hawes, 
and  Howes,  and  perhaps  Hose  and  House ;  not  only  because  of 
the  likelihood  of  a  clerk  writing  the  name  carelessly,  but  because  of 
the  actual  change  which  might  have  occurred  in  the  pronunciation 
of  the  name.  Certain  vowels  have  been  interchangeable  at  differ- 
ent periods  and  in  different  localities,  as  u  and  o,  e  and  a,  a  and 
o,  and  y  and  e. 

Ferguson  in  his  "  Teutonic  Name  System  Applied  to  Family 
Names  of  France,  England  and  Germany  "  states  that  the  Anglo- 
Saxon  words  Hygian  and  Hogian,  meaning  to  study  or  meditate, 
gave  rise  to  the  personal  names  Hugo  and  Hugh.  The  Saxon 
form  is  common  in  English  but  not  in  French.  He  gives  the  fol- 
lowing derivations : 

Old  German:     Hugo,  Hughi. 

Modern  German:     Huge,  Hugo,  Hug,  Hue,  Hu,  Hua. 
English:     Hugo,   Hugh. 
French:     Hugo,  Huge. 

He  goes  on  to  derive  from  these  forms  many  of  our  most  com- 
mon names;  as,  in  England,  Hughes,  Hewish,  and  in  France, 
Hughues,  etc. 

Baring-Gould  in  "  Family  Names  and  Their  Story,"  published 
in  1910,  among  Christian  names  adopted  as  patronymics,  gives 
as  derived  from  Hugh:  Hughes,  Hewson,  Pugh  (ap  Hugh), 
Hutchins,  Huggins,  Hodgkins,  Hoskinson,  Higgins,  Hicks,  Hick- 
son,  Higginson,  Hewett,  Howctt,  Hudson,  Higman.  Others 
equally  skilled  in  guessing  at  the  origin  of  names  derive  Hicks, 
Higgins,  and  Higginson  from  Isaac. 

Bardsley  says  of  How,  Howes,  and  House,  that  they  are  but 
a  form  of  "  son  of  Hugh  " ;  and  again  that  Howe  and  Hews  are 
from  Hugo,  but  that  the  forms  de  la  How  and  atte  How,  com- 
mon in  the  Lake  district,  are  derived  from  "  how,"  a  hill,  and 
would  be  expressed  to-day  by  "  of  the  hows  " ;  and  for  Hoo,  which 
is  but  another  form  of  How,  and  sometimes  spelled  Hoe,  he  de- 


ORIGIN  AND  DISTRIBUTION  OF  THE  NAME        3 

rives  an  origin  from  "  of  the  hoo,"  a  hoo  being  a  spit  of  land. 
Hawe  and  Hawes  are  equivalent  to  "  at  the  haw,"  which  is  a 
yard  or  small  enclosure.  Here  again  we  get  de  la  Haw  and  atte 
Haw. 

Thus  we  see  that  a  man  bearing  the  name  Hughes  may  have 
been  so  called  because  he  was  fhe  son  of  Hugh;  also  that  he 
might  in  some  districts  have  been  called  Hewes,  Howes,  or  Hawes. 
Also  a  man  named  Hawes  or  Howes  might  be  so  called  because  he 
lived  near  or  by  a  hill,  a  spit  of  land,  or  an  enclosure.  And  we 
learn  that  the  name  Hugh  or  Hewe  was  a  very  popular  name  not 
only  with  the  Anglo-Saxon  people,  but  with  the  Germans,  and 
through  the  Franks,  with  the  French ;  and  evidently,  because  of 
its  present  day  prominence  among  the  Welsh,  with  that  Celtic 
people. 

At  the  present  time  Hughes  is  one  of  the  sixty  most  common 
names  in  England  and  Wales,  and  fifty  years  ago  was  seventeenth 
in  rank.  One  person  out  of  every  312  in  England  and  Wales 
bore  the  name  Hughes.  As  Bardsley  says,  "  it  would  be  impos- 
sible to  overrate  the  influence  of  Hugh  (Middle  English  Hew  in 
the  North,  How  in  the  south)  on  our  English  nomenclature." 

London  drew  its  population  from  all  parts  of  the  kingdom,  and 
from  London  and  the  nearby  counties  came  the  progenitors  of  the 
principal  families  of  Hewes  or  Hughes  of  New  England  prior  to 
the  Revolution.  With  the  exception  of  John  Hughes  of  Scituate, 
who  is  called  a  Welshman  on  the  Scituate  records,  there  is  no  rea- 
son to  suppose  that  any  of  the  earlier  New  England  settlers  of 
that  name  were  from  Wales.  Some  may  have  come  from  parts 
of  England  adjacent  to  Wales,  for  many  of  our  early  people  were 
from  the  tier  of  counties  close  to  the  Welsh  border.  The  Guil- 
ford family  was  undoubtedly  from  the  southeast  of  England. 

Joshua  Hewes  came  of  a  family  seated  immediately  north  of 
London,  and  it  is  not  improbable  that  George  Hewes  of  Salisbury 
was  his  kinsman,  and  also  from  that  vicinity. 

William  Hewes  of  New  Jersey,  ancestor  of  Joseph  Hewes,  the 
signer,  was  from  London.  It  is  noteworthy  that  these  families 
retained  the  spelling  Hewes.  Abel  Huse  of  Newbury  is  supposed 
to  have  come  from  the  vicinity  of  London.  Mr.  Isaac  Huse,  in 
a  search  for  persons  of  his  name  in  England,  succeeded  in  finding 
a  present  day  group  of  families  bearing  the  name  Huse  in  villages 
on  the  Thames  just  above  London,  but  nowhere  else. 


4>        ORIGIN  AND  DISTRIBUTION  OF  THE  NAME 

A  search  for  occurrence  of  the  name  in  any  form  in  the  lay 
subsidies  of  Cambridgeshire,  on  the  border  of  which  county  Roy- 
ston  is  situated,  showed  that  the  name  was  not  common  in  that 
county.  The  name  Hawes,  however,  occurs.  The  probate  regis- 
tries for  the  parts  of  England  about  London,  and  the  great  Pre- 
rogative Court  of  Canterbury  contain  numerous  wills  and  settle- 
ments of  estates  of  persons  of  this  name,  spelled  in  all  its  forms. 
There  can  be  no  reason  to  doubt  that  persons  bearing  this  name 
had  been  numerous  in  the  southeast  of  England  from  the  earliest 
times  of  which  genealogical  records  exist. 

In  another  place  will  be  found  so  much  as  has  been  recovered 
concerning  the  ancestry  of  Joshua  Hewes  and  his  kinspeople,  who 
had  probably  been  settled  in  the  territory  north  of  and  adjacent 
to  London,  as  well  as  represented  in  London,  for  many  genera- 
tions. 

As  would  be  expected  from  so  great  a  number  of  individuals 
bearing  the  name,  however  spelled,  there  were  many  families  of 
the  name  who  were  numbered  among  the  land  owning  class,  both 
yeomen  and  gentry,  and  a  great  many  individuals  have  attained 
prominence.  It  is  not  within  the  scope  of  this  work  to  attempt 
to  present  a  catalogue  of  such  instances,  but  it  may  serve  some 
useful  purpose  to  describe  the  coats  of  arms  borne  by  some  of 
these  families.  Coat  armor  is  inherited.  The  right  to  use  any 
particular  coat  of  arms  depends  upon  proof  of  descent  from  some 
person  of  the  same  name  who  was  a  gentleman  of  coat  armor, 
or  as  he  is  described,  an  armiger.  With  the  probable  exception 
of  Lt.  Joshua  Hewes,  none  of  the  emigrants  to  America  bearing 
the  name  is  known  to  have  ever  claimed  the  right  to  use  coat 
armor.2  This  does  not  prove  that  they  may  not  have  been  en- 
titled to  do  so.  They  may  have  been  entitled  to  coat  armor,  yet 
ignorant  of  that  right ;  or  knowing  it,  thought  that  their  station 
in  life  did  not  warrant  its  display.  In  the  days  of  the  first  set- 
tlement there  was  little  opportunity,  unless  a  man  held  official 
position,  to  make  use  of  a  coat  of  arms.  The  majority  of  persons 
who  are  entitled  to  use  coat  armor  make  no  advertisement  of  that 
fact,  and  the  incentive  to  boast  of  such  right  did  not  exist  in  New 
England  in  the  seventeenth  century  except  among  a  very  small 
class,  chiefly  officials  or  wealthy  merchants. 

2  Joshua  Hewes  used  a  seal,  the  device  of  which  is  not  distinguishable,  leav- 
ing in  doubt  whether  it  showed  a  merchant's  mark  or  heraldic  device. 


ORIGIN  AND  DISTRIBUTION  OF  THE  NAME        5 

It  has  already  been  mentioned  that  the  name  Hugh  gave  rise 
to  family  names  among  other  Tuetonic  people  than  the  English. 
London  was  the  home  of  many  natives  of  Germany,  Holland  and 
parts  of  France.  The  publications  of  the  Huguenot  Society  of 
London  contain  thousands  of  names  of  such  aliens,  not  all  of  whom 
were  Huguenots.  From  these  lists  of  strangers  in  London 
and  from  the  registers  of  the  Dutch,  French  and  Walloon  churches 
it  appears  that  in  London  prior  to  1630,  for  a  century,  there  were 
many  persons  of  alien  origin  bearing  the  name  Hewes,  Hughes, 
etc.,  most  of  whom  may  be  assumed  to  have  founded  families. 
The  examination  of  similar  records  for  parts  of  Kent,  Norfolk, 
and  the  country  between,  also  largely  favored  by  emigration  from 
adjacent  parts  of  the  continent,  do  not  show  so  many  occurrences 
of  the  name.  As  would  be  expected,  the  spelling  of  the  name 
takes  somewhat  different  variations  from  the  changes  noticed  in 
the  purely  English  counties.  It  is  also  noteworthy  that  the 
spelling  Hewes  or  Hues  and  Huse  is  more  prevalent  than  the 
form  Hughes  or  Hugues,  although  the  baptismal  name  in  these 
lists  is  generally  rendered  Hugh. 
From  1600  to  1639  the  following  names  occur  on  the  registers  of 

the  French  Church  in  Threadneedle  Street: 

Pierre  Heu,  Elizabeth  Heues,  Jean  Heuse,  Elizabeth  Hue,  Es- 
tienne  Hue,  Isaac  Hue,  Marie  "  femme  de  Pierre  "  Hue,  Pierre 
Huee,  Jean  Hu,  Jeanne  "  femme  de  "  Jean  Hu,  Madelaine  Hu, 
Catherine  Huge,  Francois  Huge,  Marie  wife  of  Francois  Huge. 
These  last  were  entered  by  one  conversant  with  the  French  lan- 
guage, and  may  be  taken  as  representing  the  actual  French  name 
of  the  bearers. 

The  parish  registers  of  the  English  churches,  of  date  prior  to 
1600,  give  all  forms  of  the  name,  Hewes,  Hew,  Hue,  Huse,  Hughes, 
Hewghs,  etc. 

In  the  United  States,  the  name  Hewes  is  confined  almost  entirely 
to  the  New  England  and  New  Jersey  families  of  that  name.  The 
many  Pennsylvania,  Virginia  and  Carolina  families,  and  those  of 
Maryland  and  New  York,  have  usually,  if  not  always,  spelled  their 
name  Hughes  or  Hugh,  and  in  many  instances  are  known  to  have 
been  of  Welsh  and  Irish  stock. 

The  most  prominent  Welsh  families  and  some  English  families 
of  the  name  claim  descent  from  one  Gwaithvoyde,  lord  of  Powis, 
who  was  son  of  Gwryde,  prince  of  Cardigan,  by  Maruith,  daugh- 


6        ORIGIN  AND  DISTRIBUTION  OF  THE  NAME 

ter  of  Ynes,  King  of  Gwent,  and  from  Blethyn  ap  Cynyn,  a  prince 
of  Powis.  Hwfa  ap  Cynddela,  Lord  of  Llys  Llifon  in  Wales,  of 
the  twelfth  century,  is  also  claimed  by  certain  English  families 
as  their  progenitor.  The  curious  in  such  matters  of  pedigree  are 
referred  to  various  standard  English  genealogical  collections, 
especially  those  edited  by  Burke,  for  further  particulars. 

The  following  families  of  the  name  appear  in  the  Heraldic 
Visitations : 

Visitation  of  London,  1568.  James  Hewes,  citizen  and  grocer 
of  London,  bore  arms :  Argent,  on  a  bend  sable  three  fishes  naiant 
of  the  field,  fins  and  tails  or,  in  chief  a  mullet  gules.  Crest:  An 
elephant's  head  couped  azure  bezante,  eared  and  crowned  argent, 
charged  with  a  mullet  or.  He  was  the  third  son  of  John  Hewes 
of  Donyvorde  in  Somersetshire,  gentleman,  by  Grace  Waldron 
his  wife,  and  had  elder  brothers  William  and  Roger.  He  was 
twice  married,  the  first  time  to  Margaret,  daughter  of  Robert 
Bowser,  who  was  the  mother  of  his  children,  Rowland,  Geffrey, 
Mary  and  Martha.  The  pedigree  shows  but  these  three  genera- 
tions. 

Visitation  of  Oxfordshire,  163 4-.  Michaell  Hughes  of  Middle- 
ton-Stoney,  bore  arms:  Gules,  on  a  bend  between  two  demi-lions 
rampant,  three  fleurs-de-lis  sable.  Crest:  A  heron  argent,  billed 
gules.  At  the  time  of  the  visitation  he  had  a  son  Michaell  aged 
about  two  years.  Of  Michaell  Hughes  the  record  states  only  that 
he  was  son  of  John  Hughes,  "descended  from  the  Hughes  of 
Carnarvanshire,"  by  Julian  Daniels  his  wife,  and  that  he  married 
Elizabeth  daughter  of  Dr.  Ashworth  and  widow  of  Thomas 
Standard.  According  to  Berry's  Kentish  genealogies  the  Hughes 
of  Middleton-Stoney  were  descended  from  William  Hughes  of 
Holtcastle  in  Cheshire,  elder  son  of  William  Hughes  of  Mon- 
mouth, whose  second  son,  Richard  Hughes,  of  London,  married, 
probably  about  1580-90,  Elizabeth  daughter  of  Thomas  Spencer 
of  London-Stone,  Kent,  and  had  a  son  Andrew.  This  Andrew 
died  in  1628,  being  called  of  Ringleton,  Woodnesbro',  leaving  a 
son  Leonard,  who  died  in  1637. 

Visitation  of  Somersetshire,  1623.  Thomas  Hughes,  knight,  of 
Wells,  who  had  married  Erancisca  daughter  of  Nicholas  Mynne 
of  county  Surrey,  and  by  her  had  had  Thomas  aged  21  at  the 
time  of  the  visitation,  James,  aged  17,  Jane,  aged  22,  Elizabeth, 
aged  20,  and  Catherine,  aged  18;  bore  arms:   (1)  Azure,  a  lion 


ORIGIN  AND  DISTRIBUTION  OF  THE  NAME        7 

rampant  or  (for  Morven,  son  of  Morgenat),  (2)  Or,  a  lion  ram- 
pant sable,  (3)  Azure,  three  fluers-de-lis  or  (for  Ynes,  king  of 
Gwent),  (4)  Azure,  a  fesse  or  between  three  horses'  heads  erased 
argent  (for  Rice  ap  Marcham),  (6)  Sable,  a  chevron  erminois 
between  three  goats'  heads  erased  or  (for  Jerworth).  This  honor- 
able knight  claimed  descent  in  the  male  line  from  Gwaithvoyde, 
son  of  Gwryde  and  Moruith,  prince  of  Cardigan,  by  Maruith 
daughter  and  co-heir  of  Ynes,  king  of  Gwent,  as  follows  (ascend- 
ing) ;  Thomas  Hughes  (1623)  being  son  of  Thomas  Hughes,  who 
was  son  of  Hugh  son  of  John  ap  Jankin,  who  was  son  of  Alyn  ap 
Griffith  ap  Howell  ap  Itholl  Goch  ap  Madoc  ap  Llewelyn,  ap 
Ithel.  Each  "  ap  "  indicating  a  generation.  This  last  named, 
Ithel  is  styled  "  sonne  of  Hilin,"  who  was  son  of  Enmith  son  of 
Morien  son  of  Morgenat  son  of  Elistan  who  was  son  of  the  above 
mentioned  Gwaithvoyd.  Allowing  thirty  years  to  a  generation, 
this  would  make  Gwaithvoyd  flourish  about  the  year  1100. 

Visitation  of  Shropshire,  1623.  Thomas  Hughes  of  Stretton 
bore  arms :  Azure,  three  cranes'  heads  erased  argent.  His 
great  grandfather  is  styled  John  Hughes  son  of  Hugh  Higgins, 
whose  grandfather  was  John  Higgins  of  Church  Stretton. 

Visitation  of  Norfolk,  (1563,  1589,  1613).  The  family  of 
Sybthorpe  claimed  descent  from  one  Thomas  Sybthorpe  alias 
Huse  of  St.  Albans,  Herts.  His  son,  Albon  Sybthorpe  of  Knap- 
ton,  had  a  son  John  Sybthorpe  whose  eldest  son  is  styled  Wil- 
liam Husse  alias  Sybthorpe. 

There  are  also  said  to  be  pedigrees  in  one  of  the  Berkshire 
visitations  (House  of  Albrighton),  in  the  visitation  of  Wiltshire 
for  16&3  (Hews  of  Bromham),  and  in  a  visitation  of  Yorkshire 
(Hugh  of  Llanrayer). 

Other  families  of  equal  consequence  with  those  named  in  the 
visitations  are  mentioned  in  several  collections  of  pedigrees,  and 
a  great  many  persons  of  the  name  used  coat  armor.  In  Burke's 
General  Armory  will  be  found  described  no  less  than  33  coats 
ascribed  to  this  name  in  its  varied  spellings.  Some  of  these 
are  of  quite  recent  origin,  and  many  bear  the  lion  as  a  principal 
charge.  There  are  also  several  Irish  families  of  armorial  rank. 
It  is  interesting  to  note  that  a  family  of  Hewes  was  settled  at 
Maidstone  in  Kent  as  early  as  1700,  and  that  a  century  and  a 
half  later  a  family  of  Heugh,  of  Holmwood  Park,  bore  arms: 
Azure,  a  fess  between  three  arrows  paleways  points  downward  or, 


8        ORIGIN  AND  DISTRIBUTION  OF  THE  NAME 

Crest:  a  unicorn's  head  argent.  Hughes  of  Donnington  Priory, 
Berks,  bore  arms:  quarterly,  1  and  4,  Sable,  a  fesse  cotised  be- 
tween three  lion's  heads  erased  argent,  2,  Azure,  three  arrows 
points  downward  or,  on  a  chief  of  the  second,  three  Moors'  heads 
couped  sidefaced  sable,  3,  Argent,  a  chevron  ermine  between 
three  unicorn's  heads  capped  sable. 

Altogether  there  is   a  considerable  variety  in  the  shields  de- 
scribed. 


JOHN  HEWES  OF  ROYSTON 

AND 

SOME  ACCOUNT  OF  THE  FOOTE  FAMILY 


JOHN  HEWES  OF  ROYSTON 

AND 

SOME  ACCOUNT  OF  THE  FOOTE  FAMILY 

What  knowledge  we  have  concerning  the  parentage  and  an- 
cestry of  Joshua  Hewes  is  due  to  the  discovery  by  Mr.  Henry 
F.  Waters  of  the  will  of  John  Hewes  of  Royston,  and  of  several 
wills  of  the  Foote  family.  Mr.  Waters  communicated  abstracts 
of  these  wills  to  the  New  England  Historical  and  Genealogical 
Register,  which  were  later  reprinted  in  the  two  volumes  of 
"  Waters'  Genealogical  Gleanings  in  England." 

JOHN  HEWES  of  Royston,  Herts.,  chandler,  made  his  will 

20  June,  the  19th  year  of  the  reign  of  King  James.  He  ap- 
pointed his  wife,  Mary,  sole  executrix,  and  nominated  his  brother, 
Thomas  Hewes,  and  brother-in-law,  Joseph  Foote,  as  supervisors 
and  overseers.  His  legacies  to  his  sons  were  made  payable  at 
their  reaching  their  twenty-fourth  year.  Those  to  the  daugh- 
ters at  their  twenty-first  year.  It  is  probable  that  none  of  the 
children  was  born  earlier  than  1603.  It  is  also  evident  that 
the  eldest  child  was  born  not  long  after  that  date.  The  legacies 
were  as  follows :  to  Jonathan,  forty  pounds ;  to  Joshua,  thirty 
pounds ;  to  the  daughters,  Mary,  Elizabeth,  Sarah,  Hester,  Lidia, 
Phebe,   and   Anne,    each   twenty   pounds.      The   will   was   proved 

21  Aug.,  1621,  and  is  recorded  in  register  Dale,  quire  87,  Pre- 
rogative Court  of  Canterbury  at  London. 

Royston  is  a  village  in  the  extreme  northeastern  corner  of 
Hertfordshire,  on  the  border  of  Cambridgeshire,  and  is  on  the 
main  road  from  Hertford  to  Cambridge,  somewhat  nearer  the 
latter  than  the  former  place.  It  is  about  forty  miles  north  of 
London.  Chauncey  says  of  Royston  that  the  town  lies  in  five 
parishes,  two-thirds  of  the  town  being  within  the  parishes  of 
Therfield  and  Barkway  in  Hertfordshire,  the  remainder  lying 
in  the  parishes  of  Melbourn,  Kneesworth  and  Bassingbourn  in 
Cambridgeshire.  The  church  of  Royston  is  of  the  diocese  of 
London. 

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10  JOHN  HEWES  OF  ROYSTON 

It  is  not  thought  that  the  paternal  ancestors  of  Joshua  Hewes 
had  lived  in  Royston  until  his  father  settled  in  that  place,  per- 
haps having  obtained  property  there  through  his  marriage  with 
Mary  Foote  which  took  place  at  Shalford  in  Essex,  14*  Feb.,  1602. 

Shalford  registers  commence  in  1558.  The  name  Hewes  does 
not  appear  upon  them,  except  the  mention  of  John  Hewes'  mar- 
riage, between  the  years  1558  and  1618.  The  following  entries 
include  all  pertaining  to  the  family  of  Foote: 
1602  John  Hewes  and  Mary  Foote  weare  married  together  the 
xiiijth  daye  of  Feabruarye,  anno  predicto. 

1608  Robert  Foote  was  buried  the  xvjth  daye  of  Feabruarye 

anno  predicto. 

1609  Joseph  Foote,  son  of  Robert  Foote  was  baptized  the  xviijth 

daye  of  September  anno  predicto. 

1610  Anne  Foote,  daughter  of  Joseph  Foote,  was  baptised  the 

xxviijth  daye  of  October. 
1612     Marye  Foote,  daughter  of  Joseph  Foote,  was  baptised  the 
xxix**1  daye  of  October  anno  predicto. 

1614  Elizabeth  Foote,  daughter  of  Joseph  Foote  was  baptised 

the  sixt  daye  of  Januarye  anno  predicto. 

1615  Elizabeth  Foote,  daughter  of  Joseph  Foote,  was  buried 

the  same  third  of  September,  anno  predicto. 

1616  Dorcas  Foote,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Anne  Foote  was 

baptised  the  xviij  day  of  August,  anno  predicto. 
1618     Elizabeth  Foote,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Anne  Foote  was 
baptised  the  seaventh  daye  of  Marche,  anno  predicto. 

Shalford  is  a  parish  in  the  northern  part  of  Essex,  a  little  north 
of  Braintree,  between  Bocking  and  Wethersfield. 

The  Wethersfield  registers  do  not  commence  until  1647.  Bock- 
ing registers,  printed  by  the  generosity  of  Mr.  J.  J.  Goodwin  of 
Hartford,  Conn.,  cover  the  period  of  1561  to  1605  for  baptisms, 
1593  to  1639  for  marriages,  and  1558  to  1628  for  burials.  But 
there  is  an  unfortunate  hiatus  of  about  ten  years  in  the  record  of 
baptisms  between  1570  and  1580. 

At  Bocking  there  was  family  of  Hewes,  the  earliest  entry  being 
the  baptism  of  Agnes  Hewes,  24  Feb.,  1565-6.  Later  entries  are 
as  follows : 

Johanna,  daughter  of  Roger  Hewes,  baptized  22  Feb.,  1567-8. 

George,  son  of  Roger  Hewes,  baptized  26  Nov.,  1570. 


JOHN  HEWES  OF  ROYSTON  11 

Richard,  son  of  Roger  Hewes,  buried  3  June,  1577. 

John,  son  of  Roger  Hewes,  baptized  9  June,  1583. 

Agnes  Hewes,  married  William  Hull,  2  Dec,  1593. 

Margeria  Hewes  married  James  Freth,  20  July,  1600. 

Margaretta  Hewes  married  James  Lenwood,  29  March,  1608. 

Agnes,  wife  of  Roger  Hewes,  buried  26  July,  1608. 

Roger  Hewes  buried  20  Oct.,  1611. 

At  Toppesfield,  a  parish  a  few  miles  north  of  Shalford,  there 
lived  a  John  Hewes  whose  wife,  Margaret,  was  buried  16  Feb., 
1597-8.  This  John  was  probably  the  same  as  the  John  named  as 
father  of  the  following: 

Elizabeth,  baptized  26  May,  1560. 

Anne,  baptized  10  Feb.,  1562. 

Francis,  baptized  28  July,  1565. 

It  is  known  that  John  Hewes  of  Royston  had  a  brother,  Thomas, 
who  survived  him.  In  the  ship  money  returns  of  1636,  for  Essex, 
four  Thomas  Hewes  are  mentioned,  of  Goldhanger,  of  Paglesham, 
of  Fambridge,1  and  of  Headingham  Castle.  The  last  named  place 
is  close  by  Shalford. 

Mary  (Foote)  Hewes  is  mentioned  in  the  will  of  her  father 
Robert  Foote  of  Shalford,  Essex,  yeoman,  whose  will  dated  27 
Jan.,  1608,  was  proved  the  15  Feb.  following.  Robert  Foote 
gave  to  his  wife,  Joan,  during  her  life,  "  all  such  yearly  rent  as 
to  me  is  reserved  out  of  my  lease  of  certain  tenements  which  I 
hold  for  divers  years  yet  enduring  by  the  grant  of  Sir  Robert 
Chester,  knight,  and  lying  and  being  in  the  town  of  Royston." 
He  gave  legacies  to  several  children,  servants  and  friends,  and 
the  residue  of  his  estate  to  all  his  children,  specifying  "  if  it 
happen  my  daughter,  Mary  Hewes,  to  be  departed  then  her  part 
to  be  paid  to  her  children."  He  made  his  son  Robert  sole  exec- 
utor; his  brother  John  Foote  of  London,  grocer,  and  son-in-law 
John  Hewes  of  Royston  supervisors.  (P.  C.  C,  Dorset,  21.) 
Elizabeth  Brooke  of  London,  widow,  made  her  will  18  June,  1599, 
which  was  proved  28  July,  following.  She  stipulated  that  the 
Company  of  Leathersellers  should  accompany  her  corpse  to  the 
church,  and  that  she  be  buried  in  the  chancel  of  the  church  of 

i  Fambridge  is  within  ten  miles  of  Southminster.  In  1609,  a  fine  was 
passed  between  William  Hewes,  Sr.,  and  John  Heughes  alias  Hewes  and 
Lettice  his  wife  concerning  lands  there.     [Feet  of  Fines,  7  James.] 


12  JOHN  HEWES  OF  ROYSTON 

St.  Leonard  nigh  East  Cheap.  Among  other  legacies  was  one 
to  her  daughter  Joane  Foote.  To  Joane's  daughter,  Mary  Foote, 
she  gave  "  one  gilt  ale  pot  with  two  ears,  to  be  delivered  unto  her 
father  or  mother  for  her  use."  Her  will  is  a  long  and  interest- 
ing one,  and  shows  that  her  daughter  Margaret  married  John, 
brother  of  Robert  Foote.  It  is  recorded  in  register  Kidd,  quire 
65. 

The  Footes  were  a  well-to-do  family.  Reference  to  the  pedi- 
gree will  show  many  of  their  intermarriages,  and  prominent  mem- 
bers. It  was  in  this  circle  of  relatives  that  Joshua  Hewes  grew 
up.  He  thus  was  connected  with  a  family  which  had  much  to 
do  with  New  England. 

In  constructing  the  outline  pedigree  presented  herewith,  use 
has  been  made  of  the  several  wills  printed  in  Waters'  Gleanings. 
Mr.  Waters  found  in  the  British  Museum  a  manuscript  (Addi- 
tional Ms.  5533,  fo.  99)  which  contained  some  account  of  the 
Foote  family,  the  origin  of  which  is  ascribed  to  one  Robert  Foote 
of  Royston  "  descended  out  of  Lincolnshire,"  who  was  father  of 
John  Foote  who  married  Margaret  Brooke  and  of  Robert  Foote 
who  married  Joan  Brooke.  Joshua  Foote  who  came  to  New  Eng- 
land and  died  at  Providence,  was  Joshua  Hewes'  uncle.  Joshua 
Foote's  brother,  Robert  Foote  of  London,  married  Elizabeth 
Miles,  widow  of  Benjamin  Miles,  and  her  daughter  Elizabeth 
Miles,  who  was  Robert  Foote's  step-daughter,  married  William 
Goddard  of  Watertown,  Mass.  She  was  sister  to  Rev.  Joseph 
Miles,  who  died  in  Redriff,  Surrey,  in  1661. 

Edward  Goddard,  born  1675;  died  1754,  of  Framingham, 
Mass.,  left  a  statement  concerning  his  ancestry.  He  said :  "  My 
mother's  father's  name  was  Benjamin  Miles;  he  died  when  she 
was  young,  left  but  two  children,  viz.:  herself  and  one  brother 
named  Joseph,  who  was  educated  for  and  afterward  settled  in 
the  work  of  the  ministry  at  a  place  called  Red-riff,  which  is  a 
border  of  the  city  of  London.  My  grandmother  Miles  had  a 
second  husband,  one  Mr.  Foot,  a  worthy  and  religious  merchant 
of  London,  and  cousin  german  to  her  former  husband:  had  an- 
other        Roberts,  educated  a  merchant.      He   was   a   great 

benefactor  to  my  mother  during  her  life:  sent  tokens  of  his  love 
yearly  to  us  who  were  her  children;  after  her  decease  at  his 
death,  left   a  legacy  of  £4*00  sterling,  to  be  divided   among  us. 


CONNECTIONS  OF  LT.  JO 


Leon- 
)9.     See 


Shalford,     Essex.     Will     160S-9.= 
Mary    Hewes.     Son-in-law    John 
Brother   John   Foote   of  Lon- 
of    Wethersfield,    Essex.     Had 
on. 


obert  Foote  of 
London,  grocer. 
Will    1645-6. 


Mary,      ma         ' 
16  0  2        J onger 
Hewes 'of  fd,in   Providence,   B 


of    London. 


ton, 
1621. 


who   survived   her   hus- 


Dbert  of  Lon- 
don, merchant. 
Will  1713-4. 
Devized  £2000 
to  sons  of  sis- 
t  e  r  Elizabeth 
Goddard  in 

New      England. 


Jonathan     Hewes. 


>a.leb  of  Boston, 
164S.  Of  Lon- 
don,   1657. 


Elizabeth,  wife  of 
William  Shel- 
don of  London, 
draper. 


married, 
William 
ibert. 


Phebe,  married, 
1662,  Sir  Mich- 
ael   Heneage. 


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JOHN  HEWES  OF  ROYSTON  13 

The  substance  of  his  estate  he  left  to  his  wife,  and  to  a  worthy 
kinsman  descended  from  the  family  of  the  Foots,  viz. :  Mr.  Sam- 
uel Lambert,  who  approved  himself  only  a  just  and  honest  man 
to  us  all,  but  a  great  benefactor  to  me." 

Concerning  his  father,  William  Goddard,  coming  to  New  Eng- 
land, he  relates :  "  His  mother-in-law,  Mrs.  Foot,  in  her  widow- 
hood, lent  £100  sterling  to  a  brother  of  hers  in  New  England, 
who  for  her  security  mortgaged  his  house  and  lands,  but  though 
he  lived  many  years  afterward,  yet  paid  neither  principal  nor 
interest.  Consequently,  at  his  death,  his  mother  gave  him  the 
debt,  and  he  coming  over  for  it  in  1665  found  nothing  to  be  had, 
excepting  the  housing  and  lands  mortgaged." 

Another  New  England  connection,  which  could  not  but  have 
been  helpful  to  Joshua  Hewes,  was  the  following.  Sarah  Foote, 
daughter  of  Sir  Thomas  Foote,  Lord  Mayor  of  London,  there- 
fore a  second  cousin  on  both  father's  and  mother's  side  to  Joshua 
Hewes,  married  Sir  John  Lewis,  who  was  born  in  1615,  and  who 
gained  a  great  fortune  in  the  East  Indian  trade.  Sir  John 
Lewis  had  a  sister,  Isabella,  who  married  Nathaniel  Newdigate, 
born  1627,  who  had  formerly  lived  in  New  England,  and  whose 
son  Nathaniel  settled  in  Rhode  Island.  Nathaniel  Newdigate, 
had  the  following  sisters  living  and  married  in  New  England: 
Sarah,  who  died  1692,  wife  of  Capt.  Peter  Oliver ;  Hannah,  who 
died  1684,  wife  of  Simon  Lynde,  and  mother  of  the  Chief  Jus- 
tice; Elizabeth,  who  was  twice  married,  (1)  to  Rev.  John  Oliver, 
(2)  to  Edward  Jackson  of  Cambridge.  These  were  all  promi- 
nent people  in  and  about  Boston. 

Sir  Thomas  Foote  was  own  cousin  to  Mary  Hewes,  the  mother 
of  Joshua  Hewes.  Sir  Thomas  was  sheriff  of  London  in  1645, 
and  Lord  Mayor  in  1649,  and  was  made  a  baronet  in  1660. 
Arthur  Onslow,  speaker  of  the  House  of  Commons,  left  a  manu- 
script containing  his  recollections  (see  Historical  Mss.  Commis- 
sion 14,  App.  9,  458)  in  which  he  speaks  of  Sir  Thomas  Foote 
as  a  very  eminent  person  in  the  City  of  London,  of  some  note 
in  parliament,  and  a  member  of  one  of  their  councils  of  state, 
and  that  he  gave  a  great  fortune  to  his  daughter  who  married 
the  writer's  grandfather. 

Sir  Thomas  Foote  was  granted  a  coat  of  arms  in  1646,  as  fol- 
lows: Argent,  a  chevron   sable,  in  dexter  chief  a   trefoil  of  the 


14  JOHN  HE  WES  OF  ROYSTON 

second,  on  the  chevron  a  crescent  for  a  difference.  Crest:  A 
cubit  arm  erect  proper,  hand  holding  a  trefoil  sable,  on  the  arm 
a  crescent  of  the  last  for  a  difference  (Stow  Ms.  703,  in  British 
Museum). 

It  is  possible  that  Mary  widow  of  John  Hewes  married  a 
second  time,  as  undoubtedly  she  was  a  comparatively  young 
woman  at  her  husband's  death,  possibly  40  years  of  age.  Two 
at  least  of  her  daughters  came  to  New  England ;  Phebe,  who  mar- 
ried Richard  Gorde,  and  Elizabeth,  who  married  Ralph  Hemen- 
way.  Traces  of  the  other  children  have  been  lost.  The  elder 
son,  Jonathan,  was  probably  educated,  like  his  brother  Joshua, 
to  be  a  merchant,  and  remained  in  London.  Research  has  as 
yet  yielded  no  definite  results  concerning  the  ancestry  of  John 
Hewes,  or  of  the  history  of  his  descendants,  except  of  those  who 
came  to  New  England. 

ELIZABETH  HEWES,  daughter  of  John  Hewes  of  Roys- 
ton,  died  in  Roxbury,  New  England,  2  Feb.,  1685-6,  aet.  82,  and 
was  buried  the  following  day.  She  married  at  Roxbury,  5  July, 
1634,  Ralph  Hemenway,  who  was  a  member  of  Roxbury  church 
in  1633.  He  was  admitted  a  freeman,  3  Sept.,  1634,  and  was 
active  in  town  affairs.  He  died  1  June,  1678,  leaving  a  will 
dated  4  May,  1677,  proved  11  July,  1678.  He  gave  to  wife 
Elizabeth  his  whole  estate,  during  her  life,  but  which  was  to 
remain  in  the  hands  of  his  son  John,  to  improve  for  her.  After 
her  death,  Samuel,  another  son,  was  to  have  20  shillings,  "  and 
because  I  give  him  no  more  is  because  I  look  upon  myself  indebted 
to  my  son  John,  who  hath  taken  care  of  me  and  my  wife  in  our 
age,  and  knowing  God  hath  dwelt  bountifully  with  Samuel,  I  de- 
sire him  to  accept  my  love  in  the  legacy."  To  son  Joshua  he 
gave  land  in  the  upper  Calves  pasture  on  the  way  to  Boston. 
Son  John  he  gave  all  other  lands  and  estate,  except  £8  to  daughter 
Elizabeth  Holbrook,  and  £12  to  daughter  Ruth.  Son  John 
and  friend  Samuel  Williams  were  nominated  as  executors 
(Suffolk   probate,   6:239-360). 

In  this  will  he  describes  himself  as  "  aged."  His  estate  in- 
ventoried £170-19-6,  and  consisted  of  a  house,  orchard  and  home 
lot,  65  acres  land  in  several  parcells,  all  valued  at  £150  (Suf- 
folk Probate,  12;  213). 


JOHN  HEWES  OF  ROYSTON  15 

Children: 

Marah  Hemenway,  born  24  April,  1635;  buried  4  May,  1635. 
Samuel  Hemenway,  born  June,  1636;  married  Sarah  Cooper 

and  settled  in  New  Haven. 
Ruth   Hemenway,  born  21    Sept.,   1638 ;  died  unmarried  in 

July  or  Aug.,  1684. 
John  Hemenway,  born  27  April,  1641;  died  4  Oct.,  1724; 

married  Mary  Trescott. 
Joshua    Hemenway,    bapt.    9   April,    1643;   married   Joanna 

Evans ;  also  Mary Settled  in  Framingham. 

Elizabeth  Hemenway,  born  31  May,  1645 ;  married 

Holbrook. 
Mary  Hemenway,  born  7  April,  1647 ;  died  1653. 

For  some  account  of  certain  branches  of  this  family,  see  "  A 
Genealogical  Record  of  One  Branch  of  the  Hemenway  Family, 
1634-1880,"  by  Rev.  Asa  Hemenway. 

PHEBE  HEWES,  daughter  of  John  Hewes  of  Royston,  came 
to  New  England,  probably  with  her  brother  Joshua  Hewes,  and 
was  at  Roxbury,  where  she  married  30  Nov.,  1639,  Richard 
Gorde  of  Roxbury,  who  came  to  New  England,  in  April,  1635, 
in  the  Elizabeth  and  Ann,  aged  seventeen.  He  was  admitted  a 
freeman  29  May,  1644,  and  died  27  Sept.,  1683,  leaving  a  will 
dated  18  Sept.  of  that  year,  by  which  he  left  his  entire  estate 
to  his  son  Joseph  who  was  to  pay  small  legacies  to  his  sisters, 
Phoebe,  wife  of  Thomas  Andrews,  and  Lydia,  wife  of  Joseph 
Twitchell.  He  requested  his  "  loving  friend  John  Gore "  to 
be  overseer.  John  Gore  and  Abraham  How,  Jr.,  were  witnesses 
to  the  will,  which  was  proved  31  Oct.,  1681.  According  to  the 
inventory  of  his  estate  he  died  27  Sept.,  1683,  (Suffolk  Probate, 
6:447;  9:163). 

The  name  is  frequently  Goad  or  Goard  on  the  old  records. 

Children: 

Hannah  Gorde,  born  June,  1641. 
John  Gorde,  bapt.  1  July,  1643. 
Mary  Gorde,  born  23  June,  1644. 

Phebe  Gorde,  born  14  March,  1645-6;  married  Thomas  An- 
drews. 


16  JOHN  HEWES  OF  ROYSTON 

Joseph  Gorde,  born  19  Sept.,  1647 ;  died  aet.  8  mos. 

Sarah  Gorde,  born  25  March,  1649. 

Joseph  Gorde,  born  13  April,  1651 ;  married  23  March,  1681, 
Ann  Chaplin.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  war  with  King 
Philip. 

Lydia  Gorde,  born  27  Feb.,  1652-3 ;  married  Joseph  Twitchell. 

Benjamin  Gorde,  born  3  Dec,  1654. 

Benjamin  Gorde,  born  7  Sept.,  1656.  He  was  executed  un- 
der the  old  law,  2  April,  1674.  (See  Mass.  Hist.  Coll., 
3d  series.,  X.,  98,  and  Assistants  Records,  page  11.) 


LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES  OF  NEW  ENGLAND 


LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES. 

Joshua  Hewes  was  born  about  the  middle  of  the  reign  of 
James  I.  At  the  time  of  his  migration  to  New  England  few  real- 
ized how  near  was  the  great  uprising  to  check  the  evils  which  came 
to  England  in  the  train  of  the  Stuarts.  The  most  active  years  of 
his  life  coincided  with  the  Puritan  supremacy  in  England.  With 
the  overthrow  of  that  Commonwealth,  it  must  have  seemed  to  him 
and  his  friends  in  Massachusetts  that  much  which  they  had  gained 
would  be  lost.  However,  his  life  closed  before  the  actual  loss  of 
the   Charter. 

BIRTH   AND   EDUCATION 

Joshua  Hewes  was  born  in  1611  or  1612  1 ;  the  loss  of  the 
baptismal  register  of  Royston  prior  to  1662  prevents  verifica- 
tion of  this  date,  for  it  was  probably  in  that  parish  that  he  was 
born.  There  his  father  lived  and  died,  and  at  his  death,  in  1621, 
the  care  of  his  family  of  nine  children,  seven  of  whom  were 
daughters,  devolved  upon  the  mother,  a  woman  well  born  and 
well  connected.  Her  brothers  and  cousins  were  established  in 
London  as  merchants,  and  for  their  times  were  wealthy,  pros- 
perous men. 

Joshua  Hewes  probably  was  named  for  his  uncle,  Joshua 
Foote,  an  energetic,  far-sighted  man.  Foote  was  a  member  of 
the  Ironmongers  Company,  and  carried  on  a  considerable  busi- 
ness. The  Ironmongers  were  one  of  the  oldest  and  most  im- 
portant of  the  city  companies.  Their  association  is  of  earlier 
date  than  the  charter  granted  them  in  the  third  year  of  Edward 
IV  (1463-1461).  A  citizen  of  London  was  a  member  of  some 
one  of  the  city  companies  or  guilds,  and  the  guilds  elected  the 
aldermen ;  the  lord  mayor  being  a  member  of  one  of  a  select  num- 
ber of  guilds,  of  which  the  Ironmongers  were  one.  These  iron 
merchants  purchased  from  the  forges  iron  in  bars  and  rods,  and 
exported  and  imported  iron,  which  they  sold  from  their  ware- 
houses in  both  a  wholesale  and  retail  way.     The  ironmonger  also 

i  In  a  deposition  made  1  Nov.,  1670,  Joshua  Hewes  gave  his  age  as  in  his 
fifty-ninth  year  (Archives;  15B-131).  On  the  5  Nov.,  1664,  in  another  de- 
position, he  is  described  as  "fifty  or  thereabouts"   {Ibid.,  226). 

19 


20  LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES 

dealt  both  wholesale  and  retail  in  manufactured  iron  articles. 
Being  a  staple  commodity,  of  growing  importance,  the  trade  in 
iron  gave  both  material  gain  and  dignity  to  the  ironmonger,  who 
was  an  important  factor  in  the  business  life  of  the  seventeenth 
century. 

Hewes  was  sometimes  styled  an  ironmonger,2  and  it  is  a  reason- 
able supposition  that  Joshua  Foote  took  charge  of  his  young 
nephew,  brought  him  up  as  one  of  his  own  family,  and  initiated 
him  into  the  art  and  mystery  of  the  ironmonger's  trade. 

At  that  time  there  were  several  schools  in  the  City  of  London, 
two  under  the  care  of  guilds,  to  which  young  Hewes  could  have 
been  sent.  His  education  was  on  a  par  with  that  of  the  better 
class  of  his  fellow  merchants  —  able  to  write  and  speak  good 
English,  to  keep  accounts,  reckon  exchange,  costs  and  profits, 
and  to  conduct  an  importing  trade,  and  probably  with  a  fair 
knowledge  of  common  and  mercantile  law  and  usages.  His  so- 
cial connections  and  home  environment  prepared  him  to  meet 
as  an  equal  the  ruling  and  wealthier  classes  in  New  England,  and 
he  would  probably  have  been  at  ease  in  any  assembly. 

These  facts  are  evident  from  his  life  as  known  to  us  after 
he  reached  maturity,  and  our  knowledge  of  the  education  of  the 
youth  in  the  families  of  liberal  and  wealthy  London  merchants, 
who  as  a  class  were  largely  recruited  from  the  minor  landown- 
ing county  families,  and  from  whom  the  present  aristocracy  of 
Great  Britain  is   chiefly  derived. 

A  pertinent  instance  of  this  may  be  observed  in  the  Foote 
family.  Mary  (Foote)  Hewes  was  own  cousin  on  both  her  fa- 
ther's and  mother's  side  to  Thomas  Foote,  a  grocer  and  citizen  of 
London,  who  became  sheriff  of  Middlesex  and  in  16-49  Lord  Mayor 
of  London.  Thomas  Foote  was  knighted,  made  a  baronet,  and 
having  no  male  issue,  with  succession  to  his  son-in-law  Arthur  On- 
slow, and  lived  to  count  among  his  grandchildren  two  Speakers  of 
the  House  of  Commons,  one  of  whom  was  Baron  Onslow,  Lord  of 
the  Treasury  and  Chancellor,  and  the  wives  of  three  peers  of  the 
realm. 

The    formative   period   of   Joshua    Hewes'    youth    was    at    the 

time  of  the  contest  between  Parliament  and  the  King.     Hewes 

2  Usually,  however,  where  his  occupation  is  given,  he  appears  described  as 
merchant.  His  operations  were  of  a  broader  character  than  dealing  in  iron 
alone.  He  was  a  merchant  as  we  understand  the  word,  and  also  factor  for 
Joshua    Foote. 


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LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES  21 

was  undoubtedly  familiar  with  and  sympathized  with  the  course 
followed  by  those  who  opposed  the  policies  of  the  King.  His 
people  were  not  "  separatists  "  in  church  matters,  but  Puritans, 
members  of  the  party  of  protest  against  the  political  and  moral 
excesses  of  the  Court  party.  His  associates  were  probably 
drawn  from  the  ranks  of  decent  minded,  liberty  loving  and  self- 
respecting  yeomen,  mechanics,  and  merchants.  The  business 
relations  of  the  London  merchants  were  broad,  and  their  per- 
sonal connections,  associations  and  interests  all  tended  to  create 
a  liberal,  progressive  spirit.  It  was  among  these  men  that 
the  spirit  of  adventure,  the  willingness  to  speculate  in  the 
development  of  the  resources  of  a  new  country,  was  found. 
Their  interest  in  trade  and  colonization  was  intense,  and  their 
example  was  followed  by  the  merchants  of  other  ports,3  and 
by  the  Puritan  gentry  and  better  class  of  yeomanry  through- 
out those  districts  most  open  to  their  influence.  Those  lo- 
calities were  also  the  stronghold  of  the  Puritan  party  in  a 
religious  sense,  and  through  the  combination  of  love  of  ad- 
venture, desire  for  profit,  determination  to  sustain  their  posi- 
tion in  society,  and  realization  that  in  a  new  country  liberty 
and  independence  could  be  maintained  while  material  benefits 
were  being  accumulated,  there  came  about  the  great  migration 
of  1630  and  the  lesser  migrations  preceding  and  following  that. 
As  with  the  Pilgrims,  there  were  among  the  Puritans  many  per- 
sons who  sought  the  New  World  solely  for  the  opportunities  the 
new  colony  afforded  to  maintain  their  religious  status,  but  the 
real  cause  of  the  great  exodus  to  New  England  was  the  spirit  of 
unrest,  and  the  desire  which  obtained  among  the  Puritans,  yeo- 
manry, gentry,  and  merchants,  that  their  descendants  should  not 
be  forced  to  a  lower  position  in  society,  nor  they  themselves  be 
crushed  by  the  growing  tendency  to  absolutism  in  state  and 
church.  How  small  the  purely  religious  element  was,  may  be 
perceived  by  studying  the  rolls  of  Freeman  of  the  Massachusetts 
Company  admitted  after  the  transfer  of  the  Charter.  By  1640, 
when  migration  largely  ceased,  there  is  estimated  to  have  come 
into  Massachusetts  all  of  40,000  people,  and  out  of  this  great 

3  The  merchants  of  Bristol  and  of  Plymouth  had  early  attempted  and 
maintained  a  profitable  trade  with  America,  but  it  was  so  largely  based  on 
the  fisheries  and  so  lacking  in  proper  colonizing  spirit,  that  this  statement  can 
be  made  with  truth. 


22  LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES 

number  not  more  than  1200  had  been  admitted  as  freemen.  Ex- 
cept at  the  first  Court,  the  right  to  be  a  freeman  was  confined 
to  church  members  in  good  standing. 

THE    MIGRATION 

Joshua  Hewes  was  in  his  twenty-second  year  when  he  arrived 
in  New  England  in  1633.  Rev.  John  Eliot  in  a  list  of  the  mem- 
bers of  his  church  at  Roxbury  said  of  him,  "  he  came  into  the 
land  a  single  man;  about  the  7th  month  of  the  yeare  1633."  As 
the  year  then  began  in  March,  this  record  points  out  September 
as  the  month  of  arrival.  That  year  was  a  notable  one  in  the 
affairs  of  the  infant  colony.  The  preceding  winter  enemies  of 
the  colony  had  endeavored  to  throw  the  Massachusetts  people 
into  discredit  with  the  King.  The  representations  of  these  mis- 
chief-makers were  referred  to  the  Privy  Council,  who  reported 
that  the  charges  did  not  condemn  the  colonists  but  commended 
them  to  his  majesty  for  further  protection  until  it  could  be  proved 
they  had  violated  their  patent.  There  is  evidence  that  at  this 
time  Charles  favored  the  migration  of  the  more  restless  of  his 
subjects  to  New  England,  both  to  be  rid  of  them  and  to  build  up 
a  colony  by  which  he  knew  he  would  increase  trade  and  whose  ulti- 
mate control  he  felt  would  be  in  his  own  hands. 

There  are  extant  in  the  British  archives  rolls  containing  lists 
of  names  of  persons  going  abroad,  as  passengers  or  as  soldiers,  to 
Holland,  Flanders,  etc.,  and  among  these  entries  those  of  names 
of  some  emigrants  to  America  find  place.  But  not  until  1635 
was  there  a  systematic  attempt  to  record  the  names  of  emi- 
grants to  America,  and  especially  to  prevent  the  passage  of  cer- 
tain persons  known  to  be  disaffected  to  the  government.  The 
entries  for  1632  are  meagre  in  the  extreme,  and  none  are  found 
of  earlier  date  than  1631.  From  June,  1632  to  March,  1635, 
there  are  no  entries  of  persons  departing  for  America,  but 
probably  the  entry  book  for  1633  and  1634  is  lost.  We  have 
therefore   only   Winthrop's   Journal4    or  other    mnf  >  nporaneous 

*  The  ships  arriving  in  New  England,  between  July  and  November,  1633, 
noted  by  Winthrop,  were:  24  July,  a  ship  from  Weymouth,  with  about  80 
passengers  who  settled  at  Dorchester.  This  ship  was  twelve  weeks  out,  and 
the  company  suffered  from  fever  contracted  at  the  Westward  Islands,  where 
they  were  detained  three  weeks  by  a  leaking  ship.  Sept.  4,  the  Griffin,  as 
noted  in  the  text.  The  same  day  the  Bird,  Yates,  master,  twelve  weeks  on 
the  passage.  10  Oct.,  the  James, 'Grant,  master,  eight  weeks  from  Gravesend, 
with  about  80  passengers,  30  of  whom  were  for  Massachusetts.     Grant  brought 


LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES  23 

New  England  records  to  depend  upon  for  the  ships  and  settlers 
who  arrived  in  New  England,  during  a  portion  of  this  time.5 

The  passage  commonly  consumed  seven  weeks,  often  lengthened 
to  ten  or  twelve  by  some  misadventure.  Thus  a  ship  arriving 
in  early  September  would  have  left  England  in  July.  The  ar- 
rival of  the  Griffin  on  September  fourth,  bringing  a  distinguished 
company,  is  noted  by  Winthrop  as  follows : 

"  The  Griffin,  a  ship  of  three  hundred  tons  arrived,  (having  been 
eight  weeks  from  the  Downs).  This  ship  was  brought  in  by  John 
Gallop  a  new  way  by  Lovell's  Island,  at  low  water,  now  called  "  Grif- 
fin's Gap."  She  brought  about  two  hundred  passengers,  having  lost 
some  four,  whereof  one  was  drowned  two  days  before,  as  he  was  cast- 
ing forth  a  line  to  take  mackerel.  In  this  ship  came  Mr.  Cotton, 
Mr.  Hooker,  and  Mr.  Stone,  ministers,  and  Mr.  Pierce,  Mr.  Haynes 
(a  gentleman  of  great  estate),  Mr.  Hoffe,  and  many  other  men  of 
good  estates.  They  got  out  of  England  with  much  difficulty,  all 
places  being  belaid  to  have  taken  Mr.  Cotton  and  Mr.  Hooker,  who 
had  been  long  sought  for  to  have  been  brought  into  the  High  Com- 
mission; but  the  master  being  bound  to  touch  at  the  Wight,  the  pur- 
suivants attended  there,  and  in  the  meantime,  the  said  ministers  were 
taken  in  at  the  Downs."      (Journal,  p.  108.) 

Winthrop's  allusion  to  getting  out  of  England  with  difficulty, 
refers  to  Cotton  and  Hooker  and  their  immediate  associates,  not 
to  the  generality  of  the  Griffin's  company. 

boston  in  1633. 

Boston  as  first  seen  by  Joshua  Hewes  little  resembled  the  Bos- 
ton of  to-day.  Vessels  sailing  up  the  harbor  passed  islands 
heavily  wooded,  and  either  anchored  in  the  stream  between  Bos- 
ton and  Charlestown  or  oft*  the  Cove.  Landward,  in  the  back- 
ground, was  the  three-peaked  Beacon  Hill,  flanked  on  the  north- 
east by  Copp's  Hill  rising  abruptly  from  the  strand,  on  which 

word  that  the  Richard,  50  tons,  which  came  forth  with  the  Griffin,  sprang 
a-leak  and  was  forced  to  return  to  Weymouth.  Because  of  Elliot's  recollec- 
tion of  the  date,  an  event  in  the  annals  of  the  church,  it  is  probable  that 
Hewes   came  in   the  Griffin  with  Cotton. 

s  Since  the  above  was  written,  there  has  been  discovered,  among  the  rec- 
ords in  the  Public  Record  Office  in  London,  a  series  of  Port  books  not  only 
for  London,  but  Ipswich  and  nearly  all  the  larger  ports.  The  records  com- 
mence as  early  as  1426  and  run  to  as  late  as  1750.  All  clearances,  arrivals, 
names  of  masters,  consignees,  with  description  of  cargo,  are  entered.  The 
record  of  Winthrop's  expedition  is  extant.  This  collection  of  records  will 
throw  much  light  on  the  commerce  with  New  England. 


24  LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES 

was  a  windmill  erected  the  year  before,  and  to  the  southwest,  be- 
yond the  immediate  town  limits,  by  Fort  Hill;  all  eminences  to 
attract  attention.  The  Charles  River  then  formed  a  large  bay 
to  the  back  of  Boston  (the  Back  Bay),  tide  waters  washing  the 
foot  of  Beacon  Hill  and  flowing  over  what  is  now  the  Public  Gar- 
den and  part  of  the  Common  and  approaching  so  near  to  the 
South  or  Roxbury  Bay,  which  separated  Boston  from  Roxbury 
and  Dorchester,  as  to  leave  but  a  narrow  passage  to  the  main- 
land. Here  at  the  narrowest  point,  where  is  now  Dover  Street, 
a  mile  north  of  Roxbury  line,  was  erected  in  April,  1631,  a  guard- 
house, through  which  the  highway  passed,  and  which  was  planned 
to  protect  the  town  from  incursions  from  that  direction.  Com- 
ing from  Roxbury,  the  road,  often  at  high  tides  covered  with 
water,  followed  the  present  Washington  Street  until  it  entered 
the  square  at  the  head  of  what  was  then  the  public  landing 
place,  now  known  as  Dock  Square  and  far  removed  from  the 
water  front,  but  which  was  then  the  port  of  the  town.  Here 
also  a  creek  entered  the  harbor,  and  navigation  was  possible  in 
a  small  boat  to  the  Charles  River,  which  then  covered  Hay- 
market  Square. 

The  North  End  was  virtually  an  island,  with  a  causeway  and 
bridge  in  Hanover  Street  near  Blackstone  Street.  From  the 
town  landing  or  dock  it  was  but  a  step  to  the  head  of  State 
Street  where  was  the  church,  with  some  of  the  principal  houses 
just  beyond.  The  house  of  Governor  Winthrop  was  between 
present  Milk  and  Water  streets.  It  was  but  a  small  straggling 
village,  with  few  houses  better  than  mean  temporary  buildings. 
The  church,  but  recently  erected,  had  walls  smeared  with  mud  and 
a  thatched  roof.  Even  then,  however,  the  town  was  rapidly  chang- 
ing. Lumber,  of  which  the  peninsula  was  nearly  destitute,  was 
being  brought  in  from  the  neighboring  country,  and  comfortable 
dwellings  erected.  On  the  4  March,  1633-4,  the  day  the  General 
Court  met  at  which  Hewes  was  admitted  a  freeman,  Winthrop 
notes  that  Samuel  Cole  set  up  the  first  house  of  entertainment 
(inn),  and  John  Cogan,  merchant,  the  first  shop.  This  was 
three  and  one-half  years  after  the  settlement  at  Boston. 

SETTLEMENT    AT    ROXBURY 

Hewes  probably  settled  at  Roxbury  immediately  on  his  arrival. 
That    town     early    enjoyed    an    enviable    reputation.     It    was 


LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES  25 

founded  in  the  summer  of  1630  by  William  Pynchon,  who  led 
some  of  the  people  from  Charlestown  where  conditions  were  un- 
satisfactory and  running  water  scarce. 

Until  the  arrival  of  the  friends  of  Eliot  in  the  fall  of  1632, 
there  were  not  enough  church  members  in  Roxbury  to  form  a 
church.  The  people  therefore  worshiped  with  the  Dorchester 
church,  George  Alcock  of  their  number  being  made  a  deacon  in 
that  church.  Among  other  early  members,  probable  founders 
of  the  town  and  church  with  Pynchon,  were  Thomas  Lamb, 
Thomas  Rawlins,  Robert  Cole,  and  William  Chase.  Winthrop 
records  that  in  Dec,  1630,  it  was  decided  to  build  a  fortified 
town  on  the  neck  between  Boston  and  Roxbury,  but  the  follow- 
ing week  the  plan  was  abandoned.  In  June,  1632,  Rev.  Thomas 
Weld,  formerly  minister  at  Terling  in  Essex,  arrived  in  Boston, 
and  the  following  month  was  ordained  pastor  over  the  church 
newly  formed  at  Roxbury.  Eliot  was  called  as  "  teacher "  of 
the  church  the  following  November,  having  agreed  with  his  Naz- 
ing  friends  before  leaving  England  to  join  them  when  they  came. 

Eliot  had  been  a  teacher  in  the  grammar  school  which  Rev. 
Thomas  Hooker,  after  withdrawing  from  his  pulpit  at  Chelms- 
ford, had  established  at  Little  Baddow,  near  Chelmsford,  in 
Essex.  Hooker's  sister  had  married  George  Alcock,  who  had 
preceded  Hooker  to  New  England  and  settled  at  Roxbury.  It 
may  well  be  that  Hewes,  a  young  man,  accompanied  perhaps  by 
his  two  sisters,  was  advised  by  Hooker  to  attach  himself  to 
Eliot's  church,  which  he  did  "  about  a  halfe  a  yeare  after  "  his 
arrival.  It  may  be  that  relatives  of  the  family  were  already 
there,  but  if  so  no  trace  of  the  connection  has  come  to  light.  It 
is  rather  singular,  although  Joshua  Hewes  had  at  least  two  and 
perhaps  three  sisters  married  to  his  neighbors  in  Roxbury,  that 
there  is  no  direct  mention  by  him  or  them  of  this  relationship. 
This  is  the  more  striking  as  his  name  was  perpetuated  in  their 
families.  Ralph  Hemminway  married,  5  July,  1631,  Elizabeth 
Hewes,  and  Richard  Gore  or  Gord  married,  30  Nov.,  1639,  Phebe 
Hewes.  The  third  possible  connection  is  based  on  the  supposi- 
tion that  Anne,  wife  of  Lewis  Jones  of  Roxbury  and  later  of 
Watertown,  who  had  daughters  Phebe  and  Lydia,  may  also  have 
been  a  sister  of  Joshua  Hewes. 

Roxbury  was  by  no  means  badly  located  for  trade.  Situated 
at  the  entrance  to  the  neck  it  was  necessary  for  travelers  enter- 


26  LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES 

ing  Boston  by  land,  from  Cambridge,  Watertown,  or  from  the 
towns  to  the  south,  to  pass  through  the  main  street  of  Roxbury. 
All  of  the  country  to  the  south  and  west  could  be  as  well  served 
from  Roxbury  as  Boston. 

In  1634  there  was  published  in  London  a  book  written  by  Wil- 
liam Wood;  who  had  returned  to  England  in  the  Elizabeth  Bon- 
adventure,  Capt.  Graves,  in  Aug.,  1633,  entitled  "  New  Eng- 
land's Prospect."     The  author  thus  describes  Roxbury : 

"  A  mile  from  this  town  (Dorchester)  lieth  Roxberry  which  is  a 
faire  and  handsome  countrey  towne,  the  inhabitants  of  it  being  all 
very  rich.  This  towne  lieth  upon  the  maine  so  that  it  is  well  wooded 
and  watered,  having  a  cleare  and  fresh  Brooke  running  through  the 
towne;  up  which,  although  there  come  no  alewives,  yet  there  is  a 
great  store  of  smelts,  and  therefore  it  is  called  Smelt  Brooke.  A 
quarter  of  a  mile  to  the  north  side  of  the  towne  is  another  river, 
called  stony  river,  upon  which  is  built  a  water  milne.  Here  is  good 
ground  for  corne,  and  meadow  for  cattle.  Up  westward  from  the 
towne  it  is  something  rocky,  whence  it  has  the  name  of  Roxberry; 
the  inhabitants  have  faire  houses,  store  of  cattle,  impaled  corne  fields 
and  fruitful  gardens.  Here  is  no  harbour  for  ships  because  the  towne 
is  seated  in  the  bottom  of  a  shallow  bay,  which  is  made  by  the  necke 
of  land  on  which  Boston  is  built,  so  that  they  can  transport  all  their 
goods  from  the  ships  in  boats  from  Boston  which  is  the  nearest  har- 
bour." 

In  1652  Edward  Johnson  in  "  Wonder  Working  Providence  " 
tells  much  the  same  story  of  its  happy  situation  and  prosperous 
inhabitants.  He  adds  that  there  "  are  near  upon  120  dwelling 
houses  "  and  that  "  their  streets  are  large  and  some  fayre 
houses." 

Roxbury  Bay  has  been  filled  in,  and  the  former  flats  of  the 
Charles  River  have  become  the  home  of  wealthy  Bostonians  and 
the  seat  of  many  institutions  both  educational  and  commercial. 
It  takes  an  active  imagination  to  picture  the  former  conditions 
when  the  Roxbury  people  brought  their  goods  to  the  landing 
places  at  high  tide. 

HOMESTEAD. 

Drake  in  the  "  History  of  Roxbury  "  says  that  Joshua  Hewes' 
dwelling  house  stood  in  Roxbury  Street,  nearly  opposite  the  foot 
of  Vernon  Street.      There  is  no  record  of  granl  to  him  of  his 


LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES  27 

Roxbury  property.5  In  1652,  Joshua  Foote,  who  had  a  deed 
from  his  nephew  of  his  Roxbury  estate,  was  described  in  the  Rox- 
bury Book  of  Possession,  page  21,  as  having  a  house,  barn  with 
outhouses,  with  gardens,  yards  and  houselot  at  the  east  side 
thereof,  four  acres  more  or  less,  butting  upon  Mr.  Thomas  Weld 
east  and  south,  and  upon  the  heirs  of  Samuel  Hagborne  north. 

The  Hagborne  estate  was  the  residence  of  Samuel  Hagborne 
until  his  death  in  January,  1612-3.  It  began  at  the  corner  of 
Eustis  Street.  After  Hagborne's  death  his  widow  Catherine 
married  Governor  Thomas  Dudley.  The  dwelling  house  was 
"  lately  destroyed  by  fier  "  in  1659.  Hagborne  was  one  of  the 
wealthiest  of  the  early  Roxbury  settlers,  and  in  his  will  provided 
for  an  annual  payment  to  a  free  school  in  Roxbury.  Rev.  Samuel 
Danforth,  pastor  of  the  church,  purchased  this  estate  in  1657. 
The  Weld  estate  which  elsewhere  bounded  Joshua  Hewes'  town 
lot,  was  the  home  of  Rev.  Thomas  Weld,  pastor  of  the  church 
until  his  departure  for  England  in  1611.  Opposite  was  the 
home  of  Capt.  Joseph  Weld.  North  of  Weld,  toward  Boston, 
was  the  homestead  of  William  Dennison,  an  important  man  and 
father  of  Major-General  Daniel  Dennison  and  of  Capt.  George 
Dennison,  one  of  Cromwell's  officers.  Between  Dennison  and  the 
Boston  line  was  the  home  of  John  Johnson,  surveyor  of  arms  for 
the  colony,  and  it  was  at  his  house  the  disastrous  explosion  and 
fire  occurred  noted  above.     It  was  at  the  house  of  Capt.  Joseph 

5  The  Roxbury  records  were  destroyed  by  fire  in  1645.  "Two  great  fires 
happened  this  week  ...  the  other  at  Roxbury  this  day.  John  Johnson, 
the  surveyor  general  of  the  ammunition,  a  very  industrious  and  faithful  man 
in  his  place,  having  built  a  fair  house  in  the  midst  of  the  town,  with  divers 
barns  and  other  outhouses,  it  fell  on  fire  in  the  day  time,  and  there  being  in 
it  seventeen  barrels  of  the  countrey's  powder  and  many  arms,  all  was  sud- 
denly burnt  and  blown  up,  .  .  .  and  shook  the  houses  in  Boston  and 
Cambridge,  so  as  men  thought  it  had  been  an  earthquake."  (Winthrop  Jour- 
nal, II,  2  mo.  6,  1645.) 

The  earliest  record  book  extant  commences  with  an  entry  of  29  April,  1648, 
but  entries  with  earlier  dates  occur,  some  dating  back  to  the  year  of  the  fire 
which  lost  us  the  important  earlier  proceedings.  In  1652  an  attempt  was 
made  to  preserve  as  much  as  could  be  recovered  from  the  earlier  records,  and 
from  that  transcript  we  learn  that  in  1639  a  book  was  bought,  "  for  the  en- 
trying  of  the  Towne  Lands  and  other  weighty  bussinesses  being  fully  agreed 
upon  which  may  concerne  the  Inhabitants  of  thes  Towne  of  Rocksbury." 
Twenty  pages,  several  blank,  in  the  transcript  of  1652  contain  all  that  was 
saved,  and  tell  nothing  of  town  proceedings,  being  chiefly  the  record  of  land 
transfers,  and  a  few  grants. 

In  1669  John  Eliot  and  Thomas  Weld  stated  that  the  School  book  and 
charter  were  destroyed  at  the  burning  of  Johnson's  house  (Dillaway;  History 
of  the  Grammar  School  in  Roxbury),  and  the  Roxbury  records  were  also 
destroyed  at  that  time. 


28  LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES 

Weld  that  Mrs.  Anne  Hutchinson  was  kept  a  prisoner  in  the 
winter  of  1637.  Next  south  of  Rev.  Thomas  Weld  was  the 
homestead  of  John  Woody,  and  between  Woody  and  the  road  to 
Dorchester,  now  Dudley  Street,  was  the  home  of  Rev.  John 
Eliot.  This  is  in  part  occupied  by  the  People's  National  Bank 
building  and  the  Dudley  Street  Terminal.  Opposite  Eliot  was 
the  mansion  of  Gov.  Thomas  Dudley. 

This  was  truly  the  court  end  of  the  town,  here  were  the  homes 
of  the  wealthiest  and  most  respected  people,  and  all  of  the  lots, 
perhaps  originally  allotted  in  units  of  two  or  two  and  a  half 
acres,  were  undoubtedly  taken  up  by  the  first  settlers,  from  one 
of  whom  Hewes  probably  purchased  his  homestead  on  his  arrival. 
The  first  book  of  Roxbury  records,  in  which  any  transactions  in 
lands  would  have  been  recorded  if  recorded  at  all,  for  it  was  not 
obligatory  to  record  land  sales  until  a  later  date,  was  badly 
damaged  at  the  fire  at  Johnson's  6  April,  1645.  In  1652  the 
town  ordered  a  copy  of  so  much  of  this  book  as  remained  legible, 
and  again,  three  years  later,  mention  is  made  of  the  transcript 
of  that  copy.  It  is  the  second  copy  which  has  come  down  to 
us,  and  this  opens  with  the  record  that  "  The  First  day  of  the 
Fowerth  moneth  Commonly  called  June,  1639,  this  booke  was 
bought  (by  the  Seven  men  then  imployed  in  the  Towne  affairs) 
for  the  entrying  of  the  Towne  Lands  and  other  weighty  busi- 
nesses being  fully  agreed  upon  which  may  concerne  the  Inhabi- 
tants of  thes  Towne  of  Rocksbury  and  payed  for  the  booke  Fower 
shillings."  A  few  entries  only  have  been  preserved,  but  of  these 
is  a  transaction  of  Hewes  in  1640,  and  a  "  Note  of  the  estates 
and  persons  of  the  Inhabitants  of  Rocksbury."  This  list  is  un- 
dated, but  is  entered  between  an  entry  dated  1640  and  an  account 
of  Joshua  Hewes  in  1644.  From  internal  evidence  it  was  prob- 
ably a  list  of  the  proprietors  of  estates  in  town  in  1639.  Seventy 
persons  are  listed,  with  possessions  running  from  three  acres  to 
356  acres.  Thirty-one  persons  are  rated  for  less  than  20  acres 
each,  and  twenty-three  as  holding  between  20  and  40  acres.  Five 
held  between  40  and  100  acres  inclusive.  The  five  largest  land- 
owners were  as  follows : 

Joseph  Weld,  278  acres. 

Joshua  Hewes,  288  acres. 

Phillip  Eliot,  3-5  acres. 

.Mr.  Thomas  Weld,  333  acres. 

Mr.  Thomas  Dudley,  356  acres. 


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LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES  29 

John  Eliot,  the  pastor,  Thomas  Weld  and  Thomas  Dudley 
were  the  only  ones  on  the  list  dignified  with  the  title  "  Mr."  One 
woman,  the  "  widow  "  Iggulden,  appears  on  the  list.  There  were 
other  residents  in  the  town,  employees  of  the  proprietors.  Of  the 
proprietors  named,  twenty-seven  were  admitted  as  freemen  in 
163-1  or  earlier,  eight  in  1610  or  later,  and  twelve  appear  never  to 
have  had  the  franchise.  There  were,  therefore,  at  the  time  this 
list  was  made  up,  at  least  forty-nine  freemen  in  Roxbury,  a  very 
large  proportion  to  the  entire  population  for  that  time.  There 
were  probably  considerably  less  than  one  hundred  dwellings  in 
the  whole  town.  The  Book  of  Possessions  in  1652  lists  but  one 
hundred  and  three  estates,  including  a  group  of  heirs  to  an 
estate.  This  agrees  very  well  with  Johnson's  statement  of  one 
hundred  and  twenty  dwellings  in  that  year. 

The  entire  unappropriated  lands  of  the  township  belonged  to 
these  proprietors  to  grant  to  those  who  might  be  admitted  later, 
or  to  divide  among  the  whole  number  of  proprietors,  the  "  Com- 
moners "  as  they  were  called  in  some  towns  because  of  their  right 
to  the  common  lands.  The  people  of  Roxbury  obtained  in  1638 
an  additional  grant  from  the  General  Court  of  4000  acres  "  be- 
cause Dedham  doth  shorten  them."  In  1636  they  had  had  their 
limits  set  at  eight  miles  from  their  meeting  house. 

Prior  to  the  transfer  of  the  Charter  in  1630  the  Company 
had  agreed  to  grant  to  each  adventurer  in  the  common  stock  200 
acres  for  each  £50  so  advanced,  and  for  each  person  who  came 
at  his  own  cost,  and  for  each  person  sent  by  them,  also  fifty 
acres.  Later  we  find  grants  by  the  General  Court  to  particular 
persons  claiming  under  this  promise,  but  the  first  settlers  re- 
ceived so  liberal  treatment,  in  the  acquiescence  of  the  authorities 
in  whateArer  rights  the  freemen  assumed  as  to  the  disposal  of  the 
lands  within  their  particular  plantations,  that  there  were  few 
early  specific  grants  of  this  nature  6  demanded. 

The  estate,  consisting  of  the  house  with  four  acres  which  Hewes 
possessed  in   the  main   street   of  Roxbury.   passed   from  him   to 

6  The  action  of  the  Company  regarding  allotment  of  lands  was  taken  19 
May,  1629.  "  Concerning  the  allottment  of  lands  to  those  persons  as  are  ad- 
venturers in  the  common  stock  it  is  thought  fitt  that  letters  he  writt 
to  the  Governor  to  sett  out  &  allott  unto  them  after  the  proporc'on  of  200  ac. 
of  land  ffor  50  lb.  adventer,  &  after  yt  rate  for  more  or  less,  to  the  intent 
to  build  their  houses  &  to  improve  there  labors  theveon;  nnd  if  within  10 
dayes   after  their  arrivall,  &  demand  made  by  aney  particular  adventurer  in 


30  LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES 

Foote ;  was  seized  by  Rogers,  claiming  under  Crane  to  whom 
Foote  had  mortgaged  the  same ;  was  recovered  by  Hewes  as  ex- 
ecutor of  Foote,  and  by  him  sold  to  Stebbins  and  Alcock,  the 
latter  of  whom  conveyed  his  share  to  Stebbins ;  and  at  Stebbins' 
death  was  sold  by  his  widow  to  Meade. 

None  of  the  deeds  to  1680  indicate  that  a  tavern  stood  on  any 
part  of  the  land,  despite  Drake's  statement  that  before  this 
time  the  Greyhound  tavern  was  an  institution  in  RoxbuiT  and 
stood  on  Hewes'  lot. 

At  first  lands  were  allotted  by  mutual  agreement  and  consent 


ye  common  stock,  or  his  servant  for  him,  the  same  be  not  soe  allotted,  then 
each  man,  being  an  adventurer,  Is  heereby  permitted  Free  Liberty  to 
build  in  aney  plase  where  himselfe  shall  thinke  most  convenient,  with  reser- 
vacion  not  to  build  or  manure  that  alreddy  built  on  or  manured;  provided  yt 
if  the  plott  of  ground  whereon  the  towne  is  intended  to  bee  built  bee  sett 
out,  yt  it  bee  publiqueley  knowne  to  bee  intended  for  that  purpose,  that  then 
noe  man  shall  presume  to  build  his  howse  aney  where  else,  (unless  it  bee  in 
the  Massachusetts  Bay,  and  there  according  to  such  directions  as  shall  bee 
thowght  meete  for  that  plase,)  but  in  Case  his  alotment  bee  not  sett  out 
within  the  towne  where  he  shall  build,  and  having  in  his  owne  name,  or  in 
the  behalfe  of  his  master,  made  request  to  the  Governor  to  have  the  same 
assigned  to  him,  if  it  bee  not  done  within  10  daies  after  his  arryval,  it  shalbee 
ffreey  ffor  aney  In  such  case,  beeing  an  adventurer  in  the  commin  stock,  to 
build  his  howse  within  the  foresaid  plott  of  ground  sett  out  for  the  towne  to 
bee  built  on,  &  to  impale  to  his  owne  use  preporcionable  to  halffe  an  acre  of 
ground  for  50  lb  adventer  in  ye  common  stock,  unless  a  greater  or  lesser  pre- 
porcon  be  formerly  determyned  of  by  the  Governor  &  Counsell;  In  which 
Case  that  preporcion  is  to  be  made  use  of  &  appropriated  to  each  man  within 
ye  liberties  of  ye  plott  sett  out  ffor  the  towne  to  bee  built,  and 
it  is  ordered,  that  conveyance  bee  made  in  ye  Companies  name,  with  the 
Common  seale  of  the  company  to  it,  to  aney  yt  shall  desire  it,  for  ech  mans 
peaseble  injoying  of  ye  land  he  holds,  at  the  charge  of  the  Company.  It  is 
further  thought  fitt,  &  ordered,  That  all  such  persons  as  goe  over  at  their 
owne  charge  and  are  adventurers  in  the  common  stock,  shall  have  lands  allotted 
to  them  for  themselves  and  their  families  forthwith,  50  acres  of  land  for 
each  person;  but  being  noe  adverturers  in  the  common  stock,  shall  have  50 
acres  of  land  for  the  Mr.  (master)  of  the  family,  and  such  a  proporcion  of 
land  more,  if  there  bee  cause,  as,  according  to  their  charge  &  qualitie,  the 
Governor  &  Councell  of  New  England  shall  thinke  necessary  for  them,  whereby 
their  charge  may  bee  fully  &  amply  supported;  unless  it  bee  to  any  with 
whome  the  Company  in  London  shall  make  any  particular  agreement,  to 
which  relacion  is  to  bee  had  in  such  case. 

And  for  such  as  transport  servants,  land  shalbe  allotted  for  each  servant, 
50  acres  to  the  Mr  (master)  ;  which  land  the  Mr.  is  to  dispose  of  at  his  dis- 
cission, in  regard  the  servants  trans]>ortacon,  wages,  &c,  is  at  the  Mrs. 
(master's)    charge." 

These  orders  were  passed  for  the  direction  of  Endicott,  but  remained  the 
authority  under  which  land  was  afterward  allotted.  Grants  according  to 
"  charge  and  quality "  were  strictly  in  accordance  with  the  practice  of  the 
day,  those  able  to  cultivate  a  large  tract  receiving  more  than  less  able  men. 
In  Salem  50  acre  grants  were  customary  to  new  comers,  as  the  town  records 
show;  persons  of  wealth  receiving  better  treatment. 


LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES  31 

of  the  chief  men  7  in  each  plantation.  By  163&  freemen  of  each 
plantation  took  entire  charge  of  this  matter  and  granted  lands 
to  new  comers  legally  admitted  as  inhabitants  with  them.  As 
early  as  1634  the  General  Court  passed  an  order,  recognizing 
the  informal  manner  of  taking  up  lands  which  had  prevailed, 
empowering  towns  to  grant  lands,  and  providing  for  the  proper 
registration  of  such  grants  and  transfers  thereof. 

ADMITTED   FREEMEN 

Joshua  Hewes  was  admitted  a  freeman  of  the  Company  4 
March,  1633-4,  at  a  Court  of  Assistants  held  at  Boston.  At  the 
same  time  there  were  admitted  26  others,  of  whom  two,  John 
Leavens  and  George  Ruggles,  were  residents  of  Roxbury.  To  be 
eligible  to  admission  as  a  freeman  it  was  necessary  to  be  a 
church  member.  Eliot  states  that  Hewes  "  joyned  to  the  church 
aboute  halfe  a  yeare  after  "  his  coming,  which  would  be  March, 
1633-4,  the  same  month  in  which  he  was  admitted  a  freeman. 
The  date  of  admission  to  the  church  was  probably  Feb.,  1633-4. 
At  a  General  Court  held  at  Boston  18  May,  1631,  at  which, 
however,  it  appears  that  there  were  present  only  the  Governor 
and  six  Assistants,  the  number  required  by  the  Charter  to 
hold  a  legal  meeting,  it  was  voted  "  to  the  end  the  body  of 
the  commons  may  be  preserved  of  honest  and  good  men,  it  was 
likewise  ordered  and  agreed  that  for  the  time  to  come  noe  man 
shalbe  admitted  to  the  freedome  of  this  body  polliticke,  but  such 
as  are  members  of  some  of  the  churches  within  the  lymitts  of  the 
same." 

At  the  first  General  Court  held  in  New  England,  19  Oct., 
1630,  one  hundred  and  seven  persons  asked  to  be  made  freemen. 
At  the  next  General  Court,  that  at  which  the  qualifications  for 
freedom  were  adopted,  one  hundred  and  sixteen  persons  took  the 
oath,  several  of  those  who  applied  for  admission  not  appearing 
on  this  second  list.     Up  to  October,  1630,  names  of  a  possible 

7  In  Aug.,  1632,  the  jealousy  between  Winthrop  and  Dudley,  who  was 
deputy-governor,  reached  a  climax.  Charges  presented  by  Dudley  were  re- 
futed by  Winthrop.  One  of  the  charges  made  by  Dudley  was  that  Winthrop 
had  disposed  of  lands  to  divers  persons.  Winthrop  denied  that  he  had  dis- 
posed of  lands  "  otherwise  than  the  deputy  and  other  of  the  assistants  had 
done,  he  had  only  given  his  consent  and  referred  them  to  the  court."  But  he 
went  on  to  say,  "  the  deputy  had  taken  more  upon  him,  in  that  without 
order  of  court,  he  had  empaled  at  Newton,  above  one  thousand  acres,  and 
had  assigned  lands  to  some   there."' 


32  LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES 

108  freemen  have  been  recovered,  and  of  these  only  a  small  num- 
ber came  to  New  England.  Compliance  with  the  popular  de- 
mand for  admission  as  freemen  would  have  been  to  run  the  risk 
of  allowing  the  control  of  affairs  to  pass  to  men  who  might  not 
have  used  it  to  the  same  end  as  the  founders  of  the  colony  had 
planned.  By  placing  the  qualification  for  admission  as  freeman 
in  the  hands  of  the  various  churches,  the  control  of  the  govern- 
ment was  left  in  the  hands  of  the  most  sober  and  intelligent  men 
in  the  community.  This  plan  also  assured  the  carrying  out  of 
the  church  plans  of  the  dominant  element  in  the  Company.8  Be- 
tween the  18  May,  1631  and  the  4  March,  1633-1,  seventy-two 
freemen  were  admitted.  Upon  these  197  freemen,  with  so  many 
of  the  Company  who  had  come  over,  rested  the  entire  responsibil- 
ity for  the  government  of  the  colony,  which  was  conducted 
through  the  Governor  and  Assistants,  who  held  courts  as  re- 
quired. 

When  Hewes    arrived   in   New  England  he   found   a  practical 

s  On  the  19  March,  1621%  the  Council  for  New  England  (which  had  been 
chartered  in  1620,  and  had  made  ineffectual  attempts  to  plant  a  settlement  on 
Massachusetts  Bay)  granted  a  patent  to  Sir  Henry  Roswell,  Sir  John  Young, 
John  Endicott,  all  of  whom  are  known  to  have  been  Devonshire  men,  Thomas 
Southcot  and  Simon  Wheteomb,  probably  also  of  Devonshire,  and  John 
Humphrey.  The  last  named  had  been  treasurer  of  the  Dorchester  Adven- 
turers, who  under  Rev.  John  White's  management  had  planted  a  small  colony 
at  Cape  Ann.  The  capital  of  the  Dorchester  Adventurers  having  been  ex- 
hausted, an  association  was  formed  to  carry  on  their  plans  and  to  attract 
new  capital.  The  grant  extended  from  the  Atlantic  to  the  Pacific,  and  from 
a  point  three  miles  south  of  the  Charles  River  to  a  point  three  miles  north 
of  the  Merrimack  river.  Endicott  sailed  30  June,  1628,  with  a  score  or  two 
of  companions,  including  many  indentured  servants  of  the  company.  In  the 
meantime  Mathew  Cradock  and  the  remaining  associates  whom  Roswell  and 
others  represented,  had  taken  steps  to  get  a  royal  charter  giving  their  com- 
pany the  status  of  a  corporation  with  nearly  absolute  powers  regarding  the 
conduct  of  affairs  within  the  bounds  of  their  patent.  This  was  accomplished 
4  March,  16-28-9,  and  Higginson  and  others  soon  followed  Endicott.  In  the 
preparation  of  these  expeditions  and  other  expenses,  the  capital  subscribed 
was  sunk.  Thus  it  came  about  that  the  actual  control  of  the  Company  fell 
to  those  willing  to  make  further  advances.  This  led  to  the  proposition  to 
transfer  the  Charter  to  New  England,  and  with  it  the  control  of  affairs. 
On  this  being  decided  upon  a  number  of  persons  of  substance  and  responsi- 
bility agreed  to  go  to  New  England  to  inhabit.  Under  their  direction  a  com- 
pany of  about  1500  persons  were  brought  together  and  who  were  led  by 
Wiiithrop  to  Massachusetts.  "Winthrop  found  about  300  persons  resident  in 
the  English  settlements  within  the  patent,  chiefly  at  Salem  and  Charlestown, 
besides  the  140  recently  landed  at  Dorchester.  During  the  following  three 
years  Winthrop  notes  the  arrival  of  at  least  another  thousand,  and  the  de- 
parture of  some,  which  with  the  deaths  which  took  place  may  be  accepted  as 
offsetting  the  unrecorded  arrivals.  This  would  give  a  population  for  the  ter- 
ritory under  his  government  of  about  3000  persons  at  the  time  of  the  coming 
of  Joshua  Hewes.     A  large  number  of  these  were  unmarried  servants,  either 


LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES  33 

system  of  local  government  in  force.  The  entire  country  within 
the  patent  was  held  by  the  Governor  and  Company  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Bay,  a  chartered  commercial  corporation  with  extraor- 
dinary privileges.  The  inhabitants  of  the  territory  derived  their 
right  to  the  lands  possessed  by  them  from  this  Company,  of  which 
only  a  minority  were  members.  The  head  of  the  colony,  or  Com- 
monwealth, was  the  Governor  of  the  Company,  elected  yearly  by 
the  whole  body  of  Freemen  assembled  at  a  General  Court.  He 
was  joined  in  the  government  by  a  Deputy-governor  and  usually 
nine  Assistants,  making  a  board  of  eleven  Assistants,9  who  were 
also  the  magistrates.  The  Assistants  or  some  of  them  met  both 
as  a  council  and  as  a  court  of  magistrates.  In  their  latter 
capacity  they  heard  civil  and  criminal  actions. 

Only  freemen  of  the  Company  were  eligible  to  hold  any  office, 
civil  or  military,  or  to  be  chosen  as  jurors.  Gradually,  how- 
ever, freemen  were  permitted  to  associate  with  themselves  others 
of  the  inhabitants  of  their  town  to  make  choice  of  military  officers 
and  to  participate  in  the  management  of  town  affairs,  and  even 
to  be  elected  as  Townsmen  or  Prudential  men,  the  origin  of  the 
later  boards  of  selectmen;  but  a  majority  of  the  board  were 
required  to  be  freemen.     The  New  England  town  system  was  at 

of  the  company  or  of  individuals.  As  whole  families  migrated,  there  were 
many  children.  Possibly  an  estimate  of  500  families,  as  many  men  and  maid 
servants,  and  as  many  other  single  persons,  would  not  be  wide  of  the  mark, 
giving  900  or  1000  men  who  by  reason  of  their  stake  in  the  country  might 
reasonably  expect  some  participation  in  the  government.  Of  the  men  serv- 
ants— the  term  was  then  used  as  we  would  use  employee  today — most  were 
free  of  their  contracts  within  a  few  years.  Several  such  were  among  the 
members  of  the  Boston  church.  It  is  very  evident  that  in  1634  less  than  one- 
fifth  of  the  responsible  adult  male  population  were  freemen,  and  this  pro- 
portion lessened  with  each  succeeding  year. 

An  analysis  of  the  Boston  church  records  shows  some  interesting  figures. 
To  Oct.,  1635,  there  had  been  admitted  to  the  church  159  men  and  121 
women.  To  1641  there  were  admitted  in  addition  92  men  and  98  women. 
Of  these,  4  men  were  excommunicated,  33  dismissed  to  other  churches.  5 
women  excommunicated  and  19  dismissed  to  other  churches;  leaving  a  net 
gain  of  55  men  and  74  women,  or  a  total  of  214  men  and  195  women,  from 
which  must  be  deducted   deaths  and  removals  without  severing  church  ties. 

In  the  same  period  Roxbury  church  admitted  about  115  men  and  103 
women,  and  lost  by  dismissal  and  otherwise  13  men  and  13  women.  Salem 
admitted  131  men  and  133  women. 

9  The  Charter  provided  for  eighteen  assistants  besides  the  Governor  and 
Deputy-governor.  Any  seven  assistants  with  the  Governor  or  deputy,  con- 
stituted a  legal  court  of  the  company.  Probably  at  no  time  prior  to  1692 
were  there  more  than  1400  votes  cast  at  an  election  of  magistrates.  The 
General  Court  of  May,  1631,  provided  that  "  the  like  course  (as  in  election) 
to  be  holden  when  they,  the  said  Commons,  shall  see  cause  for  any  defect  or 
misbehaviour  to  remove  any  one  or  more  of  ye  Assistants." 


34  LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES 

first  merely  an  association  of  freemen  of  the  company,  or  such 
non-freemen  who  might  have  become  proprietors  in  the  planta- 
tion, who  had  settled  at  some  place  designated  by  the  authori- 
ties, either  by  actual  vote  in  Court  or  by  tacit  consent  of 
the  magistrates.  The  electors  in  the  Commonwealth  were 
the  freemen  of  the  Company,  and  this  condition  lasted  as  long 
as  the  power  to  manage  their  own  affairs  depended  upon  the 
Charter.  The  desire  of  Winthrop,  and  probably  of  the  early 
leaders,  was  to  restrict  the  participation  in  the  government  to  as 
few  as  possible.  At  the  General  Court  in  the  spring  of  1634; 
Winthrop  was  superseded  by  Dudley,  because  of  the  feeling  that 
the  government  was  growing  too  centralized.  Winthrop  tells 
of  a  meeting  of  two  deputies  from  each  of  the  eight  towns  prior 
to  the  General  Court,  "  to  consider  of  such  matters  as  they  were 
to  take  order  in  at  the  same  General  Court ;  who  having  met, 
desired  a  sight  of  the  patent,  and  conceiving  thereby  that  all 
their  laws  should  be  made  in  the  General  Court,  repaired  to  the 
Governor  to  advise  with  him  about  it,  and  about  the  abrogating 
of  some  orders  formerly  made."  Winthrop  frankly  told  these 
delegates  that  when  the  patent  was  granted,  the  number  of  free- 
men was  supposed  to  be  (as  in  like  corporations)  so  few,  as  they 
might  well  join  in  making  laws;  but  now  they  were  grown  to  so 
great  a  body  it  was  not  possible  for  them  to  make  or  execute 
laws,  they  must  choose  others  for  that  purpose.  As  few  were 
qualified  for  such  important  business,  he  indicated  his  preference 
of  a  method  of  revising  laws  enacted  by  the  Assistants.  He 
would  have  the  governor  summon  a  certain  number  of  freemen  to 
present  grievances  regarding  the  laws  to  the  Court  of  Assist- 
ants.10 

The  Court  which  met  the  fourteenth  of  May  following  took 
a  more  democratic  view  and  agreed  that  none  but  the  General 
Court  could  admit  freemen,  make  laws,  appoint  or  elect  any  of 
the  principal  officers,  civil  or  military.  Provision  was  made  for 
representatives  to  be  chosen  by  the  freemen  of  the  towns,  with 
power  to  act  for  the  freemen  in  all  matters  except  the  election 
of  magistrates  and  other  officers.  The  freemen  to  any  great 
extent  could  not  be  present  at  the  Courts  of  election  and  at  first 
sent  their  votes  by  proxies,  and  later  cast  their  ballots  in  their 
own  town.  A  curious  side  light  upon  the  events  of  the  Court 
10  Winthrop's  Journal,  I;   128. 


LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES  35 

of  election  of  1634  and  1635  is  thrown  by  the  sermon  in  1634 
of  Rev.  Mr.  Cotton  of  the  Boston  church,  in  which  he  took  occa- 
sion, evidently  perceiving  what  change  was  about  to  be  made,  to 
maintain  "  that  a  magistrate  ought  not  to  be  turned  into  the 
condition  of  a  private  man  without  just  cause,  and  to  be  pub- 
licly convict,  no  more  than  the  magistrates  may  not  turn  a  pri- 
vate man  out  of  his  freehold,  etc.,  without  a  public  trial."  1X 
This  was  evidently  Winthrop's  opinion,  and  in  1635  Ludlow,  the 
deputy-governor,  finding  himself  about  to  be  left  out  of  the  gov- 
ernment, objected  to  the  election  of  Haynes,  who  succeeded 
Dudley,  because  the  deputies  had  agreed  upon  his  election  before 
coming  to  the  Court. 

THOUGHTS    OF    INDEPENDENCE 

So  much  success  promised  to  attend  the  exertions  of  the 
Massachusetts  Company  that  it  soon  met  with  great  opposition. 
In  the  winter  of  1632-3,  an  attempt  was  made  by  enemies  of  the 
colony  in  England  to  bring  about  the  appointment  of  a  governor- 
general  over  New  England,  and  for  a  time  the  friends  of  the  colony 
in  England  and  the  colonists  in  Massachusetts  feared  that  some 
action  would  be  taken,  which  would  to  a  great  degree  modify 
their  charter,  if  not  render  it  void.  Resistance,  even  to  a  re- 
course to  arms,  was  contemplated  by  Winthrop  and  his  associates. 
This  is  shown  by  the  proceedings  in  the  colony  at  that  time  and 
the  following  year.  At  the  General  Court  which  met  29  May, 
1633,  at  which  Winthrop  was  re-elected  governor,  it  was  ordered 
"  that  the  Fort  at  Boston  shalbe  finished  with  what  convenient 
speed  may  be  att  the  publique  charge."  Later  and  more  favor- 
able news  was  received,  and  the  erection  of  fortifications  lan- 
guished, but  on  the  3  Sept.  the  Assistants  ordered  "  that  every 
hand  (except  magistrates  and  ministers)  shall  afford  their 
help  to  the  finishing  of  the  fort  at  Boston,  til  it  be  ended."  And 
on  the  5  Nov.  the  Assistants  require  that  after  all  the  plan- 
tations in  the  Bay  have  done  two  days'  work  apiece  at  the  fort, 
"  there  shall  order  go  forth  to  Salem,  Aggawam,  and  Saugus,  to 
send  in  their  money  for  three  days'  work  toward  it,  for  every 
man,  except  magistrates  and  ministers." 

Of  the  next  Court,  that  at  which  Hewes  was  admitted  a  free- 
man, Winthrop  notes  in  his  Journal   (page  125),  "Upon  offer 

ulbid.,  I;   132. 


36  LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES 

of  some  new  comers  to  give  liberally  towards  the  building  of  a 
galley  for  defence  of  the  bay,  and  upon  consultation  with  divers 
experienced  seamen  and  others,  it  was  thought  fitter  for  our  con- 
dition to  build  a  vessel  forty  feet  in  length,  and  twenty-one  in 
bredth,  to  be  minion  proof,  and  the  upper  deck  musket  proof,  to 
have  one  sail,  and  to  carry  whole  culverin  and  other  small  pieces, 
eight  in  all.  This  was  found  to  be  so  chargeable,  and  so  long  ere 
it  could  be  finished,  that  it  was  given  over."  The  proceedings 
at  this  court  show  a  vote  that  "  every  Assistant  shall  move  all 
newe  comers  (which  have  not  adventured  in  the  common  stock) 
that  they  think  fit  to  contribute  towards  the  Sea  fort,  &  if  they 
finde  any  averse  to  desire  the  helpe  of  the  nexte  Assistant,  &  yet 
if  neede  require  to  acquaint  the  Court  therewith,"  was  reconsid- 
ered, probably  upon  receipt  of  the  suggestion  that  these  new 
comers  would  prefer  to  contribute  toward  a  galley  or  floating 
battery,  and  the  following  vote  passed  in  its  place ;  "  Upon  the 
consideration  of  the  usefulness  of  a  moving  fort  to  be  built  40 
feet  longe  and  21  foote  side,  for  defence  of  this  Colony  &  upon 
the  free  offer  of  some  gentlemen  lately  come  over  to  us  of  some 
large  sommes  of  money  to  be  imployed  that  way,  it  is  thought 
fitt  that  this  matter  shalbe  moved  to  such  men  of  ability  as  have 
not  borne  their  parte  in  the  greate  charges  of  the  Foundation 
of  this  Colony  &  for  this  end  it  is  desired  that  every  Assistant 
shall  undertake  the  business  for  treating  with  such  as  are  within 
the  townes  where  they  dwell  &  if  they  see  fitt  they  may  desire  some 
other  of  the  Assistants  to  joyne  with  them." 

This  is  followed  with  a  list,  titled  "  Gyven  &  promised  towards 
the  Sea  Fort,"  which  is  headed  by  Mr.  Haynes,  one  of  the 
wealthiest  of  the  "  newcomers  "  on  the  Griffin,  who  subscribed  40 
pounds.  Mr.  Dummer,  another  wealthy  man  and  resident  of 
Roxbury,  gave  30  pounds.  In  all  twenty-two  men,  all  men 
whose  names  frequently  occur  in  the  colonial  records,  subscribed 
£144  in  money  and  1100  4  inch  planks.  Joshua  Hewes  gave  20 
shillings,  the  same  amount  as  John  Johnson,  Thomas  Read  and 
James  Pcnn. 

William  Stevens,  the  early  shipbuilder  at  Salem,  who  had 
previously  obtained  considerable  reputation  in  London,  was  to 
receive  £10  for  his  care  and  expedition  in  the  work. 

At  the  next  General  Court,  of  Sept.,  1634, 12  it  was  determined 

is  George   E.   Littleficld,   in  Early  Massachusetts   Press,  writes  of  the   ar- 


LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES  37 

» 
to  erect  fortifications  at  Castle  Island,  Dorchester  and  Charles- 
town,  and  strenuous  measures  were  taken  to  enforce  the  com- 
pletion of  the  works  at  Boston  and  to  encourage  Salem  to 
properly  protect  her  harbor.  The  captains  of  the  train  bands 
were  ordered  to  train  their  men  every  month.  Governor  Dudley, 
John  Winthrop,  John  Haynes,  John  Humphrey,  and  John  Endi- 
cott  were  appointed  a  commission  "  to  consulte,  direct,  and  give 
command  for  ye  managing  and  ordering  of  any  war  that  may 
befall  us  for  the  space  of  a  yeare  nexte  ensueing,  &  till  further 
orderbe  taken  herein."  These  steps  were  prompted  by  the  news 
brought  by  late  arrivals.  Among  these  was  John  Humphrey,  who 
arrived  during  the  summer  bringing  military  supplies  and  arma- 
ment bought  with  money  contributed  in  England. 

The  general  despondency  of  the  Puritan  party  in  England, 
caused  many  Puritans  of  influence  to  turn  their  thoughts  toward 
New  England  as  a  place  of  refuge.  The  action  of  the  King  in 
demanding  the  charter  of  Cradock,  the  former  governor,  gave 
only  too  plain  an  indication  that  willing  tolerance  by  the  King 
of  the  Company's  rule  was  at  an  end. 

rival  of  Rev.  Jose  Glover,  who  came  in  the  Planter,  of  which  he  was  an 
owner:  "The  Planter  carried  as  part  of  the  cargo  government  stores  which 
had  been  purchased  by  Mr.  John  Humphrey,  the  bill  of  lading  for  which  was 
dated  April  7,  1634.  He  and  his  wife,  Lady  Susan,  daughter  of  the  Earl  of 
Lincoln,  were  probably  passengers.  As  Humphrey  and  Glover  were  both 
stockholders  in  the  Company,  and  were  thus  actuated  by  common  interests, 
the  inducements  for  Mr.  Glover  to  cross  the  ocean  at  this  time  were  very 
strong,  and  the  arrival  of  the  Planter  in  Boston  Harbor  in  June,  1634, 
would  seem  to  mark  the  month  and  year  of  Mr.  Glover's  arrival  in  New 
England. 

"  Their  arrival  was  very  opportune.  Mr.  Humphrey  had  been  present  in  the 
council  chamber  when  Mr.  Cradock,  having  been  called  upon  to  produce  the 
charter  and  having  replied  that  it  had  been  taken  to  New  England  four  years 
before,  was  directed  to  send  for  it  at  once.  Mr.  Glover  was  a  member  of  the 
Company  and  probably  cognizant  of  the  action  of  the  council.  Mr.  Hum- 
phrey and  Mr.  Glover  could  furnish  exact  information  concerning  the  condi- 
tion of  affairs  in  England,  and  materially  aid  the  colonial  government  in 
adopting  the  measures  most  suitable  for  its  preservation.  It  was  undoubt- 
edly due  to  their  information  that  the  governor  and  assistants,  when  they 
received  Mr.  Cradock's  letter  containing  a  copy  of  the  council's  order  re- 
quiring the  return  of  the  charter,  adopted  a  waiting  policy  and  returned  an- 
swer to  Mr.  Cradock,  that  it  would  be  necessary  to  refer  the  matter  for  action 
to  the  General  Court,  which  would  be  held  in  the  following  September.  This 
letter  was  carried  to  Mr.  Cradock  by  Mr.  Winslow,  who  went  to  England  in 
July,  in  one  of  the  returning  ships,  among  which  was  the  Planter.  At  the 
court  held  in  September,  it  was  ordered  that  six  hundred  pounds  be  raised 
'toward  fortifications  and  other  charges,'  which  were  hastened,  says  Win- 
throp, 'because  there  came  over  a  copy  of  the  council,  to  call  in  all  pat- 
ents.' This  act  surely  indicated  armed  resistance,  and  certainly  foreshad- 
owed, if  it   was   not  the   initial  act  of  the  American   Revolution." 


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38  LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES 

MARRIAGE. 

The  marriage  of  Joshua  Hewes  was  the  third  recorded  in  Rox- 
bury.  It  took  place  8  Oct.,  1634.  His  bride  was  Mary  Gold- 
stone  of  Watertown,  youngest  daughter  of  Henry  Goldstone,  who 
settled  in  Watertown  the  preceding  May  or  June.  The  Gold- 
stones,  Henry,  his  wife  Anne,  and  daughters  Anna  and  Mary, 
aged  18  and  15  years  respectively,  had  sailed  from  Ipswich  in 
Sept.,  1634.  Mary  Goldstone  was  baptized  at  Wickham  Skeith, 
Suffolk,  26  Feb.,  1620,  and  was  less  than  sixteen  years  of  age  at 
the  time  of  her  marriage.  Her  father,  Henry  Goldstone,  died 
25  July,  1638,  aged  46,  and  her  mother  soon  after  married  John 
George  of  Watertown,  who  in  turn  died  in  1647.  The  widow 
lived  until  26  April,  1670,  when  she  died  in  Watertown,  aged 
79   years. 

The  inventory  of  goods  possessed  by  the  widow  Goldstone 
when  she  married  George,  appears  in  the  settlement  of  his  estate, 
and  shows  that  Goldstone  had  a  well  equipped  house  and  farm. 
An  account  of  the  Goldstone  family  will  be  found  elsewhere  in 
this  volume.  Anna  Goldstone,  sister  of  Mrs.  Mary  Hewes  and 
only  other  child  of  Henry  Goldstone,  married,  prior  to  1635, 
Henry  Bright  of  Watertown  and  had  eight  children  by  him.13 

The  B rights  were  an  important  family  in  Watertown,  and 
Henry  was  many  years  a  selectman  and  deacon.  This  marriage 
connected  Hewes  with  a  large  circle  of  more  or  less  influential 
persons,  and  undoubtedly  exercised  some  influence  upon  his  career. 
His  own  sisters  married  in  Roxbury,  so  that  he  enjoyed  an  ex- 
tensive family  connection  in  New  England,  among  whom  must  be 
included  Caleb  and  Nathaniel  Foote,  the  former  of  whom  was 
in  business  with  him  in  1650,  and  the  latter  of  whom  settled  in 
Watertown  in  1634,  but  removed  to  Wetherfield  in  1636  and  died 
soon,  leaving  a  large  family  excellently  connected. 

13  The  children  of  Deacon  Henry  Bright  were:  Anna,  died  1639,  aged  4; 
Abigail,  married,  1659,  Elisha  Odlin  of  Boston  and  had  several  children; 
Mary,  married,  1657,  Nathaniel  Coolidge  of  Watertown,  a  well-to-do  man; 
John,  who  died  1691,  without  issue,  having  been  deacon  in  the  church  at 
Watertown;  Anna,  married,  1670,  as  his  second  wife,  Capt.  Samuel  Ruggles 
of  Roxbury;  Elizabeth,  married,  1674,  Walter  Hastings  of  the  Cambridge 
family  of  that  name;  Nathaniel,  died  1726,  aged  80;  and  Beriali,  who  mar- 
ried, 1671,  Isaac  Fowle  of  Charlestown.  Acmrding  to  the  custom  of  the  day, 
these  relatives  by  marriage  would  be  regarded  by  Hewes  as  his  own  nephews 
and  nieces. 


PEDIGREE  OF  GOLDSTONE 

[From  Bond's  Watertown.] 
Roman    Goldstoxe,    buried    at^^JoxE,  buried   at    Bedingfield,   1 


Bedingfield,  Suffolk,  23  Nov., 
1575. 


June,  1579. 


William  Goldstoxe,  vicar  of= 
Bedingfield.  Will  proved  4 
May,   1609. 


Margaret,  buried  at  Wickham 
Skeith,  5  June,  1620;  mar- 
ried 24  April,  1581. 


bapt. 


Henry  Goldstone, 
July,  1591,  at  Wickham 
Skeith;  died  25  April,  1638, 
at  Watertown,  Mass.  Emi- 
grated to  New  England  in 
1634. 


17===Anne,  died  26  April,  1670,  aet. 
79,  at  Watertown.  She  mar- 
ried,  second,  John  George. 


Lieut.    Joshu  a=Mary  Goldstoxe, 
Hewes    of    Bos-  bapt.    26    Feb., 

ton,   N.  E.,  born  1620,   at  Wiek- 

1611-12;   died  ham     Skeith; 

1676,  at  Boston;  died    23-6-1655. 

married    1634. 


Anna  Goldstone,=^Hexry   Bright   of 
bapt.  16  May,  Watertown,   died 

1615.    See  page  1686. 

38. 


LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES  39 

MILITARY  SERVICE. 

As  early  as  22  March,  1630-1,  the  Assistants  had  ordered  the 
towns  to  see  that  every  person  except  ministers  and  magistrates, 
"  as  well  servants  as  others,"  be  provided  with  good  and  suffi- 
cient arms  "  allowable  by  the  captain  or  other  officers,"  those 
unable  to  provide  them  to  be  supplied  by  the  town.  There  is 
nothing  earlier  than  this  vote  throwing  light  upon  the  organiza- 
tion of  the  military  companies  in  the  Colony,  which,  however, 
employed  Underhill  and  Patrick,  typical  professional  soldiers  of 
the  day,  both  of  whom  later  were  a  source  of  trouble,  as  military 
leaders  with  rank  of  captain.  Underhill  was  the  senior  in  com- 
mand, and  immediately  under  the  Governor's  eye.  Patrick  was 
stationed  at  Watertown. 

At  Salem,  John  Endicott,  himself  a  soldier  in  his  youth,  said 
to  have  been  a  captain  in  the  wars  in  the  Netherlands,  had  com- 
plete charge.  With  him  was  associated  Samuel  Sharpe.  Endi- 
cott and  Sharpe  had  undoubtedly  organized  and  drilled  their  men 
as  a  military  company.  The  first  mention  of  the  Salem  com- 
pany in  the  Colony  records  is  in  1632,  when  Capt.  Trask  held  the 
command  he  continued  to  hold  for  several  years. 

At  the  time  of  Hewes'  arrival,  the  various  plantations  had  their 
"  train  bands  "  with  inferior  officers  of  their  own  selection. 

In  July,  1631,  the  General  Court  ordered  that  on  the  first 
Thursday  in  every  month  there  should  be  "  A  general  traineing 
of  Capt.  Underbill's  company  att  Boston  and  Rocksbury,  and 
every  first  Friday  in  every  month  there  shalbe  a  general  traineing 
of  the  remainder  of  them  who  inhabitt  att  Charlton,  Mistieke,  and 
the  new  towne  (Cambridge),  att  a  convenient  place  aboute  the 
Indian  wigwams,  the  trainein  to  begin  att  one  of  the  clocke  in  the 
afternoon." 

Richard  Morris,  who  had  been  sergeant  and  ensign,  was  ap- 
pointed as  Underbill's  lieutenant,  and  in  Sept.,  163-t,  was  ordered 
to  train  the  Roxbury  company.  Roxbury  later  received  a  grant 
from  the  Colony  to  help  pay  him.  Morris  was  one  of  the  few 
trained  soldiers  in  the  Colony. 

The  need  of  a  school  for  miltary  officers,  where  the  several 
leaders  of  the  town  bands  could  obtain  instruction  and  uni- 
formity in  drill  and  tactics,  led  to  the  formation  of  a  military 
company    in    Boston   which   should   be   largely   composed   of   the 


40  LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES 

officers  of  the  military  companies  throughout  the  Colony. 
Twenty-four  persons  seem  to  have  joined  with  Robert  Keayne,  a 
prominent  Boston  merchant,  in  asking  for  incorporation  as  a 
military   company  with  special  privileges. 

Winthrop  notes  in  his  journal  under  date  of  12th  month, 
1637-8,  "  Divers  gentlemen  and  others,  being  joined  in  a  mili- 
tary company,  desired  to  be  made  a  corporation,  etc.,  but  the 
council,  considering  (from  the  example  of  the  Pretorian  band 
among  the  Romans  and  the  Templars  in  Europe)  how  danger- 
ous it  might  be  to  erect  a  standing  authority  of  military  men, 
which  might  easily  in  time  overthrow  the  civil  power,  thought 
fit  to  stop  it  betimes.  Yet  there  were  allowed  to  be  a  company, 
but  subordinate  to  all  authority." 

This  doubt  of  the  advisability  to  incorporate  a  military  com- 
pany was  strengthened  by  the  disturbance  created  by  the  opinions 
expressed  by  Mrs.  Anne  Hutchinson,  whose  friends  numbered 
many  prominent  men  including  some  of  the  leaders  in  the  mili- 
tary organizations.  Fifty-eight  Boston  and  five  Roxbury  men 
were  disarmed,  also  some  of  other  plantations,  because  of  sup- 
port given  Mrs.  Hutchinson. 

At  this  time  there  were  about  one  thousand  freemen  in  the 
entire  colony.  The  military  organization  consisted  of  three 
regiments,  of  the  first  of  which  John  Winthrop,  Sr.,  was  colonel, 
and  Thomas  Dudley,  lieutenant-colonel.  This  regiment  was 
composed  of  the  train  bands  of  Boston,  Roxbury,  Dorchester, 
Weymouth  and  Hingham.  It  was  to  this  regiment  that  Joshua 
Hewes  belonged,  and  in  which  at  this  time  he  probably  held  the 
post  of  sergeant  in  the  Roxbury  company.14 

i*  The  second  regiment  was  composed  of  the  companies  of  Charlestown, 
Newetown  (Cambridge),  Watertown,  Concord  and  Dedham,  and  was  com- 
manded by  John  Haynes  and  Roger  Harlakenden.  These  two  regiments 
were  of  the  "  Bay."  The  third  regiment  was  the  Essex  regiment,  composed 
of  the  companies  of  Saugus  (Lynn),  Salem,  Ipswich,  and  Newbury,  and  of 
which  John  Endicott  was  colonel,  and  John  Winthrop,  Jr.,  lieutenant-colonel. 
Gov.  Winthrop  described  a  general  muster  of  the  two  Bay  regiments,  which 
he  said  numbered  one  thousand  men  and  acquitted  themselves  very  credita- 
bly. In  August,  1632,  the  companies  had  been  ordered  to  maintain  their 
own  captains,  but  two  years  later  their  maintenance  was  assumed  by  the 
Colony.  It  was  enacted  in  March,  1(537-8,  that  thereafter  none  but  freemen 
should  be  elected  to  any  office  in  the  Commonwealth,  including  captains  of 
military  companies  and  inferior  officers,  the  election  of  whom,  subject  to 
approval  by  the  Court,  was  left  to  all  residents,  freemen  or  otherwise,  except 
"covenant  servants  in  household  with  any  other,"  who  had  taken  the  "resi- 
dents' oath." 


LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES  41 

The  following  year,  fear  of  dissatisfaction  among  the  military 
on  account  of  the  Hutchinson  affair  having  disappeared,  the 
General  Court  at  its  session  of  13  March,  1638-9,  upon  petition, 
incorporated  "  Robert  Keayne,  Nathaniel  Duncan,  Robert  Sedge- 
wick,  William  Spencer,  gentlemen,  and  such  others  as  have 
already  joined  with  them,  and  such  as  they  shall  from  time  to 
time  take  into  their  other  company,"  as  the  Military  Company 
of  the  Massachusetts.15  This  company  was  designed  to  be 
formed  upon  the  same  plan  as  the  Honorable  Artillery  Company 
of  London,  of  which  Keayne  was  a  member  from  1623  to  1635. 
Others  of  the  first  members  of  the  Military  Company  of  the 
Massachusetts  had  been  members  of  the  London  organization ;  as 
William  Spencer,  Richard  Collicott,  Richard  Morris  and  John 
Underhill.  And  still  others  were  among  those  who  joined  within 
the  year,  as  Thomas  Clarke,  John  Harrison,  Thomas  Hawkins, 
Richard  Parker,  Henry  Phillips,  Thomas  Stowe  and  Richard 
Walker. 

The  London  company  had  existed  from  1537,  when  Henry 
VIII  chartered  the  "  Guylde  of  Artillary  of  Longbowes,  Cros- 
bowes  and  Handegones  "  and  the  place  where  they  trained  was 
known  as  the  Military  Garden.  To  this  corps  belonged  the  leaders 
of  the  London  train  bands,  and  it  came  to  have  the  reputation 
of  being  composed  of  men  who  thoroughly  understood  the  con- 
duct of  armed  bodies  and  use  of  the  most  improved  weapons  of 
the  day. 

The  first  meeting  of  the  Military  Company  of  the  Massachu- 
setts after  the  grant  of  the  Charter  is  said  to  have  been  the 
first  Monday  of  June,  1638,  when  Robert  Keayne  was  chosen 
captain;  Daniel  Howe,  lieutenant;  Joseph  Weld,  ensign;  and  John 
Oliver  and  Joshua  Hewes  sergeants ;  John  Johnson  clerk ;  Arthur 
Perry,  drummer. 

According  to  a  Book  of  Discipline  of  that  day  the  captain 
marched  with  his  company,  six  feet  before  the  first  division  of 
musketeers,  and  when  his  company  was  drawn  up,  at  the  head 
of  the  pikes,  six  feet  before  the  ensign.  The  lieutenant's  place 
was  in  the  rear.  The  ensign,  who  in  absence  of  captain  and  lieu- 
is  Now  known  as  the  Ancient  and  Honorable  Artillery  Company,  which 
by  maintaining  its  organization  as  a  social  military  society,  has  perpetuated 
from  colonial  times  the  ceremonies  connected  with  the  induction  of  the  newly 
commissioned  officers. 


42  LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES 

tenant,  commanded  the  company,  marched  at  their  head,  carry- 
ing a  half  pike  with  the  colors.  He  was  instructed  to  be  well 
skilled  in  displaying  the  colors  above  his  head. 

Eighth  upon  the  roll  of  the  company  is  the  name  of  Joshua 
Hewes,  and  there  can  be  no  reasonable  doubt  that  he  was  one  of 
the  first  to  join  with  Keayne  in  his  plan  to  incorporate  the  com- 
pany. He  was  probably  already  sergeant  of  the  Roxbury  com- 
pany. 

On  Aug.  27,  1642,  "  Sergeant  Hewes  "  was  appointed  by  the 
General  Court  to  carry  out  its  orders  in  Roxbury  to  see  that 
the  inhabitants  take  all  proper  means  to  preserve  certain  materials 
to  be  used  in  making  saltpetre,  and  on  Boston  records  of  date 
of  2  Dec,  1644,  he  is  mentioned  as  sergeant,  the  occasion  being 
a  grant  to  set  up  a  brick  kiln  near  "  Sergeant  Hues  cornfield  near 
Roxbury  gate."  The  Military  Company  of  the  Massachusetts 
changed  officers  nearly  every  year.  Hewes'  title  of  sergeant  was 
probably  from  his  office  in  the  local  Roxbury  train  band. 

In  1646  the  General  Court  records  note  that  "  Lt.  Jo  Hewes  " 
petition  is  granted,  regarding  the  lay-out  of  certain  lands. 
From  this  time  on  he  is  usually  described  as  "  Lt.  Hewes,"  though, 
as  formerly,  he  is  sometimes  given  the  then  carefully  guarded  title 
of  "  Mr."  He  had  thus  already  held  the  rank  of  lieutenant  in 
the  Roxbury  company  when,  in  1653,  he  was  chosen  first  ser- 
geant of  the  Military  Company  of  Massachusetts.  He  was 
elected  ensign  of  that  organization  in  1654,  which  was  his  last 
appearance  on  the  roster  of  that  body  as  an  officer.  The  General 
Court  was  required  to  approve  of  all  elections  of  officers  of  the 
rank  of  lieutenant  or  captain  in  any  of  the  train  bands,  and  men- 
tion of  his  appointment  to  the  post  of  lieutenant  might  be  ex- 
pected, but  for  some  reason  it  does  not  occur.  From  existing 
records  of  the  County  Courts  it  is  evident  that  the  power  to  ap- 
prove of  the  election  of  officers  was  delegated  not  only  to  the 
standing  council  by  the  order  of  Dec,  1636,  but  to  the 
Assistants  sitting  as  a  county  court.  This  probably  accounts 
for  the  omission  of  Hewes'  confirmation  in  the  General  Court 
records.  The  County  Court  Records  for  Suffolk  for  this  period 
are  lost. 

In  Aug.,  1636,  Capt.  Underhill  led  90  volunteers  on  a  punitive 
expedition  against  the  Block  Island  Indians.  A  more  preten- 
tious expedition  was  that  against  the  Fequots  in  1637,  when  the 


LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES  43 

Pequot  fort,  situate  in  the  present  town  of  Groton,  Conn.,  was 
destroyed.  The  records  are  silent  as  to  the  names  of  the  men 
who  took  part  in  these  expeditions  and  of  the  men  enlisted  for 
subsequent  operations  against  the  fugitive  and  desperate  In- 
dians. Here  and  there,  from  mention  in  narratives  of  the  "  war," 
and  from  grants  for  services  from  towns  to  those  who  took  part, 
and  from  other  miscellaneous  sources,  a  few  names  of  the  men 
have  been  secured.  It  is  not  unlikely  that  Joshua  Hewes  may 
have  been  one  of  the  ninety  volunteers  under  his  captain,  Under- 
bill, but  there  is  no  reason  to  suppose  he  took  part  in  the  latter 
affair,  for  which  men  were  regularly  enlisted  or  impressed.  His 
business  interests  were  growing,  and  he  occupied  too  important 
a  place  in  the  local  society  to  permit  of  his  enlisting  as  a  com- 
mon soldier,  and  certainly  he  was  not  one  of  the  officers,  as  their 
names  are  known  to  us.16 

The  part  Hewes  took  in  the  military  life  of  the  day  may  have 
been  the  cause  of  his  selection  for  other  public  offices.  It  does 
not  appear  that  he  ever  sought  office,  but  rather,  because  of  his 
energy,  his  social  and  business  connections,  the  office  sought  him. 
In  a  new  country  it  usually  happens  that  young  men  so  largely 
predominate  that  what  offices  are  to  be  filled,  by  force  of 
necessity,  must  fall  to  them.  In  New  England,  however,  in  those 
days,  the  affairs  of  the  Colony  and  towns  were  almost  entirely 
managed  by  men  of  ripe  years,  large  numbers  of  whom  had  come 
to  the  Colony  with  their  families  and  estates.  These  men,  too, 
were  men  of  capacity,  of  recognized  worth,  and  in  most  cases 
associated  with  men  from  their  own  neighborhood  who  had 
learned  to  look  upon  them  with  respect  in  the  old  country.  That 
a  man  of  Hewes'  years  should  be  chosen  to  fill  responsible  posi- 
tions is  a  good  index  to  his  ability;  and  because  in  those  days 
social  position  meant  much,  and  was  a  potent  factor  in  the 
choice  of  officers  in  civic,  church  and  military  life,  it  is  also  an 
indication  of  his  standing  in  the  community.  Besides  filling  the 
positions  of  Deputy,  Selectman  and  Constable,  he  was  feoffee  of 
the  Grammar  School.     He  was  also  one  of  the  committee  to  see 

is  In  the  opening  chapters  of  "  Soldiers  in  King  Philip's  War "  by  Rev. 
G.  M.  Bodge,  will  be  found  a  concise  and  instructive  narrative  of  the  mili- 
tary events  of  the  New  England  colonies  prior  to  the  outbreak  of  the  great 
conflict  of  1675,  and  may  be  readily  consulted  by  those  who  would  learn 
more  of  the  rather  heartless  conduct  of  the  colonial  authorities  in  dealing 
with  the  Indians. 


44  LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES 

after  fencing  and  clearing  the  cemetery  grounds  at  Roxbury, 
on  the  easterly  side  of  the  highway  to  Boston,  and  which  was 
first  laid  out  in  1641. 

DEPUTY  TO  GENERAL,  COURT. 

The  years  1640  and  1641  were  not  prosperous  years  for  the 
Colony.  The  scarcity  of  money,  the  abundance  of  foreign  goods 
shipped  to  what  had  formerly  been  a  good  market,  all  served  to 
lower  the  value  of  the  commodities  produced  or  dealt  in  by  the 
Massachusetts  people ;  and  because  of  the  great  fall  in  values  of 
goods,  cattle  and  lands,  the  merchants  were  able  only  at  great 
loss  to  satisfy  the  claims  of  their  English  correspondents  and 
creditors.  Winthrop  says  that  estates  of  £1000  were  found  to 
have  depreciated  to  £200.  Thomas  Dudley  was  Governor  at 
the  time  the  depression  was  at  its  worst.  At  the  annual  election, 
which  was  the  first  day  of  the  General  Court,  2  June,  1641,  Rich- 
ard Bellingham,  who  had  been  Deputy-Governor  under  Dudley, 
was  chosen  Governor,  and  John  Endicott,  of  Salem,  Deputy-Gov- 
ernor. The  election  was  not  entirely  satisfactory.  Many  free- 
men were  denied  the  right  to  vote  as  they  had  not  given  up  their 
votes  at  the  door,  upon  entering  the  building.  Winthrop  tells 
us  that  Bellingham  gained  his  election  by  a  majority  of  six  votes, 
and  had  the  other  votes  been  allowed  might  have  failed  of  election. 

The  deputies  sent  to  the  General  Court  from  the  town  of  Rox- 
bury where  John  Johnson  and  Joshua  Hewes.  Johnson  had  fre- 
quently before  been  deputy.  At  this  Court  he  was  appointed  to 
search  for  and  preserve  all  of  the  Colony  arms,  the  beginning  of 
his  long  service  as  Quartermaster-general.  This  session  of  the 
General  Court  was  one  of  great  importance.  Not  only  were  a 
number  of  reforms  introduced  into  the  management  of  the  Colony 
affairs,  but  deputies  were  awake  to  the  necessity  of  stimulating 
development  of  the  natural  resources  of  the  country.  A  monopoly 
for  three  years  was  granted  to  three  persons  (with  instructions 
to  admit  one  from  each  town,  but  from  Boston  four  and  from 
(harlestown  two  persons,  to  their  "  society  "  ),  of  all  trade  with 
the  Indians  and  for  furs,  paying  to  the  Company  twenty  per 
<< nt  of  nil  furs  so  obtained.  Samuel  Winslow  having  claimed 
;i  new  method  of  making  salt,  was  protected  in  his  method  for 
ten  years.  And  "  for  ineurageinent  of  such  as  will  adventure  for 
the  iliscovcry  of  mines,  it  is  ordered,  that  whosoever  shalbee  at 


LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES  45 

the  charge  for  discover}'  of  any  mine  within  this  jurisdiction  shall 
enjoy  the  same,  with  a  fit  portion  of  land  to  the  same,  for  21 
years  to  their  proper  use;  &  after  that  time  expired,  this  Court 
shall  have  power  to  allot  so  much  of  the  benefit  thereof  to  pub- 
like use  as  they  shall  thinke  equall  that  such  persons  shall  have 
liberty  hereby  to  purchase  the  interest  of  any  of  the  Indians  in 
such  lands  where  such  mines  shalbee  found  provided  they  shall 
not  enter  any  mans  propriety  without  the  owners  leave."  17 

The  Court  also  voted  to  rescind  the  subsidy  granted  to  en- 
courage the  home  manufacture  of  linen,  woolen  and  cotton  goods, 
and  not  to  grant  any  farther  "  benevolences  except  in  forraine 
occasions,  &  when  there  is  money  in  the  treasury  sufficient,  &  our 
debts  are  first  satisfied." 

The  authority  of  the  Quarterly  Courts  at  Salem  and  Ipswich 
was  made  equal  to  the  Court  of  Assistants,  except  in  matters  of 
life,  limb  or  banishment;  a  sergeant-major-general  of  militia  ap- 
pointed ;  the  Hilton  patents  at  Dover  and  Strawberry  Bank  taken 
under  the  jurisdiction  of  Massachusetts.  The  people  were  en- 
couraged to  cultivate  hemp  and  flax.  Laborers,  because  of  the 
high  wages  charged  by  them  were  warned  to  moderate  their 
charges,  by  reason  of  the  low  prices  to  which  all  commodities  had 
fallen.  The  session  was  a  busy  and  important  one.18  The  trouble 
arising  at  the  election  of  the  governor  probably  led  to  the  decision 
to  refer  to  the  freemen  in  each  town  the  proposal  as  to  whether 
each  ten  freemen  should  not  select  one  to  take  their  vote  to  the 
court  of  the  election,  the  resolution  commencing,  "  It  being  found 
by  experience  that  the  course  of  elections  had  neede  to  bee 
brought  into  some  better  order,  the  freemen  growing  to  so  great 
a  multitude  as  wilbe  overburthensome  to  the  country,  &  the  day 
appointed  for  that  service  will  not  afford  sufficient  time  for  the 
same,  and  the  way  of  proxies  (as  it  is  called)  is  found  subject  to 
many  miscarriages,  &  lossee  of  oportunityes  for  advise  in  the 
choyse."  19 

When  the  October  session  of  the  Court  was  held,  we  find  Joseph 

it  Four  years  prior  to  this,  in  Nov.,  1637,  Abraham  Shawe  was  granted 
half  the  benefit  of  "  coles  or  iron  stone  "  which  should  be  found  in  any  com- 
mon land  "  in  the  countryes  disposeing." 

is  See   Records   of   the  Colony  of  the   Mass.   Bay,  pp.  318-334.. 

is  At  the  next  session  in  October,  the  question  was  again  discussed,  and 
we  find  it  proposed  to  leave  to  the  "  three  regiments  "  of  militia  the  selection 
of  what  matters  should  come  before  the  Court,  and  the  question  as  to  whether 
deputies  should  be  chosen  for  a  full  year  instead  of  each  session  of  the  Court. 


46  LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES 

Welde  and  William  Heath,  deputies  from  Roxbury  in  place  of 
Hewes  and  Johnson. 

At  the  General  Courts  much  business  was  considered  which 
would  find  no  place  in  the  legislatures  of  the  present  day.  It  was 
the  assembly  of  the  freemen,  by  deputy,  and  the  consent  of  the 
freemen  was  necessary  to  many  proceedings.  At  first  there  was 
no  code  of  laws.  The  nearest  magistrate  and  the  constable, 
theoretically  the  appointee  of  the  General  Court  and  except  for 
Salem  either  chosen  by  the  General  Court  or  Court  of  Assistants, 
maintained  law  and  order  in  the  plantations.  The  rates  due  the 
"  country  "  were  collected  by  the  constable. 

CONSTABLE   AND    TOWN    OFFICER. 

There  was  no  county  organization  until  1613 ;  nor  until  1636 
was  there  any  definite  authorization  of  the  custom  of  local  govern- 
ment which  had  grown  up. 

The  position  of  constable  in  those  days  was  one  of  great  au- 
thority, carrying  with  it  the  entire  responsibility  for  the  peace 
of  the  town,  the  carrying  out  of  the  mandates  of  the  General 
Court,  the  collection  of  taxes  and  disbursements  of  town  funds. 
The  constable  was  chief  of  police,  sheriff,  town  treasurer,  col- 
lector; associated  with  the  selectmen  had  authority  to  arbitrarily 
fix  the  rates  a  laborer  might  charge  and  to  interfere  between  par- 
ties to  a  contract  who  felt  aggrieved  over  the  price  of  the  work 
performed.  His  local  powers  were  in  excess  of  any  town  or  coun- 
ty official  at  the  present  day.  As  a  rule  only  men  of  means,  in- 
telligent and  with  local  prestige,  were  selected  to  this  office. 
When  this  rule  was  deviated  from  it  will  be  found  the  man  if  lack- 
ing in  worldly  goods  or  fortune  had  other  equally  good  qualifica- 
tions, and  earned  the  respect  of  the  freemen  who  alone  had  a  voice 
in  his  selection.  As  years  passed  more  onerous  and  less  honorable 
duties  fell  to  the  lot  of  the  constable,  and  he  was  relieved  of  other 
of  his  duties  and  much  of  his  arbitrary  authority.  But  even 
then,  and  for  more  than  a  century,  the  constable  was  the  collector 
of  taxes.  None  but  substantial  or  trusty  men  were  elected  to 
that  office.  It  was  the  custom  to  elect  men  of  such  large  business 
affairs  that  it  was  often  impossible  for  them  to  accept  the  office 
without  loss  to  themselves,  in  which  case  they  could  get  excused 
by  payment  of  a  fine.     There  was  no  other  civil  officer  below  the 


LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES  47 

rank  of  a  magistrate  of  so  much  consequence  as  the  constable. 
His  importance  was  greater  than  that  of  the  Commissioners  to 
Try  Small  Causes,  established  in  1638,  and  of  the  Clerk  of  the 
Writs,  established  in  1642.  He  was  responsible  for  the  payment 
to  the  Colony  treasurer  of  the  taxes  assessed  for  the  country,  and 
probably  collected  these,  as  he  did  most  of  the  town  rates,  al- 
though Dorchester  choose  her  own  "  bailiff  "  for  that  purpose, 
and  Dedham  a  "  collector." 

When  in  April,  1634,  it  became  necessary  to  take  some  steps  to 
assure  grantees  of  lands  of  their  right  therein,  the  General  Court 
appointed  the  constable  and  four  more  of  the  chief  inhabitants  to 
make  a  survey  of  the  possessions  of  each  inhabitant  and  to  record 
the  same,  this  record  to  be  an  assurance  of  an  estate  in  inheritance 
of  such  lands.  The  four  men  were  to  be  chosen  by  the  freemen 
of  each  town  and  to  have  the  aid  of  the  nearest  magistrate. 
Constables  also  set  the  watch,  a  duty  later  assumed  or  shared  by 
the  captains  of  the  train  bands ;  they  were  obliged  to  return  the 
names  of  persons  chosen  as  deputies  to  the  General  Court  and  to 
impress  men  and  money  for  the  public  works  of  the  Colony  as  re- 
quired by  the  overseers  of  those  works,  and  they  had  power  with 
two  other  chief  men  to  fix  the  wages  of  the  less  skillful  of  the 
wage-earners.  In  a  dozen  ways  their  importance  was  manifest, 
aside  from  their  duties  in  serving  summons  and  attending  to  legal 
matters.  Here  their  duties  were  taken  by  the  marshall  or  his 
deputies,  who  made  attachments  and  took  execution.  The  con- 
stable was  forced  to  carry  the  law  into  effect  in  criminal  cases 
"  unless  he  could  find  another  to  do  it."  This  is  an  acknowledg- 
ment of  the  dignity  of  the  office  and  respectability  of  those  hold- 
ing it,  who  would  not  care  to  inflict  corporal  punishment.  When 
prisoners  were  passing  through  their  bailiwick  they  were  respon- 
sible for  them  and  for  their  delivery  to  the  next  constable.  They 
had  power  to  arrest  for  breaches  of  the  peace,  without  warrants. 

In  fact  the  office  of  constable  was  a  distinguished  position, 
carrying  with  it  the  whole  local  administration,  receiving  author- 
ity from  the  same  central  power  which  permitted  the  existence  of 
the  towns  themselves. 

It  was  not  until  the  General  Court  of  3  March,  1635-6,  that 
the  deputies  took  formal  notice  of  the  needs  of  the  towns  for  an 
act  which  should  take  the  place  of  a  charter  of  incorporation. 
This  act  recites,  "  Whereas  particular  towns  have  many  things 


48  LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES 

which  concern  only  themselves,  and  the  ordering  of  their  own  af- 
fairs, and  disposeing  of  businesses  in  their  owne  towne,  it  is  there- 
for ordered  "  that  the  major  part  of  the  freemen  have  power  to 
dispose  of  their  own  lands,  make  orders  not  repugnant  to  those 
established  by  the  General  Court,  to  lay  penalties  for  the  breech 
of  these  orders  up  to  20  shillings,  and  to  choose  their  own  officers, 
"  as  constables,  surveyors  for  the  highways  and  the  like."  Two 
constables  are  allowed  to  the  larger  towns  and  these  are  to  be 
strictly  accountable  to  the  General  Court.20 

There  are  no  records  for  the  town  of  Roxbury  prior  to  164)7, 
but  from  an  entry  in  the  transcript  of  the  original  book  we  learn 
that  Joshua  Hewes  21  was  chosen  constable  for  Roxbury  for  two 

20  Even  with  this  permission  not  all  the  towns  chose  their  constables. 
Dedham  in  her  petition  for  incorporation,  if  such  it  may  be  called,  in  1636, 
prayed  the  General  Court  "  to  assigne  unto  us  a  Constable  that  may  regard 
peace  and  trueth."  They  also  asked  for  remission  from  country  rates  for 
four  years,  but  obtained  remission  for  but  three.  The  first  mention  of  a 
constable  for  the  town  appears  in  the  records  of  the  Assistants  for  Dec, 
1638,  when  John  Hayward  was  appointed.  No  election  of  constables  oc- 
curred in  the  town  to  1659.  In  Cambridge  the  town  elected  a  constable  in 
Nov.,  1634,  the  two  previous  officers  having  been  appointed  by  the  Court. 
Neither  Watertown  nor  Dorchester  chose  their  constables  until  a  much  later 
date,  and  the  records  of  the  General  Court  and  Court  of  Assistants  show 
the  choice  of  Charlestown  constables  year  after  year,  as  well  as  choice  of 
those  for  Concord,  Sudbury,  and  other  places.  In  Sept.,  1635,  the  magis- 
trates were  permitted  to  swear  a  constable  for  any  of  the  plantations  in  Con- 
necticut, whom  the  inhabitants  might  select;  William  Westwood  being  chosen 
by  the  General  Court  for  the  plantations  there  in  general.  The  same  ses- 
sion Mr.  Dummer  was  allowed  to  swear  a  constable  at  Newbury. 

The  Court  at  which  the  order  was  made  empowering  towns  to  choose  their 
officers,  was  that  at  which  the  Quarterly  Courts  were  established  for  what 
are  now  the  counties  of  Essex,  Middlesex,  and  Suffolk;  and  it  is  probable 
that  those  courts  took  the  responsibility  of  appointing  where  no  election 
was  held,  and  of  confirming  in  other  cases,  the  choice  of  constables. 

2i  Among  those  serving  as  constables  contemporaneous  with  Hewes  were 
such  men  as  Edward  Tynge,  a  prominent  merchant  in  Boston,  brother  of 
the  Colony  treasurer;  Henry  Bartholomew,  a  wealthy  and  prominent  mer- 
chant in  Salem,  who  was  prominent  in  colonial  affairs;  Edward  Goffe  of 
Cambridge,  one  of  the  wealthiest  of  that  town,  county  treasurer,  and  magis- 
trate; Edward  Oakes,  selectman,  deputy  through  a  long  term  of  years,  and 
cornet,  quartermaster  and  lieutenant,  and  father  of  Urian  Oakes,  president 
of  Harvard  College;  Edward  Collins,  a  large  landowner  in  Cambridge,  and 
one  of  the  prominent  citizens,  selectman,  deputy  and  deacon;  Edmund  An- 
gier,  a  merchant  and  woolen  draper,  well  connected  both  in  old  and  New 
England;  Gervase  Garford  of  Salem,  on  the  old  records  styled  "gentleman," 
a  deputy  to  the  General  Court,  and  a  prominent  man;  Thomas  Gardner, 
who  had  been  overseer  or  governor  of  the  Dorchester  Company  at  Cape  Ann 
before  Endicott's  arrival,  and  who  was  long  prominent  in  Salem;  Samuel 
Thatcher  of  Watertown,  deacon,  selectman,  deputy,  and  of  good  estate. 
The  roll  could  be  lengthened,  for  in  those  years  hardly  a  man  occupied  this 
important  office   who   was  not  of  substantial  estate,   good   family   connection, 


LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES  49 

years,  in  3d  mo.,  1642,  and  his  account  rendered  1-3  mo.,  1644, 
is  still  extant.  Among  his  predecessors  in  office  were  John  John- 
son, prior  to  1633,  and  William  Dennison  in  1634.  How  long 
these  gentlemen  held  the  position  is  not  known,  but  they  were 
elected  for  a  specified  term  or  until  their  successors  were  chosen. 
Johnson  was  surveyor  of  arms  for  the  colony,  a  man  of  great 
worth,  town  officer,  and  deputy.  Dennison  was  also  a  deputy. 
He  was  the  father  of  Edward,  George,  and  Major-General  Daniel 
Dennison,  all  prominent  men. 

At  the  close  of  his  term  as  constable,  Hewes,  then  also  lieuten- 
ant in  the  train  band,  was  chosen  by  the  town  men  of  Roxbury 
one  of  the  "  five-men  "  or  selectmen.  This  office  he  held  in  1644; 
named  as  such  8-1  mo.,  1644  (Land  records  Roxbury),  and  in 
1649. 22  The  duties  of  the  selectmen  had  become  gradually 
pointed  out  by  the  necessities  arising  as  the  town  system  developed. 

Much  of  great  interest  has  been  published  concerning  the  devel- 
opment of  the  New  England  town.  Some  have  supposed  our  town 
system  a  survival  of  ancient  Germanic  institutions,  others  that 
it  had  its  origin  in  the  parish  as  managed  in  England,  and  some 
have  seen  its  origin  in  the  customs  of  commercial  corporations.23 

Town  records  of  date  earlier  than  1640  show  that  development 
of  local  government  was  not  equal  in  all  towns.  With  respect 
to  the  disposal  of  the  town  lands  and  admission  of  inhabitants  the 
same  rules  prevailed  after  1631.  Then  follows  the  selection  of 
certain  freemen  to  act  for  all,  sometimes  with  very  broad  powers 
but  more  often  with  very  restricted  powers. 

When  Winthrop  arrived  in  Massachusetts,  he  landed  within  the 
jurisdiction  of  Endicott  and  his  council  at  Salem.  This  council, 
given  Endicott  by  the  Company  after  its  incorporation,  consisted 

and  more  or  less  active  in  town  affairs,  and  often  in  the  larger  affairs  of 
the  Colony.  Any  exception  was  sure  to  be  a  man  of  unusual  parts,  trusty 
and  respected.  As  Roxbury  records  are  lost  it  is  only  through  knowing 
what  others  in  like  position  were,  that  we  can  judge  of  the  probable  activi- 
ties and  respectable  position  held  by  Hewes  at  that  time,  when  he  was  still 
a  young  man. 

22  Selectmen  chosen  21-13  mo.,  1648,  were  Capt.  Purchase,  Lt.  Hues,  John 
(         ),  John   Boles   and   "brother  Williams"    (Roxbury   Town   Record). 

23  For  instructive  theories  concerning  the  development  of  the  New  England 
town  system  see  a  collection  of  papers  and  letters  on  that  subject  by  Charles 
Francis  Adams,  Abner  C.  Goodell,  Jr.,  Mellen  Chamberlain  and  Edward 
Channing,  reprinted  from  the  proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical 
Society  for  Jan.,  1892,  entitled  "  The  Genesis  of  the  Massachusetts  Town,  and 
the  Development  of  Town  Meeting  Government." 


50  LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES 

of  nine  members,  to  which  the  "  Old  Planters  "  were  invited  to 
elect  two  of  their  number.  None  of  these  Old  Planters  were  free- 
men of  the  Company  until  after  Winthrop's  arrival.  Because  of 
this  earlier  organization  the  transition  of  the  government  consist- 
ing of  Endicott  as  the  principal  member  and  a  magistrate  of  the 
Colony,  assisted  by  the  freemen  residing  in  Salem,  to  a  town  coun- 
cil, was  but  a  small  change.  The  earliest  records  of  Salem  com- 
mence 26  Dec,  1636;  but  a  book  of  Grants  commences  1  Oct., 
1634  and  contains  abstracts  from  the  earlier  and  now  lost  town 
records,  by  which  it  appears  that  in  1631  thirteen  men,  out  of  the 
whole  body  of  freemen  in  the  town,  could  act  for  the  town  re- 
garding the  disposal  of  lands  and  prudential  matters.  These 
records  have  been  printed  by  the  Essex  Institute. 

One  of  the  early  acts  of  the  Assistants,  30  Sept.,  1630,  was  to 
appoint  constables  for  Salem  and  Dorchester,  the  two  settlements 
not  made  under  Winthrop's  leadership.  Dorchester  was  estab- 
lished by  a  company  who  arrived  from  the  West  of  England  in 
May,  1630,  and  settled  at  Dorchester  6  June,  more  than  a  week 
prior  to  Winthrop's  arrival  at  Salem.  For  three  years  it  was  the 
most  populous  and  wealthiest  of  the  towns.  In  October,  1633, 
the  Dorchester  records  note  the  vote  of  the  inhabitants  to  delegate 
their  powers  to  a  select  number,  which  is  the  earliest  mention  in 
any  record  of  the  origin  of  the  Board  of  Selectmen.  Boston 
records  commence  1  Sept.,  1631,  and  the  town  affairs  were  then 
already  managed  by  ten  men  chosen  by  the  whole  town.  This  is 
in  accord  with  Winthrop's  advice  to  the  delegates  in  April  of 
that  year.  Cambridge  adopted  such  a  plan  3  Feb.,  1631-5,  and 
Charlestown  the  10th  Feb.,  the  same  year. 

In  the  earliest  records  the  intent  of  the  proprietors  to  look 
after  and  guard  their  own  interest  as  partners  is  manifest.  As 
the  towns  multiplied  and  grew  in  population,  there  developed  an 
effective  system  of  local  self-government  of  which  the  General 
Court,  composed  of  representatives  of  the  freemen  of  the  several 
towns,  took  notice  of,  regulated,  and  brought  into  a  common  or- 
der, and  determined  the  duties  of  the  various  officers,  both  as  rep- 
resentatives of  the  towns  and  as  officials  to  carry  out  the  orders 
of  the  General  Court  and  of  the  lesser  courts  and  authority  es- 
tablished by  law.  The  very  satisfactory  local  government  of  the 
Massachusetts  town  meeting,  has  failed  only  with  the  growth  of  a 
town  beyond  the  point  where  all  concerned  can  intelligently  par- 


LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES  51 

ticipate,  and  through  the  never  anticipated  admission  of  undesir- 
able foreign  elements. 

Permission  was  granted  to  groups  of  settlers  to  establish  a 
plantation.  These  were  recognized  as  proprietors  of  the  planta- 
tion, which  at  first  had  somewhat  indefinite  bounds,  and  to  have 
the  right  to  admit  others  to  join  with  them  as  inhabitants.  These 
inhabitants  were  the  freeholders  of  the  town,  and  held  in  common 
the  territory  not  already  assigned  or  selected  as  homesteads. 
Later  they  became  known  as  the  body  of  proprietors.24 

The  authority  of  the  Company,  the  actual  government,  was 
represented  by  the  constable  during  the  infant  stage  of  town 
government.  He  was  at  first  appointed  by  the  General  Court,  but 
later  elected  by  the  freemen  of  each  town,  and  thus  served  as  the 
connecting  link  between  the  plantations  and  the  general  govern- 
ment. 

Any  freeman  of  the  Company  had  a  right  to  settle  in  any  com- 
munity and  take  a  certain  amount  of  land  for  his  own  use,  if  his 
application  for  land  had  not  been  granted. 

The  proprietors  formed  a  close  corporation  and  were  jealous 
of  their  rights  in  the  lands,  which  they  disposed  of  by  vote  in 
general  assembly,  or  by  delegated  authority.  Such  as  were  free- 
men of  the  Company  were  later  especially  empowered  to  meet  and 
adopt  such  rules  and  orders  as  best  served  their  purposes,  and  un- 
der certain  limitations  to  elect  the  necessary  officers.  The  distinc- 
tion between  freeman  and  inhabitant  was  not  always  observed  in 
town  meetings.  This  is  shown  by  votes  of  the  General  Court  from 
time  to  time,  regulating  the  composition  of  such  meetings,  and 
sometimes  giving  special  privileges  to  non-freemen.  Only  freemen 
could  legally  be  chosen  to  any  office,  and  of  course  only  freemen 
could  vote  for  deputies.  In  each  town  as  soon  as  maybe  a  church 
was  set  up,  to  the  support  of  which  all  were  obliged  to  contribute, 
and  at  which  all  had  to  attend.  The  congregation  as  such  had  no 
voice  in  the  government  of  the  church.  The  church  proper  con- 
sisted of  a  small  and  select  number  of  the  inhabitants,  and  con- 
sisted of  all  classes  and  both  sexes.  Only  church  members  could 
be  freemen  of  the  company,  but  all  male  church  members  were  not 
freemen,  and  because  of  the  original  composition  of  the  company 


24  There    grew   up    a   distinction   between   proprietors    and   inhabitants ;   the 
latter  were  only  admitted  as  proprietors  by  formal  vote. 


52  LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES 

and  liberal  treatment  of  the  Old  Planters  there  were  some  free- 
men who  were  not  church  members. 

At  the  close  of  1633,  there  were  eight  plantations  in  the  patent; 
Salem,  Dorchester,  Charlestown,  Watertown,  Roxbury,  Boston, 
Lynn  (Saugus),  and  Cambridge  (Newtowne).  There  were  eleven 
assistants,  including  the  Governor  and  deputy-governor,  residing 
as  follows :  Gov.  Winthrop  and  William  Coddington  in  Boston, 
Deputy-Gov.  Dudley  and  Simon  Bradstreet  in  Cambridge,  Sir 
Richard  Saltonstall  in  Watertown,  Roger  Ludlow  in  Dorchester, 
William  Pynchon  in  Roxbury,  John  Humphrey  in  Lynn,  John 
Endicott  in  Salem,  Increase  Nowell  in  Charlestown,  and  John  Win- 
thrope,  Jr.  The  last  named  that  year  took  up  his  residence  in  the 
newly  authorized  plantation  of  Ipswich,  which  with  Winnesement 
(a  part  of  Boston  after  this),  Wessaguscus  (later  organized  as 
Weymouth,  and  the  oldest  settlement  in  the  Bay),  Natascott  (a 
part  of  Barecove,  later  Hingham),  and  Medford  (Craddock's  es- 
tate) were  not  of  sufficient  consequence  to  send  deputies  to  the 
General  Court  of  1634?.  There  is  little  cause  to  doubt  that  at 
first  local  prudential  affairs  were  directly  under  the  management 
of  the  resident  magistrate  and  constable.  There  were  also  in  each 
of  these  plantations  a  train-band  with  officers,  although  only  Bos- 
ton, Salem,  Watertown,  Dorchester,  (and  early  in  1634,  Saugus,) 
enjoyed  the  privilege  of  a  captain.20 

Thus  each  plantation  26  had  its  magistrate,  by  accident  of  his 
residence  there,  probably  at  first  by  intent;  its  constable  chosen 
or  approved  by  the  Court;  and  military  officers  chosen  by  the 
freemen  and  approved  by  the  General  Court  or  appointed  directly 
by  the  Court. 

25  Capt.  John  Underhill  of  the  Boston  company,  and  commander  of  the 
soldiers  of  Roxbury  and  Charlestown,  and  at  first  of  Cambridge  (New- 
towne): Capt.  Daniel  Patrick  of  Watertown:  Capt.  John  Mason  of  Dor- 
chester: Capt.  William  Trask  of  Salem:  Capt.  Nathaniel  Turner  of  Lynn 
(Saugus).  Underhill  and  Patrick  were  regularly  in  the  Colony  pay,  as  was 
Lt.  Morris.     See  above. 

28  The  sole  exception  was  that  Boston  had  no  constable  appointed  by  the 
Court.  Perhaps  the  residence  there  of  the  marshal,  James  Penn,  sufficed 
at  first,  but  by  1634  there  was  a  constable  (Boston  records)  whose  name  does 
not  appear  on  any  record. 

Except  for  the  appointment  of  John  Woodbury  as  constable  at  Salem,  30 
Sept,  1630,  neither  the  Court  of  Assistants  nor  the  General  Court  seem  to 
have  taken  any  notice  of  Salem,  except  to  assess  its  proportion  of  taxes,  im- 
plying  that  whatever  system  of  local  government  existed  there  was  satis- 
factory. 


LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES  53 

THE  FREE  SCHOOLE  IN  ROXBURIE 

During  the  first  few  years  of  the  Colony  whatever  schooling 
youth  had  was  such  as  they  might  obtain  in  the  family,  or  by  the 
aid  of  individuals  encouraged  to  gather  such  as  sought  instruction 
into  some  sort  of  school. 

In  1635  Boston  in  town  meeting  voted,  "  that  our  brother 
Philemon  Porment  shall  be  intreated  to  become  scholemaster  for 
the  teaching  and  nourtering  of  children  with  us."  This  is  the 
first  entry  concerning  schools  on  Boston  records,  and  the  only 
entry  until  1641,  when  steps  were  taken  for  a  free  school.  But 
because  the  matter  of  schools  was  not  mentioned  prior  to  1635,  is 
no  reason  that  none  existed,  for  although  it  is  plain  that  a  school 
was  kept  after  1635,  the  records  are  equally  silent  for  six  years 
thereafter. 

So  in  Dorchester,  in  1639,  Thompson's  Island  was  set  aside  to 
be  rented  for  the  benefit  of  a  school  to  be  kept  in  Dorchester,  where 
English,  Latin  "  and  other  tongues,  and  also  writing  "  should  be 
taught,  and  the  question  "  whether  maides  shalbe  taught  with  the 
boys  "  is  left  to  the  discretion  of  the  elders  and  the  seven  men 
(selectmen). 

Mr.  John  Fiske  who  had  arrived  in  the  Colony  in  1637,  having 
removed  to  Salem,  taught  school  before  he  was  called  to  assist 
Hugh  Peter,  pastor  of  the  church  there,  and  probably  continued 
to  prepare  boys  for  college  until  his  removal  to  Wenham  in  1642. 
In  1639  the  town  employed  "  young  Mr.  Norris  "  to  teach  school. 

At  Roxbury  it  is  probable  that  some  arrangement  of  a  private 
nature  provided  elementary  instruction  for  the  children,  at  least 
of  the  boys,  but  the  first  suggestion  of  a  free  school  there  occurs 
in  the  will  of  Samuel  Hagborne,  made  the  19  Jan.,  1642-3. 27 
Hagborne  was  a  neighbor  of  Joshua  Hewes,  who  witnessed  his 
will.  Hagborne  provided  "  out  of  my  greate  desire  to  promote 
learning  for  Gods  honor  &  the  good  of  his  church  .  .  .  that 
when  Roxbury  shall  set  up  a  free  school  in  the  towne,  there  shall 
be  10  s.  p.  annu  out  of  the  neck  of  land,  &  10  S.  P.  annu  out  of 
the  house  &  house  lot  unto  it  for  ever."  The  will  was  proved  8 
March,  1642-3.  The  provision  made  by  Hagborne,  charging 
certain  of  his  lands  with  an  annual  rent  toward  the  maintenance 
of  the  school,  was  the  method  afterward  adopted  by  those  who 

27  Original  will  in  Suffolk  files  57. 


54  LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES 

founded  what  is  now  the  Roxbury  Latin  School,  and  the  provision 
in  his  will  leads  to  the  supposition  that  the  foundation  of  a  school 
to  be  supported  after  this  manner  was  being  discussed. 

Prior  to  this  date  there  had  been  established  at  Cambridge  a 
grammar  school,  intended  to  fit  for  the  college.  In  164-3  Elijah 
Corlett  was  its  master,  and  probably  had  been  from  its  inception. 
Schools,  other  than  the  college,  had  not  yet  attracted  the  atten- 
tion of  the  General  Court,  and  not  until  1654,  when  an  order  look- 
ing to  the  choice  of  men  of  proper  characters  for  schoolmasters 
was  adopted,  did  the  General  Court  interfere  with  the  proceedings 
of  the  towns  in  providing  instruction  for  their  youth.  In  1647 
it  had  been  enacted  that  towns  of  fifty  families  should  support  a 
school  where  English  and  writing  should  be  taught ;  and  towns  of 
one  hundred  families  or  more  were  to  support  a  grammar  school, 
which  fitted  for  college.  At  the  time  Hagborne  made  his  will  there 
was  no  obligation  laid  by  law  upon  the  towns  to  support  a  school. 
It  is  true  that  in  June,  1642,  the  General  Court,  "  taking  into 
consideration  the  great  neglect  of  many  parents  and  masters,  in 
training  up  their  children  in  learning  and  labor,  ...  do 
hereby  order  and  decree,  that  in  every  town  the  chosen  men  ap- 
pointed for  managing  the  prudential  affairs  of  the  same  shall 
henceforth  stand  charged  with  the  care  of  the  redress  of  this  evil." 
The  order  requires  the  selectmen  to  take  notice  of  the  children 
and  see  from  time  to  time  if  the  persons  responsible  for  the  up- 
bringing of  the  children  have  seen  to  their  ability  to  read,  under- 
stand the  principles  of  religion,  and  are  properly  employed.  It 
was  a  prudential  measure,  rather  than  providing  for  education 
other  than  ability  to  read,  that  they  might  have  an  understanding 
of  religion. 

How  soon  after  the  bequest  of  Hagborne,  Roxbury  established 
the  free  school  is  not  definitely  known.  But  on  the  20-3d  mo., 
1669,  the  Feoffees  of  the  school  petitioned  the  General  Court  to 
confirm  the  foundation  of  the  school  which  had  "  gone  on  peace- 
ably for  many  years,  till  of  late  some  interruption  and  opposition 
hath  risen."  In  this  petition  it  is  stated  that  the  first  book  and 
charter  of  the  school  was  lost  at  the  burning  of  John  Johnson's 
house,  but  was  renewed  in  the  form  then  presented  to  the  General 
Court.  This  renewal  of  the  document  is  dated  "  last  of  August, 
1645,"  "Whereas,  the  Inhabitants  of  Roxburie,  in  consideration 
of  their  relligeous  care  of  posteritie,  have  taken  into  considera- 


LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES  55 

tion  how  necessarie,  the  education  of  theire  children  in  Literature 
will  be  to  fitt  them  for  public  service,  both  in  Churche  and  Com- 
monwealthe,  in  succeding  ages.  They  therefore  unanimously  have 
consented  and  agreed  to  erect  a  free  schoole  in  the  said  Towne 
of  Roxburie,  and  to  allow  Twenty  pounds  per  annum  to  the 
School-master,  to  bee  raised  out  of  the  Messuages  and  part  of  the 
Lands  of  the  severall  donors  (Inhabitantes  of  the  said  Towne)  in 
severall  proportions  as  hereafter  followeth  under  theire  handes. 
And  for  the  well  ordering  thereof  they  have  chosen  seven  Feoffees 
who  shall  have  power  to  putt  in  or  remove  the  Schoolemaster  to 
see  to  the  well  ordering  of  the  schoole  and  schoolars,  to  receive  and 
pay  the  said  twenty  pounds  per  annum  to  the  Schoolemaster,  and 
to  dispose  of  any  other  gifte  or  giftes  which  hereafter  majr  or 
shall  be  given  for  the  advancement  of  learning  and  education  of 
children."  Then  follow  various  provisions,  and  the  names  of  the 
Feoffees,  who  were  Joseph  Weld,  John  Johnson,  John  Roberts, 
Joshua  Hewes,  Isaac  Morrell,  Thomas  Lambe.  The  seventh  on 
the  list  of  the  sixty-four  donors  was  Joshua  Hewes,  who  charged 
his  "  lot  at  the  Pond  by  Capt.  Weld  being  18  acres  in  all  "  with 
sixteen  shillings  yearly.  The  yearly  contributions  so  provided, 
ranged  from  two  shillings  to  one  pound  four  shillings.  Seven  con- 
tributed twenty  shillings  or  more ;  these  were  Gov.  Thomas  Dud- 
ley, Capt,  Gookins,  Mr.  Thomas  Weld,  Mr.  John  Eliot,  Capt. 
Joseph  Weld,  Mr.  Hugh  Prichard,  and  Thomas  Bell.  Joshua 
Hewes  and  John  Gore  each  gave  sixteen  shillings ;  none  of  the  oth- 
ers gave  more  than  thirteen  shillings,  and  few  gave  over  four 
shillings.  The  entire  foundation  amounted  to  £21-10-8  per  an- 
num. 

Johnson's  house  was  destroyed  6  April,  1615,  hence  it  is  clear 
that  the  school  in  Roxburie  had  been  established,  or  at  least 
means  provided  for  its  establishment,  prior  to  that  date,2S  and 
that  Joshua  Hewes  was  one  of  the  original  Feoffees.  As  the  pe- 
tition of  1669  states  that  the  more  than  sixty  families  contribut- 
ing to  the  foundation  of  the  school,  was  in  1615  well  nigh  the 
whole  town,  the  act  was  equivalent  to  a  town  foundation ;  but  the 
right  of  those  who  did  not  sympathize  with  the  objects  of  the 
foundation,  or  for  other  causes,  to  refuse  to  pledge  their  lands 

28  Proof  of  this  is  found  in  Weld's  collection  of  funds  in  England  for  the 
College  and  other  purposes.  Mr.  Weld  was  credited  with  the  disbursement 
of  £49,  9s  for  "  Roxbury  school  and  for  charitable  uses  "  out  of  the  funds 
so  collected.     His  accounts  to  1647  are  in  Massachusetts  Archives. 


56  LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES 

V- 

for  its  maintenance,  was  recognized.  In  the  contract  by  which 
a  school-master  was  hired  in  1668,  it  was  provided  that  the  chil- 
dren of  four  families  specified,  should  be  taught  gratis.  The 
votes  of  other  towns  concerning  "  free  "  schools  in  those  early 
days  prove  that  it  was  not  the  indent  that  children  should  be 
taught  "  gratis  "  when  the  families  could  afford  to  compensate 
the  master.29  Only  Boston,  Dorchester  and  Roxbury  seem  to 
have  provided  an  endowment  for  their  grammar  school. 

This    cooperation   by    Hewes    in   the   establishment   of   a   Latin 
school,  was  not  his  only  contribution  to  education. 

In  1636  the  General  Court  had  voted  to  give  £400  in  two  pay- 
ments, toward  the  establishment  of  a  college  at  Cambridge,  and 
the  next  year  appointed  a  committee  to  "  take  order  for  a  college 
at  Newton."  The  following  year  John  Harvard  bequeathed 
half  of  his  estate  toward  the  college.  Rev.  Jose  Glover,  who  was 
undoubtedly  intended  by  those  interested  in  the  establishment  of 
the  college  30  to  be  its  first  president,  after  laboring  on  this  side 
for  its  establishment,  had  gone  to  England  to  obtain  support 
there,  and  purchase  certain  necessary  equipment,  not  the  least 
of  which  was  a  printing  press  and  type.  As  his  death  occurred 
on  the  return  passage  he  did  not  participate  in  the  actual  inau- 
guration of  the  college.  But  his  printing  equipment  was  the 
source  of  great  satisfaction  to  the  colony.  Among  those  who 
contributed  £49  toward  the  purchase  of  a  font  of  type,  to  which 
sum  was  added  money  contributed  by  various  gentlemen  in  Am- 
sterdam, was  Joshua  Hewes.  President  Leonard  Hoar  in  1674, 
noted  the  names  of  the  New  England  contributors,  as  follows : 
Major  Thomas  Clarke,  Capt.  James  Oliver,  Capt.  Allen,  Capt. 
Lake,  Mr.  Stoddard,  Mr.  Freake,  Mr.  Hues.31 

AS  A  MERCHANT 

The  first  shop  opened  in  Boston  was  by  John  Cogan,  about  the 

29  Salem  in  1644  provided  for  the  schooling  of  children  whose  parents  could 
not  afford  to  contribute  toward  the  cost  of  the  school. 

so  The  age  of  the  students  and  the  discipline  to  which  they  were  sub- 
jected as  well  as  the  studies  undertaken  were  all  in  marked  contrast  to  the 
present  day.  It  is  said  that  two  students  robbed  the  houses  of  Joseph  Weld 
and  Joshua  Hewes  in  the  night  to  the  extent  of  £15.  Upon  detection  the 
government  of  the  College  ordered  the  culprits  whipped,  at  the  hands  of  the 
presidenl  !  The  students  were  James,  son  of  Rev.  Nathaniel  Ward  of  Ips- 
wich,  and   B    son   of   Rev.  Thomas   Weld   of  Roxbury. 

si  College  Book  No.  1.,  page  32,  quoted  by  Quincy. 


LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES  57 

time  of  Hewes'  arrival.     On  every  hand  there  was  a  pressing  de- 
mand for  such  supplies  as  a  new  settlement,  rapidly  increasing  in 
population,    would    need.     Laborers  •  also,   both    skilled    and   un- 
skilled, were  in  demand,  and  took  advantage  of  prevailing  condi- 
tions to  exact  the  best  wages  they  could.     This  led  to  the  enact- 
ment of  laws  intended  to  prevent  extortion  by  the  laborer,  and 
because  his  profits  were  thus  limited,  another  law  was  enacted  to 
prevent  the  merchant  from  taking  a  profit  of  more  than  33^  per 
cent.     The  first  of  these  laws  was  passed  in  August,  1630,  imme- 
diately upon  the  arrival  of  the  large  company  under  Winthrop, 
and  was  as  follows:     "  It  was  ordered,  that  carpenters,  Joyners, 
bricklayers,  sawers,  and  thatchers  shall  not  take  above  2s.  a  day, 
nor  any  man  shall  give  more,  under  paine  of  Xs  to  taker  and 
giver."     Sawyers  were  limited  as  to  the  price  they  should  charge 
for  boards.     The  following  month  the  wages  which  a  mechanic 
could  receive  was  limited  to  16  pence,  with  food  and  drink,  for 
the  skilled  laborer,  and  12  pence  for  the  less  skillful.      In  October, 
1633,  this  law  was  re-enacted  in  greater  detail,  specifying  that 
the  constable  and  two  inhabitants  of  the  town  should  fix  the  wages 
for  the  inferior  sort  of  laborers.     This  attempt  to  interfere  with 
the  right  to  contract  caused  so  much  complaint  that  the  General 
Court  was  led  to  enact ;  "  Whereas,  by  order  of  Court,  holden  in 
October  last,  the  wages  of  workemen  were  reduced  to  a  certainety, 
in  regard  of  the  greate  extortion  used  by  divers  persons  of  little 
conscience,  &  the  greate  disorder  which  grewe  hereupon,  by  vaine 
and  idle  wast  of  much  precious  time,  &  expense  of  those  immoder- 
ate gaynes  in  wyne,  stronge  water,  &  other  superfluities,  nowe, 
least  the  honest  and  conscionable  workeman  should  be  wronged  or 
discouraged  by  excessive  prizes  of  those  commodityes  which  are 
necessary  for  their  life  &  comfort,  wee  have  thought  it  very  just 
and  equall  to  sett  order  also  therein.     Wee  do  therefore  hereby 
order,  that  after  publique  notice  hereof,  noe  persons  shall  sell  to 
any    of   the   inhabitants   within   this   jurisdiction   any  provision, 
cloathinge,  tooles,  or  other  commodities,  above  the  rate  of  four 
pence  in  a  shilling  more  than  the  same  cost  or  might  be  bought 
for  ready  money  in  England,  upon  paine  of  forfeiting  the  valewe 
of  the  thinge  solde,  (except  cheese,  which,  in  regard  of  the  much 
hazard  in  bringing,  &  wyne,  oyle,  vinegar,  &  strong  waters,  which 
in  regard  of  leaking,  may  be  sold  att  such  rates   (provided  the 
same  be  moderate)    as  the  buyer  &  seller  can  agree).     And  for 


58  LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES 

lynnen  &  other  commodities,  which,  in  regard  of  their  close  stow- 
age &  small  hazard,  may  be  afforded  att  a  cheap  rate,  wee  doe 
advise  all  men  to  be  a  rule  to  themselves,  in  keeping  a  good  con- 
science, assureing  them  that,  if  any  man  shall  exceede  the  bounds 
of  moderation,  wee  shall  punish  them  severely." 

The  law  placing  restrictions  upon  the  rate  of  wages  and  limit- 
ing the  profit  which  could  be  taken  by  merchants  was  repealed  in 
Sept.,  1635.32  At  the  same  time  a  law  restraining  all  but 
certain  commissioners  previously  appointed,  from  going  aboard 
newly  arrived  ships  was  repealed.  Concerning  this  Winthrop 
wrote :  "  For  preventing  the  loss  of  time,  and  drunkenness,  which 
sometimes  happened,  by  people's  running  to  the  ships,  and  the 
excessive  price  of  commodities,  it  was  ordered,  that  one  in  each 
town  should  buy  for  all,  etc.,  and  should  retain  the  same  within 
twenty  days  at  five  per  hundred,  if  any  came  to  buy  in  that  time. 
But  this  took  no  good  effect ;  for  most  of  the  people  would  not  buy, 
except  they  might  buy  for  themselves ;  and  the  merchants  ap- 
pointed could  not  disburse  so  much  money,  etc. ;  and  the  seamen 
were  much  discontented,  yet  some  of  them  brought  their  goods  on 
shore  and  sold  them  there." 

This  law  had  been  in  force  only  since  the  previous  March ;  it 
ran  as  follows :  "  It  is  ordered  that  no  person  whatsoever,  either 
people  of  this  jurisdiction  or  strangers,  shall  buy  any  commodity 
of  any  ship  or  other  vessell  that  comes  into  this  jurisdiction  with- 
out licence  from  the  governor  for  the  time  being,  under  the  penalty 
of  confiscation  of  such  as  shalbe  so  bought,  or  the  value  of  them. 
Capt.  Turner,  Mr.  Duncan,  Mr.  William  Dennison,  Mr.  Coxeall, 
Mr.  Woolridge,  Mr.  Mayhewe,  Mr.  William  Spencer,  Mr.  John 
Holgrave,  and  Mr.  Bartholomew,  or  any  one  of  them,  are  au- 
thorized by  the  Court  after  any  shipp  or  other  vessell,  hath  lyen, 
2-i  hoyres  att  anchor,  &  is  discovered  to  be  a  friend,  to  board  her, 
take  notice  of  what  commodities  she  has  to  sell,  confer  about  the 
prices  thereof,  and  after  to  acquaint  their  partners  therewith,  who 
together,  or  the  major  part  of  them,  all  have  liberty  to  buy  all 
such  commodities  as  they  shall  judge  to  be  useful  for  the  country, 
for  present  payment  of  bills  of  exchante,  and  at  such  prices  as 
they  can  agree,  which  goods  being  so  bought,  shall  be  laid  up  by 
the  said  merchants  in  some  magazine,  near  to  the  place  where  the 
ship  anchors;  and  the  said  merchants  shall,  at  any  time  during 

32  It  had  once  before  been  repealed,  only  to  be  re-enacted  later. 


LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES  59 

within  this  jurisdiction,  such  commodities  as  he  needs,  after  £V 
notice  thereof  given  to  the  several  towns,  sell  to  any  inhabitant 
the  space  of  twenty  days  after  the  said  goods  are  landed,  and 
per  centum  profit,  and  not  above." 

Although  the  law  regarding  the  taking  of  more  than  four 
shillings  in  the  pound  profit  had  been  repealed  the  record  of  the 
Court  of  Assistants  for  Oct.  6,  1635,  contains  the  following 
entry  "  Joshua  Huyes  hath  Forfect  v.  s.  for  knives,  &  iiij.  s.  vj.  d. 
for  a  sythe,  which  hee  solde  for  above  iiij  d.  in  the  shilling 
proffitt." 

At  the  same  September  court  it  was  enacted  that  although  the 
particular  limitations  regarding  the  rate  of  wages  33  and  profits 
which  might  be  taken  was  repealed,  yet  the  intent  of  the  law  to 
prevent  oppression  by  over-charges,  .should  stand.  This  law  re- 
mained on  the  statute  books  until  the  repeal  of  the  charter,  under 
the  title  "  Oppression,"  and  there  are  several  instances  of  persons 
fined  for  this  cause. 

Hewes  may  have  determined  to  test  the  law;  perhaps  his  of- 
fence was  singled  out  by  the  magistrates  to  vindicate  their  author- 
ity; it  may  be  the  evidence  produced  was  such  as  to  convince  the 
Court  of  the  error  in  attempting  to  regulate  profits  as  well  as 
prices ;  but  the  fact  remains  that  he  was  the  only  person  presented 
for  having  transgressed  this  particular  order. 

The  specifications  of  his  offence,  of  selling  knives  and  a  scythe, 
show  that  he  was  engaged  in  that  business  to  which  he  had  prob- 
ably been  brought  up  by  his  uncle,  that  of  a  merchant  in  manu- 
factures of  iron  and  steel. 

But  he  was  also  a  merchant  in  the  larger  sense  of  the  term,  and 
soon  engaged  in  importing  English  goods  of  every  description. 
To  carry  on  this  business  he  had  a  warehouse  at  the  town  dock  in 
Boston  as  well  as  his  store  in  Roxbury.  He  was  singularly  free 
from  lawsuits,  the  common  experience  of  merchants  of  that  day, 
which  goes  far  to  prove  his  uprightness  and  fair  dealing  with 
customers  and  principals. 

With  the  exceptions  of  his   amercement  by  the  Assistants   in 

1635,  and  a  suit  against  him  for  debt  in  1661,  of  so  small  an 

amount  that  from  its  sequence,  as  told  in  place,  it  is  apparent  he 

33  For  some  years  the  towns  from  time  to  time  attempted  to  regulate  the 
price  of  labor,  the  selectmen  being  invested  with  power  in  such  matters. 
The  constable  was  also  empowered,  with  two  selectmen  to  adjust  wages.  See 
above. 


60  LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES 

defended  on  principle,  his  name,  other  than  as  agent  or  adminis- 
trator of  Foote,  does  not  occur  in  court  proceedings.  To  one 
familiar  with  the  commercial  history  of  that  period,  this  is  an  un- 
usual record. 

There  is,  however,  a  volume  of  notarial  records  which  were  made 
by  William  Aspinwall  between  Nov.,  1644,  and  Oct.,  1651,  and 
an  earlier  record  of  Thomas  Lechford  extending  over  the  period 
between  June,  1638,  and  July,  1641,  which  throw  much  light  on 
his  business  affairs. 

Lechford  notes,  "  Copy  of  an  account  for  Mr.  Nicholas  Terise 
&  Mr.  Joshua  Hewes  2  s.,"  under  date  of  31  Oct.  or  1  Nov.,  1639. 
Also  June,  1639,  "  John  Johnson  of  Roxbury  in  N.  E.  yeoman 
in  behalfe  of  Willm.  Perkins  gent,  mortgageth  to  Walter  Black- 
bome  of  Boston  in  N.  E.  merchant  six  ac.  etc.  .  .  .  Mr. 
Blackborne  to  convey  the  same  to  John  Johnson,  Joshuah  Hughes 
&  Thomas  Lambe  And  they  3  to  become  bound  to  Mr.  Blackborne 
in  &c  for  the  paymt  of  the  annuity."  Under  23  Nov.,  1640, 
"  Captaine  Richard  Morris  bound  to  Joshua  Hewes  for  £14  to  be 
pd  20  April."  "  Josiah  Hewes  of  Roxbury  in  New  England,  mer- 
chant, makes  a  letter  of  Attorney  to  Capt.  R.  Morris  to  receive 
&  recover  of  Richard  Turner  of  Providence,  planter,  the  summe 
of  38  s  due  3  years  2-10  mo.,  1640."  The  19,  4  mo.,  1641,  John 
Pollard  of  Boston,  merchant,  made  "  Joshua  Hughes  of  Rox- 
bury, ironmonger,  and  George  Pollard  of  Duxbury  in  N.  E.,  mil- 
ler, attorneys  to  receive  debts,"  etc. 

Thomas  Lechford  had  rather  a  stormy  time  while  in  Boston. 
He  returned  to  England  in  Aug.,  1641,  sailing  with  Rev.  Hugh 
Peter,  Rev.  Thomas  Weld  and  John  Winthrop,  Jr.,  the  latter  to 
seek  capital  to  develop  the  iron  mines.  Lechford  would  seem  to 
have  borrowed  from  Joshua  Hewes,  part  at  least  of  the  money  for 
his  return  passage,  for  the  last  entry  made  by  him  in  New  Eng- 
land, is  as  follows :  "lam  to  pay  Mr.  Josuah  Foote  at  the  Cocke 
in  Grace  church  streete  eight  pounds  before  Christmas  next  for 
which  Mr.  David  Offley  is  bound  with  me  to  Mr.  Joshuah  Hewes  of 
Roxbury  in  New  England  or  els  to  be  there  payd  to  him  &c  by 
note  or  bill  dated  27  July,  1641." 

The  entries  in  Aspinwall's  record  book  are  more  numerous  than 
those  made  by  Lechford.  Hewes  also  appears  there  as  attorney 
for  other  merchants  in  New  England.  Some  of  the  more  interest- 
ing items  are  as  follows: 


LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES  61 

16-4  mo.,  1648,  at  the  request  of  Nicholas  Trerice,  master  of 
the  ship  Chapman  of  London,  Aspinwall  went  with  him  to  Mr. 
Emanuel  Downing  and  Benjamin  Gillom,  shipwright,  to  demand 
200,000  treenails  sold  unto  the  said  Trerice,  Joshua  Hues  and 
Thomas  Kemble  by  Robert  Rich  and  Joshua  Foote  of  London, 
merchants,  with  reference  to  a  former  bargain  and  sale  made  to 
the  aforesaid  merchants  by  the  said  Joshua  Foote,  Emanuel 
Downing,  Stephen  Winthrop  and  Thomas  Bell  in  behalf  of  them- 
selves and  Adam  Winthrop  and  Benj.  Gillom  their  portions,  of  a 
certain  parcell  of  mast  and  treenails.  And  the  said  Emanuel 
Downing  and  Benjamin  Gillom  answered  according  as  they  did 
the  last  year,  and  according  to  agreement  with  the  merchants  by 
the  said  Emanuel,  they  would  now  deliver  so  many  masts  and  tree- 
nails as  his  ship  can  take  in,  and  the  rest  shall  be  delivered 
aboard  such  other  ship  or  shipps  as  shall  have  order  to  receive 
the  same.  The  said  masts  and  treenails  are  ready  to  be  delivered 
part  here  and  part  at  the  eastward  according  to  agreement,  but 
further  they  answer  the  said  masts  and  treenails  are  to  be  de- 
livered together.  Aspinwall  protested  in  behalf  of  the  said  Tre- 
rice, "  as  well  against  the  said  Robert  Rich  and  Joshua  Foote, 
as  against  Emanuel  Downing,  Stephen  Winthrop,  Thomas  Bell, 
Adam  Winthrop  and  Benjamin  Gillom,  that  whatsoever  losses  the 
said  Nicholas  Trerice,  Josh.  Foote,  and  Thomas  Kemble  alreadie 
have  or  may  hereafter  sustaine  by  reason  of  the  non-delivery  of 
the  said  200,000  treenailes  demanded,  etc." 

"  27-9.  1648.  I  attested  a  Copie  of  a  Bill  of  Clement  Cam- 
pion or  agreement  with  Josh:  Hues  Attr  to  Michael  Charlton  of 
London,  grocer,  for  payment  of  £80  in  full  for  two  executions, 
the  one  for  etc.  .  .  to  be  paid  12  C  weight  Cotton  at  8  pence  per 
pound,  one  thousand  weight  tobacco  at  4  pence  per  pound,  and 
the  rest  in  cordage." 

27-5  mo.,  1649.  James  Oliver  assigned  unto  Joshua  Hues  a 
bill  of  Mr.  Richard  Bennets  of  6555  pounds  tobacco  in  the  hands 
of  Leo.  Stronge  to  be  paid  to  him  the  said  Joshua  or  assignees 
with  power  of  attorney. 

22-7  mo.,  1649.  Michael  Charleton  of  London,  grocer,  makes 
his  trusty  friends  Joshua  Hues  and  Caleb  Foote  both  of  Roxbury, 
merchants,  his  attorneys  to  recover  debt  due  him  from  Clement 
Campion  late  master  of  the  ship  Constance,  now  living  in  Boston. 
Dated  8  May,  1648. 


62 


LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES 


6-8  mo.,  1649,  Joshua  Hues  granted  a  letter  of  attorney  gen- 
eral for  all  debts  from  all  persons  in  Virginia  unto  David  Selleck. 

In  an  account  recorded  by  Aspinwall  15-8  mo.,  1650,  it  ap- 
pears that  Paul  Allistree  paid  unto  Mr.  Nathaniel  Vtie  of  Bar- 
badoes  6738  pounds  of  sugar  for  the  account  of  Mr.  Joshua  Hues 
and  Mr.  Caleb  Foote  of  Boston  and  Roxbury,  merchants. 

These  items  show  that  Hewes  was  not  only  importing  from  Lon- 
don but  was  exporting  to  the  Barbadoes  and  to  Virginia,  receiving 
their  staples,  sugar  and  tobacco,  in  the  way  of  trade,  and  also 
exporting  the  products  of  New  England  to  England.  His  busi- 
ness connection  was  extensive.  We  now  come  to  a  bill  or  invoice 
of  goods  shipped  to  him  from  London  in  16-18.  It  shows  how 
varied  an  assortment  of  goods  a  merchant  of  those  days  carried. 
This  also  was  recorded  by  Aspinwall. 

12-1  mo.,  1618.  Two  certificates  that  the  ship  Chapman  of 
London,  Nicholas  Trerice,  master  hath  delivered  here  to  Joshua 
Hues  for  account  of  Joshua  Foote; 


2000  goads  cotton 

40   pes  baies 

100  doz.  cotton  stockings 

50   doz.   worsted   stockings 

100   doz.    woolen    knit    stockings 

100  doz.   child  knit  stockings 

600  ells  canvas 

40  bolts  sail  cloth 

50    sayes 

50  serges 

20  pes   frize 

40  doz.  hats 

500  pounds  worth  haverdash: 

200  pounds  worth  upholstrie 

30  doz.  shoes 

400  gross  tobacco  pipes 

10   bbl.   powder 

5  tons  shot 

4  Fother  leade 


100   ells   holland 
40    Duffles 
100   ells   slasie  lanes 
200   ells  slasie  linnen 
20  gross  knives 

4  gros  cysers 

2000    ells    Efinghams 

5  pes  launes 

3000  yards   blue   linnen 
10   pes    poule   Davis 
40  doz.   sythes 

10  hundred  weight  wroght  iron 
1000  ells  Scotts  cloth 
300   weight   cork 
1000  weight   match 
100  pes   Norwich  stuffs 
300   lbs   mercery   ware 
3   chawder   grindstones 
20  chawder  coales,  and  household 
stuff   and    other   necessaries. 


30  doz.  shovels  and  spades. 
30    bbl.    nails. 
50   pes   lockram 
100    pes    calico 


3000   ells    Hamborough   linen. 
3000  ells   canvas 
300   pounds  worth  of  grocery 
400   yards   ticking 


LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES  63 

100  pes  lockram  6  hgs  vinegar 

3000    foot   window    glass  10    hundred    weight   corgage 

50  sayes                           .  2000  yards  holland 

100    doz.    cotton    stockings  50    doz.    worsted    stockings 

10  bbls.   powder  3   tons   lead 

3  ton  shot  40  pes  duffles 

100   pes   Norwich  stuffs  200    pound    drugs 

200     doz.     drinking     and  other      40    doz    hats 

glasses  300    pouns    haberdashery 

300    pounds    Polonie   wool  1000   ells   German  linnen 

200   calicoes  50  pes   Mohairs 

4000   goads   cotton.  500  weight  wrought  iron 

Household  stuff  and  apparell  40    doz.    bodies 

2000   yards   blue  linen  10   cloth  rashes 

200   Northern  kersies  15  Spanish  clothes 

25   Kentish  cloths   dressed  20  Northern  Dohens 

These  were  entered  at  the  Custom  house  4  and  29th  Feb.,  1647-8. 

There  are  other  consignments  from  Foote;  the  name  of  the 
person  to  whom  delivered  is  not  given.  He  shipped  by  the 
Beaver  17  April,  1646,  and  by  the  Dolphin,  the  Charles,  the 
Trial,  and  the  Merchant,  the  same  year,  Northern  kersies,  Span- 
ish cloths,  Kentish  cloths,  Kentish  and  Spanish  broadcloths, 
knives,  scissors,  household  goods,  mohairs,  cotton  stockings,  hats, 
shoes,  and  other  miscellaneous  lots,  including  haberdashery  to 
the  extent  of  £500  value,  hops,  ironware,  powder  and  shott.  All 
of  fair  quantity.  In  1650  he  shipped  flannel,  waistcoates  of 
flannel,  pottery  ware,  turners  ware,  "  lattin  "  wares  and  silk 
wares,  20  cauldron  sea  coal,  10  hundred  weight  of  steel,  300 
gals,  strong  waters,  30  doz.  Monmouth  caps,  hats,  upholstery, 
etc.,  very  much  as  the  invoice  to  Hewes. 

It  is  probable  that  all  of  the  consignments  of  Foote  34  were 
to  Hewes,  and  must  have  placed  him  in  the  front  rank  of  New 
England  merchants  and  with  a  stock  of  foreign  goods  superior 
to  what  was  carried  by  them.  No  other  merchant  received  so 
large  consignments  during  the  period  1646-1650. 

During  these  years  of  commercial  activity,  Joshua  Hewes  was 
thoroughly  alive  to  the  responsibility  of  developing  the  natural 

3*  Caleb  Foote  appears  to  have  been  associated  in  business  with  his  cousin, 
Joshua  Hewes,  for  a  few  years  about  this  time.  In  1648  he  was  admitted 
to  the  Artillery  Company,  Lt.  Hewes  and  Ensign  Hudson  being  his  sure- 
ties.    He  soon  after  returned  to  England. 


64  LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES 

resources  of  the  country.  His  life  was  doubtless  a  busy  one,  for 
aside  from  his  personal  affairs  he  was  called  upon  to  serve  the 
town  in  many  ways,  and  his  interest  in  military  matters  brought 
him  into  notice.  His  career  as  a  public  officer  and  as  a  soldier, 
lasted  throughout  his  career  as  a  merchant. 

The  greatest  commercial  and  industrial  venture  in  which  he 
engaged  was  his  participation  in  what  was  the  most  important 
attempt  in  early  colonial  times  to  establish  a  necessary  industry 
in  Massachusetts.  He  also  participated  in  the  illfated 
attempt  to  secure  possession  of  the  fur  trade  of  the  Great  Lakes, 
if  not  to  establish  the  jurisdiction  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay 
Company  in  those  parts  covered  by  the  Charter  but  so  far  to 
the  West  as  to  be  beyond  the  reach  of  the  Company  by  extension 
of  its  authority  over-land. 

The   first    of   these   enterprises   was   the   attempt   to    establish 
mining   and  manufacture   of  iron   at  Braintree   and   at   Saugus. 
While  leading  to   great  financial  losses  to   those  who   originally 
participated  in  the  Undertaking  of  the  Iron  Works,  the  project 
was  ultimately  successful;  inasmuch  as  the  energy  of  those  en- 
gaged led  to  the  investment  of  a  large  capital  in  the  erection  of 
well  equipped  works,  the  exploitation  of  the  iron  ores  of  the  bogs 
at  Saugus  and  later  in  other  places,  and  especially  the  migration 
hither  of  trained   and  skillful  workmen  who  not  only  developed 
these  resources,  but  introduced  the  manufacture  of  steel  articles, 
as  well  as  the  casting  of  iron  implements.     The  works  at  Brain- 
tree  were  early  abandoned,  the  deposit  of  bog  ore  there  proving 
to  be  of  little  commercial  importance;  but  the  works   at  Lynn, 
designated   Hammersmith,   under   the   successors   to   the   original 
company,  were  profitably  maintained  in  a  small  way  until  after 
1680.      It  is  probable,  had  the  first  owners  been  represented  here 
by  proper  managers,  expended  less  money  on  their  initial  equip- 
ment, and  been  able  to  avoid  lawsuits  with  creditors  in  New  Eng- 
land who  took  whatever  advantage  their  being  on  the  spot  gave 
them,  that  returns  commensurate  with  the  investment  might  have 
been  obtained.     From  the  beginning  made  by  the  Adventurers 
at  Braintree  and  Lynn,  came  the  long  successful  iron  works  at 
Taunton,   and  the  growth   of  an  industry  which  has   only  lately 
been  forced  to  abandon  Massachusetts. 

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of  iron  ore  sufficient  to  make  a  bloomery  and  forge  a  successful 
undertaking,  had  proceeded  to  England,  in  1641,  with  the  hope 
of  interesting  capital  in  his  project.  He  had,  as  seen  above, 
procured  a  vote  of  the  General  Court,  at  that  session  at  which 
Hewes  was  a  deputy  from  Roxbury,  of  a  grant  for  21  years,  of 
the  use  of  any  "  mine  "  discovered.  He  was  successful  in  rais- 
ing the  required  money,  and  after  some  delay  returned  to  New 
England.  Among  those  entering  into  the  promotion  was  Joshua 
Foote.  The  General  Court,  in  March,  1643-4,  confirmed  their 
former  vote,  and  gave  this  company  of  Winthrop's  a  monopoly 
for  twenty-one  years  under  certain  conditions,  never  wholly  com- 
plied with.  Such  was  the  enthusiasm  in  the  Colony  over  the  iron 
works  and  the  probable  success  of  the  undertaking,  that  14  May, 
1645,  the  General  Court  authorized  the  statement,  "  it  is  now 
found  by  sufficient  purpose  that  the  iron  worke  is  very  successfull, 
(both  in  the  richness  of  the  ore  and  the  goodness  of  the  iron) 
and  like  to  be  of  great  benefit  to  ye  whole  country,"  and  in 
order  that  the  country  should  be  given  due  warning  of  the  limit 
within  which  subscriptions  to  the  stock  would  be  accepted,  "  have 
taken  order  that  speedy  notice  thereof  should  be  given  to  every 
town  "  that  shares  of  the  value  of  £100  could  be  had  in  exchange 
for  commodities  which  would  satisfy  the  workmen,  or  for  cash, 
and  that  these  subscriptions  are  to  be  paid  to  Henry  Webbe  of 
Boston,  "  by  such  direction  as  they  may  receive  from  the  under- 
takers, Mr.  John  Winthrop,  Juni:,  Major  Sedgwick,  Mr.  Henry 
Webbe  aforesaid,  &  Mr.  Joshua  Hewes."  35  There  can  be  little 
doubt  that  Hewes  had  been  one  of  the  first  interested  by  Winthrop 
in  the  proposed  works,  and  perhaps  he  had  been  one  of  those  to 
encourage  Winthrop's  visit  to  England. 

Any  proposition  looking  to  the  local  supply  of  iron  would 
be  of  the  utmost  interest  and  importance  to  a  man  engaged  in 
handling  merchandise  of  the  character  he  dealt  in. 

The  story  of  the  iron  works  has  been  briefly  sketched  by  vari- 
ous writers.  Local  pride,  and  insufficient  research  among  our 
archives,  which  abound  with  materials  concerning  the  project, 
has  led  to  erroneous  statements,  ignoring  the  most  important 
items  and  the  very  men  who  conceived,  promoted,  and  financed 
the  enterprise. 

35  Colony  Records,  II,  103. 


66  LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES 

From  the  earliest  inception  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay  Company, 
hopes  had  been  entertained  of  the  discovery  of  metals  in  New 
England  in  commercial  quantities.  Both  iron  and  copper  were 
supposed  to  exist,  but  to  the  latter  little  attention  was  paid  for 
many  years,  not  until  Endicott,  who  came  from  a  great  mining 
district,  began  mining  for  that  metal.  Search  for  iron-stone, 
as  the  ore  was  quaintly  called  in  those  days,  began  early,  but  the 
exigencies  of  the  early  settlers  in  making  homes,  the  great  returns 
to  be  had  from  the  forests  and  the  fisheries,  diverted  the  attention 
of  the  settlers  from  opportunities  for  prospecting  for  metals. 

Nor  is  it  to  be  expected  that  with  the  then  limited  knowledge 
of  geology  and  metallurgy,  that  competent  persons  would  be 
found  who  could  prospect  for  ores.  The  younger  Winthrop, 
however,  was  perhaps  as  well  fitted  as  any  of  his  generation  to 
seek  out  the  hidden  wealth  of  the  colony.  To  him  is  due  the 
chief  credit  of  making  known  the  commercial  values  of  the  iron 
deposits  in  Massachusetts.  He  was  anticipated  by  others  in  the 
discoveries  of  the  iron  deposits,  and  their  extent.  Compared 
with  the  great  iron  fields  developed  in  this  country  in  the  last 
century,  the  iron  deposits  of  Massachusetts  are  of  so  little  conse- 
quence as  to  be  negligible,  but  compared  with  the  iron  industry 
and  resources  of  England  in  1640,  they  were  an  item  of  im- 
portance. A  forge  handling  ten  and  twenty  tons  of  pig  iron 
a  week,  in  those  days  was  an  important  institution,  and  this 
record  was  attained  at  Hammersmith  in  Lynn  very  early.  The 
investment  of  capital  representing  10,000  pounds  sterling  was 
for  those  days  a  large  transaction,  and  for  New  England  an  im- 
mense one.  The  investment  in  the  iron  works  alone  was  probably 
more  than  was  actually  invested  by  the  Massachusetts  Bay  Com- 
pany in  financing  the  Endicott  and  Winthrop  expeditions.  The' 
failure  of  the  works  under  the  original  management  brought  loss 
and  hardship  to  many  a  Massachusetts  family,  and  contributed 
to,  if  it  did  not  actually  bring  about  the  retirement  of  Hewes 
from  mercantile  life.  It  certainly  was  the  cause  of  the  financial 
troubles  of  Joshua  Foote. 

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LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES  67 

7  March,  1643-4,  voted:  "The  petition  of  Mr.  Valentine  Hill, 
Capt.  Robert  Sedgwich,  Mr.  Willi :  Tinge,  Treasurer,  Mr.  Fran- 
cis Norton,  Mr.  Thom:  Clarke,  Joshua  Hewes  &  Willi:  Aspin- 
wall  is  granted  them.  First,  they  are  established  a  free  company 
of  adventurers,  with  liberty  to  admit  &  take  in  any  which  they 
thinke  meete  for  the  advancement  of  the  worke,  &  any  that  will 
may  come  in  within  this  month ;  but  none  after,  except  they  ap- 
prove of  them ;  they  are  granted  power  to  make  such  wholsome 
orders  for  the  wellmanaging  of  their  trade  as  is  granted  to  such 
companies  in  other  parts :  2nd.  That  whatsoever  trade  they  shall 
discover  in  those  parts  within  three  years  next  ensueing,  (if  the 
Lord  so  blesses  their  endeavors)  they  may  enjoy  it  solely  to 
themselves  &  the  rest  of  their  company  for  twenty  &  one  years 
after  such  discovery  is  made,  with  full  power  &  authority  from 
this  Court  to  inhibite  &  restraine  any  other  person  or  persons 
whatsoever,  during  the  terme  aforesaid,  that  shall  attempt  any 
trade  (by  them  discovered)  without  the  warrant  of  the  afore- 
said company;  or  if  they  have  or  shall  intermeddle,  as  aforesaid, 
that  they  it  may  be  lawfull  for  the  company  in  a  legall  way  to 
seize  upon  such  goods  so  traded:  &  lastly,  they  are  granted  the 
Corts  letters,  under  the  publique  seale,  unto  the  Dutch  or  Swedes, 
or  any  other  they  may  necessarily  have  to  do  with  in  the  prosecu- 
tion of  this  discovery  or  trade,  for  the  further  counternancing 
of  their  proceedings."  Immediate  steps  were  taken  by  the  as- 
sociates to  open  the  expected  trade  but  disappointment  and  fail- 
ure resulted.  Wmthrop  relates  that,  "  Divers  of  the  merchants 
of  Boston  being  desirous  to  discover  the  great  lake,  supposing 
it  to  lie  in  the  north-west  part  of  our  patent,  and  finding  that 
the  great  trade  of  beaver,  which  came  to  all  the  eastern  and  south- 
ern parts,  came  from  thence,  petitioned  the  Court  to  a  company 
for  that  design,  and  to  have  the  trade  which  they  should  discover, 
to  themselves  for  twenty-one  years.  The  court  was  very  unwill- 
ing to  grant  any  monopoly,  but  perceiving  that  without  it  they 
would  not  proceed,  granted  their  desire;  whereupon,  having  also 
commission  granted  them  under  the  public  seal,  and  letters  from 
the  governour  to  the  Dutch  and  Swedish  governours,  they  sent 
out  a  pinnace  well  manned  and  furnished  with  provisions  and 
trading  stuff,  which  was  to  sail  up  Delaware  river  so  high  as  they 
could  go,  and  then  some  of  the  company,  under  the  command 
of  Mr.  William  Aspinwall,  a  good  artist,  and  one  who  had  been 


68  LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES 

in  those  parts,  to  pass  by  small  skiffs  or  canoes  up  the  river  so 
far  as  they  could."37 

"  There  was  mention  made  before  a  pinnace  sent  by  the  com- 
pany of  discoverers  to  Delaware  river,  with  letters  from  the  gov- 
ernour  to  the  Dutch  and  Swedish  governours  for  liberty  to  pass. 
The  Dutch  promised  to  let  them  pass,  but  for  maintaining  their 
own  interest  he  must  protest  against  them.  When  they  came  to 
the  Swedes,  the  fort  shot  at  them,  ere  they  came  up :  whereupon 
they  cast  forth  anchor,  and  the  next  morning,  being  the  Lord's 
day,  the  lieutenant  came  aboard  them,  and  forced  them  to  fall 
down  lower ;  when  Mr.  Aspenwall  came  to  the  governour  and 
complained  of  the  lieutenant's  ill  dealing,  both  in  shooting  at  them 
before  he  had  hailed  them,  and  in  forcing  them  to  weigh  anchor 
on  the  Lord's  day.  The  governour  acknowledged  he  did  ill  in 
both,  and  promised  all  favor,  but  the  Dutch  agent,  being  come 
down  to  the  Swedes'  fort,  showed  express  order  from  the  Dutch 
governour  not  to  let  him  pass,  whereupon  they  returned.  But 
before  they  came  out  of  the  river,  the  Swedish  lieutenant  made 
them  pay  40  shillings  for  that  shot  which  he  had  unduly  made. 
The  pinnace  arrived  at  Boston  (5)£0-44."3S 

Further  light  is  cast  upon  this  attempt  to  open  trade  with  the 
headwaters  of  the  Delaware  in  the  report  of  Gov.  Printz  to  his 
home  government.  Although  he  had  repudiated  the  action  of  his 
lieutenant  in  preventing  the  passage  of  Aspinwall's  pinnace,  he 
says  he  had  taken  steps  to  cause  the  Dutch  agent  at  Fort  Nassau 
to  intervene  and  prevent  their  further  passage  up  the  river,  for 
says  he,  it  was  the  purpose  of  the  English,  "  to  build  a  fort  above 
the  Swedish  post  at  Sankikan,  to  be  armed  with  men  and  cannon, 
and  to  appropriate  to  themselves  all  the  profits  of  the  river." 
There  can  be  little  doubt  but  that  the  Swedish  governor's  keen 
perception  had  discovered  the  real  purpose  of  the  English  expedi- 
tion, which  although  cloaked  under  the  garb  of  a  trading  com- 
pany had  among  its  original  members  the  treasurer  of  the  colony. 
Nothing  appears  in  the  record  of  an  avowed  purpose  of  obtain- 
ing jurisdiction  over  the  country,  but  it  may  be  safely  assumed 
that  Winthrop  and  his  friends  were  alive  to  the  fact  that  once 
established  in  that  region,  their  claim  concerning  the  extent  of 
their  patent  could  be  strenuously  upheld.     There  had  been  prior 

87  Winthrop's  Journal,  2:194. 
zs  Ibid.,  218. 


LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES  69 

attempts  to  establish  a  trade  on  the  Delaware,  both  by  the  Bos- 
ton and  New  Haven  people,  the  latter  having  gone  so  far  as  to 
establish  a  settlement  at  New  Salem  in  New  Jersey,  members  of 
which  who  cared  to  remain  after  the  arrival  of  Printz  were 
obliged  to  take  an  oath  of  allegiance  to  the  Swedish  government. 
For  an  account  of  the  action  of  the  Swedish  Governor,  see  Wind- 
sor; Narrative  and  Critical  History  of  America,  IV.  456. 

Perhaps  the  small  vessel  sent  out  by  the  "  merchants  of  Bos- 
ton "  the  following  year,  which  traded  along  the  Maryland  coast 
of  the  Delaware,  and  which  secured  a  good  supply  of  beaver, 
was  another  enterprise  of  this  company.  The  vessel  was  cap- 
tured by  the  Indians  and  all  but  one  man  and  a  boy  killed.  In 
October,  1645,  Richard  Saltonstall,  Simon  Bradstreet  and  others 
were  incorporated  by  the  General  Court  as  a  trading  company 
with  liberty  to  erect  trading  houses,  if  without  50  miles  from  any 
plantation  in  the  jurisdiction  of  Massachusetts,  but  the  terms 
of  their  grant  were  especially  stipulated  to  "  contradict  not  ye 
former  grant  to  Mr.  Hill  &  Mr.  Tynge  &  Co."  39  Their  petition 
alleges  that  the  petitioners  "  with  some  others  have  had  some 
thought  of  a  discovery  of  the  Great  Lakes  and  other  lakes  that 
lye  up  in  the  countiy  and  to  build  some  trading  houses  in  free 
places  upon  the  coasts  or  river."  40  It  does  not  appear  that 
Hill,  Tynge  &  Co.,  pursued  their  venture  further,  or  that  the 
later  company  ever  carried  on  any  extensive  trade. 

A    COMMISSIONER    TO    SHAWOMET 

Certain  of  the  associates  of  Roger  Williams  had  established 
themselves  on  the  west  side  of  Narragansett  Bay,  north  of  the 
river  Pawtuxet.  Here  they  found  themselves  so  incommoded  by 
some  lawless  persons  who  sat  down  among  them,  that,  for  want 
of  any  nearer  authority  competent  to  give  them  redress,  they  were 
fain  to  apply  themselves  to  that  of  Massachusetts  Bay.41 

These  "  lawless  persons  "  were  led  by  Samuel  Gorton,  who  was 
long  a  thorn  in  the  side  of  his  neighbors  in  Rhode  Island  as  well 
as  of  the  Massachusetts  authorities.  In  consequence  of  this  en- 
croachment thirteen  residents  at  Pawtuxet  submitted  themselves 
to  the  government  of  Massachusetts  Bay  in  November,  1641 .     A 

39  Colony  Records,  II,  138. 

«>  Archives,  119:5. 

-*i  Palfrey:  History  of  New  England,  II,  116. 


70  LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES 

year  later  Gorton  and  his  party,  having  bid  defiance  to  Massa- 
chusetts, removed  south  of  the  Pawtuxet  river  settling  on  lands 
to  which  they  obtained  a  title  from  Miantonomo,  chief  of  the 
Narragansetts,  but  whose  right  to  the  territory  was  denied  by 
Saceneneco,  sachem  of  Shawomet,  and  Pumham,  sachem  of 
Pawtuxet.  The  following  year,  that  is  in  1643,  the  Indians  being 
harassed  by  the  encroachments  of  Gorton  and  his  followers,  ap- 
plied to  Massachusetts  for  protection.  They  offered  to  become 
subject  to  Massachusetts.  Consequently  Gorton  and  Mianto- 
nomo were  called  on  to  prove  their  rights  to  the  lands  in  dis- 
pute. This  they  could  not  do.  Miantonomo  admitted  that  the 
two  lesser  sachems  were  not  tributary  to  him,  and  that  deer  skins 
taken  within  their  territorial  limits  were  paid  to  them.  Because 
he  was  a  general  sachem,  however,  Miantonomo  received  presents 
from  both  Pumham  and  Saceneneco.42 

Shawomet  became  later  known  as  Warwick.  The  question  of 
jurisdiction  over  the  lands  there  and  at  Pawtuxet  came  up  on 
several  occasions.  A  petition  from  Pumham  is  found  in  Archives 
30,  together  with  other  papers  in  the  case,  perhaps  of  date  of 
1647,  again  complaining  of  the  encroachment  of  the  English  set- 
tlers at  Warwick,  whose  agent  Mr.  Williams  had  become. 
Winthrop  (page  317)  gives  a  sympathetic  account  of  the  pitiable 
condition  of  the  Indians,  brought  about  by  the  destruction  of 
their  corn  by  the  Gortonists'  cattle.  Their  starving  condition, 
however,  was  relieved  by  the  present  of  corn.  He  says,  "  upon 
their  further  complaints  to  us,"  the  Rhode  Island  magistrates 
who  had  attempted  to  settle  their  losses  having  failed  to  ac- 
complish any  relief,  "the  general  court  in  the  (1)  month  sent 
three  messengers  to  demand  satisfaction  "  of  the  Rhode  Island 
authorities  "  for  the  Indians,  and  for  other  wrongs  to  some 
English  there,  and  to  command  them  to  depart  the  place  as  be- 
longing to  us,  etc.  They  used  our  messengers  with  more  respect 
than  formerly,  but  gave  no  satisfaction,  bearing  themselves  upon 
their  charter,  etc.  We  could  do  no  more  at  present,  but  we 
procured  the  Indians  some  corn  in  the  meantime.  .  .  .  In  the 
agitation   of  this   matter  in   the  General   Court,   some  moved  to 

<2  Suffolk  files  6.5.  Sec  also  Winthrop's  Journal,  TI,  120-3.  After  Mianto- 
nomo's  return  to  Narrapansctt  lie  instituted  a  raid  upon  his  rival  Uneas, 
meeting  with  defeat  and  capture  and  eventually  death  at  the  hands  of  his 
captors. 


LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES  71 

have  an  order  (upon  refusal  of  satisfaction,  etc.)  to  send  forces 
presently  against  them ;  but  others  thought  better  to  forbear  any 
resolution  until  the  return  of  our  messengers."  At  this  time 
Massachusetts  was  not  without  hopes  that  the  Rhode  Island  char- 
ter would  be  recalled  and  her  own  limits  enlarged  by  the  acquisi- 
tion of  part  of  the  territory  covered  by  it.  The  messengers  sent 
were  John  Johnson,  surveyor  general,  Lt.  Joshua  Hewes,  and 
Sergeant  James  Oliver.  They  were  to  visit  Shawomet  and  de- 
mand restitution.  If  they  did  not  receive  satisfaction  they  were 
to  visit  Providence  and  demand,  "  Whether  they  will  own  them 
and  maintain  them  in  this  course  they  are  in."  43  This  duty  put 
upon  the  messengers  required  both  firmness  and  diplomacy.  That 
the  demands  of  the  messengers  met  with  better  reception  than  had 
hitherto  been  the  result  of  any  former  negotiations  concerning 
Pumham  and  his  lands,  is  Winthrop's  testimony,  and  the  result 
may  be  partially  at  least  ascribed  to  the  character  of  the  em- 
bassy. This  was  perhaps  Hewes'  first  acquaintance  with  the 
shores  of  Narragansett  Bay,  and  his  visit  of  this  year  very  likely 
is  what  led  to  his  settlement  at  Wickford  a  few  years  later.  The 
attempts  of  Massachusetts  to  retain  jurisdiction  over  Shawomet 
failed,  and  Gorton  and  his  associates  eventually  triumphed  over 
not  only  Massachusetts  but  Connecticut,  as  will  be  seen  when 
Hewes'  connection  with  Wickford  is  told. 

On  his  return  from  Rhode  Island  Hewes  was  chosen  for  the 
second  time,  one  of  the  select-men  of  Roxbury  21-12  mo.,  1648-9, 
the  others  being  Capt.  Purchase,  John  Johnson,  John  Boles,  and 
Brother  Williams.  At  this  time  the  selectmen  were  called  the 
"  five  men." 

BUILDING   OF    THE   TOWN   HOUSE  IN   BOSTON 

In  1654*,  the  year  Hewes  was  Ensign  of  the  Artillery  Company, 
he  was  one  of  the  128  subscribers  toward  the  building  of  a 
town  house  in  Boston.  The  paper,  apparently  circulated  among 
the  business  community  of  Boston  in  1654?,  is  headed  "  Whearas 
thear  is  given  a  considerabl  sum  by  Capt.  Keyne  towars  the 
Building  of  a  towne  house,  wch  sum  will  not  attaine  the  Bulding 
wch  he  mentioneth  in  his  will.  Now  considering  the  usefullnes 
of  such  a  structur,  we  whoes  names  are  underwritten  doe  ingag 
ourselves,   our   heyres,  executors   for  to  give  towards   the  above 

«  Colony  Records,  II,  228. 


72  LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES 

house  and  alsoe  a  condit  in  the  market  place  the  severall  sums 
under  written."  Most  of  the  larger  subscriptions  were  payable 
in  goods,  those  subscribing  money  promising  much  smaller  sums. 
Hewes  was  one  of  twenty  who  subscribed  ten  shillings  each. 
Keayne's  bequest  was  £300.  The  building  erected  with  the  pro- 
ceeds of  this  joint  contribution,  aided  by  the  colony  excusing  the 
town  from  current  payment  of  taxes,  became  the  meeting  place 
of  the  General  Court  and  of  the  county  and  other  courts.  Orig- 
inally built  of  wood,  it  was  destroyed  in  the  fire  of  1747.  Re- 
paired, it  was  the  scene  of  the  deliberations  of  the  General  Court 
until  1798.  It  is  now  given  over  to  the  Bostonian  Society,  while 
below  the  surface  of  the  street  and  below  the  building  is  a  sta- 
tion of  the  street  railway  company  operating  the  Washington 
Street  Tunnel.  In  1909  the  building  was  restored  to  its  former 
appearance. 

SECOND    MARRIAGE 

Joshua  Hewes  seems  to  have  lived  in  his  old  home  at  Roxbury 
in  February,  1654,44  but  was  obliged  to  abandon  it  upon  Foote's 
decease  in  1655,  and  probably  removed  to  Boston.  There  he 
contracted  a  second  marriage,  11-12  mo.,  1656-7,  with  Alice, 
widow  of  John  Crabtree,  who  may  have  retained  some  part  of 
her  husband's  estate.  Her  son,  John  Crabtree,  was  associated 
with  Hewes  in  his  Wickford  venture,  and  it  is  likely  that  the 
Crabtree  house  was  his  home  during  the  minority  of  the  children 
of  his  second  wife.  Perhaps  he  contemplated  a  settlement  in 
Exeter,  New  Hampshire,  for  we  find  he  owned  land  there  which 
he  sold  to  William  Marston  of  Hampton  prior  to  20  Dec,  1658, 
when  Marston  sold  to  Moses  Gilman  of  Exeter  "  my  interest  in 
a  thirty-three  acre  planting  lot  and  grant  of  seven  acres  in  the 
second  division  in  Exeter  sometime  in  the  hands  of  Richard  Mor- 
ris, late  of  Exeter,  and  by  him  sold  to  Joshua  Hewes  of  Rox- 
bury who  sold  to  me."  44a  In  1661  he  was  sued  for  a  small  debt, 
and  rather  than  pay  subjected  himself  to  arrest  and  imprison- 
ment.45 

4*  Conn.  Col.  Records,  2:286. 

44a  Old  Norfolk  Records. 

45  28  Jan.,  1661-2,  judgment  was  had  in  the  county  court  by  Nathaniel 
Wales  and  John  Amy  for  12  shillings.  Execution  was  taken  out  and  in  de- 
fault of  payment  the  marshall  committed  Hewes  to  prison  14  March,  1661, 
"for  refusing  to  tender  goods  to  meet  this  execution"  (4-XI). 


LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES  73 

SETTLEMENT  OF  FOOTE's  ESTATE 

In  Oct.  1655,  Joshua  Foote46  died  in  Providence.  He  had  been 
living  there  since  his  realization  of  how  little  could  be  recovered 
out  of  his  investment  in  the  iron  works,  and  had  engaged  to  some 
extent  in  business  there  with  Henry  Fowler.  Joshua  Hewes  rep- 
resented his  interests  in  Massachusetts. 

His  will  is  brief,  and  shows  his  complete  confidence  in  his  nephew : 

I,  Joshua  Foote  Citizen  and  Iremonger  of  London,  being  by  Gods 

providence  now  resident  in  Providence  in  New  England,  being  sick, 

doe   make   this    may    Last   Will.     I    commit    my    whole   estate    unto 

Liften  Joshua  Hewes  &  Henry  Fowler  for  to  take  care  of  that  it 

may  be  preserved  for  my  wife  and  children,  &  such  as  I  am  indebted 

unto ;  also  to  reckon  &  gett  in  my  debts,  &  to  sell  of  house  goods  lands 

&  to  satisfye  such  debts  I  am  engaged  with  as  much  speed  as  may 

be,  so  farre  as  it  will  goe  to  my  wife  &  children,  2.8.1655. 

Joshua  Fote  and  a  marke. 

Witnes  William  Blaxton  47 

The  marke  of  Richard  Waterman   )         , 

m  TT  i   — deputies 

Thomas  Harris  [  r 

The  will  was  proved  at  Providence  and  again  at  Boston  31 
Oct.,  1655,  when  power  of  administration  was  granted  to  Lt. 
Joshua  Hewes.48 

To  straighten  out  the  tangled  affairs  of  Joshua  Foote  proved 
a  thankless  task,  and  also  an  onerous  one.  An  inventory  was  filed 
21-5-1656,  showing  a  total  estate  of  £1380-01-07,  including 
£700  "  in  ye  iron  works."  A  long  list  of  debtors,  for  various 
items,  foots  up  £176,  showing  that  Foote  had  engaged  in  quite  a 
business  in  New  England.  There  were  also  "  desperate  debts  ag- 
gregating £134?,  of  which  £1  was  due  from  the  "  New  Meeting- 
house."    The  warehouse  is  entered  as  sold  for  £80,  20  sets  iron 

46  The  exact  date  of  Foote's  arrival  in  New  England  is  not  known.  He 
was  here  in  July,  1650,  when  he  and  Hewes  had  an  accounting  and  Hewes 
turned  over  to  his  uncle  for  his  uses  all  of  his  estate  in  Boston  and  Rox- 
bury  (Suffolk  Deeds).  Probably  he  had  proceeded  Wm.  Attbury,  the  agent 
of  the  Iron  Works  Co.  appointed  in  Aug.,  1650,  and  had  reported  upon  the 
unsatisfactory  conditions  existing.  Foote  was  appointed  by  his  associates 
one  of  the  Commissioners  with  power  to  settle  the  Company's  affairs,  and 
soon  after  removed  to  Providence,  leaving  Hewes  as  his  representative  in 
Boston. 

47  The  first  settler  on  the  peninsula,  now  Boston. 

48  Suffolk  Probate,  Vol.  2. 


74  LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES 

moulds  "  cost  in  London  "  £20,  four  acres  land  in  Braintree  at 
£25.  When  administration  was  granted,  an  inventory,  dated 
30  Oct.,  1655,  had  been  presented  "  of  estate  in  and  about  Bos- 
ton "  which  came  to  but  £13-0-5,  besides  96  acres  at  Braintree 
not  appraised.49 

The  first  step  of  the  administrator  was  to  sell  the  warehouse 
in  Boston  (the  same  warehouse  he  had  formerly  conveyed  to 
Foote)  to  Henry  Shrympton,  merchant,  24  March,  1655-6  for 
£80,  £60-11-9  of  which  the  said  Shrympton  paid  to  John  Johnson 
attorney  unto  Katherine  Sumpner  of  Lambeth,  Surrey,  England, 
to  whom  Foote  had  mortgaged  the  warehouse  and  contents,  25 
Oct.,  1653,  for  £131-8-4.  Her  agent  Johnson,  in  default  of  pay- 
ment, had  obtained  possession  by  execution  in  November,  1655. 
The  sum  of  £74-2-7  on  account  of  the  debt  had  been  paid  in 
Foote's  lifetime  by  Hewes,  acting  as  his  attorney,  in  September, 
1654.  Having  found  the  means  to  redeem  this  property  and  sell  it, 
Hewes  was  obliged  to  petition  the  General  Court  to  confirm  his 
act,  which  confirmation  he  obtained  22-3-1 656.50 

He  next  had  to  stand  suit  by  William  Sheldon  of  London, 
draper,  who  by  letter  of  attorney,  14  April,  1656,  empowered 
Jacob  Sheafe,  who  substituted  in  his  place  John  Johnson  of 
Roxbury,  the  same  who  had  acted  for  Mrs.  Sumpner,  to  recover 
from  Foote's  estate  the  sum  of  £200  promised  him  as  dower  with 
Foote's  daughter.  The  General  Court  found  for  the  plaintiff 
£200  and  39  shillings,  8  pence  costs.51  There  are  some  in- 
teresting papers  filed  in  this  case.  On  the  31  March,  1656, 
Samuel  Foote  of  London,  merchant,  and  Joshua  Foote  of 
London,  ironmonger,  sons  of  Joshua  Foote  late  of  London, 
ironmonger,  deceased,  make  a  deposition  that  in  consideration 
of  a  marriage  between  William  Sheldon,  of  London,  draper, 
and  Elizabeth  Foote,  the  daughter  of  said  Joshua,  which  was 
solemnized  about  October  1650,  the  said  Joshua  Foote  was 
to  pay  Sheldon  £200  as  a  marriage  portion  for  his  daughter. 
And  on  the  7  April,  1657,  Elizabeth  Foote,  of  London,  widow 
and  late  wife  of  Joshua  Foote,  of  London,  ironmonger,  deceased, 
and  Joshua  and  Caleb  Foote,  sons  of  the  said  Joshua  and  Eliza- 
beth,  testify  to  the  same  effect. 

>■■  Suffolk   Probate,  8:34,  48. 
so  Archives,  B  15:151-2. 
■  Ibid.,   B    15,  205. 


LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES  75 

The  96  acres  in  Braintree  mentioned  in  the  inventory  had  not 
come  from  Hewes,  but  had  been  purchased  by  Foote  of  Shaw  and 
Addington,  and  this  land  Hewes  and  Fowler  transferred  to  Capt. 
Thomas  Savage  for  £25,  17  July,  1656.52 

On  the  19  Aug.,  1660,  Lt.  Joshua  Hewes  of  Boston,  as  ad- 
ministrator to  Foote,  grants  a  discharge  in  full  to  Shrympton, 
having  received  of  him  the  balance  of  the  £19  remaining  due  on  the 
payment  of  £80,  Shrympton  having  paid  the  annual  rent  aris- 
ing from  the  warehouse  due  unto  the  widow  Elizabeth  Foote,  de- 
ceased.53 

In  the  meantime  the  ownership  of  the  estate  in  Roxbury 
granted  by  Hewes  to  Foote,  and  by  him  mortgaged  2-1  Oct.,  1653, 
to  Robert  Crane  of  Cogshall,  Essex,  England,  or  £184-7-2,  the 
balance  of  an  obligation  of  Foote  to  Crane  due  in  London,  was  in 
dispute.  Foote  had  contracted  to  redeem  this  mortgage  25  Oct., 
1655,  at  the  house  of  John  Wilson,  pastor  of  the  church  in  Bos- 
ton, but  at  that  date  Foote  was  dead.  Prior  to  his  death, 
acting  as  attorney  for  Foote,  Hewes  had  attempted  to  discharge 
the  debt.  He  testified,  under  date  of  5  Nov.,  1664,  that  he  was 
aged  50  years  or  thereabouts,  and  that  in  1655,  being  attorney 
for  Joshua  Foote,  did  by  his  order  sell  or  promise  to  sell  several 
parcels  of  land  in  Roxbury  which  were  mortgaged  to  Mr.  Robert 
Crane,  and  it  was  to  pay  and  clear  the  mortgage,  and  he  did  send 
to  Mr.  Rogers  by  Mr.  Samuel  Danforth  what  he  had  done,  and 
desired  him  to  come  to  receive  the  money.  Mr.  Danforth  replied 
that  he  expected  to  come  to  Boston  in  a  short  time ;  but  it  pleased 
God  to  take  Mr.  Foote  away  54  by  death,  and  that  was  the  cause 
it  was  not  paid  before  that, —  "  What  power  I  had  from  Foote 
died  when  Mr.  Foote  died."  55 

Samuel  Shrimpton  and  Thomas  Norman  were  sworn  9  Nov., 
1664,  and  deposed  that  on  the  26  May,  1663,  at  Mr.  Wilson's 
house  at  Boston  we  did  tell  over  231  pounds  in  money  of  New 
England,  which  said  money  we  see  and  heard  Lt.  Joshua  Hewes 
tender  it  on  the  table  for  the  use  of  Mr.  Robert  Crane,  his  execu- 
te Suffolk  Deeds,  2:283. 

SB  Ibid.,  3:392. 

84  Samuel  Danforth  died  19  Nov.,  1674;  he  had  married,  1651,  a  daughter 
■of  Rev.  John  Willson. 

55  Robert  Crane  died  early  in  1658,  leaving  a  will  proved  18  March,  in 
which  he  gave  to  his  grandchildren,  sons  of  Rev.  Nathaniel  Rogers,  in  New 
England,  a  bond  of  £400  on[  which  £150  was  due  from  Joshua  Foote  (Waters 
1:224). 


76  LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES 

tors,  administrators  or  assigns,  which  was  to  satisfy  a  debt  or 
mortgage  made  by  Mr.  Joshua  Foote  deceased  for  the  payment 
to  said  Crane  of  £184-7-2.  sterling,  he  tendering  the  money  as  ad- 
ministrator to  Joshua  Foote,  deceased." 

Previous  to  this,  John  Johnson  acting  as  attorney  for  Mrs. 
Elizabeth  Foote  claimed  her  dower  in  the  estate  held  by  the 
Rogers  heirs  of  Crane.  There  is  a  petition  on  file  from  Robert 
Pain,  John  Whipple,  Margaret  Rogers,  John,  Nathaniel  and  Sam- 
uel Rogers,  relating  that  they  are  like  to  be  damaged  by  a  liberty 
granted  to  Surveyor-general  Johnson,  agent  for  the  relict  of  Mr. 
Joshua  Foote,  sometime  ironmonger  in  London,  and  later  some 
shorter  time  resident  in  Boston,  for  the  division  of  some  houses 
and  lands  in  Roxbury,  and  the  assignment  and  improvement  of 
a  third  part  during  her  life,  which  houses  and  lands  were  passed 
by  said  Foote  to  Mr.  Nathaniel  Rogers  for  monies  lent  said  Foote 
in  London.  The  General  Court  gave  judgment  to  Rogers  5  Nov., 
1658.56 

Ffewes  determined  to  obtain  for  the  estate  the  equity  in  the  prop- 
erty, and  in  1663  began  steps  which  ultimately  won  him  his  case. 
Being  in  Narragansett  he  gave  power  of  attorney  to  Lt.  Rich- 
ard Cook,  Mr.  Richard  Woodde,  and  Mr.  John  Wiswall  of  Bos- 
ton, to  enter  upon  and  take  possession  of  that  messuage  and  lands 
in  Roxbury,  formerly  in  possession  of  Foote.  On  the  30  May, 
1663,  John  Alcock  of  Roxbury,  physician,  and  John  Stebbins  of 
same,  "  bisquet  baker,"  became  bound  to  Joshua  Hewes,  late  of 
Boston,  ironmonger,  now  of  a  place  called  or  known  by  the  name 
of  Narragansett,  in  £700,  to  pay  him  as  administrator  to  the 
estate  of  Foote  231  pounds  in  silver,  immediately  after  the  estate 
in  Roxbury,  mortgaged  by  Foote  to  Mr.  Robert  Crane,  be  re- 
leased unto  the  said  Hewes  as  administrator,  at  Mr.  John  Wil- 
son's house  in  Boston,  and  the  balance  of  the  £350  in  cattle  or 
goods.  Hewes  thereupon  sold,  by  deed  dated  30  May,  1663,  to 
Alcock  and  Stebbins,  all  the  dwelling  house  which  was  the  said 
Foote's  in  the  time  of  his  life,  and  which  he  purchased  of  the  said 
Joshua  Hewes,  with  the  four  acres  of  land  whereon  the  said  prem- 
ises stand,  and  various  other  lots  and  parcels  of  land.57  "  Seizen 
and  possession  "  was  given  and  received  in  presence  of  Thomas 
Weld,  Richard  Woodde,  and  Joseph  Wise.     Hewes  acknowledged 

o«  Archives,  1.5:257,  also  B  15;  29  and  52. 
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LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES  77 

the  deed  1-4-1663,  and  it  was  entered  for  record  2  July,  1663, 
notice  being  given  by  the  purchasers  that  they  had  been  informed 
that  the  lands  specified  in  the  deed  were  sold  formerly  by  way 
of  mortgage. 

Hewes  failed  in  the  lower  (county)  court  8  Nov.,  1661,  in  his 
attempt  to  regain  possession  of  the  estate,  and  appealed  his  case 
to  the  General  Court.  Richard  Cook  was  his  attorney.  The 
appeal  of  %  March,  1661-5,  set  forth  that  the  possession  taken 
by  Bartholomew  was  illegal,  for  he  had  no  power  from  Robert 
Crane,  "  who  hath  a  conditional  right  in  the  premises."  5S  Mr. 
William  Bartholomew,  Mr.  Samuel  Rogers,  Mrs.  Katherine 
Rogers,  Mr.  Ezekiel  Rogers,  and  Mr.  Timothy  Rogers,  were 
summoned  to  appear  at  the  General  Court  18  Oct.,  1665,  as  de- 
fendants in  the  case  of  "  Mr.  Joshua  Hewes,  administrator  of  the 
estate  of  Mr.  Foote  his  lands  mortgaged  to  Crane."  Samuel  Dan- 
forth,  Thomas  Welde  and  William  Park  testified  that  the  Rogers 
of  Ipswich  and  Mr.  William  Bartholomew  entered  upon  the  dwell- 
ing house  formerly  possessed  by  Joshua  Hewes  in  Roxbury,  and 
since  belonging  to  Foote,  and  the  out-housing,  orchard  and 
ground,  by  virtue  of  a  deed  of  Foote  to  Robert  Crane  of  Cogshall, 
England,  20  Oct.,  1653,  and  this  is  the  estate  claimed  by  Nathan- 
iel Rogers  of  Ipswich  and  his  brethren. 

The  history  of  the  house  since  it  passed  from  the  possession 
of  Foote  is  told  in  a  deposition  by  Thomas  Weld,  aged  36,  and 
John  Stebbins,  aged  54,  given  3  Aug.,  1664.  They  say  that  the 
houses  and  lands  which  were  formerly  Mr.  Joshua  Hewes'  and 
afterward  in  possession  of  Mr.  Joshua  Foote  were  let  out  to  farm, 
by  Mr.  William  Bartholomew,  part  to  George  Stebens  and 
George  Brand,  and  the  rest  afterward  let  out  to  several  tenants 
by  Mr.  Nathaniel  Rogers  and  his  brethren  in  1658  at  a  yearly  rent 
of  £16-17-0.  Being  desired  to  assess  what  damages  the  owners 
may  have  sustained  by  removal  of  some  of  the  necessary  build- 
ings "  from  off  their  useful  places  whereon  they  stood,  as  also 
the  letting  fall  several  buildings  that  were  tenantable  (at  their 
just  or  unjust  possession),  we  judge  it  may  be  to  the  owner's 
estate  £60  or  more  damage." 

On  the  19  Oct.,  1665,  Joshua  Hewes  petitioned  the  Governor 
and  General  Court,  setting  forth  that  the  Roxbury  estate  of 
Joshua   Foote   was   much   in   excess   of  the   mortgage   to   Crane. 

58  Archives,  B  15:227. 


78  LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES 

At  the  hearing,  the  magistrates  decided  in  favor  of  the  defendants 
Rogers,  but  the  deputies  refused  to  concur.  An  order  was 
finally  adopted  providing  that  Hewes  should  "  have  liberty  to  re- 
deem the  mortgage,  paying  the  sum  of  £267-2-11-1/2  in  New- 
England  money,  at  or  before  the  25  April  next,  in  the  now  dwell- 
ing house  of  Mr.  John  Wilson,  the  said  Rogers  joining  in  the  sale 
if  need  be,  and  receiving  the  sum  the  land  is  sold  for  till  the  afore- 
said sum  of  £267-2-11-1/2  be  paid,  and  then  all  releases  and  ac- 
quitances  to  be  given  by  both  parties,  as  law  shall  require,  and 
the  charges  of  the  Court's  hearing  of  this  case,  agreed  upon  by 
the  whole  Court,  to  be  tenn  pounds,  to  be  paid  by  those  that  en- 
gaged it."  59 

It  was  probably  a  matter  of  some  satisfaction  to  Joshua  Hewes 
to  have  eventually  seen  the  value  of  his  former  homestead  applied 
to  the  purposes  for  which  he  had  originally  granted  the  estate 
to  Foote,  to  pay  his  debt  to  Foote,  so  that  in  turn  Foote  might 
discharge  his  own  indebtedness,  which  would  not  have  been  the 
case  had  the  heirs  of  Crane  succeeded  in  retaining  the  property 
for  the  comparatively  small  sum  for  which  they  obtained  it.  The 
General  Court,  in  overruling  the  magistrates,  certainly  did  no 
more  than  justice  to  Foote's  estate. 

SETTLEMENT  AT  WICKFORD 

It  will  be  recalled  that  Lt.  Joshua  Hewes  had  been  one  of  the 
commissioners  sent  to  Shawomet  in  1618,  when  trouble  was 
brooding  there,  caused  by  the  conflicting  claims  of  Miantonomo 
and  a  petty  chief,  Pumham,  of  right  to  dispose  of  lands  south  of  the 
Pawtuxet  river,  which  the  former  had  granted  to  Gorton  and  his 
friends.  On  10  Dec,  1613,  Massachusetts  had  received  a  patent 
from  the  Parliamentary  Commissioners  of  that  land  about  Nar- 
ragansett  Bay  as  yet  unoccupied.  But  for  some  reason  no  at- 
tempt, other  than  to  serve  notice  upon  Roger  Williams  at  Provi- 
dence of  their  presumptive  rights,  had  been  made  to  actually  as- 
sume jurisdiction  over  the  territory.  Some  years  later,  in  1659, 
a  company  of  seven  partners,  consisting  of  John  Winthrop  the 
younger,  Governor  of  Connecticut,  Major  Humphrey  Atherton  of 
Dorchester,  Richard  Smith,  Sr.,  and  Jr.,  of  Cocumcrosuck, 
traders,  Lt.  William  Hudson,60  Amos  Richardson,  both  of  Boston, 

n»  Colonial   Records   Pt  IVJ8&93. 

ao  Joshua  Foote  had  as  an  apprentice,  one  William  Hudson,  who  was  ad- 
mitted  a    free    inhabitant   of    Providence   27   Jan.,    1681-2    (Providence   Town 


LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES  79 

and  John  Ticknor  of  Nashaway,  trader,  bought  of  the  Indians  a 
tract  of  land  lying  twelve  miles  in  length  on  the  shore  of  Narra- 
gansett  Bay,  with  the  trading  house  of  the  Smiths  at  Wickford 
in  the  middle.  The  Smiths  had  maintained  a  profitable  trading 
house  there  for  many  years.  The  elder  Smith  settled  there  about 
1637,  and  for  a  time  was  probably  associated  with  Roger  Wil- 
liams, who  at  one  time  received  a  yearly  profit  of  £100  from  his 
trading  house  there  or  near  by  and  which  Smith  purchased  in 
1651. 

Hewes  was  at  Wickford,  with  his  step-son,  John  Crabtree,  and 
took  part  in  the  proceedings  there,  from  1663  to  1668. 

In  1662  John  Winthrop,  Jr.,  and  John  Clarke  were  in  Eng- 
land seeking  patents,  the  first  for  Connecticut,  the  other  for 
Rhode  Island,  and  both  succeeded  in  obtaining  patents  which  gave 
to  their  respective  governments  jurisdiction  over  the  lands  between 
Narragansett  Bay  and  the  Paucatuck  river.  This  led  to  an 
agreement  between  them  on  7  April,  1663,  that  the  Paucatuck 
should  be  considered  the  "  Narragansett  "  river,  and  the  eastern 
bounds  therefore  of  Connecticut,  but  that  "  the  proprietors  and 
inhabitants  of  that  land  about  Mr.  Smith's  trading  house,  pur- 
chased at  first  by  Major  Atherton,  Capt.  Hutchenson,  and  Lieu- 
tenant Hudson,  and  others,  or  given  unto  them  by  Indians,  shall 
have  free  liberty  to  chuse  to  which  of  those  colonies  they  will 
belong."  61  Accordingly,  on  the  3d  July,  the  Wickford  settlers, 
thirty  in  number,  among  them  Joshua  Hewes  and  John  Crabtree, 
elected  to  be  under  the  government  of  Connecticut.  The  General 
Court  of  Connecticut  the  same  month  appointed  Joshua  Hewes, 
Richard  Smith,  and  Capt.  Edward  Hutchinson  selectmen  at 
Smith's  Trading  House  at  Narragansett,  the  name  Wickford  then 
being  given  to  the  place.62  The  Secretary  of  the  Colony  was 
ordered  to  send  a  letter  to  the  people  in  the  name  of  the  Council 


Rec.  8:107)  and  who  may  have  been  a  relative  of  the  grantee,  Lt.  William 
Hudson. 

6i  Winthrop  Papers,  Part  4,  83. 

62  Wickford  was  originally  called  Aquidnessett.  It  was  incorporated  by 
Connecticut,  as  seen  above,  in  July,  1663.  Later,  having  been  given  to  Rhode 
Island  with  other  territory  by  mandate  of  the  King,  Rhode  Island  renamed 
the  town  Kingstown,  and  incorporated  it  28  Oct.,  1674.  In  June,  1686,  the 
name  was  changed  to  Rochester,  but  in  1689  again  became  Kingstown.  In 
1722  the  township  was  divided  into  North  and  South  Kingstown.  The 
name  Wickford  has  always  remained  in  use.  The  records  were  badly  dam- 
aged by  fire  in  1689. 


80  LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES 

informing  them  of  the  appointment,  and  that  Mr.  Richard  Smith 
was  appointed  constable  of  "  Wickforde,"  and  Richard  Smith, 
Sr.,  was  ordered  to  give  to  him  the  oath  of  constable.  From  3 
July,  1663,  to  16  June,  1675,  there  are  no  further  entries  in  the 
Proprietors  Records.63 

63  The  records  of  the  Proprietors  of  the  Narragansett,  usually  termed  the 
Fones  Record,  were  for  a  long  period  kept  in  the  personal  custody  of  the 
Governor  of  Rhode  Island,  and  sealed  to  public  inspection,  because  of  the 
fear  of  land  titles  being  affected.  In  1894  this  record  was  printed  in  full 
by  Austin.  The  first  meeting  of  the  proprietors  was  held  at  Boston  in  the 
house  of  Capt.  Edward  Hutchinson,  4  Nov.,  1659,  who  that  day  was  ad- 
mitted a  full  partner.  The  tract  south  of  Smith's  trading  post  was  set  aside 
in  equal  portions  for  farms  for  the  then  proprietors.  The  tract  north  of 
the  trading  house  was  divided  into  60  shares  which  were  to  be  given  to  men 
approved  by  the  proprietors  at  twelve  pence  per  acre,  and  Edward  Hutchin- 
son, Amos  Richardson,  and  "William  Hudson  were  appointed  a  committee  to 
6ettle  the  plantation  and  admit  inhabitants.  At  a  meeting  of  this  committee 
held  at  Hutchinson's  house  21  March,  1660-1,  Major  Josias  Winslow  and 
Capt.  Thomas  Willett  were  admitted  in  place  of  Tinker,  they  having  pur- 
chased his  right.  John  Brown,  Sr.,  of  Seacuncke,  who  had  received  a  gift 
of  land  from  Tocomino,  was  admitted  a  full  partner  in  the  north  tract,  as 
his  land  fell  within  their  grant.  By  the  13  Oct.,  1660,  there  were  20  persons 
of  the  company,  including  such  men  as  Major-general  Daniel  Dennison  of 
Ipswich,  and  the  two  Thomas  Stantons,  father  and  son,  and  John  Alcocke 
of  Roxbury,  an  old  neighbor  of  Joshua  Hewes.  In  July,  1663,  there  were 
twenty-two  proprietors,  and  at  a  meeting  at  Narragansett,  on  the  2  July,  it 
was  voted  that  each  should  have  a  farm  of  500  acres.  As  yet  the  name  of 
Joshua  Hewes  does  not  appear  in  the  record,  but  the  next  day  occurred  the 
meeting  of  the  inhabitants,  at  which  thirty  signed  their  submission  and 
choice  of  the  Connecticut  government.  Hewes  and  his  step-son  Crabtree 
were  then  present,  and  presumably  had  entered  upon  the  tract  of  150  acres 
which  he  left  at  his  decease.  Henry  Fowler,  his  co-executor  of  Joshua 
Foote's  will,  also  settled  at  Wickford.  He  was  a  blacksmith,  and  sold  his 
farm  at  Wickford  26  May,  1666,  having  returned  to  Providence.  Fowler 
had  wife  Rebecca,  and  an  interesting  reference  to  his  "disorderly  marriage" 
at  Foote's  house  in  Providence  in  1654  may  be  found  in  a  letter  of  Roger 
Williams  to  Gov.  Winthrop  of  date  15  Feb.,  1654-5,  printed  in  Publications 
of  Narragansett  Club,  vol.  6,  p.  284.  Foote  and  his  friends  had  not  yielded 
full  compliance  to  the  customs  and  orders  of  the  Providence  people,  and  al- 
though Williams  was  sufficiently  interested  in  Foote's  proposal  to  establish 
iron  works  at  Providence  to  write  to  Winthrop  about  the  matter,  he  did  not 
approve  of  him,  and  complains  of  his  having  supplied  the  Indians  with  liquor. 
Fowler  had  proceeded  with  his  marriage  without  giving  notice,  even  Foote 
not  knowing  of  his  intention  until  the  night  before,  and  this  breach  of  the 
law  is  what  made  it  "disorderly."  Foote  at  this  time  was  reported  as  "re- 
solved for  the  Dutch,"  but  if  it' was  his  intention  to  proceed  In  New  Nether- 
lands, disgusted  with  the  lack  of  support  given  his  iron  works  project,  his 
death  put  an  end  to  all  plans.  Winthrop  was  interested  in  iron  works  at 
New  London.  (See  Putnam's  Historical  Magazine,  L895,  Vol  III.,  p.  181.) 
The   Ponea   Record  contains  many   deeds  of  land,  both  to  the  proprietors 

from   the    Indians,   and    from    (lie    settlers   there. 

The     Narragansett     Proprietors    held     under    a    deed    of    11     June,    1659,    by 

which  they  bought   Aquitawoset,  excepting  what  had  previously  been  sold   to 

Smith,  .and   another  deed   of  4  July,  by   which   they   boughl    NamOCOCk    (Boston 

Neck),    excepting    what    had    been    formerly    sold    to    Smith    and     Randall 
Holden.     Also   on   30   Oct.,    1660,   upon    assuming   the   debt    of   the    Indians   to 


LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES  81 

Soon  after  Winthrop  returned  to  New  England,  the  King, 
probably  at  the  instigation  of  one  John  Scott,  who  had  an  er- 
ratic career,  but  who  in  nowise  appears  to  have  acted  at  the  re- 
quest or  by  interest  in  the  Atherton  Company,  dispatched  a  let- 
ter to  each  of  the  confederated  colonies  in  New  England,  recom- 
mending the  Atherton  Company  to  their  "  neighborly  kindness 
and  protection." 

The  inhabitants  of  Wickford  petitioned  the  honorable  General 
Court  at  Hartford  4>  May,  1668,  stating  that  before  the  (recent) 
charter  was  granted  they  had  petitioned  the  Governor  of  Con- 
necticut to  take  that  tract  of  land  they  had  purchased  in  the 
Narragansett  country  under  Connecticut  patent  and  jurisdic- 
tion, "  which  accordingly  was  done."  The  action  of  the  Royal 
Commissioners  had  interrupted  their  proceeding  as  a  town  with 
officers  appointed  by  Connecticut,  hence  they  were  without  a  proper 
government ;  and  needing  protection  they  again  asked  the  court 
to  "  assume  your  power."  If  Connecticut  did  not  propose  to 
do  this  they  desired  an  answer  so  that  they  might  seek  protection 
elsewhere.  This  petition  was  signed  by  Daniel  Dennison,  Richard 
Smith,  Joshua  Hewes,  John  Crabtree  and  fifteen  others. 

In  October  of  the  same  year  Joshua  Hewes  joins  with  twelve 
others  in  another  petition  to  the  General  Court  of  Connecticut, 
asking  that  their  former  petition  be  considered,64  "  the  proprietors 
to  be  permitted  peaceably  to  improve  their  colony  and  planta- 
tion in  New  England." 

On   the   1   March,   1663-4,  Rhode  Island,  ignoring  the  agree- 

the  Massachusetts  Bay,  arising  from  failure  to  pay  a  fine  imposed  upon 
them,  and  for  which  they  had  mortgaged  their  lands,  all  of  the  unsold  lands 
of  the  Narragansetts  were  pledged  to  the  Proprietors,  who  six  months  later, 
on  failure  of  the  Indians  to  discharge  their  obligation,  entered  upon  them 
and  a  few  years  later  obtained  a  confirmation  to  them  from  the  Indians. 
But  the  Fones  Record  shows  that  the  English  going  there  to  inhabit  pledged 
themselves  not  to  make  improvements  on  the  mortgaged  lands  for  five  or 
six  years,  showing  that  there  really  was  not  a  disposition  to  take  undue  ad- 
vantage of  the  trade.  The  Royal  Commissioners  ordered  this  whole  transac- 
tion canceled,  and  gave  the  Indians  the  right  to  recover  their  lands  on  pay- 
ment of  the  735  fathoms  of  peage  for  which  it  had  been  pledged.  They  also 
ordered  the  transfer  of  the  other  two  grants  to  the  Indians  upon  payment 
of  the  300  fathoms  acknowledged  to  have  been  given  for  it,  and  declared 
the  deeds  void  for  want  of  a  consideration  named  therein.  As  the  Massa- 
chusetts men  were  permitted  to  remain  on  their  lands,  and  did  so  remain, 
it  is  clear  the  Commissioners  proceeded  as  they  did,  more  to  show  their  au- 
thority than  from  any  real  desire  or  power  to  force  the  lands  to  be  sur- 
rendered. Presumably  the  Indians  never  offered  to  re-purchase  them. 
64  R.  I.  Records,  2;  227,  231. 


82  LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES 

merit  made  by  Clarke  with  Winthrop,  arrested  four  persons  at 
Wickford,  including  Smith,  the  Connecticut  appointee  as  con- 
stable, for  presuming  to  "  settle,  build  and  inhabit,  without  ex- 
press leave  first  had  and  obtained  from  the  General  Assembly  " 
in  the  Narragansett  country.  The  Wickford  settlers  thereupon 
through  Hutchinson  and  Hudson  besought  advice  and  direction 
from  Governor  Winthrop,  and  these  agents  stated  they  were  in- 
credulous at  the  report  that  Winthrop  disclaimed  for  his  colony 
jurisdiction  over  the  Company's  Lands.65 

In  July  following,  Royal  Commissioners  were  appointed  by  the 
King  with  broad  powers  for  investigation  and  settling  of  matters 
in  dispute  between  the  colonies,  to  adjust  boundaries,  and  in  gen- 
eral to  more  thoroughly  establish  the  King's  authority  in  New 
England.  One  of  their  early  acts  was  to  place  the  whole  of  the 
Narragansett  country  between  the  Paucatuck  river  and  Narra- 
gansett Bay  under  the  administration  of  the  magistrates  of 
Rhode  Island,  although  first  erecting  it  into  a  province  to  be 
called  the  King's  Province,  independent  of  any  colony,  and  de- 
creed that  the  Atherton  Company  should  relinquish  its  lands  on 
repayment  by  the  Indians  of  the  purchase  money.  This  was  20 
March,  1665.66  Shortly  after,  in  September,  they  ordered  that 
persons  residing  there  should  enjoy  their  lands  until  the  King's 
pleasure  was  known. 

After  the  departure  of  the  Commissioners  from  New  Eng- 
land in  1666  the  old  dispute  between  Connecticut  and  Rhode 
Island  regarding  the  boundary  was  renewed.  Neither  party 
would  submit  to  compromise,  and  in  1670  Connecticut  sent  Com- 
missioners, backed  by  an  armed  force,  who  published  a  declara- 
tion at  Westerly,  Wickford,  and  other  places,  requiring  the  sub- 
mission of  the  inhabitants.  On  4  May,  1668,  nineteen  persons 
concerned  in  the  plantation  at  Wickford,  including  the  inhabit- 
ants, had  petitioned  the  General  Court  of  Connecticut  to  assume 
power  over  them  and  grant  them  protection,  relating  that  "  be- 
fore your  charter  was  granted,  wee  intreatcd  your  Governor  to 
take  that  tract  of  land  that  wee  had  purchased  in  the  Narra- 
gansett countryc  into  your  patent  and  jurisdiction,  that  wee, 
the  proprietors  might  improve  it  for  plantations,  which  accord- 
ingly was  done;   and   the  extent  of  your  patent  reachinge  uss 

es  R.  I.  Col.  Records,  II,  49. 
««See  Palfrey,  2:603. 


LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES  83 

in  the  Narraganset  countryc,  caused  us  to  apply  our  selves  to 
you  in  the  yeare  sixty-foure ;  upon  which  you  were  pleased  to 
take  us  under  the  winge  of  your  government  by  making  us  a 
towne,  and  constitutinge  officers,  and  which  since  hath  been  enter- 
rupted  per  such  proceedings  of  his  Majestyes  honorable  Com- 
missioners,07 as  yow  are  not  ignorant  of.  Wee,  findeing  a  neces- 
sity of  looking  for  protection  and  defence  by  a  government,  doe 
againe  applye  ourselves  unto  this  Honoured  Court  ...  if  yow 
shall  not  see  cause  to  reassume  the  government  of  the  place  ac- 
cording to  our  first  propositions,  wee  desire  your  answer,  that 
so  wee  may  look  for  government  and  protection  elsewhere."  The 
first  four  names  signed  to  this  petition  are  Daniel  Denison,  Rich- 
ard Smith,  Joshua  Hewes,  John  Crabtree.  In  answer  to  this 
petition  the  Court,  15  May,  1668,  appointed  John  Allyn  and 
Thomas  Stanton  agents  to  treat  with  Rhode  Island  regarding 
"  our  right  clayme  to  any  land  in  the  Narragansett  country." 
In  Oct.,  1668,  thirteen  persons,  among  them  Hewes,  again  peti- 
tioned the  General  Court  for  a  civil  government  and  protection. 
During  the  interim  Rhode  Island  and  Connecticut  had  been  con- 
ducting the  fruitless  negotiations  alluded  to  above.68 

In  1671,  the  people  of  Wickford  appear  to  have  been  won 
over  to  Rhode  Island,  and  affairs  proceeded  more  orderly.  In 
167 1<  came  the  incorporation  of  Kingstown,  and  three  years  later 
the  General  Court  of  Rhode  Island  authorized  the  "  resettlement  " 
in  the  King's  Province  of  such  families  as  would  acknowledge  the 
government  of  Rhode  Island,  and  voted  them  a  grant  of  10,000 
acres  in  the  Narragansett  country.  There  is  no  trace  of  Hewes 
on  Wickford  records  after  1668,  but  John  Crabtree  remained  un- 
til 1670  at  least. 

Joshua  Hewes   returned  to  Boston.69     His  venture   in   Rhode 

67  Samuel  Gorton  and  Randall  Holden,  in  Nov.,  1667,  addressed  a  peti- 
tion to  Col.  Nichols,  Governor  of  New  York,  one  of  the  Kings  Commissioners, 
relative  to  Smith's  occupancy  of  lands  they  claim  he  leased  of  the  Indians 
for  a  term  of  three  years,  but  which  they  also  claim  he  had  fraudulently 
changed  in  the  deed  to  three  score  years.  They  claim  a  neck  of  land  bor- 
dering on  lands  in  possession  of  the  "  Massachusetts  men."  Their  especial 
complaint  is  against  Smith,  his  father  having  deceased,  who  in  order  to 
"  supersead  our  suit  in  law "  had  brought  forth  at  the  last  Court  an  order 
from  the  Commissioners  "  for  the  inlargcment  of  the  liberty  of  the  men  of 
the  Massachusetts  in  the  King's  Province  till  his  Majesties  pleasure  were 
further  knowne."  Smith  apparently  was  being  sued  by  Gorton  and  Holden 
as  a  trespasser  on  land  they  claimed. 

68  Colonial    Records   R.   I.   2:2-29-S\. 

69  In  November,  1670,  he  was  called  on  to  testify  regarding  the  estate  of  John 


81  LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES 

Island  had  proved  unfortunate,  his  party  having  been  defeated  in 
their  attempt  to  remain  under  the  government  of  Connecticut. 
His  attempt  to  make  a  home  under  the  disagreeable  conditions 
obtaining  in  a  community  where  two  governments  claimed  author- 
ity, had  probably  still  further  diminished  his  resources.  At  his 
death  his  Narragansett  lands  descended  to  his  only  son,  who  11 
Nov.,  1680,  styling  himself  of  Boston,  cordwainer,  sold  the  150 
acre  farm  there  to  Capt.  John  Fones  of  Jamestown,  R.  I.,  for 
£20.  In  this  deed  his  wife  Hannah  Hewes  joined.  The  deed  was 
acknowledged  the  following  day  before  Dudley,  and  on  that  day 
Alice  Hewes,  the  relict  and  widow  of  Joshua  Hewes,  also  sold  to 
Fones  her  right  in  the  land  for  £5.70 

The  tract  is  described  as  "  all  that  tract  of  land  in  ye  Nar- 
ragansett count  1*3%  near  unto  the  now  dwelling  house  of  Mr. 
Richard  Smith,  150  acres,  bounded  west  by  the  country  road  from 
said  Smiths  to  s  Stonningtowne,'  north  by  land  late  of  John  Rey- 
nolds, deceased,  east  by  land  of  Robert  Spink,  south  by  a  high- 
way, which  said  land  did  formerly  belong  to  their  father  Joshuah 
Hews,  deceased."  Richard  Smith  of  Narragansett,  gentleman, 
was  appointed  their  attorney  to  give  possession  of  the  land  to 
Fones. 

DEATH 

Joshua  Hewes  died  in  Boston,  25  Jan.,  1675-6.  His  life  was 
doubtless  shortened  by  the  discouragements  met  in  his  later  years. 
He  was  honest  and  of  great  strength  of  character,  unbending  in 
his  course  when  he  felt  that  he  was  in  the  way  of  duty.  He  had 
been  left  fatherless  at  an  early  age,  but  received  an  education  such 
as  his  position  in  life  called  for.  Impressed  with  the  opportunities 
of  a  new  country,  in  which  his  kindred  were  interested,  he  had  gone 
thither.  His  religious  opinions  were  in  harmony  with  the  leaders 
of  the  colony,  and  lie  had  at  once  joined  the  church.  For  several 
years  he  had  met  with  success  in  his  business,  was  honored  in  his 
town  by  every  local  office  the  freemen  could  elect  him  to,  and  had 
taken  ail  active  part  in  the  military  life  of  the  colony.  During 
his  prosperity  he  had  contributed  liberally  to  education  and  to 
the  public  Deeds.     He  was  among  the  first  to  see  the  opportunity 

Woody,   and    I    Nov.,   lfiTO,  frivinpr  his  age   as  59  years,  deposed  that  the  house 
Woody  lived  in  al  time  <>f  his  marriage  to  Mary,  daughter  <>f  John  Coppan, 
was  his  before  marriage.     (Archives   B  15:131.     See  also  Suffolk  files  1014.) 
to  pones  Records,  p.  77. 


GRAVESTONE  OF  LIEUT.  JOSHUA  HEWES,  NOW    IX   THE  CARE  OF 
THE  BOSTON!. \X   SOCIETY 


LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES  85 

of  establishing  the  iron  industry  in  Massachusetts,  and  was  prob- 
ably responsible  for  his  uncle's  investment  therein.  He  cheer- 
fully surrendered  his  home  and  estate  to  his  uncle,  his  only  cred- 
itor, to  enable  the  latter  to  meet  his  business  engagements.  He 
appears  to  have  striven  to  put  his  uncle's  affairs  in  order  and  at 
the  latter's  sudden  demise  assumed  charge  of  his  affairs,  and  from 
what  seemed  a  hopelessly  tangled  estate  not  only  recovered  suf- 
ficient to  pay  the  debts  but  to  provide  in  some  measure  for  the 
widow  and  daughter.  After  his  financial  reverses  had  caused  him 
to  abandon  hopes  of  reestablishment  in  business  he  had  sought  to 
win  success  as  a  planter.  Here  again  his  refusal  to  accept  peace 
and  comfort  under  a  jurisdiction  distasteful  to  his  sense  of  right, 
led  to  his  return  to  the  former  scene  of  his  earlier  successes  where 
he  was  content  to  live  from  the  proceeds  of  such  business  as  he 
was  able  to  conduct,  respected  if  no  longer  influential. 

As  a  rule  the  first  settlers  did  not  meet  with  the  financial  suc- 
cess which  many  of  the  later  comers  attained.  This  arose  in 
part  from  the  great  expense  of  the  first  years  and  the  fluctuation 
of  values  which  impoverished  many.  Appreciation  in  values 
through  improvements  was  then  very  slow  compared  with  similar 
conditions  in  modern  times. 

Such  merchants  who  made  money,  beyond  a  comfortable  living, 
did  so  by  taking  great  risks.  The  largest  estates  settled  during 
the  period  in  which  Hewes  lived  seem  ridiculously  small  compared 
with  the  wealth  left  by  men  of  the  same  relative  position  at  the 
present  day. 

Administration  on  the  estate  of  Joshua  Hewes  was  granted  to 
his  widow,  Alice,  25  April,  1676,  who  presented  the  following  in- 
ventory and  list  of  debts.  From  these  papers  it  would  appear 
that  in  his  last  years  he  continued  in  business  in  a  small  way. 

THE  INVENTORY  OF  THE   ESTATE   OF  LIEFT.  JOSHUA  HEWES 
—TAKEN  26TH  OF  FEBR.,  1675. 

To  goods  in  ye  shop  74  yrds  of  blew  Linnen  16  pair  of  womens 

stockings 
To  8  pair  of  childrens  stockins  &  two  pairs  of  mens  yarne  stoekins 
To  48  yrds  of  ferret  Ribbon  &  30  yrds  of  ditto  at  6d  &  34  yrds 

of   4    at    ditto 
To  26  yrds  taffety  Riben  at  6d  &  1  peeee  of  4  dy  ditto  &  30  yrds 

of  ditto 
To  13  yrds  of  3d  ditto  1  ps  of  2d  ditto  &  11  yrds  of  ditto 
To  35  yrds  of  6d  Cotten  Riben  &  9  vrds  of  narrow  ditto  &  ps  of 

Manchester  00     °9     10 


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86  LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES 

To  3  ps  of  Carnation  tape  &  4  ps  of  narrow  filleting  &  4  ps  of 

double    tape  00     10     00 

To  6  ps  of  Narrow  blew  &  2  ps  of  threed  Manchester  &  1  ps  of 

Tucet  00     06    06 

To  19  yrds  of  Canvis  &  21  yrds  of  Scotch  cloth  at  14d  per  yrd 

&  11  yrds  of  Callico  03     02     01£ 

To  8  yrds  Jtb  of  speckled  Linnen  &  20  yrds  of  yeallow  flaning        02     05     08| 
To  9  yrds  of  white  ditto   &  7  yrds  of  Cullered   Linnen  2  yrds 

buckram  01     16     02 

To  3  yrds  i  of  Irish  cloth  &  15  yrds  of  Baves  &  1":  2  ounces  of 

wosteed  01     08     00 

To  1  lb.  of  yarne  &  15  silke  laces  for  women  &  25  threed  laces  1 

ounce  of  Coventry  blew  threed  &  15  ounces  of  Id  scanie 

threed   &  2H£   of  cullered   threed  01     02     03 

To  1  lb  of  Browne  threed  &  2  ounces  of  silke  &  9  doz  of  doublet 

guipe  buttons  00     07     06 

To   10  yrds   of   silke   Gall   &  18  thousand   of  pines   3   thousand 

smale  pins  00     19     06 

To   15   Rowes  of  Great  pines   &  9   horning  comes  &  2   doz   of 

knives  01     03     03 

To  3  childrens  kives  &  1  doz  i  of  smale  sizors  &  1J"  of  knitting 

needles  00     05     00 

To  19  yrds  of  narrow  Riben  &  4  tine  tobacco  boxes  &  3  Juek- 

hornes  00     04     04J 

To  3  swashes  &  5  paire  of  midel  sized  bodyes  &  20  yrds  |  of 

cotten  cloth  03    03    06 

To    1   coverlid   &  3  childrens   Bonnets   &   16   paire  of   childrens 

gloves  01     05     04 

To  6  paire  of  mens  white  gloves  &  7  quire  of  paper  &  5"   of 
To  Si"  of  all  spice  and  1JM  of  paper  00     14     02 

Aniseseed  &  15  doz  of  Tobacco  pipes  00     13    00 

To  3  paire  of  Irish  stockens  &  4  yrds  of  course   Linnen   &   1 

firken  of  butter  01     10     04 

To  sugar  &  castle  sope  &  18  broomes  &  2  paire  of  smale  scales     04     04     04 
To  1  doz  of  course  Napkins  &  2  paire  of  Cotten  &  Linning  sheetes     01     12    00 

Paper  00     14    02 

To  4  towells  &  1  table  cloth  &  2  paire  of  course  sheetes  01     08     00 

To  1  paire  pillowbers  &  1  paire  of  mens  drawrs  3  owelld  sherts     00     14    00 
To  3  paire  of  owelled  yarning  stockins  &  3  oweld  bands  &  6  oweld 

neck  cloths  00     15     00 

To  7  oweld  caps  &  one  Cubbard  cloth  one  old  Coate,  1  Gownd     00     17     06 
To  one  paire  of  drawrs  &  one  old  Coate  1  old  brush  one  smale  ] 

looking  glass  \02     16     00 

To  one  stuffe  coate  &   one  paire  breeches  &   one   feather  bed   J 
To  one  Cotten  Rug  &  one  wollen  Rug  &  2  paire  of  blankets         02     00     00 
To  one  paire  of  Curtaines  &  vallons  &  one  bedsted  &  one  trundle- 
bed  02     03     00 
To  15  lbs  of  old  puter  &  one  warmingpan  &  li  doz  of  Bromes     01     06    00 
To  one  old  Cheare  &  one  chist  &  about  20  lb  of  hopes  &  2  candle- 
sticks 01     07     00 
To  2  smale  Iron  kettles  &  one  smale  pot  1  quart  pot  1$  pint  & 

bale  00     15    00 

To  2  chaires  &  one  paire  of  bcllowes  one  Iron  slice  &  one  smale 

Iron   disb  00     05     06 

To  one  Lanthorne  &  one  brass  scumer  &  one  brass  skillet  00    03     00 


49     11     07J 
At    Narrogansd    150  acres  of  Land 

At  Quinabauge  1000  acres  of  Land  Thomas    Dewer    senior 

.(amis   Bhadim; 


LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEWES  87 

Hewes  made  oath  in  Court  this  27th  Aprill  1676  that  this  is  a  true  In- 
ventory of  the  Estate  of  her  Late  husband  Leift  Joshua  Hewes  to  the  best 
of  her  knowledge  &  that  when  she  knows  more,  she  will  discover  the  same 
this  done     As  atteste 

ffreeGrace  Bendall  Recordr 
Debts  due  from  the  Estate  of  Joshua  Hewes  deceased 
To  Mr.  Wm.  Taylor  for  56  lbs  Castle  sope  at  8d  per  lb  is  01-17-04 

To  Mr.  John   Hull  04-04-04 

To   Mr.    Usher  senior  03-00-00 

To  the  Widow  Mrs.  Walker  00-17-00 

To   Rebecca   Alline  00-04-04 

To   Samll   Johnson   Glover  01-01-00 

To  Rent  whilst  my  husband  was  liveing  02-17-06 

To  Christo  Crow  pd  00-04-06 

for  ye  coffine  &  other  charges  about  his  buryall  02-13-00 


16-19-00 

At  A  County  Court  held  at  Boston  25th  Aprill  1676  Administracion  to  ye 

Estate  of  Leift  Joshua  Hewes  is  granted  to  his   Relict  she  bringing  in  an 

Inventory  of  ye  sd  estate  &  giveing  security  to  Administer  according  to  Law. 

this  done  as  Atteste 

ffreeGrace  Bendall 
Rec. 
[Suffolk  Probate  5:337.] 

Joshua  Hewes  on  one  occasion  used  a  seal  but  which  is  so  in- 
distinct that  the  markings  are  not  clearly  made  out.  These  may 
be  the  masts  of  a  ship, —  a  common  charge  on  a  "  merchants 
mark,"  but  they  may  also  be  arrows.  It  is  a  notable  coincidence 
that  of  the  forty  odd  coats  of  arms  catalogued  under  the  name  in 
Great  Britain  arrows  appear  as  the  charge  on  two:  Hughes  of 
Berkshire, —  three  arrows  points  downward.  Heugh  of  Kent  — 
Azure,  a  fess  between  three  arrows  paleways,  points  downward. 
Crest:  A  Unicorn's  head  argent. 


JOSHUA  HEWES  OF  BOSTON, 

AND  HIS  IMMEDIATE  DESCENDANTS. 

GENEALOGICAL  RECORD. 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES 

I  1  LIEUTENANT  JOSHUA  HEAVES,  son  of  John 
Hewes  of  Royston,  Herts.,  was  aged  59  in  November,  1670 
(Suffolk  files,  1014),  and  66  years  at  his  death,  25  January, 
1675-6  (grave  stone  preserved  by  Bostonian  Society,  found  in 
Water  Street).  He  married  8  October,  1634,  Mary  Goldstone 
(Roxbury  records),  who  died  23d,  6  mo.,  1655,  daughter  of 
"  Gouldstone  of  Watertown  ".*  "  Joshua  Hues  he  came  into  the 
land  a  single  man;  about  the  7th  month  of  the  yeare  1633,  & 
joyned  to  the  church  aboute  halfe  a  yeare  after,  his  wife  being  the 

daughter    of    [ ]    Gouldstone    came    the    next    summer    & 

aboade  at  Watertowne,  where  she  was  adjoyned  to  the  church; 
&  in  the  8th  month  1634  he  married  her;  &  she  was  then  recom- 
mended to  our  church"  (Eliot's  record  of  church  members). 

Joshua  Hewes  married  second,  in  Boston,  "  11.  12  mo.  1656, 
Alice  Crabtree,  relict  of  John  Crabtree  "  (Boston  records).  She 
was  aged  60  in  1685  (Suffolk  files,  2377).  Her  first  husband 
was  John  Crabtree2  who  had  a  grant  from  the  town  of  Boston 
in  12  mo.,  1637-8.  He  was  a  "joiner."  His  wife  Alice  is  men- 
tioned in  1648  (Suffolk  Deeds).  He  was  living  9  Jan.,  1655-6 
(Suffolk  Deeds).  His  children  were:  John  Crabtree,  born  25-8 
mo.,  1639,  who  settled  in  Swanzey ;  and  Deliverance  Crabtree,  born 
3-7  mo.,  1641,  who  died  4  mo.  1643.  There  is  no  record  of  the 
death  of  Alice  Hewes,  but  she  survived  her  husband,  having  ad- 
ministration on  his  estate  25  April,  1676  (Suffolk  Probate  rec- 
ords). 

An  inventory  of  the  estate  of  Joshua  Hewes  was  taken  26  Feb., 
1675-6,  by  Thomas  Davis,  Sr.,  and  James  Brading  (Suffolk  Pro- 
bate). 

For  further  information  concerning  Lieutenant  Joshua  Hewes, 
see  the  preceding  chapter. 

Children  of  Joshua  and  Mary  (Goldstone)  Hewes: 

2.     Joshua,  "  his  first  borne  son  .  .  was  borne  the  19th  day  of 

i  She  was  the  daughter  of  Henry  and  Anne  Goldstone,  baptized  at  Wick- 
ham  Skeith,  Suffolk,  26  Feb.,  1620. 
2  Among  his  descendants  is  William  Seward  Webb. 

91 


92  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES 

the  8th  month  1639,  but  dyed  the  19  day  the  10  month 
1639,  it  dyed  of  convulsion  fitts  "  (Eliot's  church  record). 

3+  Mary,  "  of  Joshuah  "  born  29  Dec,  1641.  She  married 
William  Lamb,  who  died  15  Jan.,  1689-90  (Boston 
records). 

4+  Josuah,  "  of  Josuah  "  born  25  May,  1644. 

(The  above  records  of  birth  are  found  on  Roxbury 
town  records,  where  also  is  found  the  record  of  the 
burial  of  the  son  Joshua  20  Dec,  1639.) 

Child  of  Joshua  and  Alice  (Crabtree)  Hewes: 

5  Hannah,  "  daughter  of  Lieut.  Joshua  &  Alice,"  born  28 
Oct.,  1657  (Boston  records). 

SECOND  GENERATION 

II  3  MARY  HEWES  (Joshua),  born  in  Roxbury,  29  Dec, 
1641,  and  died  without  issue  in  Boston  11  June,  1710  (Town 
Records).  She  was  a  member  of  Roxbury  church  and  was  dis- 
missed to  the  Third  Church  in  Boston,  4  Feb.,  1671-2.  She  was 
admitted  to  the  Third  Church,  "  Old  South,"  2  February,  1671-2 
and  against  her  name  is  written  "  now  Lamb."  (Transcript  of 
church  records.) 

William  Lamb  is  said  by  Savage  to  have  been  in  Boston  in  1668, 
but  he  gives  no  further  information  about  him,  except  that  he 
died  1685,  an  error  of  five  years.  The  Boston  tax  list  of  1674 
shows  that  Lamb  lived  in  the  same  neighborhood  as  Joshua  Hewes, 
Jr.,  and  perhaps  in  the  same  or  next  house.  In  1681  Lamb  was 
in  the  district  from  which  Major  Savage's  company  was  drawn, 
while  Hewes  was  taxed  in  Capt.  Hull's  district. 

On  the  21  Oct.,  1668,  William  Lamb,  laborer,  of  Boston,  sold 
a  pasture  lot  to  Joseph  How  (Deeds,  5:531).  He  was  the  owner 
of  this  land  in  1659  (Ibid.,  3:390).  On  the  29  Nov.,  1677,  he 
bought  ,,f  Margery  Pritchett,  John  Alcock  and  Constance  his 
wife,  a  house  with  land  on  the  south  side  of  the  way  from  Sud- 
bury street  to  the  Mill  bridge  (now  in  Hanover  street),  which  was 
bounded  east  and  south  by  other  land  of  Lamb's  and  west  by 
land  of  Nathaniel  Green  (Deeds,  10:281). 

He  had  married  Mary  Hewes  before  the  1  \-  April,  1680,  as  that 
day  they  sell  to  John  Hull  a  nine  acre  lot  at  Muddy  River  (Deeds, 
12:70). 


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DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA    HEWES  93 

The  will  of  William  Lamb  of  Boston,  laborer,  was  dated  25 
Jan.,  1684-5,  and  the  preamble  recounts  that  he  is  very  weak. 
To  his  wife  Mary  he  gave  all  his  house,  lands  and  other  estate, 
including  his  share  in  that  estate  that  John  and  Ann  Wampus 
gave  either  to  me  or  my  wife.  Friends  Edward  Creeke  and 
Moses  Bradford  to  be  overseers,  wife  Mary  executor.  This  will 
was  proved  6  Feb.,  1689-90  (Suffolk  Probate,  11:117). 

Prior  to  his  death,  he  and  wife  Mary,  had  mortgaged,  28  Sept., 
1688,  to  Thomas  Fowler  for  £30,  all  that  messuage  bounded 
north  by  the  street  to  the  Mill  bridge,  80  feet,  east  by  James  Allen 
90  feet,  south  by  Bozoon  Allen  and  Nathaniel  Green  80  feet,  and 
west  on  said  Green  90  feet,  with  a  nook  or  corner  15  feet  in  depth. 
This  mortgage  was  released  by  Sarah,  widow  of  Thomas  Fowler, 
and  then  wife  of  William  Hall,  18  Aug.,  1691.  And  on  the  10 
March  following,  Mary  Lamb,  widow,  by  virtue  of  the  power  given 
her  in  the  will  of  her  husband,  sold  part  of  the  lot,  53  feet  on  the 
street,  to  Nathaniel  Green,  Sr.,  and  22  Oct.,  1708,  she  sold  the 
remainder  of  her  land  there,  with  her  house,  for  £90  to  John 
Ustis,  the  lot  having  a  frontage  on  Hanover  street  of  30  feet.1 

This  last  sale  coming  soon  after  the  death  of  Joshua  Hewes, 
with  whom  the  Lambs  had  been  so  intimately  associated,  sug- 
gests that  it  may  have  been  here  that  Joshua  Hewes,  Jr.,  kept 
tavern.  During  this  period  Hanover  street  was  the  most  impor- 
tant street  in  the  town,  sharing  that  importance  with  King  street 
(State  street)  and  the  region  about  Dock  square  and  old 
Cornhill,  which  ran  from  the  head  of  Dock  square  to  King  street. 

II  4  JOSHUA  HEWES  (Lt.  Joshua),  born  in  Roxbury  25 
May,  1644  (Town  records)  ;  died  3  October,  1706,  aged  63  years, 
at  Boston,  and  was  buried  the  6  October  (Town  records  and  sex- 
ton's bill).  He  married  Hannah,  sister  of  ('apt.  Nathaniel 
Norden  of  Boston  and  Marblehead,  who  died  in  Boston  11  June, 
1707  (Town  records).  She  was  admitted  to  First  Church  1671, 
and  is  on  the  roll  of  members  of  Jan.,  1687-8  (Church  records). 

Joshua  Hewes  left  a  will  dated  25  Jan.,  1703-4,  which  was  ad- 
mitted to  probate  9  Nov.,  1706.  In  this  will  the  testator  is  de- 
scribed as  a  cordwainer.  He  named  his  wife.  Hannah,  executrix; 
sister  Mary  Lamb's  interest  in  his  estate  is  mentioned.  His  es- 
tate consisted  chiefly  of  lands  in  the  Nipmug  country  and  at 
iSee  Suffolk  Deeds,   15:4;  25:85;  24:63. 


94  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES 

Quinnebaugh,  and  "  housing  and  lands  in  the  common  or  train- 
ing-field in  the  south  end  of  Boston,"  all  of  which  was  left  to  his 
widow  for  her  life,  with  authority  to  sell  any  part  thereof,  and 
upon  her  death  to  the  six  children :  viz.,  Joshua,  Samuel,  Benjamin, 
Mary,  Hannah,  Sarah.  Friends  Daniel  Morey  and  Elder  Copp  1 
of  Boston,  and  Capt.  Nathaniel  Norden  of  Marblehead  were  ap- 
pointed overseers.  On  the  16  Jan.,  1707-8,  the  son  Joshua  Hewes, 
of  Boston,  gunsmith,  was  admitted  to  administration  on  the  estate 
in  place  of  his  mother  Hannah,  deceased.  On  the  11  Oct.,  1720, 
administration  on  the  estate  of  Joshua  Hewes,  which  was  first 
granted  to  his  widow  Hannah,  and  on  her  decease  to  Joshua  Hewes, 
a  son,  who  is  now  deceased  not  having  completed  administration, 
is  granted  to  Joseph  Dolbear.  (Suffolk  Probate,  16:201,  374; 
22:4.) 

Nathaniel  Norden  of  Marblehead  made  his  will  16  Feb.,  1724 
(Essex  Probate,  315:576).  He  gave  to  Nathaniel  and  Joshua 
Huse  (sic)  sons  of  Samuel  Huse,  late  of  Boston,  cooper,  deceased, 
and  grandsons  of  Joshua  Huse,  formerly  of  Boston,  cordwainer, 
and  Hannah  his  wife,  "  who  was  my  own  sister,"  £40  a  piece. 
To  sister  Hannah  Huse  £30,  and  to  Sarah  Huse,  daughter  of 
Hannah  Huse,  deceased,  £40.  To  the  children  of  Joseph  Dol- 
bear of  Boston,  brazier,  whom  he  had  by  my  niece,  Hannah  Huse : 
viz.,  Edmund,  £40,  and  to  his  two  sisters,  £30.  After  other  dis- 
position of  his  estate  he  gave  the  residue  to  the  children  of  "  my 
sister  Hannah  Huse." 

Children,  probably  all  born  in  Boston: 

6  Mart,  born  27  May,  1667 ;  married  Sam  Hooper  of  Mar- 
blehead, who  died  prior  to  1707,  by  whom  she  had  one 
daughter,  Mary,  unmarried  in  1724,  but  who  probably 
married  prior  to  July,  1728,  Wm.  Dollaxd.  (See  Nor- 
den's  will  and  settlement  of  estate.)  Mary  (Hewes) 
Hooper  remarried  1  May,  1711,  John  Perkins  (Town 
records).  In  1733,  Sarah  Perkins  was  the  claimant  for 
Joshua  Hewes'  right  in  Narragansett  No.  5  (Bedford, 
\.  II.).  Mary  was  living  in  1720,  when  she  quitclaimed 
her  right  in  the  Norden  estate.  In  1707,  she  is  de- 
scribed as  Mary  Hooper,  daughter  of  Joshua  Hewes 
(Boston  Selectmen's  Records). 

i  A  relative  <>f  his  wife. 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES  95 

7+  Hannah,2  married  Joseph  Dolbear. 

8+  Joshua,  eldest  son. 

9     Sarah,    born    4>    Jan.,    1672-3,    bapt.    "  of    sister    Hewes, 

daughter  of  brother  Norden  "  3    12-11  mo.,   1672;  died 

young. 
10+  Samuel,  born  8  Sept.,  1677. 

11  Benjamin,  born  9  June,  1682. 

12  Sarah,  born  23  Dec,   1686;  married  31   Oct.,  1717,  Ed- 

mund Grice.      She  was  living  in  1729. 

Joshua  Hewes  learned  the  trade  of  a  cordwainer,  and  prob- 
ably followed  this  calling  for  several  years.  Where  he  lived  can- 
not be  told  with  exactness,  but  probably  in  a  house  not  his  own, 
located  somewhere  between  Hanover  street  and  the  Mill  Pond. 
His  name  is  found  on  the  Boston  tax  lists  after  1674,  the  date  of 
the  earliest  list  extant,  and  in  the  same  neighborhood  during  the 
whole  period  to  1691.  There  is  no  record  of  purchase  or  sale  by 
him  of  any  house  or  lands  in  Boston,  until  the  grant  to  him  in 
1677  by  Ann,  wife  of  John  Wampas,  of  her  right  in  the  estate  now 
covered  by  St.  Paul's  church.  There  are  some  indications  that 
he  lived  temporarily  in  the  house  then  standing  on  that  site,  but 
there  can  be  little  doubt  that  he  did  not  live  there  after  he  became 
an  innkeeper.  He  was  a  member  of  the  military  company  under 
the  command  of  Capt.  Thomas  Savage,  and  29  April,  1662,  the 
company  petitioned  the  General  Court  to  confirm  the  choice  of 
John  Peas  and  Robert  Sanford  as  corporals,  Richard  Knight 
as  clerk,  William  Dawes  for  centllman  of  pikes,  and  Joshua 
Hewes,  Jr.,  as  drummer  (Archives,  67:49). 

The  outbreak  of  King  Philip's  War  in  1675  found  the  colony 
unprepared  for  a  war  against  the  Indians.  The  outlaying  set- 
tlements suffered  severely.  The  General  Court  was  addressed  on 
the  22  Feb.,  1675-6  by  about  one  hundred  of  the  inhabitants  of 
Boston,  who  alluded  to  the  great  loss  to  persons  and  estates  which 
had  already  resulted,  and  who  propose  certain  measures  which  in 
their  judgment  the  General  Court  could  follow  to  the  advantage  of 
the  country.     These  suggestions  were  in  effect  that  a  commission 

2  Boston  First  Church  records  show  the  admission  to  membership  of  Han- 
nah Hewes,  9>-5mo.,  1671.  Under  date  of  20-6mo.,  1671,  Mary  and  Ann 
daughters  of  "sister  Mary  Hewes"  were  baptized.  Ann  in  olden  times  was 
sometimes  used  interchangeably  with  Hannah.  Could  this  record  refer  to 
Mary  and  Hannah,  daughters  of  Joshua? 

s  Samuel  Norden  was  admitted  First  Church  l-2mo.,  1666.  "  Goody  Nor- 
den"  was   admitted  2-10mo.,  1665. 


96  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES 

be  appointed  who  would  have  power  to  commission  all  parties 
sent  out  against  the  Indians ;  that  the  frontier  towns  be  gar- 
risoned ;  that  an  army  be  speedily  raised  and  divided  into  two  or 
three  divisions ;  that  effectual  means  be  taken  to  prevent  the 
Narragansetts  from  returning  and  occupying  their  former  ter- 
ritory ;  and  that  the  Indians  dwelling  among  the  people  be  removed 
to  some  remote  place.  They  also  propose  a  plan  for  the  mutual 
plowing  of  lands  in  each  township,  and  that  persons  driven  in 
from  outlaying  settlements  be  allowed  to  plow  unoccupied  ground 
in  the  protected  towns.  Among  the  signers  to  this  memorial  is 
Joshua  Hewes. 

The  paper  may  have  been  circulating  for  some  time  previous  to 
the  date  affixed  to  it,  so  that  it  may  have  been  Lieutenant  Joshua, 
rather  than  his  son,  who  appended  his  signature.  Lieutenant 
Joshua,  however,  had  died  the  month  preceding  the  presentation 
of  this  memorial.4 

Joshua  Hewes  enlisted  under  the  command  of  Major  Thomas 
Savage  in  February,  1675-6,  and  accompanied  the  army  to 
Brookfield  where  they  arrived  the  2  or  3  of  March ;  thence  they 
marched  to  Hadley,  and  finally,  after  abandoning  the  original 
plan  to  attack  the  Indians  at  Mt.  Wachusett,  Savage's  original 
command  was  dispersed,  some  returning  home  and  some  being 
assigned  to  other  commands.5  The  term  of  service  in  this  cam- 
paign was  from  February  to  late  in  April.  It  is  noticeable  that 
in  the  settlement  for  wages  Hewes  receives  half  as  much  again  as 
the  remainder  of  the  company  were  paid,  with  a  few  exceptions. 
This  may  indicate  that  he  held  higher  rank  than  private.  Al- 
though there  is  no  record  of  his  service  in  the  Narragansett  cam- 
paign of  the  preceding  December,  when  on  the  19th  the  fort  of 
the  Narragansetts  was  stormed,  there  IS  a  record  of  his  right  to 
share  in  the  grant  of  No.  5  (Bedford,  \.  II.),  one  of  the  town- 
ships granted  to  the  surviving  soldiers  in  that  expedition,  or  to 
their  heirs.  This  grant  was  made  in  accordance  with  a  promise 
of   lands   made   on    Dedham    Plain,   10    December,   as   the   army   was 

Betting  forth,  but  was  not  voted  by  tlie  General  Court  until  1727. 

A  gran!  had  been  made  to  certain  petitioners  from  a  few  towns 
in  1685,  of  a  tract  of  land  in  the  Nipmug  country  of  eight  miles 
square   to   make   a   plantation,  of  which,   however,   nothing   came  at 

«  Archives,  68:140,  printed  in  N.  I'..  II.  G.  Reg.,  16:6* 
b  Bodge,  "  King  Philip's  War,"  j>.  100. 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES  97 

that  time.      When  Bedford  was  granted  in  1735,  Sarah  Perkins 
was  the  claimant  representing  Joshua  Hewes.6 

Early  in  the  autumn  of  1676  an  Indian  named  Ann  Wampas  or 
Wampus,  wife  of  John  Wampas,  died  in  Boston.  She  and  her 
husband  bought,  28  Jan.,  1666-7,  of  Robert  Wyard,  of  Hartford, 
bricklayer,  formerly  of  Boston,  and  wife  Sarah,  a  dwelling  house 
and  plot  of  land,  fronting  on  the  training  field  32  feet  and  having 
a  depth  of  210  feet.  The  bounds  are  described  as  west  on  the 
common,  south  on  land  of  John  Cross,  east  on  lands  of  Baker, 
rope-maker,  north  "  now  or  late  of  Hudson  Leverett."  T  The  con- 
sideration  was  £37-10  and  the  assumption  of  a  debt  of  £10  due 
John  Richards  of  Boston  on  29  September.  The  deed  is  witnessed 
by  John  Winthrop,  the  younger.  This  lot  is  in  Tremont  street, 
opposite  the  Common,  and  is  the  site  of  St.  Paul's  church.  John 
and  Ann  Wampas  mortgaged  the  property  to  John  Richards, 
agent  for  Major  Robert  Thompson  of  London  (a  great  friend  to 
the  Colony),  18  Aug.,  1668,  for  £36-17-8,  The  lot  was  then 
bounded  east  on  Alexander  Baker.7  The  land  formed  the  south- 
ern portion  of  an  estate  reaching  south  from  what  is  now  WTinter 
street,  belonging  to  Hudson  Leverett,  son  of  Governor  Leverett, 
who  probably  sold  to  Wyard,  though  there  is  no  deed  of  record. 

Wampas  was  a  mariner,  and  claimed  to  be  one  of  the  hereditary 
pettv  sachems  of  the  Hassenameset  Indians.  He  was  in  England 
at  the  time  his  wife  died,  imprisoned  for  debt,  and  his  misfortunes 
gave  rise  to  a  letter  from  Charles  II  to  Governor  Leverett  which 
is  printed  in  N.  E.  Hist.-Geneal.  Register,  Vol.  35,  page  273.8 
This  letter  is  as  follows  : 

CHARLES,  R. 

Trusty  and  Welbeloved: 

Wee  greet  you  well.  Whereas  wee  have  been  humbly  informed 
by  the   petition  of   John  Wampas    als  White,  that   he  was   about   six 

e  Bodge,  "  King  Philip's  War,"  p.  435. 

t  Suffolk  Deeds,  5:542. 

s  This  is  the  letter  addressed  on  the  outside  "  To  Our  Trusty  and  Wel- 
beloved  Sr.  .John  Leverett  knt.  governour  of  Massachusetts  bay  in  new  Eng- 
land," which  has  given  rise  to  the  supposition  that  Leverett  had  been 
knighted  but  had  kept  the  honor  secret.  The  true  explanation  appears  to 
be  that  the  outer  address  was  a  careless  error  of  the  clerk  of  Secretary 
Williamson.  Leverett,  while  filling  his  position  as  Governor  to  the  very  great 
satisfaction  of  the  people  of  New  England,  and  a  man  of  the  greatest  worth, 
whom  any  ruler  might  have  chosen  to  honor,  was  the  last  man,  from  his 
service  under  Cromwell  and  his  well-known  opposition  to  the  desires  of  the 
king,  whom  Charles  would  have  been  likely  to  make  a  knight. 


98  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES 

months  since  put  into  prison  here  for  a  small  debt,  where  he  hath 
since  remained  to  his  utter  ruine,  &  that  he  hath  a  certain  parcell  of 
land  in  Massachusetts  Bay,  the  which  he  hath  held  for  many  years, 
having  taken  the  Oaths  of  Allegiance  &  Supremacy  as  our  subject; 
and  having  humbly  besought  us  to  interpose  with  you,  that  he  may 
bee  restored  to  his  sd  lands,  or  have  liberty  to  sell  the  same  for  his 
present  reliefe  &  the  payment  of  his  debts,  wee  taking  into  our 
gracious  consideration  the  miserable  condition  of  the  petitioner  have 
thought  fitt  to  recommend  him  to  you,  that  he  may  have  justice  done 
him  &  what  favour  the  matter  will  fairly  beare.  And  soe  wee  bid 
you  farewell.  Given  Att  our  Court  att  Whitehall  the  22dth  day  of 
August,  1676  in  the  28th  yeare  of  our  reigne. 

By  his  Matles  command 

Williamson 

This  royal  communication,  in  which  the  sovereign  of  a  great 
nation  expressed  his  commiseration  for  the  poor  Indian,  was  re- 
ceived by  Leverett  the  following  June,  during  which  time  Wampas 
would  have  remained  in  a  debtor's  prison  if  it  had  not  been  for 
more  humble  friends,  for  his  royal  patron  did  not  concern  him- 
self sufficiently  to  show  his  interest  in  a  more  practical  manner 
than    to   give   him    a   letter   to   carry   across   the    ocean.     These 
friends,  who  doubtless  had  an  eye  to  their  own  profit,  seem  to  have 
been  Nicholas  Warner  of  Ratcliffe,  Benjamin  Franklin,  cooper, 
and  Anthony  Mudd,  carpenter,  also  of  the  same  parish,  and  John 
Warner,  son  of  Nicholas  ;  and  to  them  Wampas  in  December,  1676, 
"  for  kindnesses  and  a  loan,  while  a  prisoner  in  or  near  London  " 
and  "  for  help  in  getting  him  out  of  prison,"  granted  over  6000 
acres  out  of  any  land  he  might  have  near  Quansagomack  and  near 
Marlboro     at    Quinsigamond    Pond    in    Massachusetts.0      These 
deeds  were  acknowledged  in  Boston  before  Simon  Bradstreet  16 
Aug.,  1677.     Wampas  in  granting  these  lands  affected  somewhat 
thai    divine  right  which   his  overlord  Charles   felt  he  possessed. 
Claiming  to  be  a  sachem  of  a  small  tribe  of  Indians,  he  felt  no  hesi- 
tancy in  granting  to  strangers  whatever  rights  his  tribe  may  have 
retained  in  parts  of  their  former  territory.     Later  he  entered  into 
another  land  transaction,  which,  after  due  authorization  by  the 
colonial    government    and    acceptance   by   his    tribe   or   their  pre- 
sumed   representatives,    brought    into    being   the    present    town   of 
Sutton,  and  in  this  Joshua   Hewea  participated,  ;is  we  shall  see. 

o  Middlesex  Deeds,  6:82-101. 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES  99 

The  proceedings  taken  to  settle  the  estate  of  Ann  Wampas  are 
recorded  in  volume  12  of  Suffolk  probate  records,  pages  10,  95. 
Milcah  Wright,  aged  58,  testified  that  "  Anne  Wampas  often  said 
in  her  lifetime,  and  but  a  little  before  she  died,  that  what  estate 
soever  she  had  she  would  give  to  Mr.  Hughes  his  children  after 
her  death,  for  the  love  that  their  father  had  shown  to  her,  for 
she  said  Mr.  Hughs  if  he  would  might  have  made  her  a  slave  all 
the  days  of  her  life."  Sarah  Ellis,  aged  about  45,  testified  to  the 
same  effect,  and  added  "  that  in  the  time  of  her  sickness  she  gave 
the  keys  of  her  house  to  deliver  into  Joshua  Heughs,  which  she 
did  after  she  was  dead."  Prudence  Delany,  aged  18,  testified  that 
"  half  an  hour  before  Anne  Wampas  was  scalded,  I  heard  her  say 
that  Joshua  Hughs  should  have  all  the  estate  she  had  when  she 
died,  and  that  she  wished  she  was  worth  a  thousand  pounds  for 
his  sake,  he  would  have  it  every  farthing." 

Administration  was  granted  on  her  estate  28  Sept.,  1676,  to 
Joshua  Hews  [sic]  in  behalf  of  those  to  whom  of  right  it  shall 
belong.  An  inventory  taken  16  Sept.,  1676,  by  James  Oliver, 
Thomas  Brattle  and  Richard  Woode,  disclosed  personal  estate  of 
£21-7-0  and  house  and  ground  valued  at  £100.  The  items  of  the 
inventory  show  that  Anne  possessed  much  what  any  of  the  middle 
class  town  dwellers  of  that  date  had,  china,  pewter,  leather  gloves, 
lace,  a  silver  bodkin,  linen  head-gear,  etc.  She  also  had  a  feather 
fan  with  a  silver  handle,  seven  pewter  porringers,  a  pair  of  silk 
stockings  and  seven  pair  of  "  old  stockings."  She  had  in  the 
house  24  shillings  in  money;  and  loaned  out,  not  included  in  the 
above  total,  £17  to  Mr.  Robert  Sedgwick,  and  £10  to  Mr.  Rich- 
ard Knight.  On  the  22  Nov.,  1677,  Hewes  having  presented  his 
account,  a  "  quietus  "  was  granted  at  a  county  court  and  his 
bond  delivered  to  him. 

Whatever  Lieutenant  Joshua  Hewes  had  done  to  win  the  undy- 
ing gratitude  of  Anne  Wampas  has  not  been  learned,  but  when 
John  Wampas  returned  to  Boston,  one  of  his  first  acts  was  to  con- 
firm "  the  grant  of  Anne,  his  late  wife,  deceased,  to  Joshua  Hews, 
Mary  Lamb,  and  Hannah  Hews  all  of  Boston  "  of  that  house  and 
land  near  the  training  field,  and  all  her  estate  whatsoever  she  died 
seized  of,  and  especially  in  consideration  of  £20  paid  him  by 
Joshua  Hewes  and  William  Lamb,  provided  always  that  Hanna 
Hews  shall  not  claim  any  greater  interest  in  above  premises  than 
what  was  given  her  by  the  said  Anne  Wampas,  and  accordingly 


100  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES 

divided  to  her  by  the  said  Joshua  and  Mary.  This  confirmation 
is  dated  the  2  June,  1677.1U  Before  the  grantees  of  Ann  Wam- 
pas  obtained  a  clear  title  to  the  lot  they  had  to  discharge  the 
mortgage  to  Thompson,  which  was  done  15  Jan.,  1679-80. 

This  lot,  on  which  was  a  house,  remained  in  the  hands  of  Joshua 
Hewes,  and  is  mentioned  in  his  will,  the  interest  which  his  sister 
Mary  had  in  it  being  especially  reserved.  It  was  finally  sold  15 
Feb.,  1725-6,  for  £210,  to  John  Bushell  of  Boston,  who  owned  the 
house  and  land  to  the  south,11  by  the  heirs  of  Joshua,  viz:  Mary 
Perkins,  widow,  Sarah  Grice,  widow ;  Joshua  Hewes,  tailor ;  Sam- 
uel Hewes,  merchant;  Benjamin  Hewes,  cooper;  Edmond  Dolbear, 
merchant :  Nathaniel  Hewes,  blacksmith ;  William  Kilworth,  cord- 
wainer ;  Richard  Blay,  mariner ;  Elizabeth  Hewes,  spinster ;  and 
Hannah  Hewes,  single-woman,  all  of  Boston.  Mary  Lamb  had 
died  in  1710,  childless,  and  her  interest  in  the  property  had  de- 
scended to  her  brother's  heirs. 

The  Nipmug  country  was  claimed  by  the  Indians  resident  in  the 
Indian  towns  at  Natick  and  near  Marlboro,  and  in  1681  the  Gen- 
eral Court  appointed  Thomas  Dudley  and  William  Stoughton  to 
find  out  what  their  claims  were  and  how  they  were  affected  by 
grants  by  the  Indians  or  others,  and  indeed  what  ought  to  be  done. 
The  committee  found  that  they  could  purchase  for  less  than  £100 
whatever  rights  the  Indians  claimed  in  the  territory  west  of  the 
Nipmug  River,  leaving  them  certain  "  waste  land,"  and  that 
there  were  no  obstruction  to  the  Indians  conveying  the  lands 
except  such  claims  as  were  advanced  by  several  executors  of  the 
estate  of  John  Wampus.  In  1682  deeds  to  this  territory,  of  con- 
siderable extent  and  embracing  a  number  of  the  present  townships 
south  of  Wachusett  to  the  Connecticut  line,  were  passed,  and  a 
clear  title  was  vested  in  the  Governor  and  Company  of  Massa- 
chusetts Bay.12 

John  Wampas  married  Prask,  called  in  English  Ann.  She  was 
acknowledged  by  Romanock,  an  Indian  sachem  who  had  formerly 
possessed  Lands  in  Fairfield,  Conn.,  as  his  daughter.  Through 
her  Wampas  laid  claim  to  lands  in  Fairfield.  When  in  England 
lie   petitioned   the   king  and  obtained   in    March,  1679,  an  order  in 

toWhlch  is  .i]so  die  date  endorsed  by  <'.<>\<nior  Leverett  on  his  royal  let- 
ter. A  Courl  record,  in  Suffolk  Files,  1642,  shows  that  Wampas  himself  was 
the  bearer  of  the  letter. 

n  Suffolk  Deeds,  10:256. 

is  Colony  records  1681-2,  where  the  various  deeds  may  be  found. 


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his  behalf,  which  may  be  seen  in  Colonial  Records  of  Connecticut, 
Vol.  3,  App.  22.  He  died  in  England  soon  after,  leaving  a  will 
dated  5  Sept.,  1679.  He  bequeathed  all  his  rights  in  lands  any- 
where in  New  England  to  John  Blake  and  Edward  Pratt.  These 
legatees,  5  March,  1683-1,  appointed  John  Comer,  Joshua  Hewes, 
and  others,  of  whom  Robert  Taft  of  Mount  Hope  was  one,  their 
attorneys,  with  full  power  to  act  and  to  enter  into  and  take  pos- 
session of  all  such  lands,  etc.,  but  to  and  for  the  only  proper  use 
and  behoof  of  the  said  Edward  Pratt,  John  Comer,  John  Pittime, 
John  Jackson,  George  Dawson,  Joshua  Hewes,  William  Harrison, 
William  Mumford,  Richard  Thayre,  John  Smith,  Robert  Taft, 
their  heirs  and  assigns.13 

Comer  and  the  others  petitioned  the  General  Court  of  Massa- 
chusetts regarding  their  rights.  The  answer  of  the  Court  was 
(17  May,  1684),  "  the  Court  knowes  not  of  any  land  that  Wam- 
pas,  Indean,  had  any  true  or  legall  right  unto,  he  being  no 
sachem  14  but  a  common  person;  if  the  personns  can  finde  any  land 

is  Printed  in   full   Vol.  9,  5th  series  Collections  Mass.  Historical  Soc. 

I*  John  Wampas  seems  to  have  presumed  upon  the  credulity  of  his  English 
friends,  when  he  persuaded  them  he  was  a  sachem.  The  following  testi- 
mony bearing  on  his  claims  to  the  right  to  deed  lands  belonging  to  the  In- 
dians  is   found  in  Massachusetts  Archives,   Vol.   30 :259a: 

The  testimony  of  Daniel  Gookin  senr.  In  the  spring  of  1677  I  kept  a 
coort  among  the  indians  at  Coowate  neare  the  Lower  Falls  of  Charles  River. 
At  which  Court  John  Woampas  was  present,  who  being  questioned  for  his 
miscariages  in  claiming  a  great  trat  of  land  &  marking  trees  with  the  let- 
ter W  in  several  places  in  the  Nipmks  county  Challinging  those  lands  for 
his  propriety  &  offering  to  sell  those  lands.  He  was  heard  what  he  could 
say,  &  and  could  not  prove  or  demonstrat  any  right  hee  had  in  lands  there 
more  than  other  common  indians  had:  And  all  ye  old  men  the  principall 
Indians  together  with  all  other  Indians  present  &  in  particular  his  owne 
unkels  Anthony  &  Tom  Tray  did  beare  wittnes  against  his  practise  &  dis- 
claime  his   right  &  pretenses   otherwise   there  Aboud  to  any  land   &  said  yt 

hee   was   an   evel    [ ]    to   disquiet   them,   &   all   he   aymed   at   was   to   gett 

mony  to  be  drunke  &  to  spend  upon  his  lusts  &  they  did  inhibit  &  forbid 
him  to  medle  any  more  about  these  clames  &  did  withdrew  any  former 
Beetrustment  comitted  to  him  in  ye  Affayre.  This  was  done  before  me  at 
yt  Court:  Mr  Eliot  was  present  who  with  all  ye  other  indians  can  testify 
the  truth  hereof,  as  I  can  upon  my  oath  if  called  thereunto.  In  Testimony 
whereof  I  subscribe  my  hand  this  15  of  September,  1681  Daniel  Gookin  Senr. 
A  Court  was  held  at  Natick  among  the  Indians  14  Sept.,  1681,  and  the  testi- 
mony of  Waban  aged  about  80,  Piambow  aged  about  80,  Nowanit  aged 
about  80,  Jethro  aged  about  70,  William  aged  about  68,  Anthony  Tray  and 
Epm  Tray,  uncles  by  the  father's  side  unto  John  Woampas  deceased,  aged 
60  years  and  58  years  or  thereabouts,  was  taken.  They  all  testified  to  know- 
ing Woampas   from  a  child,   that  his   father  was   "  old  Woampas "   who  was 

a   [ ]    and  brother  to  some  of  them,  and  that  John  Woampas  was  not  a 

sachem  and  had  no  more  right  and  title  to  lands  in  the  Nipmug  country 
than  any  other  common  Indian.  They  acknowledged,  however,  that  the  In- 
dians   and    other    did    some    years    since    before    he    left    the    country 


102  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES 

that  was  his,  &  withheld  from  them,  the  law  is  open  where  they 
may  obteyne  their  right,  if  they  cann  make  any  such  appeare." 

Their  suit  at  Fairfield  came  to  trial  16  June,  1681,  Joshua 
Hewes,  Christopher  Webb,  and  Joseph  Holmes  appearing  as  at- 
torneys for  the  other  plaintiffs.  The  defendants'  brief  is  printed 
in  the  Historical  Collections  quoted  above,  and  shows  that  the  de- 
fendants relied  upon  the  fact  that  they  had  held  possession  twenty 
years,  under  grants  from  the  colony,  the  town,  and  private  pur- 
chase from  former  grantees ;  and  that  at  any  rate  the  colony  had 
a  perfect  title  by  conquest,  and  a  presumed  relinquishment  of  the 
Indian   title   to   the  colony.     The  damages   claimed  were  set   at 

intfreat]  the  said  "Woampas  (because  he  spike  English  well  and  was  (ac- 
quainted) with  the  English)  to  enquire  after,  and  in  their  names  and  for 
their  use  to  declare  and  endeavor  to  get  settled  and  recorded  the  Indian 
title  and  right  to  those  lands,  but  they  denied  they  ever  gave  him  any  right 
to  barter  or  trade  those  lands.  They  "  do  utterly  disclaim  all  his  gifts, 
grants,  sales,  mortgages "  etc.  of  those  lands,  and  now  he  is  dead  leaving 
no  children,  what  right  he  had  in  common  with  other  Indians  belong  to  his 
kindred  and  next  heirs.  Also  that  there  are  about  100  Indians  old  and 
young,  among  the  Christian  Indians,  that  have  right  and  title  to  those  lands 
in  the  Nipmug  countryes  much  as  ever  John  Woampas  had.  There  were 
present  at  this  Court,  Daniel  Gookin,  Sr.,  Esq.,  Assistant  Waban,  Piambow 
and  Tom  Tray  rulers,  and  Mr.  John  Eliot,  Sr.,  Andrew  Pittimell  and  Peter 
Ephraim  interpreters.     Archives,  Vol.   30,  p.   260. 

Richard  Thayer  of  Braintree,  who  appears  in  this  matter  of  Wampas' 
grants,  addressed  a  memorial  in  December,  1682,  to  the  king  setting  forth 
that  he  and  others  about  forty  years  ago  settled  in  New  England,  and  pur- 
chased a  large  tract  of  land  of  Wompatuck  Josias,  a  great  Indian  sachem, 
as  by  deeds  will  appear,  which  is  land  now  called  Braintree;  and  that  he 
and  others  and  their  families  have  enjoyed  the  same,  but  now  the  General 
Court  has  granted  a  great  part  of  the  land  to  Capt.  Thomas  Savage,  and 
Capt.  Clapp  of  Boston,  and  claim  that  Braintree  and  adjacent  towns  are 
included  in  the  grant  to  the  Massachusetts  Bay  Company,  which  grant  was 
only  to  lands  within  three  miles  south  of  any  part  of  Charles  river;  and 
that  these  lands  are  without  the  bounds  of  both  Massachusetts  Bay  and 
Plymouth  colonies:  that  his  deeds  were  not  allowed  by  the  General  Court; 
that  he  then  appealed  to  his  majesty  in  Council,  but  his  appeal  was  not  al- 
lowed ;  that  he  has  been  in  England  for  three  years,  having  come  over  to 
prosecute  his  appeal,  but  that  through  persuation  of  Stoughton  and  Bulke- 
ley,  agents  for  the  Colony  in  England,  who  promised  him  that  if  he  would 
not  carry  on  the  matter  justice  would  be  done  him,  he  had  refrained  from 
prosecuting  liis  appeal;  but  now  executions  and  judgments  have  been  taken 
apainst  him,  etc.  The  Council  referred  his  petition  to  the  Lords  of  Trade, 
who  sent  a  copy  to  the  Massachusetts  agents,  with  request  for  their  answer. 

The  agents  answered  5  Feb.,  I68J-:?,  that  Braintree  had  formerly  been  a 
part  of  Boston,  and  with  some  forest  land  which  had  since  been  added  was 
Bel    oft"   as    a    town;    that    the    petitioner   and    others   were    settled    there   twenty 

years  before  obtaining  the   Indian   grant,  which  was  in  behalf  of  the.  whole 

town    ;iri(l    not    Thayer    alone;    and    that    there    are    seventy    or    eighty    families 

living   there.    Joseph    Dudley   and   John    Richards   were   the    agents   at   this 

time.  This  activity  of  Thayer  Suggests  th.d  he  may  have  had  a  hand  in 
some  of  Wampas'  doings  in  London.  Wampas  had  attended  the  Indian 
College   at    Cambridge,      Later   he   became    a   mariner. 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES  103 

£5000,  but  the  plaintiffs  were  unable  to  prove  their  case.  The 
record  states  "  the  plaintiffs,  Mr.  Hughes,  etc.,  being  called  into 
the  Court,  the  Governor  told  them  that  they  being  strangers  might 
not  so  well  understand  our  laws  and  methods  of  practice ;  there- 
fore,   if   they    saw   cause   to   desire   an    appeal   or   other   lawfull 

[ ],  they  had  liberty  to  do  so,  provided  it  were  done  before 

the  Court  did  break  up." 

The  General  Court  of  Massachusetts  granted  a  township  to  the 
claimants  under  Wampas'  will.  This  grant  was  preceded  by  an 
agreement  between  the  parties  in  interest,  25  Aug.,  1686,  by 
which  certain  differences  were  settled.  The  parties  to  the  agree- 
ment were  Edward  Pratt  of  Mendham,  planter,  George  Dauson 
of  Boston,  baker,  John  Hayward  of  Boston,  notary,  John  Comer 
of  Boston,  pewterer,  Joshua  Hewes  of  Boston,  cordwainer,  and 
others,  assignees  of  Edward  Pratt,  late  of  St.  Paul's,  Shadwell, 
London,  and  John  Blake,  late  of  Sandwich,  now  of  Wrentham  in 
New  England,  executors  and  assignees  of  John  Wampas  als. 
White,  an  Indian  of  Assanawescock  in  New  England,  on  the  one 
part,  and  Thomas  Tray,  uncle  of  Wampas,  Simon  Sassomitt  and 
other  Indians  (named)  as  proprietors  with  Wampas  their  chief 
and  principal  in  certain  lands  at  Assanawescock  in  the  Nipmug 
country.  The  Indians  retained  four  miles  square  within  the  said 
lands  at  Assanawescock,  while  the  whites  took  two  miles  square  on 
each  and  every  side  of  the  said  four  miles  square.15 

On  the  8  March,  1704,  the  above  proprietors  petitioned  the  Gen- 
eral Court  for  a  confirmation  of  their  right  and  title  in  the  lands 
purchased  from  the  Indians,  and  on  the  15  May  a  charter  was  is- 
sued to  them  to  possess  eight  miles  square  "  in  which  is  included 
a  tract  of  land  four  miles  square  called  Hassanamisco  and  pos- 
sessed by  the  Indians  "  situate  in  the  Nipmug  country,  between 
the  towns  of  Mendon,  Worcester,  New  Oxford,  Sherburne,  and 
Marlboro,  to  be  called  Sutton,  and  on  which  they  are  required  to 
settle  thirty  families  within  seven  years  after  the  end  of  the  pres- 
ent war  with  the  Indians.  Joseph  Dudley  was  Governor  at  this 
time,  and  Sutton  may  have  been  chosen  by  him  for  the  name  of  the 
new  town  because  of  his  supposed  descent  from  the  "  Sutton-Dud- 
leys  "  of  England.  The  grantees  named  in  the  charter  were  John 
Comer,  James  Smith,  William  Mumford,  Joshua  Hewes,  "  inn- 
keeper," and  others  their  partners,  viz:  John  Jackson,  Mary  Con- 
ic Suffolk  Deeds,  16:89. 


104-  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES 

ncr  and  Elizabeth  Pittom,  daughters  and  co-heirs  of  John  Pittom, 
deceased,  Edward  Pratt,  and  Elizabeth  Wilson  of  Hartford, 
widow. 

The  war  alluded  to  was  Queen  Anne's  War  and  did  not  cease 
until  1713.  The  first  meeting  of  the  proprietors  was  held  17 
Nov.,  1714;  but  in  the  meantime,  on  the  1  March,  1705-6,  Hewes 
had  sold  for  £35  his  one-ninth  interest  in  the  township,  his  wife 
Hannah  renouncing  her  rights  of  dower,16  to  John  Comer  of  Bos- 
ton, pewterer.  This  transaction  ended  the  connection  of  the 
Hewes  family  with  Wampas  and  his  lands. 

In  deeds  noted  above  Joshua  Hewes  is  styled  "  innkeeper." 
Boston  town  records  show  that  he  allowed  as  an  innkeeper  26 
June,  1693.  In  1696  he  was  summoned  to  appear  before  the 
Court  of  General  Sessions  to  renew  his  license  for  1697,  along  with 
the  others  permitted  as  innholders  and  taverners.  In  the  list  his 
name  is  crossed  out.1'  However,  he  was  sued  in  1700  by  Peter 
Burr,  late  schoolmaster  in  Boston,  on  a  note  claimed  to  be  overdue, 
and  in  the  writ  is  styled  innholder,  and  as  there  is  other  mention 
of  him  as  such,  it  is  probable  that  he  continued  this  business  until 
his  death.  From  tax  lists,  and  the  association  of  his  name  with 
William  Lamb,  whose  residence  was  in  Hanover  street,  it  is  prob- 
able that  he  was  located  in  that  vicinity.  Perhaps  Lamb's  house 
was  the  inn.  It  is  clear,  however,  that  he  did  not  own  the  prem- 
ises in  which  he  kept  tavern.  The  innkeeper  or  taverner  was  a 
man  of  far  greater  relative  importance  in  colonial  days  than  now. 
Tin-  tavern  was  the  meeting  place  of  the  associations  of  that  day; 
there  Indian  sachems  were  entertained.  Much  of  the  business  of 
the  town  and  state  was  transacted  at  the-  larger  taverns.  The 
innkeeper  was  a  man  not  only  of  wide  acquaintance,  but  usually  of 
s 1 1 ( •  1 1  reputation  that  he  was  frequently  an  important  factor  in 
affairs.  Great  care  was  exercised  by  the  authorities  in  granting 
permits  to  keep  tavern.  The  history  of  the  early  taverns  of  any 
large  city  or  town  always  repays  investigation.  If  the  name  of 
Hewes'  inn  could  be  recovered  there  is  little  doubt  that  many 
anecdoti  -  and  historic  occurrences  would  be  found  to  be  associated 
with   it. 

Hul  little  remain8  to  be  written  of  Joshua  llewes.  Various  rcf- 
erences  to  him  in  the  records  have  been  found  which  arc  not  con- 

"•■  Suffolk  Deeds,  ??:)?:{. 
i-  Sufi'.. Ik    Pile  .    1445. 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES  105 

nectcd  with  the  events  described  above,  and  these  are  collected  and 
follow. 

He  testified  9  March,  1674-5  to  having  witnessed  the  execution 
of  a  deed  of  Richard  Potts  of  New  Damaris  Cove,  and  of  Henry 
Kemball,  7  and  9  December,  1672  (York  Deeds,  2:166). 

With  John  Harwood,  2  June,  1680,  he  gave  bond  to  the  Select- 
men of  Boston  that  John  Francis  should  not  become  chargeable 
to  the  town  (Boston  Rec.  Comm.  Rpt.  10). 

He  was  sued  6  Aug.,  1700,  by  Peter  Burr,  late  schoolmaster 
in  Boston,  on  a  note  for  £16-5-3  dated  3  Oct.,  1699,  and  given 
for  grain  to  be  paid  for  April  1,  1700.  The  original  note  still  re- 
mains on  file.  Burr  lost  his  case  and  appealed,  but  it  is  not  stated 
wh.it  the  final  issue  was  (Suffolk  files,  4806). 

Joshua  Hewcs  and  98  other  residents  of  Boston  were  presented 
by  the  Grand  Jury,  for  not  conforming  to  the  law  of  1692,  re- 
quiring the  covering  of  all  houses  built  since  then  with  either  slate 
or  tiles  (Suffolk  files,  4657).  In  Nov.,  1696,  his  name  appears 
among  the  petitioners  to  the  General  Court  for  the  repeal  of  the 
law  requiring  that  no  dwelling  house,  shop,  warehouse,  barn, 
stable,  or  other  housing,  more  than  eight  feet  long  or  wide,  seven 
feet  high,  shall  be  erected  but  of  stone  or  brick  covered  with  slate 
or  tile  unless  by  permit  of  a  justice  and  selectmen;  and  that  all 
houses  built  since  1688  were  to  be  covered  with  slate  or  tile  under 
penalty  of  £50. 

Tax  lists  for  Boston  are  extant  since  1674,  but  not  always  in  a 
complete  form.  These  lists  are  sometimes  accompanied  with  lists 
which  were  evidently  preliminary  lists  of  householders,  or  inhabit- 
ants, taken  as  they  came,  street  by  street.  In  that  of  1674,  the 
name  of  Joshua  Hewes  is  followed  by  that  of  William  Lamb,  his 
brother-in-law.  The  next  three  names  are  widow  Alcock,  John 
Alcock  (son  of  the  widow),  and  Nathaniel  Green.  The  Alcocks 
were  former  neighbors  of  the  Hewes  family  in  Roxbury.  Hewes 
was  taxed  two  shillings  only  for  his  town  rate,  and  the  same  for 
the  country  rate.  It  is  possible  that  this  may  be  Lieutenant 
Joshua  Hewes,  who  was  of  course  living  at  this  time,  but  it  is 
probably  the  younger  man  who  is  intended.  These  names  are  on 
the  list  given  to  Constable  Bingley,  and  evidently  are  of  taxables 
in  that  portion  of  the  town  near  the  head  of  Hanover  street,  and 
north  and  west  of  that.  In  1681  the  tax  lists  were  made  up  for 
the  districts   commanded  by  the  eight  militia  captains.     Hewes 


106  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES 

was  in  Capt.  John  Hull's  district,  and  apparently  this  was  a  part 
of  Bingley's  former  precinct.  In  1687  he  is  taxed  for  10  shillings 
and  in  the  same  locality.  It  is  interesting  to  note  that  the  next 
name  to  his  is  that  of  George  Hews,  Avho  is  thought  to  be  George 
Hewes  of  Salisbury,  perhaps  his  only  appearance  on  Boston 
records.  In  1688  Joshua  Hewes  was  still  living  in  the  same  ter- 
ritory and  was  taxed  for  one  head,  but  it  is  clear  that  the  head  tax 
that  year  bore  no  relation  to  the  number  in  the  family.  He  is 
again  taxed  in  1691  and  in  1695,  in  which  year  "  Joshua  Hewes, 
Jr.,"  first  appears  on  the  lists.18 

The  Will  of  Joshua  Hewes,  probated  9  Nov.,  1706,  follows: 

"  In  the  Name  of  God,  Amen,  the  Twenty-fifth  day  of  Janr,  Anno 
Domini  One  Thousand  and  seven  hundred  &  three/4.  In  ye  Second 
year  of  the  Reign  of  our  Sovereign  Lady  Queen  Anne  over  Eng- 
land &c.  I  Joshua  Hews  of  Boston,  in  the  County  of  Suffolk  in 
New  England  Cordwainer  being  weak  &  infirm  of  body  but  of  sound 
&  perfect  mind  &  memory  praise  be  to  God  for  the  same.  Knowing 
the  uncertainty  of  this  present  life  and  being  desirous  to  settle  that 
outward  estate  ye  Lord  hath  lent  me,  Do  therefore  make  and  ordain 
this  my  last  Will  and  Testament  in  manner  and  form  following. 
That  is  to  say  First  &  principally  I  commend  my  soul  into  the  hands 
of  Almighty  God  my  Creator  hoping  to  receive  full  pardon  and  re- 
mission of  all  my  sins  and  Salvation  through  the  alone  Merits  of  Jesus 
Christ  my  Redeemer;  and  my  body  to  ye  Earth  to  be  decently  interred 
according  to  the  discretion  of  my  Executrix  hereinafter  named,  and 
as  touching  such  worldly  estate  ye  Lord  hath  lend  me  my  will  and 
meaning  is  the  same  shall  be  imployed  and  disposed  as  hereafter  in 
and  by  this  my  Will  is  expressed  hereby  revoking  &  making  null  and 
void  all  Wills  &  Testaments  by  me  heretofore  made  declaring  &  ap- 
pointing this  to  be  my  last  Will  &  Testament. 

Imp.™  I  will  that  my  just  debts  &  funeral  expenses  be  well  & 
truly  paid  or  ordained  to  be  paid  by  my  Beloved  wife  Hannah  Hews 
whom  I  do  appoint  Sole  Executrix  of  this  my  last  Will  and  Testament, 
in  convenient  time  after  my  decease,  Item  I  do  hereby  give  &  be- 
queath unto  my  said  Wife  the  use  income  benefit  &  improvement  of 
all  my  Estate  whatsoever  &  whensoever  lying  or  found  both  real  and 
personal   for  her  comfortable  subsistance  and  livlihood  during  ye  term 

iR  These  lists  are  printed  in  the  reports  of  the  Boston  Record  Commis- 
sioners. 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES  107 

of  her  natural  life.  Item  for  the  better  enabling  my  sd  Executrix  to 
pay  my  aforesaid  just  debts  I  do  hereby  fully  impower  and  authorize 
her  to  make  sale  of  my  housing  &  land  lying  in  ye  Common  or  train- 
ing field  at  the  South  end  of  Boston  and  to  execute  a  good  and  lawful 
deed  and  conveyance  thereof  to  the  person  and  persons  buying  the 
same.  Item,  If  in  ye  life  time  of  my  Executrix  there  hap- 
pens an  opportunity  for  sale  of  my  lands  in  ye  Nipmug  Country  &  at 
Quinnebaug  and  elsewhere  in  N.  England,  then  and  in  such  case, 
I  do  hereby  authorize  &  impower  her  to  make  sale  thereof  and  to 
execute  good  and  sufficient  deed  or  deeds  &  conveyances  for  ye  same, 
she  taking  the  advice  of  my  children  &  overseers  in  ye  sale  thereof. 
Item,  what  of  my  estate  both  real  and  personal  shall  remain  in  being 
at  the  time  of  the  decease  of  my  sd  wife  I  do  order  and  appoint  that 
ye  same  shall  be  equally  shared  and  parted  between  my  six  children, 
namely,  Joshua,  Samuel,  Benjamin,  Mary,  Hannah,  Sarah  part  and 
part  alike.  Item  I  do  hereby  Entreat  and  desire  my  Friends  Daniel 
Morey,  Elder  Copp  of  Boston  &  Capt.  Nath1  Norden  of  Marblehead 
to  be  Overseers  of  this  my  last  Will  and  to  council  my  Executrix  in 
the  due  execution  thereof  as  the  matter  shall  require  —  In  Testi- 
mony whereof  I  have  hereunto  set  my  hand  &  seal  the  day  and  year 
first  within  written. 

Joshua  Hews 

Signed  sealed  published  &  declared  by  the  above 
named  Joshua  Hews  the  Testator  as  and  for  his 
last  Will  and  Testament  in  presence  of  us  — 

Richard  Draper 

Saml  Kenney 

Eliezer  Moody  Scr. 
Memorandum  —  On  the  Fourth  Day  of  Feb.17  1703-4.  The  above 
named  Joshua  Hews  ye  Testator  in  presence  of  the  Subscribing 
Witnesses  to  this  his  Will  did  declare,  that  his  sister  Mary  Lambs 
pt  (part)  of  the  housing  &  Lands  Specified  in  this  his  sd  Will  is  re- 
served to  her  &  Exempted  thereout,  tho  no  mention  thereof  is  made 
in    sd   Will.     Examined —  P.    Dudley  REGr 

THIRD  GENERATION 

III.  7  HANNAH  HEWES  (Joshua,  Joshua)  married  (in- 
tention 26  Sept.,  1695,  Hannah  "  Howes  ")  1695  Joseph  Dol- 
bear  of  Boston,  brazier.  Both  Joseph  and  Hannah  Dolbear  were 
deceased  prior  to  1721. 


108  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES 

Children:  1 

13     Joseph  Dolbear,  born  10  Jan. ;  died  25  Jan.,  1697-8. 

11-  Edmund  Dolbear,  bapt.  18  June,  1700  (Old  South)  ;  mar- 
ried 21  June,  1728,  Deborah  Barnett.  Children: 
Deborah  Dolbear,  bapt.  5  July,  1730  (Old  South)  ;  Ed- 
mund Grice  Dolbear  married  13  March,  1755,  Sarah  Bill, 
but  had  previously  had  a  wife  Elizabeth. 

15  Elizabeth  Dolbear,  born  23   [ ],  1701;  bapt.   26 

Oct.,  1702  (Old  South)  ;  married  22  March,  1721,  Wil- 
liam Killworth,  of  Boston,  cordwainer.  Children : 
Matthew  Killworth,  born  6  Sept.,  1722;  Elizabeth  Kill- 
worth  born  12  Dec,  1723 ;  Edmund  Killworth,  born  17 
Aug.,  1726. 

16  Hannah  Dolbear,  born  10  July,  1701 ;  bapt.  16  July,  1705 

(Old  South)  ;  married  21  June,  1728,  Charles  Busso  of 
Boston,  cordwainer,  who  died  21?  Dec,  1731,  aged  25 
(Town  records).  They  had  a  son,  Charles  Busso,  born 
10  May,  1729.  Hannah  (Dolbear)  Busso  married,  sec- 
ond, 6  Nov.,  1732,  John  Brown,  and  had  John  Brown, 
born  12  Sept.,  1738,  and  perhaps  other  children. 

III.  8  JOSHUA  HEWES  {Joshua,  Joshua)  eldest  son, 
born  probably  about  1670;  died  probably  last  of  April,  1720, 
"  I  uried,  2  May,  1720"  (Sexton's  bill).- 

He  married  Elizabeth  [ ]. 

(  hildren,   from   Boston   records;   except   the   eldest,   of  "  Joshua 
tnid  Elizabeth  ": 

17  Joshua,   born   probably    prior    to    1695;  undoubtedly   the 

Joshua  Hewes  who  was  buried  31  Jan.,  1718-9.  He  left 
no  descendants  as  neither  he  or  any  representative  par- 
ticipated in  the  division  of  the  Norden  estate.  He  was 
married  26  Dec,  1715  to  Hannah  Smith   (Boston  rec- 

1    \     "child    <>f    Mr.    Dolbear"    was    buried    0    Sept.,    1702    (Boston    records). 

An   Bdmond   J)oii>r;ir  died   April,  1796,  aged  39.    "Mrs.   Dolbeare  buried  13 

.    !  rOS"    (Old    Sexton's   hill). 

1    illusion  exists  concerning  the  date  of  death  of  the  persons  bearing  the 

name    ■'"  hua    Hewes.    Joshua    {Joshua,   Joshua')    died    prior   to   Oct..    1790, 

tatement    in   the   grant   of  administration   on   his   father's  estate   to 

.) "  •  pii   Dolbear.    The  old  Sexton's  bills  collected  at  the  City   Registrar's  of- 

iii'A    the    following  burials:    Joshua    Hewes,   :*i    Jan.,    1718-19.    

Hew<      from  the  Almshouse,  2  Feb.,  1719-20.    Joshua   Hewes,  J  May,  17J0. 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES  109 

ords).  Probably  the  following  records  relate  to  his  fam- 
ily. A  "  child  of  Joshua  Hewes,  Jr.,  buried  6  June,  1718 
(Sexton's  bill)."  Hannah,  of  Joshua  and  Hannah  Hewes 
born  26  April,  1717,  died  aged  2  and  one  half  years,  31 
July,  1721  (Boston  records). 

18  Nathaniel,  born  2  March,  1697;  died  s.  p.  prior  to  1728; 

married  at  Braintree  17  Dec,  1717,  Mary  Hayden.  On 
31  March,  1725  Nathaniel  Hughes  was  dismissed  from  be- 
ing a  watchman,  for  disorder,  and  Joshua  Williams  ad- 
mitted a  watchman  in  his  place  (Selectmen's  records). 

19  Elizabeth,  born   29  Aug.,    1702;   married   subsequent   to 

1725,  John  Reed,  Jr.,  of  Barrington,  Bristol  county, 
brick-maker. 

20  Hannah,  born  June,  1704;  married  Richard  Blay,  mar- 

iner, who  died  prior  to  1730. 
Joshua  Hewes  "  junior  "  was  a  gunsmith.  In  a  law  suit  of 
Peter  Collimer  against  Francis  Marshall  of  Boston,  butcher, 
Joshua  Hewes,  Jr.,  testified  that  he  was  of  full  age,  and  in 
October,  1697,  went  down  to  Frank  Marshall's  slaughter  house 
and  "  he  ben  ther  &  I  saw  toue  oxin  hanging  upe  and  i  asked 
him  howe  Befe  went  a  pound  and  he  said  toue  pens  happ'ny  a 
pound,  for  said  he  that  we  shall  not  git  knowetting  at  all  By  them 
toue  for  we  give  mister  collimore  toue  pense  a  pound  for  them 
Round  and  them  toue  in  the  yard."  Hewes  signed  and  appar- 
ently wrote  out  his  own  testimony.  The  case  is  rather  interesting 
as  showing  how  the  butcher's  business  was  conducted  in  those 
days.  Collimer  claimed  to  have  sold  four  oxen  at  two  pence 
the  pound  "  round,  hides,  flesh  and  tallow,"  the  whole  weighing 
2500  pounds.  Marshall  claimed  that  the  oxen  were  sold  to  one 
Slegg,  since  deceased  and  insolvent,  who  killed  the  oxen  at  his 
slaughter  house ;  it  being  their  well-known  custom  to  let  out  the 
slaughter  house.  Proof  was  also  presented  to  show  that  Colli- 
mer had  sold  four  oxen  to  one  John  Barry,  a  tanner,  for  5-i  shil- 
lings in  Oct.,  1697,  the  time  of  the  sale  to  Slegg,  which  may  be 
an  attempt  to  show  that  he  realized  on  the  hides  apart  from  the 
rest  of  the  beast.  Ann  Doubleday,  widow,  testified  that  Collimer 
came  to  her  house  "  last  winter  "  and  asked  if  Slegg  left  any  es- 
tate, as  he  owed  him  for  the  oxen.  John  Pitts,  butcher,  testified 
that  Slegg  told  him  he  had  bought  of  Collimer.  Martha  Bansford, 
aged  24,  testified  that  Collimer  brought  four  oxen  to  sell  to  her 


110  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES 

husband,  but  Slegg  went  into  the  yard  to  look  at  them,  and  Colli- 
mer  went  past  their  shop  and,  clapping  his  hand  on  his  pocket, 
said,  "  there  was  his  money  for  his  cattle."  She  had  warned  him 
of  the  financial  irresponsibility  of  Slegg.  This  case  was  appealed 
by  Collimer,  who  lost  in  the  lower  court  (Suffolk  Files,  3675). 

Hewes  is  mentioned  in  a  suit  by  Isaac  Royal  against  Col.  Wil- 
liam Foster,  of  Barbadoes,  merchant.  Royal  sued  for  balance 
of  account,  4  Nov.,  1698.  It  appears  that  he  sold  part  of  the 
ship  Margaret  to  Foster,  and  then  laded  her  with  goods  on  their 
joint  account,  and  that  they  traded  as  partners.  Matthias 
Clarke  was  master  of  the  Margaret  galley.  Royal's  account  in- 
cluded the  following  item,  "  13  August,  1696.  To  making  new 
locks,  mending  and  cleaning  nineteen  guns,  paid  Joshua  Hues, 
£16-11-4  "  (Suffolk  Files,  3859). 

Finally  these  court  files  introduce  us  to  a  suit  against  Hewes. 
"  Samuel  Russell  of  Boston  vs.  Joshua  Hewes  of  Boston,  gun- 
smith," for  £8-6-0,  goods  sold  and  cash  lent,  and  work  done,  Dec. 
4,  1697  and  since."     Hewes  lost,  but  appealed. 

Russell  entered  the  following  bill  (Suffolk  Files,  4764)  : 

4  Dec,  1697  To  one  frise  coat  for  yourself  .£3-10-6 

To  making  your  wife,  a  riding  whood  silk  0-  3-6 

22  Apr.   1699  one  serg  coat  for  your  son  1 

1  Aug.   1699  To  one  blue  broadcloath  garters  and  breeches  3-  6-0 

He  was  employed  as  an  "  armourer  "  in  the  army  raised  for 
the  invasion  of  Canada.  "  Paid  Joshua  Hews  armourer  and  ye 
rest  of  ye  armourers  yl  served  in  ye  Expedition  to  Canada  from 
July  21  to  Oct.  15,  1711,  £31-1-8  "  (Treasurer's  Account  1711- 
12,  Mass.  Arch.  122:394). 

Joshua  Hewes,  Jr.'s  name  appears  on  Boston  records  among 
those  who  had  not  paid  their  rates  for  1701  and  1701-2.  His 
rate  was  9  shillings.  In  1701  his  petition  to  build  in  wood  was 
allowed  by  the  selectmen. 

III.  10  SAMUEL  HEWES  {Joshua,  Joshua)  of  Boston, 
cooper,8  born  in  Boston,  8  Sept.,  1677;  died  in  Antigua  prior  to 
July,  L790. 

Samuel  Hewes  and  Hannah  Johnson  were  married  by  Samuel 

> Samuel  Hewes  of  Antigua,  "vintner,"  sued  William  Hirst  of  Salem,  mer- 
chant,   otherwise    described    ;i^    of    Antigua,    for    debt,    and    recovered    £143. 

(Suffolk   Court  ('i)iimiun    1'leas,  October   term,   1718.) 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES  111 

Sewall,  Esq.,  11  Dec,  1700  (Boston  records).  Hannah  Johnson 
was  daughter  of  Samuel  Johnson,  of  Boston,  cooper.4  She  was 
born  22  Jan.,  1677-8,  and  died  1734,  which  year,  21  Dec,  admin- 
istration on  her  estate  was  granted  to  her  son  Samuel  Hewes,  she 
being  termed  his  mother  in  the  papers  of  administration  (30; 
453).  Inventory  of  her  estate  included  67  ounces  silver  valued 
at  £91,  and  13  dwt.  gold  valued  at  £12,  and  a  house  and  land  in 
Water  street,  valued  at  £600  (Suffolk  Probate,  32:196). 

After  her  husband's  death,  she  inherited  from  her  father  a  half 
interest  in  the  westerly  part  of  his  house  called  the  kitchen,  16 
feet  front  on  the  street.  On  6  July,  1720,  she  purchased  of  Wil- 
liam Sutton  and  Mary  his  wife,  her  sister,  their  interest  in  the 
house  and  lot  (Deeds,  34:224).  This  was  the  eastern  corner  of 
Devonshire  street.  It  was  in  the  cellar  of  a  building  standing 
here,  that  the  gravestone  of  Lieutenant  Joshua  Hewes  was  found, 
it  is  said  during  the  improvements  made  at  the  time  the  Post  Of- 
fice was  built  in  1876.  A  "  negro  woman  of  Samuel  Hewes  "  died 
6  Jan.,  1714  (Boston  records). 

Children: 

21+  Samuel,  born  13  Oct.,  1701 ;  baptized  as  child  of  Hannah 

Hewes  at  the  Old  South,  19  Oct.,  1702. 
22+  Benjamin,  born  15  Nov.,  1703;  baptized  as  child  of  Han- 
nah Hewes,  at  Old  South,  21  Nov.,  1704. 
23+  Joshua,  born  probably  in  1705,  or  earlier. 
24+  Nathaniel,  he  with  brother  Joshua  are  named  in  Nathan- 
iel Norden's  will.     Living  in  1729. 
25+  Hannah,   born    19   May,    1715    (town   rec.)  ;   married   31 
March,  1736,  Stephen  Winter. 
Administration  on  the  estate  of  Samuel  Hewes  was  granted  by 
Samuel  Sewall,  Esq.,  Judge  of  the  Probate  of  Wills,  etc.,  to  Han- 
nah Hughes  of  Boston  in  the  County  of  Suffolk,  Widow,  18  July, 
1720. 

The  following  inventory  was  filed : 

An    Inventory   of   the    Estate    of    Sam'l.    Hewes,   late  of   Antigua 
Deceased  taken  by  us  the  Subscribers  this  third  day  of  Jan.,  1720 
Vizt. 
79y2  ounces  of  Plate  at  11/6  41        13         9 

*  For  the  ancestry  of  Hannah  Johnson,  see  Appendix. 


9 

17 

0 

8 

16 

0 

3 

1 

0 

6 

7 

0 

9 

12 

3 

11 

1 

07 
05 

0 

6 

7 

13 

2 

02 

2 

100 

112  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES 

3  Feather  Beds  &   Bolsters   &  two  Bedsteads  with 

rods  12        15 

5  Pillows,   3  pr.   Blanketts,  4  Rugs,  2   Quilts  &  2 
counterpanes 
12  pr.   Sheets,  9   pr.   Pillowbears 

9  Table  Clothes,  8  Towells,  &  30  Napkins 
Old  Books,  Coat  &  Vest,  3.12/.,  3  pr.  Curtains  2.15/ 
2  looking  Glasses,  2  Tables,  2  Chest  of  Drawers 
18  chairs,  8  Trunks,  knives  &  forkes 

2  fire    shovels,    2    Tongs,    5    Brass    Candlesticks    & 

pepper  box.  Warming  pan  &  Frying  pan 
A  Coper  Pot,  Ladle,  Fleshfork  &  Skimmer 
80x  w't  of  Pewter  at  18/ 

3  brass  kettles,  2  pr  Brass  Andirons  &  a  Jack 
3   pr.   Doggs,   Morter  and   Pestel,   Scales   weights,   2 

Spitts  and  4  Iron  Potts,  3  Tramels  &  a  Fender 

&  Gridiron 
Earthen  ware,  Glasses  &  Lumber 
A  Bond   of  Walter   Price  of  Salem 

216  2  9 

Thomas  Phillips,  Wm.  Lowder,  Nicholas  Boone. 
Suffolk  ss.  By  the  Hon.ble  Sam1  Sewall  Esq  Judge  of  Probate  &c. 
Hannah  Hewes  Widow  and  Adm8  of  the  Estate  of  her  Husband 
Samuel  Hewes  late  of  Antigua  Cooper  deceased  presented  this  In- 
ventory and  made  Oath  that  it  is  a  true  and  perfect  Inventory  of 
the  Estate  of  the  said  Samuel  Hewes,  so  far  as  has  to  her  knowl- 
edge, and  that  if  more  hereafter  appear,  she  will  cause  it  to  be  added, 
the  apprizers  having  been  sworn  according  to  law. 
Boston  Jan  21st  1720 

Jurat  Coram 

Samuel   Sewell 

Samuel    Hewes    of    Boston,   merchant,   had    administration    29 

July,   1735  on  his  mother  Hannah  Hewes''  estate,  and  presented 
the  following  inventory  taken  31  December,  1734. 

Inventory  of  estate  of  Mrs.  Hannah  Hewes,  late  of  Boston,  widow. 
A  House  &  Land  in  Water  St.  £600. 

67  oz.   f)  dwt  Silver  @    27/  p.  oz.  £91-1    18   clwt. :  4  Gold 

£12.7/  103.8 

A  Large  and  small   Looking  gl.iss  11.10 

i  Feather  Beds  with  Bedsteads  &  Iron  Rods  81.5 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES  113 

A  Quilt  &  2  Ruggs  70/  2  chest  with  Drawers  &  1   Table 

&  2  Trunks  old  £9.7/  12.10 
5  Leather  &  9  bass  bottomed  Chairs,  2.8 

A  prcll  of  Iron  and  small  Brass  Ware  24.1 

A  prcll  of  Pewter,  wr  QVA  @  3/6  10.15.3 

Some  Earthen  Ware  &  small  box  17/6  Household  Linnen  24. 
2  Tables,  1  Chest,  2  boxes,  1  bowl  Morter  Cupboard,  &  B.B.  1.18 

2    Cushions,   2    Folding   Boards,   Some   Books    &   6    Sticks 

Fustick  2.7 

1  pr  Serge  Curtains  1. 

The  above  Inventory  is  shown  by  Sam1  Hewes  as  the  Estate  of 
Mrs.  Hannah  Hewes  which  we  approve  according  to  the  best  of  our 
Judgment. 

Benj.   Pollard 

Jere.  Green 

Middlecott  Cooke,  appointed  by 
Hon.  Josiah  Willard,  Judge  of  Probate. 

FOURTH  GENERATION 

IV.  21  SAMUEL  HEWES  {Samuel,  Joshua,  Joshua)  of 
Boston,  merchant,  born  13  Oct.,  1701 ;  baptized  at  the  Old 
South  19  Oct.,  1702;  died  in  Boston  31  Jan.,  1765,  aged  64  (Bos- 
ton Post  Boy). 

He  married,  first,  18  July,  1728,  Deborah,  daughter  of  Israel 
and  Sarah  (Man)  Phippeny  of  Boston,  born  there  30  Aug.,  1708 
(Town  records). 

Samuel  and  Deborah  Hewes  renewed  the  covenant  at  the  New 
South  Church  3  Aug.,  1729. 

8  Dec,  1729,  Samuel  Hewes  of  Boston,  shopkeeper,  and  De- 
borah, his  wife,  granddaughter  of  Deborah  Mann,  late  of  Boston, 
widow,  in  consideration  of  £400,  release  all  their  right  in  the 
estate  of  the  said  Deborah  Mann,  and  to  a  tenement  in  Marlboro 
street,  to  Eliza  Bull,  of  Boston,  widow  (Suffolk  Deeds,  44:72). 

Samuel  Hewes  married,  second,  5  Dec,  1734,  Elizabeth  Tew 
(Town  records).  "Elizabeth  widow  of  Samuel  Hewes,  Esq., 
merchant,  died  23  Feb.,  1774,  aged  68."  She  was  the  daughter 
of  Henry  and  Mary  (Felmare)  Tew,  and  was  born  20  Aug.,  1707 
(Town  records).  She  was  received  into  full  communion  at  the 
New  South,  14  Sept.,  1735. 

Elizabeth  Hewes  who  renewed  the  covenant  at  the  New  South 


114  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES 

3   Nov.,   1754,   and  was   received  into   full   communion   15   Feb., 
1756,  was  probably  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Samuel  Hewes,  Jr. 

Children  of  Samuel  and  Deborah: 

2G+  Samuel,  born  6  Aug.,  1729;  baptized  at  the  New  South,  10 

Aug.,  1729. 
27+  Deborah,  bom  25  March,  1733 ;  baptized  at  the  New  South 
1  April,  1733;  married  19  Nov.,  1761,  Jabez  Hatch. 

Samuel  Hewes  was  received  into  full  communion  at  the  New 
South  19  Feb.,  1743.  He  was  deacon  in  that  church  in  1758, 
and  on  9  July  of  that  year  his  negro  man,  Edward,  was  baptized. 
Edward's  children  James,  and  Nancy,  Gibbah  and  Jean,  negresses, 
slaves  of  Samuel  Hewes,  were  baptized  11  July,  1762. 

Samuel  Hewes  was  a  successful  merchant,  beginning  first  as 
a  "  shopkeeper."  About  1730  he  removed  to  Watertown  where 
he  conducted  a  general  trading  business,  but  was  soon  back  in 
Boston  (Suffolk  Court  Common  Pleas,  1730).  Later  he  owned 
part  of  Long  Wharf,  where  he  had  a  warehouse,  and  probably 
dealt  in  imported  English  goods  as  well  as  products  of  the  West 
Indies.  Later  his  son  was  associated  with  him.  He  was  captain 
of  one  of  the  Boston  militia  companies,  and  in  1748,  1750,  1752, 
1753,  was  on  the  Committee  on  Visitation  of  the  town  for  Ward 
9.  In  1753  he  was  elected  Selectman  in  place  of  Thomas  Han- 
cock, and  continued  in  this  office  until  12  March,  1764,  and  on  his 
retirement  the  town  passed  a  vote  in  recognition  of  his  long  serv- 
ice. From  1757  to  1764  he  was  one  of  the  Trustees  of  the  lot- 
tery established  by  the  town  to  raise  money  for  the  paving  of 
the  Neck,  and  in  1765  was  on  the  Committee  to  visit  schools. 

The  report  of  the  Committee  to  visit  the  Boston  schools,  of 
which  Mr.  Hewes  was  a  member,  is  a  model  for  brevity,  "  The 
Soutli  Grammar  School  had  117  scholars,  North  Grammar 
School  57  schollars,  the  South  Writing  School  234  schollars,  the 
writing  School  in  Queen  Street  249  schollars;  all  in  very  good  or- 
der." 

In  the  Great  Fire  of  20  March,  1760.  lie  was  one  of  the  prin- 
cipal sufferers.  This  fire  started  at  2  a.  M.,  in  the  dwelling 
house  of  Mrs.  Mary  Jackson  at  the  Brazen  I  bad  in  Cornhill 
(Washington  street,  opposite  Williams  Court)  and  soon  burned 
every  house,  with  a  IVu  exceptions,  t<>  Oliver's  Dock.  Thence 
across  State  Street,  sweeping  .all  before  it,  to  Fori  Hill,  and  to 
the  wharves.     Aboul  400  buildings  were  destroyed.     Hewes'  loss 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES  115 

was  given  as  £324  in  the  Post  Boy  and  Advertiser  of  24  March 
(Boston  Rec.  Com.  Rpt.  29).  On  the  29  March,  1760,  the  Gen- 
eral Court  appointed  a  Commission  on  the  rebuilding  of  Boston, 
of  which  the  Governor  was  a  member.  This  Commission  con- 
sisted of  the  Governor  and  Council,  and  the  Selectmen  of  Boston, 
and  their  proceedings  are  printed  in  the  29th  Report  of  the  Bos- 
ton Record  Commissioners.  Samuel  Hewes  took  a  prominent 
part  in  the  proceedings,  which  chiefly  concerned  the  laying  out  of 
streets,  many  changes  being  made  in  the  old  crooked  narrow  thor- 
oughfares. He  was  on  a  special  committee  to  consider  widening 
and  straightening  Water  Street  and  the  lower  part  of  Milk  Street. 
The  plan  proposed  by  this  committee  contemplated  extending 
Milk  Street  to  the  shore,  and,  with  this  exception,  the  report, 
with  some  modifications  lessening  the  expense,  was  finally  adopted. 

In  Oct.,  1750,  Capt.  Goelet  of  New  York  visited  Boston  and 
Salem,  and  was  entertained  by  the  principal  personages  in  those 
places.  He  left  an  interesting  account  of  his  visit  which  has  been 
published  in  Vol.  24  of  the  N.  E.  Historical  Genealogical  Regis- 
ter. He  speaks  of  the  entertainment  offered  to  him  by  the  Bos- 
ton merchants,  among  them  Samuel  Hewes,  Esq. 

The  Boston  Post  Boy  of  4  Feb.,  1765,  contained  the  follow- 
ing notice  of  his  death:  "  Last  Wednesday  died  here  after  a  lin- 
gering illness  in  the  65th  year  of  his  age,  greatly  lamented,  the 
truly  worthy  Samuel  Hewes,  Esq.,  for  many  years  past  an  emi- 
nent Merchant,  and  one  of  the  Selectmen  of  this  town.  For  his 
many  virtues,  his  Memory  will  be  ever  grateful  to  all  who  had  the 
Pleasure  of  his  Acquaintance,  An  honest  Man's  the  noblest  Work 
of  God." 

His  will  was  probated  8  Feb.,  1765. 

He  made  his  wife  Elizabeth  Hewes,  son  Samuel  Hewes  and  son- 
in-law  Jabez  Hatch,  executors. 

To  his  beloved  wife  he  bequeathed  all  his  slaves ;  to  sister  Han- 
nah Winter  eight  pounds  lawful  money.  To  son  Samuel  the 
warehouse  on  the  Long  wharfs  and  all  his  rights  and  estate  in 
the  said  wharfs.  Nevertheless,  his  wife  was  to  hold  and  enjoy 
one-half  part  during  her  life.  The  residue  of  his  real  estate  to 
son  Samuel  and  daughter  Deborah  and  their  heirs,  share  and 
share  alike.  To  his  wife  all  household  furniture  excepting  a  high 
desk  and  the  plate,  which  was  disposed  of  in  following  manner : 

Three  small  silver  cups  to  three  grand  children,  one  to 
each:  to  son  Samuel  the  high  desk,  silver  strainer  and  ladle  and 


116  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES 

wearing  apparel :  to  Sam1  Hewes,  a  grand-son,  gold  sleeve  buttons, 
silver  knee  buckles  and  silver  shoe  buckles ;  one  half  residue  of 
plate  equally  between  said  son  and  daughter;  the  other  half  to 
wife,  and  at  her  death  all  her  share  in  estate  to  son  and  daughter. 
The  witnesses  to  the  will  were  Joseph  Gardner,  Isaac  Hawes, 
Richard  Dana. 

A  copy  of  the  Inventory  of  his  estate  taken  by  John  Hill,  Jon- 
athan Clark  and  John  Winslow,  14  Feb.,  1765,  follows : 
Warehouse   on   the   Long   Wharf   24   part   wharfage  £  400. 

4    Shares    in    Township    of    New    Boston    East,  106.13.4 

A  Lot  of  Land  in  Water  street  Boston,  100. 

170  acres  of  Land  in  Bedford  New  Hampshire  59.10 

1/half  of  a  Brig1  burthen   140   Tons  300. 

1/16  of  a  Sloop  80  Tons  "  20.16.8 

20  pipes  Fyall  Wine  at  9.6^  do  £7.6.8  227-13.4 

1  pipe  ThenerifFe  do.  .£13.6.8.  2  pipes  do.  mixed  with  salt 

water  @  £3  19.  6.8 

286  Gallens  West  India  Rum  @  2/  28.12 

117  Gal  Molasses  9/  O.T.  8.16.5 
66   Sugar                                                                                                       10.1 

2  Beams  with   Scales  &  Weights  5.16.6 
4   Casks  &  a  part  of  Nails  31.   3.4 
4T:l<,r:24  Deck  Nails  11.14 
lT:3qr-:  Shot  42/  7T3<ir-  Lead  £  7.16.6  9.18.6 
6T  Brimstone  8.   8 
7%   P   Bunting  &  an   Ensign  9.   1.7 
1  p  &  25  yds  Duck  &  Oznabrigs  1.11.4 
71Ib  Pewter  &  1  gross  spoons  5.  7.6 
A  parcel  of  Ship  Chandlers  stores  consisting  of  Locks  ham- 
mers hooks  &  lines  chiefly  old,  valued  at                              17.  4.1 

1    Ream   paper  1. 


1382.14.3 


Household    Furniture 

A   Desk   £13.6.8 -Glassware   £6.17-4  20.  4 

7   IVir  Glasses  £21.17.     China  £  3.6.8  25.   3.8 
Stone  &  Delph  Ware  3.15.6 

20  chairs  £6.14/28d0  £4  10.14 

7  Tables  £  6-5  Chest  Draws  £  7/5  13.  5 
Brass  Chimney  Furniture  1.  6 

Iron    ditto  1.12.6 

Case  knives  &  forks  15/  furniture  for  Tea  Table  48/  2.19 

53   pictun  s    L'5.5.4      Books  £3  8.   5.4 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES  117 

Couch   &    Cushings  1.  8.8 

Clock  £10,  Desk  £1.6.8  11.  6.8 

7  beds  £33  furniture  £31-3-8  64.   3.8 

Carpet  £l   Table  Linnen  £11-5.5  12.  5.5 

Tuggs  &  Bottles  6.  2. 

Pewter  £9.12.6  Brass  £2-10-6  12.  3. 

Copper — 6-13-9  a  Jack  £4-  Saws  16/  11.  9.9 

Chimney  Furniture  3.  5 

Tinware  16/  Box  Iron  Scales  &  weights  28/  2.  4 

Table  &  chairs  .14. 

Lanthorn  -  Brushes  -  Lines  &  Hammers  1.  9. 

Chaise  £20   Horse  Bridle  &  Saddle  £9.10/  29.10 

3  Negroes  £40,  291  oz  Silver  £143.17-10  143.17.10 

Gold  £7-11-8   wearing  apparel  £52-13/  60.  4.8 

y%  a  Ships  Copper  3.13.4 


1833.16.3 


The  will  of  Elizabeth  Hewes,  widow,  was  dated  24  May,  1770, 
proved  4  March,  1774  by  Henderson  Inches  and  Nathaniel  Ap- 
pleton.  She  provided  for  the  freeing  and  maintenance  of  her 
negro  slaves  Ned  and  Jebber,  who  were  to  receive  two  thirds  of 
the  income  of  a  house  near  the  Old  South  then  possessed  by  Ga- 
maliel Rogers,  which  was  her  father's  estate.  The  remaining  third 
of  the  income  was  to  be  used  for  maintenance  of  her  slave  Jenny, 
whom  she  gave  to  her  nieces  Annapel  Greene  and  Rachel  Apple- 
ton,1  and  other  provision  was  made  for  them.  To  her  sister  Han- 
nah Winter  £2,  to  Samuel  and  Mary  Deming  children  of  late  niece 
Mary  Deming,  and  to  neices  Annapel  Green  and  Rachel  Appleton 
(  Suffolk  Probate,  73  :459  ). 

IV.  22  BENJAMIN  HEWES  {Samuel,  Joshua,  Joshua) 
born  in  Boston,  15  Nov.,  1703;  died  in  Kingston,  Jamaica, 
January,  1745.  Benjamin  Hewes  was  a  cooper.  He  was  cap- 
tured by  pirates,  and  eventually  settled  in  Kingston,  where  he  was 
twice  married.  Noel  B.  Livingston,  Esq.,  the  well-known  au- 
thority upon  Jamaica  genealogy,  made  a  thorough  search  of  the 
island  archives  for  information  concerning  Benjamin  Hewes  and 
his  family,  and  the  results  of  his  research  are  printed  below: 

i  Mary  Tew  married  John  Henderson,  1722.  Nathaniel  Appleton  married 
Rachel  Henderson,  1756.  Samuel  Deming  married  Mary  Henderson,  1746. 
Henderson  Inches  married  Elizabeth  Henderson,  1751.  Nathaniel  Greene 
married  Annapel  Henderson,  1759. 


118  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES 

Benjamin  Hughes  of  the  parish  of  Kingston,  cooper  and 
Martha  Chaddock,  of  the  same  parish,  widow,  were  joyned  to- 
gether in  ye  Holy  State  of  Matrimony  on  ye  25th  day  of  March, 
1732   (Register  Kingston  Marriages,  1:16). 

(Thomas  Chadock  and  Martha  Brown  of  Kingston  and  St. 
Catherine,  married  July,  1727.) 

Benjamin  Hewes  of  Kingston,  cooper,  and  Prudence  Brown- 
ing of  same,  widow,  married  31  Dec,  1711  (Ibid.). 

Benjamin  Hewes  buried  by  his  wife,  21  Jan.,  174*5. 

Prudence  Hewes,  widow,  buried  21  Aug.,  1770. 

(There  are  also  burials  recorded  as  follows :  15  April,  1737, 
John  Hewes,  belonging  to  Capt.  Brackenbridge.  Capt.  John 
Hewes,  a  mariner,  28  June,  1754,  and  William  Hewes  "  buried  by 
his  father  22  Dec,  1719  " —  this  last  may  have  been  a  son  of  Ben- 
jamin, but  there  is  no  record  of  his  birth  or  baptism). 

From  copies  of  inscriptions  made  by  Capt.  Lawrence  Archer 
are  taken  the  following:  Thomas,  son  of  Thomas  and  Martha 
Chaddock,  died  3  Jan.,  1731,  aged  6.2  Martha  Hewes,  mother 
of  the  "  above  named  children,"  died  5  Dec,  1711,  aged  38.  Ben- 
jamin Hewes,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Prudence  Hewes,  died  21  July, 
1743,  aged  8  days. 

Martha  Hughes  of  Kingston,  wife  of  Benjamin  Hughes,  left 
a  will  dated  2  Sept.,  1737,  three  days  before  birth  of  her  daughter 
Hannah,  proved  21  Jan.,  1741.  She  mentions  property  purchased 
during  her  widowhood  as  Martha  Chaddock,  which  she  gives  to 
her  two  sons,  Samuel  and  Benjamin  Hughes,  and  her  unborn 
child,  and  in  case  of  their  death  to  their  father  Benjamin  Hughes, 
who  is  to  be  their  guardian. 

Benjamin  Hewes  of  Kingston,  cooper,  left  a  will  dated  22  Jan., 
1745,  proved  20  Feb.,  1715.  He  bequeathed  all  his  estate  to  his 
wife  Prudence,  with  reversion  to  his  daughter  Hannah,  and  in 
case  she  died  without  heirs  to  his  "  brother  Samuel  Hewes  and  sis- 
ter Hannah  Hewes  of  Boston  "  and  their  heirs. 

Children: 

28      Samtei,,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Martha  I  lews,  born  9;  bap- 

-  This  is  an  error,  for  it  \v;ts  his  brother  Samuel  who  then  died,  see  he- 
low —  probably  Capt.  Archer  rend  the  Inscriptions  of  both  children  from 
the  stones,  but  omitted  the  name  of  Samuel  and  date  following  Benjamin's 
name  when  he  came  to  copy  his  notes  for  publication  in  "Monumental  In- 
scriptions in  the   West  indies." 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HE  WES  119 

tized  15  April,  1733.  "  Samuel  Hewes  buried  by  his 
father  14  Jan.,  1738." 

29  Benjamin,  son   of  Benjamin  and  Martha  Hewes,  born  7 

Nov.,  1733  (probably  error  for  1734),  baptized  8  Dec, 
1734.  "  Benjamin  Hewes  buried  by  his  father  29  Oct., 
1737." 

30  Hannah,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Martha  Hewes,  born 

5  Sept. ;  baptized  2  Oct.,  1737. 

31  Benjamin,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Prudence  Hewes,  born  14; 

baptized  19  June,  1743. 
Benjamin  Hewes  learned  the  cooper's  trade  and  shipped  on  a 
vessel  sailing  to  Surinam  for  a  cargo  of  sugar.     His  experience 
is  told  in  the  following  advertisement  which  appeared  in  the  New 
England  Courant  for  Oct.  8-15,  1722. 

The  Deposition  of  William  Pittman,  Mariner,  Master  of  the  Sloop 
Paradox,  and  Edward  Richards,  Mate  of  the  said  sloop,  both  of 
Boston  in  New  England. 

These  Deponents  Testify  and  say,  That  on  the  Eighth  Day  of 
July  last  past,  in  the  Latitude  of  18  Degrees,  Longitude  46  or  there- 
abouts West  from  London;  the  said  Sloop  in  her  Passage  from  Bos- 
ton to  Surranam,  was  taken  by  a  Pirate  Ship  called  the  Morning 
Star,  and  a  Brigantine  called  the  Fortune,  both  under  the  Command 
of  Capt.  Frend;  whose  Pyratical  Crew,  carried  away  in  the  said 
Brigantine,  (under  the  subordinate  Command  of  the  Quarter  Master 
Wilks)  two  of  the  said  Sloops  Company,  viz.  Benjamin  Hewes,  a 
native  of  Boston,  aged  about  nineteen  Years,  and  late  Apprentice 
to  Mr.  Barrat  Dyre  of  said  Boston,  Cooper,  and  the  Deponent  Pit- 
man's Jersey  Boy,  aged  about  nineteen  Years,  named  Thomas  Sym- 
mons;  and  the  said  Pyrates  utterly  refused  to  release  them,  and 
constrained  or  forced  them  to  go  along  with  them,  very  much  against 
their  Wills.     And  further  the  Deponents  say  not. 

William    Pitman 
Edward    Richards 
Suffolk,    SS  Boston,   October    12,    1722. 

William  Pitman  and  Edward  Richards  appearing  made  Oath  that 
the  above  Deposition  by  them  Subscribed  is  the  Truth,  and  nothing 
but  the  Truth. 

Jurat'  die  praedict'     Coram  Habijah  Savage,  Just.  Paces. 
Testis    Samuel   Tyley   Not   Pub. 

On  the  15  Oct.,  1722,  Edward  Richards  from  Surinam  was 
reported  as  "  entered  inwards." 


120  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES 

In  the  C  our  ant  for  Oct.  1-8,  there  had  appeared  a  similar  ad- 
vertisement to  the  effect  that  Nathaniel  Breed,  master  of  the  brig- 
antine  Happy  Return,  of  Boston,  bound  for  Liverpool,  had  been 
taken  28  May,  1722,  about  185  leagues  to  eastward  of  Cape  Cod 
by  two  pirates,  a  ship  of  thirty  guns,  and  a  brigantine  of  14  guns, 
who  forced  away  two  men,  viz :  Amos  Breed,  mate,  born  in  Lynn 
in  New  England,  a  short  man,  pock  broken,  brown  hair,  a  car- 
penter by  trade,  and  aged  28  years,  also  William  Sinclair,  sailor, 
a  short  man,  short  dark  hair,  born  in  North  Britain,  aged  27 
years. 

Three  months  earlier  there  appeared  the  following  news  item: 

Boston  July  2,  1722.  On  Thursday  last  came  in  Capt.  Peter 
Papillion  who  went  in  quest  of  the  Pirates,  and  brought  in  with  him 
the  Brigantine  late  in  Possession  of  the  Pirates  commanded  by  one 
Low,  they  having  taken  a  better  vessel  and  given  her  again  to  the 
Master.  T'is  said  Low  has  very  much  increased  his  number  of  men 
since  he  came  upon  this  Coast. 

Pirates  and  privateers,  the  latter  quite  as  much  feared  as  the 
former,  infested  the  American  coast  and  the  West  Indian  seas 
at  this  time.  One  of  these  pirates  was  Samuel  Bellamy,  whose 
doings  on  the  northern  Atlantic  coast  excited  much  apprehension. 
There  is  on  file  among  the  papers  of  the  Supreme  Court  in  Suf- 
folk County,  a  number  of  papers  relating  to  one  Thomas  Davis, 
who  like  Hewes  was  taken  from  a  merchant  vessel  by  the  pirates, 
and  escaped  only  when  their  ship  with  all  on  board,  except  him- 
self and  one  other,  foundered.  His  memorial  praying  for  re- 
lease from  chains  and  imprisonment  shows  the  danger  in  which 
even  an  innocent  man  was  placed.  Thomas  Davis  of  Bristol, 
England,  shipwright,  on  examination,  stated  he  sailed  from  Bris- 
tol in  the  ship  St.  Michael,  of  which  James  Williams  was  master, 
in  September  last.  His  position  was  that  of  ship's  carpenter. 
Their  destination  was  Jamaica.  On  the  16  December  they  met 
two  pirate  sloops,  one  commanded  by  Capt.  Samuel  Bellamy,  the 
other  \>y  Mons.  Louis  Le  Bour,  who  captured  the  St.  Michael, 
20  leagues  off  Sabia,  and  took  her  to  the  island  of  Blanco,  where 
the  captured  crew  were  kept  until  9  January.      Davis  and  about 

fourteen  others  were  forced  on  board  the  Sultan  Galley,  which 
had   been    taken    from   Capt.   John    Richards,  and  which  sailed 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES  121 

thence  under  Bellamy's  command.  Later  a  ship  called  the 
Whiddo  was  captured,  and  Davis  with  the  rest  of  "  the  prison- 
ers "  came  in  her  onto  the  New  England  coast,  where  she  was 
cast  away,  and  Davis  with  one  John  Julian  alone  escaped.  Davis 
denied  knowing  where  her  treasure  was,  and  had  never  been  ad- 
mitted to  the  confidence  of  the  pirates. 

He  was  retained  in  custody  long  enough  for  evidences  regard- 
ing his  honesty  to  be  obtained.  One  testimony  in  his  favor  was 
from  Captain  John  Gilbert,  of  Bristol,  mariner,  who  identified 
him  as  son  of  William  Davis  of  Bristol,  and  testified  that  he  was 
of  good  reputation.  His  father  William  Davis,  of  Bristol,  car- 
penter, petitions  for  his  son's  release,  testifying  to  his  having 
been  an  obedient  and  dutiful  son. 

No  disposition  as  to  his  case  appears  in  the  files,  but  it  is  to 
be  hoped  that  Davis  was  released.  Punishment  of  men  found 
guilty  of  piracy  even  if  not  actually  proven  to  have  participated 
in  the  crimes  of  their  guilty  associates,  as  in  Davis'  case,  was 
swift  and  sure.3 

Low  was  one  of  the  most  dreaded  of  the  pirates  who  preyed 
upon  the  colonial  commerce.  The  ships  of  war  stationed  on  the 
New  England  coast  were  not  very  successful  in  their  attempts  to 
put  down  piracy,  and  now  and  again  the  Colony  sent  a  merchant 
vessel  chartered  for  that  purpose  in  pursuit  of  some  pirate  ship 
reported  off  the  coast. 

After  his  settlement  in  Jamaica,  Benjamin  Hewes  and  his 
wife,  Martha,  in  1737,  joined  in  the  sale  of  the  Water  street 
property  in  Boston,  and  also  in  1745  with  wife  Prudence,  he  gave 
power  of  attorney  to  his  brother  Samuel  Hewes  (Suffolk  Deeds, 
71:134). 

IV.  23  JOSHUA  HEWES  (Samuel,  Joshua,  Joshua),  born 
probably  in  1705.  The  baptisms  of  his  two  elder  brothers,  Sam- 
uel and  Benjamin,  are  found  recorded  on  the  register  of  the  Old 
South,  in  1702  and  1704  respectively.  There  is  a  hiatus  in  the 
record  until  1714,  and  during  this  period  Joshua  and  Nathaniel 
were  born.  Town  and  church  records  are  silent  concerning 
these  two  sons  of  Samuel.  Both  are  named  in  the  will  of  Na- 
thaniel Norden,  dated  1724,  and  both  received  their  legacies,  and, 
therefore,  were  living  in  1729,  and  of  age.     When  their  brother 

s  Files  26,283,  also  99  of  "  Fragments." 


122  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES 

Benjamin  Hewes  of  Kingston  made  his  will  in  1745,  they  had 
probably  deceased,  for  Benjamin  named  only  his  brother  Samuel 
and  sister  Hannah  as  his  heirs  in  case  his  daughter  should  die 
without  issue. 

The  records  of  Medfield  mention  the  death  there  of  Hannah 
"  wife  of  Joshua  Hewes  "  27  March,  1756.  Joshua  Hewes  is 
not  otherwise  mentioned,  and  we  are  left  in  ignorance  if  Hannah 
was  a  widow  or  not.  She  was  probably  living  in  the  family  of 
Benjamin  Hewes  of  that  place,  who  named  a  son  Joshua,  prob- 
ably after  his  father,  another  son  Benjamin,  after  himself,  and 
his  daughters,  Hannah  and  Lydia,  presumably  after  his  mother 
and  wife  respectively.  Benjamin  was  in  straitened  circum- 
stances during  his  residence  in  Medfield.  Joshua  had  realized 
on  his  legacy  and  share  in  the  Norden  estate  as  will  be  shown 
below,  and  it  is  not  probable  that  at  his  death  he  had  any  estate 
needing  administration. 

If,  as  surmised,  Joshua  had  died  prior  to  1745,  leaving  no  es- 
tate, it  would  have  been  entirely  in  keeping  with  the  custom  of 
that  day  that  his  children  should  have  been  "  bound  out  "  during 
their  minority,  and  this  would  account  for  their  starting  life  in 
different  places. 

Joshua  Hewes,  tailor,  of  Boston,  25  April,  1729,  gave  his 
bond  for  £160  that  he  would  pay  £84.6.0  on  or  before  the  25 
April  next  to  Samuel  Hewes,  assigning  to  him  as  security  his 
legacy  and  entire  interest  in  the  estates  of  Nathaniel  Norden 
(Essex  Deeds  53:  167).  On  the  23  Oct.,  1749,  Samuel  Hewes 
sold  to  Nathaniel  Bowen  of  Marblehead  9/13  of  the  estate  of 
Nathaniel  Norden,  describing  the  same  as  those  thirteenths  he 
had  purchased  from  William  Killworth  and  wife  Elizabeth, 
Charles  Busso  and  wife  Hannah,  John  Reed  and  wife  Elizabeth, 
Hannah  Blay,  Edmund  Dolbear,  Stephen  Winter  and  wife  Han- 
nah, Joshua  Hewes,  Edmund  Grice  Dolbear  and  wife  Elizabeth, 
and  his  own  share  (Essex  Deeds  95:66).  Bowen  also  purchased 
1  March,  1750,  of  the  administrator  of  the  estate  of  Col.  Ed- 
mund Goffe,  :i  Hi  of  the  estate,  being  the  portions  of  Sarah 
Grice,  Mary  Perkins,  and  Nathaniel  Hewes.  by  them  sold  to  Goffe 
8  Oct.,  1729  (Essex  Deeds  159:233).  The  original  deed  to 
Goffe  u:is  drawn  conveying  to  him  the  interest  of  Mary  Perkins, 
Sarah  Grice,  widows,  Joshua  Hewes  of  Boston,  tailor,  Na- 
thaniel  Hewes,  blacksmith,  Hannah  Blay,  William  Killworth  and 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES  123 

Charles  Busso,  but  the  only  heirs  signing  the  deed  were  Mary- 
Perkins,  Sarah  Grice,  Joshua  and  Nathaniel  Hewes,  the  latter 
using  the  same  mark  with  which  he  signed  his  receipt  for  the 
legacy  of  £40.  Joshua  Hewes'  interest  had  already  been  as- 
signed to  Samuel  Hewes,  hence  Goffe's  administrator  could  not 
convey  that  interest.  Bowen  thus  came  into  possession  of  all 
but  1/13  of  the  estate,  the  missing  share  being  that  belonging 
to  Benjamin  Hewes  or  his  heirs. 

The  thirteen  heirs  to  the  Norden  estate  were:  Sarah  Grice, 
Mary  Perkins,  Edmund  Dolbear,  Elizabeth  Killworth,  Hannah 
Busso,  Edmund  Grice  Dolbear,  Samuel  Hewes,  Benjamin  Hewes, 
Joshua  Hewes  (son  of  Samuel),  Nathaniel  Hewes  (son  of  Sam- 
uel), Hannah  Winter,  Hannah  Blay,  and  Elizabeth  Reed:  thus 
proving  that  Joshua  and  Nathaniel  Hewes,  sons  of  Joshua,  had 
died  before  Norden,  and  without  leaving  children.  This  agrees 
with  the  records  of  births  and  deaths  in  Boston. 

As  mentioned  above,  Joshua  Hewes  received  his  share  of  his 
Uncle  Norden's  estate  in  1729.  He  was  a  party  to  several  law 
suits  between  1727  and  1731.  During  these  years  he  was  doing 
business  in  Boston  as  a  tailor,  and  occupied  a  house  in  Shrimp- 
ton's  Lane  for  which  he  paid  £2-10-0  a  quarter.  He  removed 
to  Sherburne  probably  late  in  1730  (Suffolk  Court  Common 
Pleas,  1727-1731).  The  owner  of  the  house  rented  to  Hewes 
was  William  Mann,  of  Boston,  brazier.  Joshua  Hewes  was  de- 
scribed as  of  Sherburne,  tailor,  in  Sept.,  1736  (Ibid.) 

Search  of  Middlesex  Sessions  Records  fails  to  find  any  "  cau- 
tion "  4  against  Hewes,  nor  is  there  any  record  of  purchase  of 
land  in  Medfield  by  him. 

Children  (probable)  : 

32  Joshua,  died  in  Boston,  buried  31  Oct.,  1760,  described  on 
King's  Chapel  Register  as  "  ropemaker,  aged  37  years." 
Tins  would  bring  his  birth  in  1724,  or  when  Joshua,  his 
supposed  father,  was  probably  not  more  than  20  years 
old.     The  age  at  death  is  not  necessarily  to  be  assumed 

*  New  comers  settling  in  a  town  were  "  cautioned "  or  "  warned "  regard- 
less of  their  standing.  This  was  to  prevent  their  being  regarded  as  in- 
habitants until  properly  admitted,  either  by  vote  or  by  purchase.  This  cus- 
tom obtained  until  the  Revolution.  In  order  to  be  effective  the  cautions 
had  to  be  allowed  by  the  county  courts.  The  yearly  returns  from  the  vari- 
ous towns  form  an  invaluable  record  of  the  migration  of  Massachusetts  fami- 
lies during  the  18th  century. 


124<  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES 

as  precise.  Errors  of  a  year  or  two  are  common  in 
giving  the  supposed  age  at  death.  This  Joshua,  the 
ropemaker,  is  supposed  to  be  he  who  married  in  Boston, 
at  King's  Chapel,  18  July,  1742,  Abigail,  Lackey,  who 
was  buried  31  July,  174*8,  from  Trinity  Church,  de- 
scribed on  the  register  as  wife  of  Josiah  [sic]  Hewes. 
Boston  records  record  the  marriage  of  Joshua  Hewes 
and  Jane  Kimball,  15  May,  1749.  She  may  have  been 
widow  of  Thomas  Kimball  who  married  4  April,  1738, 
Jane  Surcumb  (Seccomb).5  There  is  little  to  guide  the 
investigator  seeking  the  parentage  or  history  of  this 
Joshua  Hewes.  He  does  not  appear  to  have  owned 
land,  nor  to  have  left  any  estate.  The  tax  lists  of  Bos- 
ton prior  to  1790,  with  the  exception  of  a  few  of  earlier 
date  than  Joshua's  birth,  are  lost,  probably  destroyed  in 
a  fire  at  Faneuil  Hall  where  the  records  of  the  assessors 
were  kept.  Because  of  his  marriage  at  King's  Chapel, 
and  burial  of  Abigail  from  Trinity,  it  may  be  accepted 
that  she  at  least  was  a  member  of  the  English  church, 
and  the  baptism  of  any  child  she  may  have  had  would  be 
expected  to  be  of  record  with  those  churches.  No  rec- 
ord of  children  has  been  found  on  town  or  church  rec- 
ords. 
33+  Benjamin,  married  in  1748 ;  of  Medfield.  Born  probably 
about  1725.  The  probabilities  are  greater  in  his  case 
than  with  Joshua  as  to  his  being  a  child  of  Joshua,  No. 
23.  It  is  thought  he  was  son  of  Joshua  and  Hannah. 
34+  John,  of  Lynnfield,  born  13  July,  1741.  He  named  sons 
Joshua  and  Benjamin.  His  father  was  "of  Boston," 
and  had  evidently  died  when  John  was  a  young  child. 
John  Hewes  was  "warned"  from  Wrcntham,  18  May, 
1764   (Suffolk  files,  85:263). 

IV.     21.     NATHANIEL  HEWES  (Samuel,  Joshua,  Joshua), 

born  in  Boston,  probably  about  170(>.  He  was  a  blacksmith,  and 
in  1729  of  Boston.  It  is  probable  thai  lie  removed  from  Boston 
about    that    time       Hi-    is   assumed   to  be  the    father  of  Nathaniel 


r'  Richard    Surcum    and   Jane    Savory   were    married   8    May,   1715.     No   chil- 
dren appear  of  record. 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES  125 

Hewcs  of  Brimfield,  Mass.,  and  Lyme,  N.   H.,  and  probably  of 
other  children. 

Child: 

35+  Nathaniel,  born  about  1725. 

IV.  25  HANNAH  HEWES  (Samuel,  Joshua,  Joshua), 
born  19  May,  1715;  died  Dec,  1774,  aged  60  (Mass.  Gazette); 
married  31  March,  1736,  Stephen  Winter  of  Boston,  jeweler 
(Town  records).  She  is  mentioned  in  the  will  of  Elizabeth, 
widow  of  Samuel  Hewes  the  merchant.  Inventory  of  Mr.  Ste- 
phen Winter  25  Nov.,  1747,  presented  by  Hannah  Winter  7 
June,  1748.  Total  £574,  including  one  mulatto  boy  at  £50  (Suf- 
folk Probate,  41:233). 

Children;    born  in  Boston: 

36  Hannah  Winter,  born  10  Jan.,  1736. 

37  Stephen  Winter,  born  16  Feb.,  1738,  married  Mary. 

38  Samuel  Winter,  born  29  May,  1741. 

39  Benjamin  Winter,  born  17  June,  1743. 

40  Mary  Winter,  born  18  Oct.,  1745. 

FIFTH  GENERATION 

V.  26  SAMUEL  HEWES  (Samuel,  Samuel,  Joshua, 
Joshua),  of  Boston,  merchant,  born  in  Boston  6  Aug.,  1729;  died 
1793,  aged  64  (Mass.  Magazine).  He  married  6  Dec,  1753, 
Elizabeth  Hill  (Boston  records). 

His  will  dated  28  Feb.,  1788  names  wife  Elizabeth,  son  Samuel, 
and  unmarried  daughters  Hannah,  and  Nancy  (Suffolk  Probate, 
92:93).  The  will  was  proved  19  Feb.,  1793  by  Elizabeth  and 
Samuel  Hewes,  merchant,  who  gave  bond  with  Henry  Newman, 
merchant.  The  account  of  Samuel  Hewes,  surviving  executor, 
was  rendered  in  1813. 

In  the  Census  1790  he  had  twelve  in  his  family,  five  males  over 
sixteen  years,  two  under  sixteen,  and  five  females. 

Children: 

41  Samuel,   born    [ ]  ;   baptized   22   Feb.,    1756    (New 

South)  ;  died  young. 

42  Elizabeth,  born  10  Sept.,  1757;  baptized  11  Sept.   (New 

South)  ;  died  young. 


126  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES 

43     Deborah,  born  14  March,  1759 ;  baptized  18  March  (New 

South)  ;  died  young. 
44^  Samuel,   (name  changed  to  Samuel  Hill  Hewes)  ;  baptized 

22  Feb.,  1761  (New  South)  ;  died  9  April,  1845  of  schir- 

rus  of  the  stomach  (Boston  records). 

45  Hannah,  baptized  4  Sept.,  1763  (New  South). 

46  Ann,  baptized  3  May,  1767  (New  South). 

47  Thomas,   baptized  26  March,   1769,    (New  South)  ;  prob- 

ably died  young. 

In  1756  Samuel  Hewes,  Jr.,  was  chosen  constable,  but  was  ex- 
cused. Two  years  later  he  was  chosen  clerk  of  the  market.  In 
1773  he  was  chosen  warden,  and  in  1776  was  one  of  the  com- 
mittee of  thirty-six  to  enquire  into  who  had  the  smallpox  and 
who  are  in  or  who  have  served  in  the  army.  In  1777  and  1778, 
he  was  one  of  the  overseers  of  the  poor  (Boston  town  records). 

Samuel  Hewes  was  engaged  with  his  father  in  business,  under 
the  title  of  Samuel  Hewes  and  Son,  and  after  his  father's  death 
continued  the  business.  13  Aug.,  1768,  Elizabeth  Hewes  of  Bos- 
ton, widow,  grants  to  Samuel  Hewes  of  Boston,  merchant,  all  her 
right,  etc.,  in  estate  of  her  late  husband,  Samuel  Hewes,  Esq., 
and  in  return  Samuel  Hewes  leases  for  life  to  the  said  Elizabeth, 
all  his  warehouse  on  Long  Wharf  and  all  his  interest  in  the  said 
wharf  and  warehouse  which  belonged  to  his  late  father,  and  the 
addition  he  has  made  to  the  said  warehouse  (Suffolk  Deeds, 
113:197). 

1  Nov.,  1767,  Samuel  Hewes  of  Boston,  merchant,  and  Jabez 
Hatch  of  Boston,  merchant,  and  Deborah,  his  wife,  divide  be- 
tween them  the  estate  left  by  their  mother  Deborah  Hewes,  and 
land  in  Water  street  which  their  father  Samuel  Hewes  died 
seized  of.  "  Whereas  Deborah,  late  wife  of  Samuel  Hewes,  Esq., 
deceased,  and  mother  of  said  Samuel  and  Deborah,  died  seized 
of  land  in  Marlboro  street,  with  the  buildings  thereon,  which  after 
the  death  of  Samuel  Hewes,  Esq.,  tenant  by  courtesy,  descended 
to  the  said  Deborah  and  Samuel,  children  and  co-heirs,  and  Sam- 
uel Hewes,  Esq.,  their  father,  died  seized  of  land  in  Water  street, 
and  by  will  devised  to  said  Samuel  and  Deborah  in  equal  shares 
the  Baid  Samuel  grants  to  Jabez  and  Deborah  his  one  half  interest 
in  the  estate  ID  Water  street  bounded  southerly  on  Water  street 
16    feet,    wresi    <>n    land    late    of    Richard    Bell,    Esq.,    deceased,   82 

feet,  northerly  <>n  land  late  of  John  Fosdick,  16  feet,  easterly  on 

land   now  or   late  of  Joseph  Johnson,  <S2  feet;  and  the  said  Jabez 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES  127 

and  Deborah  grant  to  Samuel  all  their  one  third  interest  in  the 
estate  in  Marlboro  street,  bounded  in  front  by  the  street  14  1/2 
feet,  north  on  land  late  of  John  Gibbons  deceased,  93  1/2  feet, 
south  on  land  of  the  widow  Mann  and  heirs  of  Nathaniel  Bleigh, 
deceased,  93  feet,  east  on  land  of  Abigail  Walker,  deceased,  41 
feet."      (Suffolk  deeds,  115:119.) 

The  Water  street  lot  was  the  same  bought  by  Samuel  John- 
son of  Pearson,  and  now  covered  by  Devonshire  street. 

V.  27  DEBORAH  HEWES  (Samuel,  Samuel,  Joshua, 
Joshua),  born  in  Boston,  25  March,  1733;  died  prior  to  1799; 
married  in  Boston  19  Nov.,  1761,  Jabez  Hatch. 

Jabez  Hatch  was  a  merchant.  His  will  dated  14  Dec,  1799, 
was  proved  26  July,  1802.  To  his  son  Jabez  he  gave  all  his 
estate,  subject  to  payment  of  legacies,  annuities,  etc.  Son  Sam- 
uel, then  in  Europe,  when  he  returned,  was  to  have  $1000  and 
half  the  net  rents  of  the  estate  purchased  of  Lucretia  Hatch  and 
Hannah  Paine,  sisters  of  the  testator,  the  remaining  half  of  the 
rents  to  go  to  testator's  daughters  Elizabeth  Quincy  and  Mary 
Hatch,  and  $50  yearly  to  Elizabeth  Quincy  during  her  life  and 
if  deceased  to  her  children  until  the  youngest  child  was  twenty- 
one  years  of  age. 

Inventory  of  the  estate  showed  that  he  held  "  Long  Yard," 
house  and  land  in  Sea  street,  valued  at  $2000 ;  and  mansion 
house,  land,  stable,  store,  wharves,  and  flatts  in  Sea  and  Beach 
streets  valued  at  $16,000.  Total  estate  $18,830  (Suffolk  Pro- 
bate, 100:326;  101,194). 

In  the  settlement  of  Samuel  Hewes'  estate,  the  Johnson  home- 
stead in  Water  street  fell  to  Deborah  Hatch.  She  and  Jabez 
sold  this  property  27  Aug.,  1767  to  Dr.  Joseph  Gardner  of 
Boston  for  £90.2 

2  Suffolk  deeds,  125:103.  It  is  described  as  "all  that  parcel  of  land,  etc., 
in  Water  Street,  whereon  Samuel  Hewes,  Esq.,  lately  dwelt  and  died  seized 
of,  bounded  south  on  Water  Street  16  feet,  west  on  land  late  of  Richard 
Bell,  Esq.,  8-2  feet,  north  on  land  late  of  John  Fosdick,  16  feet,  east  on 
land  now  or  late  of  Joseph  Johnson  82  feet.  Gardner  bought  the  adjoining 
property,  and  by  will  gave  the  entire  estate  to  his  nephew,  John  Gardner 
of  Milton,  who  *16  Nov.,  1799,  sold  it  for  $5333  to  Peleg  Coffin,  describing 
the  lot  as  bounding  south  on  Water  Street  44  feet,  west  on  Pudding  Lane  74 
feet,  north  on  Andrew  Brimmer  39  feet,  and  east  on  house  and  land  of 
Brimmer  occupied^as  a  hotel  or  eating  house  74  feet  [193:91 — see  also  fo. 
81].  The  property  passed  from  Peleg  to  Geo.  W.  Coffin  who  in  1868  sold 
to  W.  L.  Beal,  and  the  latter  conveyed  to  the  city  of  Boston,  to  widen 
Devonshire  street,  1383  square  feet,  bounded  east  by  the  new  line  of  Devon- 
shire  street,   73  feet,   on   north   17    feet  on  land   taken    from  Geo.   Howe,  on 


128  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES 

Children  (no  record  on  Boston  town  records)  : 

48  Jabez  Hatch. 

49  Samuel  Hatch. 

50  Mary  Hatch. 

51  Elizabeth     Hatch;     married    25    Oct.,     1786,     Samuel 

Quincy,  and  had  children  living  in  1799. 

V.  33  BENJAMIN  HEWES  {Joshua{f),  Samuel(f), 
Joshua,  Joshua),  born  about  1725.  Benjamin  Hewes  and  Lydia 
Stringer  married  11  Jan.,  1717-8  (Dudle}^  records).  Benjamin 
Hewes,  husband  of  Lydia,  died  19  April,  1773  (Medfield  records). 
Tilden  in  the  "  History  of  Medfield  "  says  of  him,  that  he  was 
in  Medfield  as  early  as  1719,  but  that  little  is  known  of  him,  ex- 
cept that  he  was  poor  and  was  allowed  to  build  a  small  house  on 
town  land,  and,  in  1758,  was  granted  £2  by  the  town,  and  in 
1760,  £6.  He  died  in  1773,  and  the  family  disappeared  a  few 
years  afterward. 

Children,  "of  Benjamin   and  Lydia"  from  Medfield  records: 

52  Joshua,  born  25  Jan.,  1748-9;  died  15  March,  1748-9. 
53+  Joshua,    born    11    June,    1750;    married    Mrs.    Rebecca 

Backer. 

54+  Moses,  born  6  Jan.,  1752. 

55+  Alpheus,  born  6  June,  1753. 

56+  Zephaniah,  born  26  March,  1755;  married  11  March, 
1778,   Grace   Connelly    (Medfield   records). 

57     Hanxah,  born  21  March,  1757. 

58+  Benjamin,  born  13  Feb.,  1759;  joined  the  army  at  Fish- 
kill  in  1778. 

59     Lydia,  born  18  Oct.,  1761 ;  died  1762. 

V.  35.  NATHANIEL  HEWES  (Nathamel(f),  Samuel, 
Joshua,  Joshua),  born  about  1725.  He  married  Abigail 
Walker,  daughter  of  Joseph  Walker  of  Brookfield.  Joseph 
Walker  of  Brookfield,  husbandman,  made  a  will  19  April,  1755, 
which  was  proved  Feb.,  17-")(i  (Worcester  Probate).  He  named 
wife  Susannah,  sons  Reuben,  Joseph,  John,  Oliver;  six  daugh- 
ters, Abigail,  Priscilla,  Lucy,  Sarah,  Susannah,  Mary,  of  whom 
Abigail,  Lucy  and  Priscilla  have  had  their  portions.     In  the  in- 

the  wts\  by  old  line  of  Devonshire  street  7:i  feet,  and  south  by  Water  street 
is   feet    The  consideration   was  $42,000   (947t96S). 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES  129 

vcntory  of  estate,  Abigail  Hewes,  Priscilla  Gilbert  and  Lucy  Rice 
are  named  as  having  had  their  share. 

Nathaniel  Hewes  of  Brimfield,3  cordwainer,  and  Abigail  his 
wife,  for  consideration  of  £13,  deed  to  John  Gilbert  of 
Mansfield,  Windham  Co.,  Conn.,  husbandman,  and  Priscilla  his 
wife,  all  their  right,  title,  etc.,  to  land  in  Brookfield,  left  by  the 
will  of  their  late  father  Joseph  Walker  to  John  Walker,  a  minor 
son,  and  since  deceased,  11  Jan.,  1757  (Worcester  Deeds, 
39:301). 

Children: 

60+  Nathaniel,    born    prior    to    1748.     Perhaps    he    was    the 
Nathaniel  Hughes  or  Hues  whose  intention  of  marriage 
with  Mary  Gray  was  published  in  Palmer,  Nov.,  1783. 
61+  Samuel,  of  Lyme,  N.  H.,  and  Norwich,  Vt.,  born  1754  in 

Sturbridge. 
62+  Joseph,  of  Lyme,  N.  H.,  born  in  Sturbridge,  Mass.,  1756. 
63     Mary,   of   "  Nathaniel  and  Abigail,"   born   in   Palmer,   31 

Aug.,  1760. 

64+  Reuben,  of  "  Nathaniel  and  Abigail,"  born  in  Palmer,  27 

Dec,  1763. 

Nathaniel  Hewes  4  was  of  Brimfield  in  1751,  and  in  January 

of  the  year  following  was  sued  by  John  Still  Winthrop  of  New 

London  on  a  writ  of  ejectment,  but  obtained  a  verdict  against 

Wfinthrop   (Hampshire  Court  Common  Pleas,   5:126).      He  was 

a  Brimfield  was  granted  in  1701  to  certain  persons,  residents  of  Spring- 
field, which  town  it  adjoined  on  the  east.  The  original  Brimfield  embraced 
Monson,  Wales,  Holland,  parts  of  Warren  and  Palmer.  Warren  was  for- 
merly a  part  of  Brookfield.  In  the  State  Archives  there  are  lists  of  the 
inhabitants  of  Brimfield  in  1723  and  1731.  In  the  History  of  Brimfield  are 
copies  of  the  report  of  the  seating  of  the  inhabitants  in  the  meeting  house, 
1757,  and  of  189  signatures  to  the  non-importation  covenant  of  July,  1774. 
Also  of  the  Brimfield  men  who  served  in  the  Continental  army  to  Aug., 
1779.  In  no  case  does  the  name  Hewes  appear.  Palmer,  originally  Kings- 
town, bounded  Brimfield  on  the  north.  So  far  as  the  records  of  these  towns 
show,  Nathaniel  Hewes  was  the  first  of  his  name  to  appear  in  that 
locality.  The  records  of  Mansfield,  Conn.,  do  not  mention  any  birth, 
marriages  or  deaths  of  this  family.  Merriam  and  Mary  Hewes  from  Palmer 
were  warned  from  Brookfield,  6  Jan.,  1767  (Worcester  County  warnings). 
The  town  clerk  failed  to  find  any  entries  of  this  name  on  Brimfield  records 
until  of  late  years. 

*  In  1738  in  December,  a  Nathaniel  Haws  was  rated  in  Bellingham  (Mass. 
Archives,  114:402).  Nathaniel  Haws  of  Franklin,  an  adjoining  town  and 
like  Bellingham  set  off  from  Wrentham,  had  wife  Susanna,  and  children 
born  between  1735-1747.  He  of  Franklin  was  probably  the  Bellingham  man, 
yet  there  is  a  bare  possibility  that  Haws  was  written  for  Hews. 


130  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES 

then  described  as  a  cordwainer.  On  the  1  April,  1756,  then  of 
Sturbridge,  he  purchased  of  John  Draper  of  Brimfield,  yeoman,  six 
acres  in  Brimfield  (Hampden  Deeds,  3:380)  which  he  sold  the  8th 
March,  1759  (Ibid.,  2:380).  With  his  wife  Abigail  and  family 
he  was  "  warned  "  from  Palmer  in  August,  1760,  where  he  had 
bought  a  lot  of  20  acres,  8  March,  1759,  of  William  Sear]  of 
Palmer,  which  he  sold  in  February,  1760  for  £20  to  John  King 
of  Palmer  (Ibid.,  1;  610;  2:84).  In  the  first  of  these  deeds  he 
is  described  as  of  Brimfield,  and  in  the  latter  of  Palmer. 

He  lived  in  Sturbridge,  just  east  of  Brimfield,  perhaps  also  in 
Connecticut,  but  probably  settled  in  Lyme,  N.  H.,  about  1768. 
That  year  his  son,  Nathaniel  Hewes,  Jr.,  "  of  Lyme,"  bought  of 
Barnard  McNitt  of  Palmer  the  latter's  full  right,  paying  therefor 
£12  (Ibid.,  9:  663). 

The  Census  of  1790  enumerates  the  family  of  Nathaniel  Hewes 
of  Lyme,  N.  H.,  which  then  consisted  of  himself  and  one  female.5 

Nathaniel  Hewes  served  in  the  army  for  the  reduction  of  Can- 
ada, as  sentinel  in  company  commanded  by  Capt.  Truman  Davis, 
5  March  to  25  Nov.,  1760.  His  age  is  given  as  35  years  and  his 
birthplace  as  Palmer  (Archives,  98:10).  He  is  probably  the  Na- 
thaniel Hewes  who  served  in  Israel  Putnam's  command  in  1764. 
For  probable  service  in  the  Revolution  see  page  137. 


SIXTH  GENERATION 

VI.     44     SAMUEL  HILL  HEWES  (Samuel,  Samuel,  Samuel, 

Joshua,  Joshua),  of  Boston,  merchant,  baptized  22  Feb.,  1761; 
died  in  Boston,  9  April,  1845.  He  married  23  Oct.,  1791,  Mar- 
garet Milioukt   (Boston   records).      He  married,  second.  Mary 

H.  [ ] 

By  act  of  legislature  24  Nov.,  1796,  Samuel  Hewes  was  per- 

•' The  full  list  of  children  of  Nathaniel  Hewes  has  not  been  recovered.    Lyme 

town    records    were    destroyed    in    1*7:5,    lint    the   clmreli    records,    and    a    private 

record  kepi  by  Miss  Etanice  Franklin  from  1894  to  is<;.»,  and  grave-stones  in 
the  old  cemetery,  have  furnished  incomplete  data  concerning  members  of  the 

HeweS    families   in    l.vinc.      The   records  of  Brookfield,   Mass.,  note  the  marriages 

of  Polly  Hewes  and  .(esse  Packer,  1 1  Aug.,  1784:  Abigail  Hewes  and  William 

Olds,  Jr.,  7   March,   1771:  Joseph   Hewes  of  Lyme  and   Mary   Kiev,  6  Oct.,  1780. 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES  131 

mitted  to  add  the  name  Hill  to  his  name.  According  to  the  di- 
rectory for  this  year  he  did  business  at  60  Long  Wharf,  and 
lived  in  Federal  Street. 

In  1795  Samuel  Hewes  was  one  of  several  gentlemen  who  re- 
ceived the  small  scattering  vote  of  Boston  cast  in  opposition  to 
Samuel  Adams  for  Governor.  He  also  received  a  few  votes  for 
lieutenant  governor. 

He  made  his  will  4?  April,  which  was  proved  19  May,  1845, 
and  after  providing  for  his  wife  Mary  H.,  he  provided  for  the 
distribution  of  his  estate  among  his  children,  William  G.,  Mar- 
garet N.  Preston,  Samuel  H.,  Ann  Poindexter,  Mary  B.,  Sarah 
T.,  and  Henry  H.  Hewes. 

In  1814,  William  Gardner  Hewes  was  appointed  guardian  to 
the  following  minor  children  of  Samuel  Hill  Hewes,  Samuel  Hill 
Hewes,  Jr.,  over  14,  Margaret  Newman  Hewes,  and  Nancy  Hewes 
(Suffolk  Probate,  395:187). 

Children  : 

65  William  Gardner,  born  1792. 

66  Margaret  Newman,  married  [ ]  Preston. 

67  Samuel  Hill,6  baptized  20   Nov.,   1796   (Old   South  Rec- 

ords). 

68  Ann  ;  married  [ ]  Poindexter. 

69  Mary  B. 

70  Sarah  T. 

71  Henry  H. 

72  Nancy,  died  unmarried  in  lifetime  of  her  father. 

VI.  53  JOSHUA  HEWES  (Benjamin,  Joshua  (?),  Samuel, 
Joshua,  Joshua),  of  Medfield  and  Royalston,  born  in  Medfield, 
11  June,  1750;  died  of  the  palsey  27  Nov.,  1830,  aged  80  years. 
He  married  at  Medfield,  25  Nov.,  1773,  Rebecca  Baker  (Backer 
on  Medfield  records),  daughter  of  Micah  and  Abigail  (Streeter) 
Baker,  born  in  Medfield,  29  June,  1752.  Her  father  settled  in 
Royalston  about  1790  (N.  E.  H.  G.  Reg.  43:28).  She  died  in 
Royalston,  8  Sept.,  1836,  aged  87.  (The  dates  of  birth,  mar- 
riage and  death  are  from  Medfield  and  Royalston  Vital  Records.) 

Joshua  Hewes  hired  land  of  the  town  of  Medfield  in  1775,  and 
in  1777  was  serving  in  the  army.     On  the  26  Oct.,  1791,  styled 

«  A   child   of  Samuel   H.   Hewes,  died  3   Aug.,    1834,   aged  21   davs,  buried 
in  the  Hill  Tomb  (Boston  records). 


132  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES 

yeoman,  of  Royalston,  he  bought  land  there  of  Joseph  Emerson 
(Worcester  Deeds,  197:615).  In  the  Census  of  1790  his  family 
is  said  to  have  consisted  of  self  and  two  women. 

A  Joshua  Hewes  was  witness  to  the  grant  of  land  in  Medfield 
by  John  Mason  to  his  brother  Ames  Mason,  an  estate  by  gift 
from  their  grandfather  Ebenezer  Mason,  7  April,  1769  (Suffolk 
Deeds  162:138);  also  by  Joshua  and  Mary  Morse  of  Medfield 
to  their  son,  James  Morse,  16  Feb.,  1773  (Ibid.,  172:86).  Also 
to  deed  of  James  Ellice  of  Medfield  to  his  son  James  in  1774 
(Ibid.,  125:97).  Benjamin  and  Zephaneal  Hewes  witnessed  deed 
of  James  Morse  of  Medfield  and  wife  Maria  to  brothers  Ephraim, 
Elihu  and  Simeon  Chenery  in  1775  (Ibid.,  100:201). 

Joshua  Hewes  was  a  member  of  the  company  commanded  by 
Capt.  E.  Chenery,  in  regiment  commanded  by  Col.  J.  Smith,  which 
marched  from  Medfield  on  the  Alarm  of  the  19  April,  1775,  and 
served  three  days.  He  is  probably  the  Joshua  who  served  as 
follows : 

As  substitute  for  David  Clark  in  company  of  S.  Mann,  which 
marched  to  Providence,  22  April,  1777,  and  served  into  May; 
also  as  private  in  company  commanded  by  Capt.  Plimpton  in  Col. 
Hawes'  regiment  25  Sept.,  to  28  Oct.,  1777,  in  Rhode  Island. 

Another  Joshua  Hewes  is  reported  as  of  Walpole  serving  in 
the  company  of  Capt.  Seth  Bullard  in  Smith's  regiment,  which 
marched  on  the  Alarm  of  the  19  April,  1775,  and  is  credited  with 
six  days'  service.  This  Joshua  is  probably  the  man  who  enlisted 
in  Bullard's  company  in  Reed's  regiment  after  the  battle  of  Lex- 
ington, being  formally  entered  as  enlisted  15  May  for  8  months, 
and  who  was  in  the  service  in  September  at  Roxbury. 

One  of  the  Joshuas  above  mentioned  also  served  in  Rhode  Island 
in  a  company  commanded  by  Capt.  A.  Ellis,  who  was  of  Belling- 
ham,  in  Hewes*  regiment,  26  July  to  16  Aug.,  1778. 

The  name  Hewes  and  Hawes  are  sometimes  hard  to  distin- 
guish from  one  another  on  the  old  rolls.  Col.  Benjamin  Hawes, 
of  the  family  of  that  name  established  in  Medfield  and  vicinity, 
commanded  a  regimenl  of  militia.  In  his  regiment  were  men  of 
the  names  of  both  Hewes  and  Hawes,  both  families  being  repre- 
sents!  in  the  -•line  group  of  neighboring  towns. 

VI.     54     MOSES    HEWES    (Benjamin,  Joshua(f),  Samuel, 

Joshua,  J<>sh>i<i),  horn   in    Medfield,  (>  Jan.  175& 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HE  WES  133 

His  brother,  Joshua  Hewes,  settled  in  Royalston  prior  to  1773. 
It  is  probable  that  Moses  lived  for  a  time  there,  perhaps  with  his 
brother.  Massachusetts  Revolutionary  Rolls  show  that  Moses 
Hewes  was  one  of  the  minute  men  raised  in  Medfield  and  Walpole, 
who  under  Capt.  Sabin  Mann  marched  on  the  alarm  of  the  19 
April,  1775,  and  is  credited  with  twelve  days'  service.  This  same 
man  appears  as  a  member  of  Capt.  M.  Whiting's  company  in  the 
3rd  Massachusetts  regiment  commanded  by  Col.  Greaton,  30 
Dec,  1775,  and  apparently  as  having  enlisted  5  May  out  of 
Mann's  company.  A  Moses  Hewes,  credited  to  Royalston,  gave 
receipt  dated  26  June,  1775,  for  advance  pay,  being  then  in 
Wilder's  company,  Col.  Doolittle's  regiment,  and  appears  on  the 
rolls  of  that  regiment  1  Aug.,  and  6  Oct.,  1775,  as  enlisted  17 
June,  1775.  Inspection  of  the  original  records  might  solve  this 
apparent  discrepancy  by  showing  a  transfer  from  Doolittle's  to 
Greaton's  regiment.  As  the  record  appears  in  the  printed  rolls 
it  would  appear  as  though  there  were  two  men  of  this  name,  one 
of  Royalston,  the  other  of  Medfield,  but  the  genealogical  records 
do  not  bear  out  such  an  assumption.  Moses  of  Medfield  was  in 
service  at  Dorchester  Heights  in  Capt.  A.  Guild's  7  company  in 
Robinson's  regiment  raised  out  of  Suffolk  and  York  counties, 
enlisted  29  Jan.,  1776.      In  this  year  he  also  served  from  10  June, 

1776,  probably  to  December,  in  the  Continental  army  in  Canada, 
being  of  the  reinforcements  and  enlisted  from  Mann's  company  of 
Medfield  militia,  when  his  age  was  given  as  24  years.     In  April, 

1777,  men  were  drafted  from  the  same  company  for  service  in 
Rhode  Island,  and  Hewes  was  released  from  the  draft  (Massa- 
chusetts Rolls). 

VI.  55  ALPHEUS  HEWES  (Benjamin,  Joshua,  Samuel(f), 
Joshua,  Joshua),  born  in  Medfield,  Mass.,  6  June,  1753.  He 
was  living  in  Newark,  N.  J.,  in  1818  and  in  1832  when  he  made 
applications  for  pension  as  a  Revolutionary  soldier,  and  from  his 
declarations  on  file  the  following  account  of  his  wanderings  and 
service  is  taken. 

After  stating  that  he  was  born  in  Medfield,  6  June,  1753,  which 
record  he  obtained  about  1790  from  the  "  Original  record  in  New 
England,"  he  states  he  was  living  in  Virginia  in  1775  and  en- 

7  Capt.   Guild   was   a   Dedham   man. 


134  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES 

listed  in  the  fall  of  that  year  in  a  company  commanded  by  Capt. 
Heirn,  at  Spottsylvania,  in  a  regiment  he  believes  was  on  the 
Continental  establishment,  but  is  informed  that  it  was  composed 
of  State  troops.  He  was  sergeant  and  served  two  months.  He 
marched  with  his  company  to  Winsburg,  Va.,  to  guard  the  coun- 
try against  a  British  war  vessel  in  the  Bay,  commanded  by  Lord 
Dunmore.  He  was  taken  sick  the  day  before  the  company  was 
discharged,  and  returned  home  without  his  discharge.     In  August, 

1776,  he  enlisted  for  three  years  as  a  private  in  a  company  com- 
manded by  Capt.  Richard  Taylor  of  the  First  Virginia  regiment, 
commanded  by  Col.  Patrick  Henry.  After  three  months'  serv- 
ice he  was  appointed  by  Major  Flemming  who  commanded  the  reg- 
iment, and  who  was  killed  at  Princeton,  quartermaster  sergeant, 
and  so  acted  until  May  or  June,  when  by  order  of  Gen.  Stevens 
he  was  transferred  to  the  Commissary  Department  and  there  re- 
mained until  late  in  the  fall  of  1777.  He  joined  his  company  at 
King's  Ferry  on  the  Hudson,  and  was  with  it  on  the  retreat 
through  New  Jersey,  passing  through  Elizabethtown,  Newark, 
New  Brunswick,  and  then  returned  to  Elizabethtown  where  the 
troops  engaged  in  cannonading  the  enemy.  He  was  at  Prince- 
ton a  week  or  two,  thence  went  into  Pennsylvania.  After  the  ar- 
rival on  the  Pennsylvania  shore,  the  First  and  Third  Virginia  reg- 
iments, a  Delaware  and  a  Maryland  regiment  were  formed  into  a 
brigade  or  division  under  command  of  Lord  Stirling.  Hewes  was 
at  the  battle  of  Trenton.  After  the  battles  of  Trenton  and 
Princeton  the  remnant  of  the  regiment  was  sent  to  the  New  Jersey 
lines,  and  remained  there  until  sent  into  winter  quarters  7  Feb., 

1777.  Hewes  was  in  the  Commissary's  Department  until  the  lat- 
ter part  of  1778,  when  he  seems  to  have  left  the  service.  His 
service  in  that  department  extended  from  May,  1777,  to  close 
of  1778.  He  was  never  paid  any  money  for  his  service  with  the 
Virginia  troops.  When  the  troops  took  the  field  in  the  spring 
of  1777,  the  First  Virginia  was  commanded  by  Major  Nickolson. 

In  January  or  February,  1780,  he  enlisted  at   Newark,  N.  J., 
in  a  militia  company  commanded  by  ("apt.  Robert  Nichols,  and 

Served  four  months,  two  ms  a  horse-guard  in  Newark  and  suburbs. 
One  evening  in  cold  weather  they  skirmished  with  the  enemy  who 
ciine  out  to  plunder.  lie  also  served  two  months  on  foot  under 
Capt.  Nichols  and  Lt.  Wheeler.  He  was  in  the  service  at  least 
two  years   and   three  months. 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES  135 

VI.  56  ZEPHANIAH  HEWES  (Benjamin,  Joshua(f), 
Samuel(?),  Joshua,  Joshua),  born  in  Mcdficld,  26  March,  1775; 
married  there  11  March,  1778,  Grace  Connelly  (Medfield  rec- 
ords). 

Child: 

73     Elizabeth  V.,  born  18  Sept.,  1778   (Dedham  records). 

He  was  of  Capt.  Chenery's  company  in  Col.  J.  Smith's  regi- 
ment, which  marched  from  Medfield  on  the  Alarm  of  19  April, 
1775,  and  served  13  days.  He  was  drafted  from  S.  Mann's 
Wrentham  company  for  service  in  New  York,  to  reenforce  the 
Continental  army,  10  June,  1776,  when  his  age  was  given  as  21 
years.  He  marched  26  Sept.,  under  Lt.  Plimpton.  He  also 
marched  to  Rhode  Island  on  the  alarm  of  22  July,  1777,  and 
also  served  30  days  from  1  Oct.,  1777,  having  marched  in  Sep- 
tember, under  Capt.  Mann  of  Medfield,  on  a  secret  expedition  to 
Rhode  Island.  A  sign  used  on  some  former  lists  to  designate 
those  sick  or  unable  to  march  appears  against  his  name  in  this 
list ;  it  may  be  he  was  released  from  this  service  after  being 
mustered  (  Mass.  Rev.  Rolls). 

VI.  58  BENJAMIN  HEWES  (Benjamin,  Joshua(f),  Sam- 
uel(f),  Joshua,  Joshua),  born  in  Medfield,  Mass.,  13  Feb.,  1759; 
died  in  Lebanon,  N.  Y.,  12  May,  1836.  He  married  Hannah, 
who  was  pensioned  as  his  widow  in  1849. 

Benjamin  Hewes,  then  living  in  Lebanon,  N.  Y.,  aged  72  years, 
made  application  for  a  pension  22  July,  1832.  He  was  living 
in  Medfield,  Mass.,  in  1776,  when  he  enlisted  in  a  company  of 
State  troops  commanded  by  Capt.  Daniels  in  Col.  Wheelock's 
regiment,  of  which  company  John  Baxter  was  first  lieutenant. 
They  marched  by  way  of  No.  4  (Charlestown,  N.  H.)  and  the 
Connecticut  river  and  Otter  Creek  to  Ticonderoga,  where  they 
remained  until  their  term  of  service  expired  in  Jan.,  1777.  There 
were  troops  from  New  Jersey  stationed  at  the  fort,  and  some 
at  Mount  Independence.  This  service  does  not  appear  in  the 
Massachusetts  records.  His  next  term  of  enlistment  was  on  the 
alarm  of  22  July,  1777,  when  he  was  out  in  Capt.  S.  Mann's 
company  of  Medfield  militia  which  was  ordered  to  Rhode  Island. 
On  25  Sept.,  1777,  he  enlisted  in  Capt.  Ezekiel  Plympton's  com- 
pany, Col.  Benjamin  Hawes'  regiment,  and  served  in  a  secret  ex- 


136  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES 

pedition  to  Rhode  Island  until  28  Oct.,  (Mass.  Rolls).  Hewes 
in  his  declaration  says  that  in  July  or  August  he  enlisted  under 
Plympton  and  marched  to  Little  Compton,  whence  his  company 
was  called  after  a  month's  service,  and  that  Simeon  Mann  was 
a  major  in  the  regiment.  He  thought  this  was  the  only  regi- 
ment at  Little  Compton,  and  their  object  was  to  hold  the  Brit- 
ish at  Newport  in  check,  but  there  was  no  fighting.  He  further 
says  he  enlisted  in  June,  1778,  to  complete  the  quota  of  men  re- 
quired from  Mediield,  and  was  mustered  at  Boston  and  thence 
went  to  Fishkill,  where  he  was  assigned  to  a  line  regiment,  and 
worked  on  the  fort  at  West  Point.  In  July  or  August  went  on 
to  White  Plains,  where  he  enlisted  in  the  Continental  regiment 
of  Col.  Brewer  in  Capt.  Brewer's  company,  of  which  the  ensign 
was  named  Bullock.  That  they  were  stationed  at  Danbury,  but 
wintered  at  West  Point,  and  that  he  served  nine  months  in  this 
command.  Massachusetts  Rolls  show  that  he  was  assigned  to 
Col.  Rufus  Putnam's  regiment  at  Fishkill  20  July,  1778,  and  was 
to  serve  nine  months,  but  give  no  further  information.  Hewes 
declared  that  after  his  discharge  he  served  another  tour  of  three 
months  at  West  Point,  and  was  there  at  the  time  Arnold's  trea- 
son was  discovered,  having  enlisted  in  June,  1780,  in  a  company 
of  Massachusetts  troops  commanded  by  Capt.  Thayre,  in  which 
company  Mr.  Mctcalf  was  lieutenant. 

Affidavits  on  file  show  he  had  lived  at  Lebanon  for  twenty  or 
thirty  years  prior  to  1832.  Hewes  himself  stated  he  went  from 
Medfield  to  Newark,  N.  J.,  where  he  lived  several  years,  and  then 
settled  in  Galloway,  N.  Y.,  where  he  lived  seven  years,  after 
which  he  settled  in  Lebanon. 

His  widow  was  eighty-three  years  old  in  1849.  She  states 
she  was  married  at  Galloway,  N.  Y.,  23  Dec,  1794,  by  the  Rev. 
John  Lindly,  Presbyterian  clergyman,  and  that  the  only  person 
now  living,  present  at  her  marriage,  was  Thomas  Harrison  of 
Oneida  Co.,  N.  Y. 

Benjamin  I  lews  belonged  to  the  train  band  in  Medfield  of 
which  Sabin  Mann  was  captain,  in  June,  177(5.  In  July  he  was 
reported  in  the  Continental  army  and  as  aged  17  years.  He  had 
enlisted  that  month  to  serve  until  Dec.  1,  1776.  He  again  en- 
listed for  nine  months,  in  1778,  and  arrived  at  Fishkill  18  June, 
1778.       He    was   described    as    aged    1!)  years,   5    ft.    <S    inches   tall, 

(lark  hair,  blue  eyes,  husbandman,  of  Medfield  (Mass.  Rev.  Rolls). 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES  137 

VI.  60  Lt.  NATHANIEL  HEWES  (Nathaniel,  Nathan- 
iel(?),  Samuel,  John,  Joshua),  died  16  Dec,  1808,  "in  his  sixty 
second  year"  (g.s.),  at  Lyme,  N.  H.  A  stone  also  remains  to 
"  Sarah,  wife  of  Lt.  Nathaniel  Hews,  died  26  March,  1851,  aged 
101  years,  4  months,  10  days."  8 

The  Census  of  1790  enumerates  the  family  of  Nathaniel  Hewes, 
Jr.,  consisting  of  himself,  three  males  under  16  years  of  age,  and 
five  females.9 

Nathaniel  Hewes  is  said  to  have  been  the  first  settler  in  the 

8  This  stone  is  also  said  to  have  upon  it  "  came  with  her  husband  from 
Mansfield,  Conn.,  in  1767."  A  careful  correspondent,  however,  failed  to  copy 
these  words  if  they  are  found  in  the  inscription.  An  adjoining  stone  is  in- 
scribed "  Mary  Freeman,  her  mother,  lies  buried  here,  died  1815,  aged  95 
years."  The  church  record  notes  the  death  of  Mrs.  Hewes  16  April,  1851, 
aged  101  years. 

"  A  list  of  children  of  Lt.  Nathaniel  Hewes  has  not  been  obtained.  The 
following  are  undoubtedly  his  children,  or  possibly  in  some  instances  his 
nephews  and  nieces: 

Theoda,  born  5  Dec.,  1780,  died  2  Nov.,  1865   (ff.s.).     She  never  married. 

John,  died  14  June,  1853,  aged  71  years  (Church  records;  his  gravestone 
states  he  died  20  June,  and  describes  him  as  John  F.,  aged  69  years).  He 
probably  married  Elizabeth,  and  was  father  of  Eunice  Elvira,  who  died  25 
June,  1833,  aged  21  years   (ff.s.). 

Oliver,  died  20  Oct,  1863,  aged  77  years.  Lydia  D.,  his  first  wife,  died  5 
Dec,  1848,  aged  57  years.  Sophia  B.,  his  second  wife,  died  11  Jan.  1878, 
aged  68  years. 

John  R.,  died  15  Julv,  1870,  aged  81  years  (ff.s.).  His  son  John  died  1 
Sept.,  1880,  aged  21  years.  His  daughter  Belle  died  16  Oct.,  18S0,  aged  18 
years. 

Hon.  Sylvanus,  born  15  May,  1789,  died  28  Aug.,  1880  (ff.s.).  The  church 
record  notes  his  death  as  27  Aug.,  aged  91  years,  3  months.  He  married 
30  Nov.,  1823,  at  Lyme,  Miriam  Wright,  who*  was  born  29  July,  1797,  and 
died  1  Dec.,  1866.  Their  daughter  Sarah  is  said  to  have  married  Francis  W. 
Balser.  Another  daughter,  Eunice  M.,  married  5  Feb.,  1855,  Joseph  W. 
Gerrish  of  Lebanon.  He  was  29  years  and  she  was  30  years  of  age.  Fred  C. 
Hewes  is  a  grandson  of  Sylvanus.  He  was  born  2  Aug.,  1876,  and  married 
Lena  M.  Chesley,  who  was  born  1  Aug.,  1880,  and  died  1  June,  1903  (ff.s.). 

Moody,  died  8  Feb.,  1842,  aged  47  years.  He  married  26  Jan.,  1831,  Lydia 
Chapin  of  Lyme.  She  survived  him.  The  death  of  her  son  is  noted  19  Aug., 
1850,  aged  9  years. 

Other  items  gleaned  from  the  church  records  follow:  in  a  list  of  members, 
said  to  be  of  1831,  are  the  names  of  Cyrus,  George,  Mary,  Abigail,  Lydia  and 
Sally  Hewes.  George  Hewes  was  admitted  to  the  church  6  Nov.,  1831,  and 
dismissed  to  the  River  Street  Church  in  Boston,  15  March,  1835.  Mary  was  ad- 
mitted 4  March,  1832.  Abigail  was  admitted  6  Jan.,  1833.  Mrs.  Sally  Hewes 
(on  a  sick-bed)    was  admitted   5   April,   1858. 

Joseph  Hewes  was  admitted  to  the  church  28  July,  1782.  Mary,  19  Oct., 
1788.  Elizabeth,  February,  1801.  Phoebe,  1819.  Cyrus,  2  Sept.,  1821,  and 
Mrs.  Martha  the  same  day,  as  was  also  Margaret  Hewes. 

Marv  Hewes  of  Lvme  and  Daniel  Ford  of  Boston  were  married  19  May, 
1833. 

Miss   Hewes  died  24  Jan.,   1833,   aged   about  20   years. 

A   child  of  John   died  25  March,  1860,  aged  3  years. 

A  child  of  Eleazer  W.  and  Ruth  (Larned)  Hewes,  who  were  married  2 
June,  1858,  she  of  Orford,  died  10  June,  1866,  aged  4  years. 


138  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES 

extreme  southern  part  of  Lyme,  coming  from  Brookfield,  Mass.,  in 
1766.  His  sister  kept  house  for  him.  Their  dwelling  was  burned 
in  1773. 

Both  Nathaniel  Hewes,  Sr.  and  Jr.,  are  named  in  a  Lyme  peti- 
tion of  1773,  and  were  among  the  ratable  polls  in  April  of  that 
year.  In  1776  the  name  of  Nathaniel  appears  on  the  alarm  list 
of  the  militia  company  at  Lyme  (N.  H.  Rev.  Rolls,  3).  The  mil- 
itia was  divided  into  training  band  and  alarm  list,  the  latter  con- 
sisting of  men  over  50  years  of  age,  or  persons  following  certain 
employments.  The  training  band  was  the  active  company  and 
embraced  all  men  between  the  ages  of  16  and  50  years  of  age, 
except  those  exempt. 

Nathaniel  Hewes  was  sergeant  in  the  company  of  volunteer 
militia  from  Plymouth  and  vicinity,  "  raised  at  Orford  and  adjacent 
towns,"  commanded  by  Capt.  Jonathan  Chandler,  which  joined  the 
regiment  of  Col.  Jonathan  Chase  and  marched  to  reenforce  the 
Continental  army  at  Stillwater ;  serving  from  25  September  to  3 
October,  1777.  (Rev.  Rolls,  2;  also  Adj. -Gen.  Rpt.  2.)  Na- 
thaniel Hewes  and  Nathaniel  Hewes,  Jr.,  of  Lyme,  had  previously 
assisted  in  the  retreat  of  the  inhabitants  from  Strafford,  on  the 
alarm  of  July,  1777,  on  the  approach  of  the  British  and  Tories 
under  Burgoyne.     The  name  appears  as  Hewes,  Hews,  and  Huse. 

VI  61  SAMUEL  HEWES  (Nathaniel  (?),  Nathaniel,  Sam- 
uel, Joshua,  Joshua),  born  175-i;  died  3  Oct.,  1816.  On  1  Sept., 
1836,  Betsy  Hewes,  aged  76  years,  of  Norwich,  Vt.,  claiming  to 
be  the  widow  of  Samuel,  a  Revolutionary  soldier,  applied  for  a 
pension.  She  claimed  she  was  married  to  Samuel  Hews  at  New- 
town, Conn.,  16  Dec,  1779,  but  as  there  were  then  no  marriage 
records  kept  at  that  place  she  proved  her  marriage  by  testimony 
of  persons  present  at  the  wedding. 

Philo  Fairchild  of  Newtown,  Conn.,  aged  75,  deposed  that  he 
knew  Betsey  Foot  formerly  of  Newtown,  and  that  in  1779,  called 
the  "hard  winter,"  she  married  Samuel  Hewes.  "Her  father 
lived  one  half  mile  from  my  father."  Because  of  the  deep  snow 
and  great  age  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  Beach,  who  was  to  marry  Sam- 
uel and  Betsey,  the  said  Beach  (who  was  7<)  years  of  age),  could 
not  conic  to  the  bride's  house,  so  they  resolved  to  go  to  him.  The 
part}  Btarted  aboul  four  and  returned  about  dusk.  Salmon 
Burritt,  Abie!  Foot,  brother  of  Betsey,  and  John  Kenney,  a  sol- 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES  139 

dier,  "  each  with  his  lady,"  went  as  witnesses.  These  are  all 
dead.  Deponent's  sister,  Molly,  went  with  Salmon  Burritt,  and 
the  lady  who  was  afterward  Kenny's  wife  went  with  him;  both 
are  dead.  At  that  time  Samuel  Hewes  was  a  soldier  under  Gen. 
Poor,  whose  brigade  that  winter  was  stationed  in  the  limits  of 
Danbury  near  the  Newtown  line,  and  one  mile  and  a  half  from 
Betsey  Foot's  house.  "  There  was  a  holding  out  of  the  wedding  " 
during  the  evening  after  their  return  from  Mr.  Beach's.  She 
remained  at  her  father's  while  the  war  continued,  and  Samuel 
Howes  remained  in  the  army  until  discharged.  While  she  lived 
in  Newtown  she  had  one  child,  and  after  the  army  was  dismissed 
she  accompanied  her  husband  to  his  home  in  New  Hampshire. 

Amos  Shepard  of  Newtown,  aged  77  years,  deposed  that  in 
1779-80  he  lived  one  mile  from  the  house  of  George  Foot,  father 
of  Betsey  Foot  who  married  Samuel  Hewes,  and  was  invited  to 
and  attended  the  wedding.  "  Each  young  gentleman  guest  was 
invited  to  wait  upon  a  particular  lady,  and  we  all  rode  on  horse- 
back. It  was  then  the  fashion.  The  young  ladies  rode  on  pil- 
lions." At  the  wedding  there  was  a  house  full  of  guests,  and 
half  the  gentlemen  were  soldiers.  There  was  disappointment 
when  it  was  known  Beach  could  not  come.  He  well  remembers 
the  party  setting  out  to  be  married. 

Caleb  Baldwin  of  Newtown,  aged  64,  deposed  that  John  Beach 
was  the  regular  minister  in  the  Episcopal  church  at  Newtown, 
and  died  1787-8  over  80  years  of  age,  and  that  none  of  his  family 
are  living,  and  that  there  were  no  town  records  of  marriages 
kept  in  Newtown  then. 

Betsey  Hewes  10  of  Norwich,  Vt.,  aged  76,  deposed  that  she 
was  born  in  Newtown,  Conn.,  and  lived  there  twenty-one  years 
and  in  the  winter  of  1778-9.  In  the  month  of  January,  1779, 
she  attended  a  ball  in  Newtown  at  which  several  soldiers  were 
present,  among  them  Samuel  Hewes,  and  there  she  first  became 
acquainted  with  him.  He  then  belonged  to  Col.  Cilley's  regiment, 
that  year  quartered  in  Reading.  "  Shortly  after  this  I  received 
a  letter  from  said  Hewes,  and  by  advice  of  my  brother  I  con- 
sented to  receive  his  addresses.  Accordingly  about  the  last  of 
March  or  first  of  April  of  the  same  year  we  were  engaged  to  be 
married  and  our  publishment  was  written.  My  father,  George 
Foot,  who  was  a  Tory  and  violently  opposed  to  the  match,  for- 
io  She  was  living  at  Norwich,  Vt.,  in  1840,  aged  81  years. 


140  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES 

bid  the  publishment.  My  father,  however,  told  Hewes  that  if 
we  would  postpone  the  marriage  until  after  the  next  campaign, 
and  if  he  would  go  into  the  Indian  country  that  season,  on  his 
return  he  would  give  his  consent  to  the  marriage."  Hewes  ac- 
cordingly joined  Sullivan's  expedition  to  the  Susquehanna 
country  "  where  my  father  was  in  hopes,  as  he  said,  he  would  be 
killed."  Hewes  returned  with  his  regiment  in  November,  a  week 
before  Thanksgiving,  1779,  "  and  on  the  16  day  of  Dec,  1779, 
I  was  married.  My  husband  remained  in  the  army  until  April, 
1780,  but  frequently  came  to  see  me  at  my  father's.  My  father's 
opposition  was  violent  against  Hewes  because  he  was  a  soldier,  so 
that  he  was  frequently  turned  out  of  doors,  and  I  was  compelled 
to  leave  my  father's  house  by  the  influence  of  the  Tories.  But 
I  was  determined  not  to  yield  the  point,  and  so  persevered  unto  the 
end." 

Samuel  Hewes  enlisted  22  April,  1777,  as  a  corporal  in  Capt. 
John  House's  company,  Col.  Cilley's  regiment  of  the  New  Hamp- 
shire line,  for  three  years.  He  was  at  Burgoyne's  surrender,  and 
in  Sullivan's  expedition  against  the  Indians  in  1779.  His  dis- 
charge was  lost. 

Nathaniel  Bugbee,  aged  81,  deposed  that  22  April,  he  enlisted 
in  Capt.  John  House's  company,  Cilley's  regiment,  and  was  at 
the  surrender  of  Burgoyne,  and  at  Valley  Forge.  Their  service 
was  mostly  in  the  vicinity  of  New  York.  They  went  into  winter 
quarters  at  Reading  in  1779.  Was  in  Sullivan's  expedition  into 
the  Susquehanna  country  and  returned  to  Danbury  for  winter 
quarters.      "  Samuel  Hewes   enlisted  with  me   as   corporal." 

Pension  certificate  466  under  the  Act  of  1836  was  issued  to 
Betsey  Hewes  Feb.,  1837  (Widow  No.  23259). 

New  Hampshire  Revolutionary  Rolls  show  that  Samuel  Hews 
of  Lyme,  enlisted  in  House's  company,  Cilley's  (1st  N.  H.)  regi- 
ment, and  in  1780  was  a  corporal  in  Pillsbury's  company.  Also 
that  he  was  at  Cambridge  in  June,  1775;  and  in  Sept.,  1775,  then 
aged  21  years,  a  wheelwright,  he  enlisted  in  Capt.  Henry  Dear- 
born's company  in  Col.  Benedict  Arnold's  expedition  against 
Quebec.  As  Ins  name  is  crossed  off  the  roll  it  is  probable  lie  did 
not  go  with  the  command. 

VI.  (VI  JOSEPH  HEWES  {Nathaniel,  Nathaniel(f),  Sam- 
uel, Josh  mi,  Joshua),  born   in  Sturbridge,  Mass.,   1756;  died  in 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES  141 

Pomfret,  N.  Y.,  15  May,  1838,  at  the  house  of  Shubael  Button. 

He  married  10  Feb.,  1819,  in  Manchester,  N.  Y.,  by  Rev. 
Anson  Shay,  a  baptist  minister,  at  the  house  of  Reuben   Buck, 

Cynthia    [ ].      She    was    a    widow,    a    resident    of    Fre- 

donia  in  the  township  of  Pomfret,  and  was  80  years  of  age  on 
the  15  Sept.,  1853,  the  date  of  her  application  for  a  pension. 

Joseph  Hewes  applied  for  a  pension  27  Aug.,  1832,  then  aged 
76  and  a  resident  of  Phelps,  Ontario  County,  N.  Y.  He  stated 
he  was  born  in  Strubridge,  lived  in  Lyme,  N.  H.,  at  the  time 
of  his  enlistment,  and  until  1813,  when  he  moved  to  New  York, 
and  for  more  than  13  years  had  lived  in  Phelps. 

He  claimed  he  enlisted  in  Jan.,  1777,  in  company  of  Capt. 
Howard  in  the  New  Hampshire  militia  in  the  brigade  commanded 
by  Gen.  McDugal,  and  marched  from  Lyme  to  Peekskill  and 
served  two  months.  (New  Hampshire  Rolls  show  that  he  enlisted 
5  Dec,  1776,  in  Capt.  Joshua  Haywood's  company,  Col.  D.  Gil- 
man's  regiment,  and  marched  to  reenforce  the  army  at  New 
York,  and  served  until  15  March,  1777.) 

He  next  enlisted  in  a  company  of  militia  commanded  by  Capt. 
Jeremiah  Post  in  Col.  Nichols'  regiment,  and  served  two  months 
in  Stark's  brigade,  and  was  in  the  battle  of  Bennington.  (N.  H. 
Rolls  show  he  enlisted  24  July  and  served  until  26  Sept.  in  Post's 
company,  Col.  D.  Hobart's  regiment,  which  marched  to  reenforce 
Stark's  brigade,  and  joined  the  army  at  Saratoga.) 

About  April,  1778,  he  enlisted  for  one  year  in  a  company  com- 
manded by  Capt.  Charles  Nelson  in  Col.  Bedell's  regiment,  and 
marched  to  Newbury,  Vermont,  and  was  in  that  state  during  most 
of  the  term  of  his  enlistment,  guarding  against  the  enemy,  and 
was  in  several  skirmishes.  His  application  was  refused  because 
this  regiment  was  not  on  the  Continental  establishment. 

Vermont  Rolls  show  that  he  was  one  of  the  Lyme  men  who  as- 
sisted in  the  retreat  from  Strafford,  Vt.,  in  July,  1777. 

He  finally  received  a  pension  in  1834,  and  his  widow  in  1854. 
She  was  probably  a  second  wife,  as  he  appears  to  have  married  at 
Brookfield,  5  Oct.,  1780,  Mary  Rice.  Joseph  Hewes  was  admitted 
to  the  church  at  Lyme,  28  July,  1782,  and  Mary,  perhaps  his  wife, 
19   Oct.,   1788. 

VI.  64  REUBEN  HEWES  (Nathaniel,  Nathaniel  (?),  Sam- 
uel, Joshua,  Joshua),  born  in  Palmer,  Mass.,  27  Dec,  1763;  died 


142  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOSHUA  HEWES 

19  March,  1829,  "  aged  67  years,"  at  Lyme.  He  married  there, 
14  Dec.,  1785,  Betsy  Gray,  who  died  4  Jan.,  1824,  aged  58  years 
(  Church  records  ) . 

He  lived  in  Lyme,  N.  H.  At  the  Census  of  1790  his  family 
consisted  of  self,  two  males  under  16  years,  and  one  female. 

He  is  probably  that  Reuben  "  Huse  "  who  served  in  a  detach- 
ment of  New  Hampshire  troops  in  the  pay  of  Vermont,  com- 
manded by  Lt.  Israel  Morey,  until  30  June,  1781,  and  re-enlisted 
1  July  and  served  until  23  Oct.,  1781,  same  command,  under 
Lt.  Col.  Benj.  Waite  of  the  Vermont  state  establishment  (Vermont 
Rev.  Rolls). 

Children,  the  seven  eldest  baptized  1  Jane,  1801: 

74  Xathaxiel. 

75  Walter. 

76  Cyrus,  died  6  Sept.,  1865,  aged  75;  married  Margaret,  who  was  admitted 

to  the  church,  2  Sept.,  1821,  the  same  day  as  Cyrus  and  Mrs.  Martha 
Hewes.  She  died  22  April,  1856,  aged  37  years.  He  married,  second, 
1  Oct.,  1826,  Sarah  Dimick,  who  died  8  March,  1866,  aged  75  years.n 

77  Adolphus. 

78  Ira,  died  25  Dec,  1876,  aged  81  years.     His  son  John  died  15  Oct.,  1848, 

aged  23  years.  His  daughter  Sarah  died  30  April,  1870,  aged  30  years, 
and  his  son  Marshall  Jackson  died  19  March,  1891,  aged  65  years, 
leaving  a  widow,  who  died  15  April,  1872,  aged  37  years. 

79  Seirall    (or    Sewall?). 

80  Phoebe,  died  12  April,  1835,  aged  35  years. 

81  Ixhjisa   (Lovica,  g.8.),  bapt.  April,  1802;  died  26   (or  29),  July,  1823. 

82  Abigail,  bapt.   13  April,   1804;   married  4  Oct.,   1857,  William   Currier 

of  Enfield. 

83  Cyril  (Serai),  bapt  25  May,  1806.     Mrs.  "Samuel"  died  11  Sept.,  1870. 

A  child  of  Serai   Hewes  died  8  Aug.,  1830,  aged  2  vears. 

84  Celia    (Selah),  hapt.   7   Aug.,  1808;   died   13  May,   18.24,  aged  16  years. 


daughter  of  Cyrus,  married  6  May,  1849,  Alexander  T.  Perkins.  George  proh- 
ablj  removed  to  Boston.  Scwall  married  24  Nov.,  I860,  Mary  E.  Drake,  who 
died  .'I  Mav,  IS(i:{,  aged  26  years.  He  married,  second,  3  April,  186.},  Sarah 
M.  Webb,  born  1833,  died  1905  (</.•».)•  Apparently  he  had  children,  Mary 
Jane,  born  13  .June,  died  19  Aug.,  1863  (ff.s.),  and  Pearl  Minnette,  born  11 
June,  died   15  Sept,  1865   (g.s.). 


DESCENDANTS 

OF 

JOHN  HEWES 

OF  LYNNFIELD,  MASSACHUSETTS 


JOHN  HEWES  OF  LYNNFIELD 

17 41-1811 


DESCENDANTS    OF    JOHN    HEWES    OF    LYNNFIELD, 

MASS. 

VI.  (34)  JOHN  HEWES  of  Lynnfield,  born  13  July,  1741 
(genealogical  record  of  Jacob  W.  Hewes  reads  "  July,  1741  in 
Lynnend  ")  ;  died  in  Lynnfield,  14  Feb.,  1817;  "  aged  75  "  (aged 
78,  according  to  Lynnfield  Vital  Records). 

He  married  at  Lyndeborough,  N.  H.,  19  April,  1775  (inten- 
tion recorded  at  Lynnfield,  1  Jan.,  1775),  Ann  daughter  of  Capt. 
Jacob  and  Jennie  (Johnstone)  Wellman  of  Lyndeborough, 
formerly  of  Lynnfield,  who  was  born  20  March,  1748,  at  Litch- 
field, N.  H.,  during  the  temporary  residence  of  her  parents 
there.     She  died  at  Lynnfield,  25  Sept.,  1824,  aged  76. 

The  family  record  by  Jacob  Wellman  Hewes,  with  one  or  two 
minor  exceptions,  agrees  with  the  town  records  of  Lynnfield. 

Children,  all  born  at  Lynn  End,  now  Lynnfield: 

2  Johx,  born  27  Jan.,  1776 ;  baptized  29  June,  1777  (Church 

rec.)  ;  died  in  infancy. 

3  Jacob  Wellman,  born  12  Jan.,  1778;  baptized  14  Jan., 

1778;  died  at  Lempster,  N.  H.,  about  1870.  He  had 
lived  there  for  many  years,  alone,  and  was  somewhat 
of  a  recluse.  The  story  of  his  early  life  is  told  by  him- 
self in  the  Family  Record.  When  advanced  in  years, 
having  become  involved  through  his  kindness  to  a  neigh- 
bor, and  threatened  with  loss  of  his  small  property,  his 
nephew,  David  Hewes,  was  called  upon  to  go  to  him  and 
straighten  out  his  affairs.  This  was  done.  Mr.  David 
Hewes  remembers  this  visit  vividly.  He  arrived  at  the 
farm,  and  hunting  about  found  his  uncle  seated  back 
of  the  house,  where  he  had  an  open  fireplace  built  in  the 
chimney  outside,  feeding  a  pet  cat  out  of  the  bowl  of 
porridge  he  was  making  his  own  lunch  from.  Mr.  Hewes 
not  only  satisfactorily  adjusted  the  business  matters 
which  called  him  there,  but  put  the  house  in  thorough 
143 


144,  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES 

order,  and  moved  the  old  gentleman  into  a  new  but  un- 
finished house  close  by,  on  the  farm.  In  cleaning  up  he 
found  in  a  bureau  drawer  the  materials  for  a  fine  suit  of 
clothes,  but  which  had  never  been  taken  from  the  wrap- 
pings. Enquiry  as  to  why  he  had  not  had  the  cloth  made 
up,  elicited  the  reply,  "  I  hardly  know,  but  suppose  some 
neglect  of  mine."  There  is  a  tradition  in  the  family  that 
when  a  young  man  Jacob  sought  the  hand  of  the  girl 
who  married  his  brother  Joshua,  and  because  of  his 
disappointment  retired  to  Lempster.  Never  after  would 
he  have  even  a  female  animal  on  the  farm.  In  spite  of 
his  secluded  life,  he  maintained  his  church  connection, 
and  did  many  deeds  of  kindness  for  others.  This  latter 
characteristic  is  what  brought  him  into  the  difficulty 
which  led  to  his  nephew's  visit.  Mr.  Hewes  said  that 
he  found  the  cottage  filled  with  firewood,  so  closely  piled 
about  the  living  room  that  even  the  furniture  could  not 
be  moved.  Realizing  his  need  of  attention,  arrange- 
ments were  made  with  the  next  neighbors  to  care  for  him, 
and  after  his  death  the  farm  was  deeded  to  them  in  con- 
sideration of  their  care.  When  about  to  die,  Jacob  sent 
to  his  sister-in-law,  the  wife  of  Joshua,  his  picture  and 
the  family  record  above  alluded  to,  which  is  now  in  the 
possession  of  his  grand  niece,  Miss  Emily  Hewes  of  Salem. 
4+  Benjamin,  born  3  Sept.,  baptized  24  Sept.,  1780. 
5     John,  born  13  Jan.,  1785 ;  died  at  Lynnfield,  25  Dec,  1829, 

unm.      He  is  said  to  have  been  a  druggist  in  Boston. 
6+  James,  twin  with  John,  died  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 
7+  Joel,  born  30  Dec,  1786;  baptized  15  April,  1787. 
8+  Elijah,  born  20  Aug.,  1789;  baptized  20  Sept.,  1789. 
9+  Joshua,  born  31  May;  baptized  22  July,  1792. 
John  Hewes  is  said  by  Miss  Emily  Hewes,  who  had  it  from  an 
old  resident  of  Lynnfield,  to  have  been  "  bound  out  "  in  his  youth 
to  a  farmer  in  that  town.      She  thought  it  was  probably  the  Well- 
man  farm  that  he  lived  upon.     This  is  quite  likely,  for  his  enlist- 
ment  records  show  he  was  a  minor  when  he  enlisted  in  the  French 
War,   hut    there   are   no    records  of  a   guardian   having  been   ap- 
pointed for  him.      II  wa.B  perhapfl  his  uncle,  Samuel  Hewes,  whose 
acquaintance  with  Marblehead,  and  probably  Lynn,  people  was  ex- 
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DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES  145 

he  bought  land,  and  in  1784  eighteen  acres  additional  of  James 
Johnson.      This  farm  is  now  divided  by  the  Saugus  road. 

John  Hcwes  served  in  the  "  Old  French  War."  Undoubtedly 
all  of  the  records  given  below  refer  to  him. 

2  April,  1759,  he  enlisted  "  for  the  reduction  of  Canada  "  un- 
der command  of  General  Amherst,  and  is  styled  in  the  roll  as 
"  of  Salem,"  aged  18  years.  He  is  also  called  a  veteran,  having 
served  the  year  before  at  Lake  George.  This  roll  also  shows  he 
was  living  in  the  family  of  or  was  an  apprentice  of  Nathaniel 
Nurse  (Archives,  97:92).  Nearly  all  of  this  company  were 
from  Beverly,  with  some  from  Danvers  and  Wenham.  The  name 
of  the  captain  is  not  given  on  the  roll. 

He  also  enlisted  21  July,  1761,  and  served  until  6  Dec,  1761, 
in  a  company  commanded  by  Capt.  Moses  Hart,  Esq.,  of  Lynn. 
And  in  this  roll,  which  is  dated  Boston,  25  March,  1762,  his  resi- 
dence is  given  as  Lynn,  of  which  town  Lynnfield  was  then  a  part 
(Ibid.,  99:118).  He  received  for  his  service  £8-18-8,  being  at 
the  rate  of  £1-16  per  month.  Of  the  thirty-two  privates  in  the 
company,  eleven  were  from  Lynn,  seven  from  Danvers,  Salem  and 
Marblehead,  one  each  from  Newbury  and  Maiden,  and  two  from 
Boston.  There  were  also  ten  from  Brimfield,  probably  raised 
by  the  lieutenant,  Joseph  Thompson,  a  Brimfield  man.  The  ser- 
geants were  James  Johnson,  Benjamin  Bowden  and  Jonah  In- 
graham,  all  of  Lynn,  and  Daniel  Sherman  of  Brimfield.  This 
company  was  attached  to  the  regiment  commanded  by  Col.  Rich- 
ard Saltonstall  of  Haverhill,  which  marched  to  Crown  Point.  The 
warrant  to  pay  Capt.  Moses  Hart's  company  for  service  under 
Gen.  Amherst,  passed  the  Council  27  March,  1762  (Council  rec- 
ords). Hart  had  commanded  a  company  in  the  preceding  cam- 
paign. 

There  were  several  of  the  name  John  Hewes  in  the  army  in 
1758.  The  record  most  likely  to  relate  to  John  of  Lynnfield  is 
the  following: 

John  Hewes,  residing  in  Marblehead,  enlisted  12  May,  1758, 
discharged  1  Nov.,  1758.  Served  in  company  commanded  by 
Capt.  Jeremiah  Richards,  Col.  Joseph  Williams'  regiment  (Arch- 
ives, 96:  440).  Billeting  Rolls  show  that  he  returned  home  from 
the  war  with  his  company  (Ibid.,  96:252,  267).  This  service 
was  under  Gen.  Abercrombie  (Council  records)  in  Col.  Williams' 
regiment.      Most  of  the  enlisted  men  were  from  Suffolk  and  pres- 


146  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HE  WES 

ent  Norfolk  County,  and  several  Lynn  men  were  of  this  Company. 

Gen.  Abercrombie  was  the  British  commander  of  the  expedi- 
tion of  1758,  which  attempted  to  capture  Ticonderoga.  On  the 
8  July  an  assault  on  that  fort  resulted  in  a  disastrous  defeat  of 
the  British  and  Provincial  forces,  the  later  forming  three-fifths 
of  the  army  of  15,000  men.  The  assault  was  ill-timed  and  against 
the  advice  of  the  New  England  officers,  who  were  better  informed 
of  the  strength  of  the  French  position  than  was  Abercrombie.  On 
his  repulse,  Abercrombie  ordered  a  hasty  retreat  to  Lake  George. 
The  entire  campaign  would  have  been  a  failure  had  it  not  been  for 
Col.  Bradstreet  of  Massachusetts,  who  with  a  small  force,  chiefly 
Provincials,  reduced  Kingston  on  Lake  Ontario,  thus  contribut- 
ing largely  in  the  reduction  of  Fort  Duquesne  by  Forbes  and 
Washington. 

On  the  12  Jan.,  1759,  Wolfe  was  commissioned  to  command 
the  forces  intended  to  be  used  for  the  reduction  of  Canada.  Sir 
Jeffrey  Amherst,  commanding  an  army  of  12,000  troops,  about 
half  Provincials,  succeeded  in  driving  the  French  from  their 
posts  on  Lake  George  and  Champlain  and  had  just  reached  the 
St.  Lawrence  when  he  received  word  of  Wolfe's  success  at  Quebec, 
and  withdrew  to  winter  quarters.  The  Massachusetts  troops 
were  dismissed  at  the  end  of  the  campaign,  and  returned  to  their 
homes. 

Besides  the  men  with  Amherst,  Massachusetts  had  three  hun- 
dred men  with  Wolfe,  a  great  many  in  the  fleet,  and  2500  in 
garrison  in  and  near  Louisburg. 

Although  the  war  was  practically  ended,  so  far  as  the  colonies 
were  concerned,  by  the  fall  of  Quebec,  peace  did  not  come  until 
1763,  and  Massachusetts  kept  men  in  garrison  in  Nova  Scotia, 
and  especially  at  Fort  Cumberland. 

Anna  Hewes  was  admitted  to  the  church  at  Lynnfield  in  July, 
1777,  but  her  husband  does  not  appear  as  a  member  of  the  church 
in  the  lists  of  1761  nor  1783;  nor  to  1823  is  there  any  record  of 
his  admission,  although  he  was  a  pew  owner. 

Tin-  children  were  nil  baptized  in  the  church  at  Lynnfield. 

In  the  Census  of  1790,  the  family  of  John  Hewes  is  described 
as  consisting  of  himself,  five  males  under  sixteen,  and  two  fe- 
males.  He  i-  the  only  person  of  the  name  mentioned  in  Lynn  in 
the  Dinct  Tax  of  1798. 

The  greater  part  of  the  homestead  of  John  Hewes  is  now  in 


MRS.  ANN    (WELLMAN)    HEWES 
1748-1824 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HE  WES  147 

possession  of  Elbridge  F.  Gerry  who  obtained  this  property  from 
his  father.  Prior  to  ownership  by  the  elder  Gerry,  the  mill 
privilege  had  belonged  to  John  P.  Hawkes,  and  the  factory 
there  was  known  as  Hawkes'  Mill.  It  was  also  called  the  "  Cot- 
ton Factory,"  and  still  earlier,  soon  after  the  death  of  John 
Hewes,  the  nulls  were  designated  on  maps  of  the  day  as  the 
"  Woolen  Mills." 

These  mills  were  operated  by  Jonathan  Pilling,  who  overflowed 
Stone's  meadow,  and  from  him  the  pond  was  called  Pilling's  Pond. 
From  quite  early  times  the  power  afforded  by  the  brook  running 
from  Stone's  meadow  was  utilized  by  the  Eatons  for  power  to  run 
a  grist  mill.  After  Hewes'  death  there  were  many  conveyances  of 
small  parcels,  purchases  of  lowland  with  irregular  borders,  and  of 
flowage  rights,  by  the  owners  of  the  mill  privilege.  The  original 
boundaries  of  the  lots  conveyed  by  Orne,  Johnson,  and  others,  not 
being  clearly  defined,  it  is  difficult  to  locate  the  boundaries  of  John 
Hewes'  farm. 

The  W7ellman  farm  extended  south  from  the  road  "  leading 
from  Reading  to  Salem,"  and  was  bounded  westerly  by  the  brook 
leading  out  of  the  meadow  north  of  the  Reading  road.  Its 
southern  boundaries  were  in  the  vicinity  of  the  land  owned  by 
John  Hewes,  whose  wife  was  a  Wellman.  Among  those  who  pur- 
chased estates  in  Lynn  End,  after  the  division  of  the  Common 
land  there  in  1706,  were  the  Eatons,  a  Reading  family,  who  main- 
tained a  grist  mill  near  the  Saugus  river,  and  whose  holdings  in 
part  came  into  the  hands  of  John  Orne  of  Salem,  whose  estate 
was  called  "  Orne's  Farm."  Orne  bought  as  occasion  offered, 
and  sold  off  from  some  of  his  purchases  land  he  did  not  want.  At 
his  death  the  administrator  of  the  estate  of  Samuel  Orne,  late  of 
Salem,  sold  to  James  Johnson  of  Lynnfield  for  £510  a  farm  of 
170  acres  in  several  parcels,  (1)  on  which  the  buildings  stood, 
about  100  acres,  beginning  at  the  road  at  the  northwest  corner 
of  Joseph  Gowing's  pasture  by  the  gate  near  the  house,  bounded 
westerly  by  the  road  until  it  comes  to  the  pound  in  the  corner  of 
John  Bancroft's  orchard,  thence  bound  southerly  by  said  pound 
and  the  land  of  John  Bancroft  to  the  meadow.  Thence  on 
meadow  of  Ezekiel  Gowing,  of  Joseph  Jefford  and  Abraham  Wrell- 
man's  heirs.  At  the  northeast  corner  of  said  Wellmans'  lot  by 
the  upland  side  it  turned  and  ran  by  their  land  to  Bates'  Brook 
and  by  the  brook  to  a  corner  of  the  Widow  Wellman's  land  at  a 


148  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES 

wall,  thence  southerty  on  her  land,  land  of  John  Huse  and  Thomas 
Wellman  until  it  came  to  Jonathan  Wellman's  land  in  the  corner 
of  the  orchard;  (2)  43  acres  on  the  north  side  of  the  road;  (3)  12 
acres  beginning  at  the  road  at  the  brook  (Essex  Deeds,  142:248). 
This  James  Johnson  was  son  of  William  Johnson  (Deeds,  123:93). 
On  the  same  day,  24  June,  1784,  Johnson  sold  for  £175  to  John 
Huse  of  Lynnfield,  18  acres,  part  of  his  purchase  of  Orne,  begin- 
ning at  Bates'  Brook,  at  the  corner  of  the  Widow  Wellman's  land 
at  the  wall,  thence  running  southerly,  as  the  wall  stands,  by  land 
of  said  Wellman,  of  said  Huse  and  of  Thomas  Wellman,  to  land  of 
Jonathan  Wellman  in  the  corner  of  the  orchard,  thence  running 
easterly  by  Jonathan's  land  to  land  of  Widow  Parsons,  thence 
northerly  by  said  Parsons'  land  and  land  of  the  Widow  Wellman 
to  the  brook,  thence  westerly  by  said  brook  to  the  bounds  first  men- 
tioned. Said  Huse  to  have  all  the  privilege  of  that  part  of  the 
brook  which  is  west  of  the  bridge  over  the  brook,  and  Johnson  to 
have  all  cast  of  the  said  bridge  (Essex  Deeds,  137:235). 

On  the  7  April,  1815,  John  Hewes  conveyed,  for  $600,  to  his  son 
Elijah  Hewes  the  18  acres  bought  of  James  Johnson  (reserving 
an  acre  enclosed  within  a  stone  wall  formerly  conveyed  to  his  son 
James  Hewes),  describing  the  land  as  bounded  northerly  on  the 
"  factory  millpond,"  easterly  on  heirs  of  Abraham  Wellman,  south 
on  Jonathan  Wellman,  and  west  on  the  way  from  Capt.  Andrew 
.Mansfield's  to  Lynnfield  meeting  house  (Deeds,  210:22).  The 
road  from  Mansfield's  is  the  present  road  to  Saugus,  and  as  it  is 
not  mentioned  in  Johnson's  deed,  had  presumably  been  laid  out  after 
1784.  In  Johnson's  deed  to  Hewes  the  western  bounds  were  lands 
of  Thomas  Wellman,  John  Huse,  and  Widow  Wellman.  He  con- 
veyed to  Elijah  on  the  same  day  ten  acres  purchased  of  John  Orne 
25  March,  17G7,  hounding  east  on  the  road  from  Mansfield's  to 
the  meeting  house,  southerly  and  westerly  on  land  of  Thomas  Ban- 
croft, northwesterly  on  land  of  heirs  of  Abraham  Wellman.  The 
consideration  was  $500  and  support  for  self  and  wife  during  life. 

In  addition  he  conveyed  to  Elijah  the  pew  in  Rev.  Mr.  Mottey's 
meeting  house  (Deeds,  210:23). 

Six  years  after  the  purchase  of  the  eighteen  acre  lot  of  John- 
son, John  I  hues  mortgaged  it  to  Thomas  Lee  <>f  Salem  for  £S8. 
The  mortgage  was  dated  SO  April,  1790,  and  discharged  :5  Dec, 
17W)    (Deeds,    151  :166). 

On  the  1 5  March,  L790,  he  mortgaged  for  £15  the  ten  acre  lot 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES  149 

to  Mary  Tarbox,  widow,  and  Tamzon  Uppum  of  Reading,  single- 
woman,  describing  the  premises  as  follows:  ten  acres  of  upland 
and  meadow  bounded  south  and  west  on  the  land  of  Stephen  Well- 
man,  deceased,  north  on  land  of  Abraham  Wellman,  deceased, 
east  on  land  of  Samuel  Orne,  deceased,  the  easterly  bounds  to  run 
within  eight  feet  of  the  well,  thence  running  westerly  and  north- 
erly two  rods  from  said  Hewes'  house  to  the  westerly  corner  of 
the  garden  wall,  thence  running  as  the  wall  stood  to  the  easterly 
line  of  said  Orne's  land,  thence  running  to  the  northerly  line  of 
said  Abraham  Wellman's  land  (Deeds,  151:231). 

The  deed  from  Orne  of  1767  is  not  of  record,  it  was  evidently 
Hewes'  first  purchase  of  land,  and  upon  that  land  he  built  his 
house,  and  there  brought  his  bride  from  Lyndeborough.  The 
house  was  standing  as  late  as  1828,  and  probably  as  late  as  1848 
when  Elizabeth  Hewes,  widow,  quitclaims  to  Hawkes  all  her  right 
in  2-1/2  acres  and  buildings  thereon,  for  $248,  the  description 
seeming  to  pertain  to  the  land  just  north  of  the  brook. 

From  another  deed  of  John  Hewes  dated  31  Jan.,  1803,  we 
find  that  he  sold  to  Adam  Hawkes  44  poles,  one  of  the  bounds 
being  a  mark  "  on  the  southerly  end  of  the  old  dam  "  (Deeds, 
174:63).  The  south  end  of  the  dam  was  seven  poles  from  the 
road  in  a  northeasterly  direction. 

Mr.  David  Hewes,  who  left  Lynnfield  prior  to  1850,  in  the 
fall  of  1909  pointed  out  the  site  of  an  old  house,  which  in  his 
youth  had  stood  west  of  the  road,  and  which  he  supposed  was 
once  the  residence  of  his  ancestor  John  Hewes.4  This  recollec- 
tion would  seem  to  be  correct,  as  there  is  no  doubt  John  Hewes 
did  live  in  a  house  west  of  the  road,  probably  somewhat  to  the 
north  of  the  house  now  standing  north  of  the  office  of  Gerry's 
cider  mill. 

Elijah  Hewes  came  into  possession  of  the  three  acres  north 
of  the  brook  and  east  of  the  road,  and  this  later  passed  to  Jona- 
than Pilling,  and  from  him  to  Hawkes.  Thus  at  one  time  Elijah 
Hewes,  son  of  John,  owned  all  of  the  land  on  both  sides  of  the 
brook  and  on  both  sides  of  the  road.  The  situation  of  the  land 
owned  by  John  Hewes,  and  the  moderate  extent  of  his  farm,  only 
about  28  acres,  part  unsuitable  to  tillage  and  part  subject  to 
flowage,   would   seem   to   indicate   that   he  made   use   of   the   mill 

*  Mr.  Dan  forth  confirms  this  statement.  The  ancient  Wellman  house  on 
the  hill  opposite  was  taken  down  in  1836. 


150  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES 

privilege,  although  no  record  of  that  fact  appears.  Before  his 
death  there  was  a  mill  in  existence  at  that  point.  This  is  the 
mill  which  later  was  operated  by  Jonathan  Pilling,  and  afterward 
by  Hawkes,  from  whom  the  privilege  passed  to  the  Gerrys. 

It  has  been  mentioned  above  that  the  deed  from  Orne  to  Hewes 
of  1767  is  not  of  record.  The  ten-acre  tract  bought  by  Hewes 
was  between  land  of  the  Wellmans.  There  is  on  record  a  deed, 
dated  1762,  by  which  John  Orne  of  Salem  purchased  from  Jedi- 
diah  Wellman  of  Danvers,  physician,  ten  acres  in  Lynnfield, 
bounded  southerly  and  westerly  by  land  of  Stephen  Wellman, 
northerly  by  land  the  grantor  had  sold  to  Abraham  Wellman  and 
a  ditch,  and  easterly  by  land  of  said  Orne.  This  would  seem 
to  be  the  ten  acres  Orne  sold  to  John  Hewes,  and  therefore  in 
all  probabilities  part  of  the  old  Wellman  farm. 

The  old  mill  was  a  story  and  a  half  building  28  by  40  feet.  Mr. 
Mitchell,  who  tore  it  down,  stated  it  was  built  in  the  olden  time  sub- 
stantial fashion,  with  hewn  timbers  and  laths.  The  water-fall, 
formerly  six  feet,  with  an  over-shot  wheel,  is  now,  by  means  of  a 
new  dam,  26  feet,  increasing  the  power  fourfold  and  running  a 
turbine  wheel. 

VI.  4  BENJAMIN  HEWES  (John),  bora  in  Lynnfield, 
Mass.,  3  Sept.,  1780;  died  in  New  York;  married,  as  "of  Bos- 
ton," to  Susanna  Kingman  "  of  Boston,"  25  April,  1804-  (8  July, 
1804,  Boston  records).  She  was  bora  in  Hingham  (Family 
record)  ;  died  20  July,  1837  (Lynnfield  records). 
Child,  born  at  Lynnfield: 
10+  Benjamin,  "  of  Benj.  &  Susan,"  born  25  April,  180". 

VI.  6  JAMES  HEWES  (John),  born  in  Lynnfield,  13  Jan., 
1785;  died  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  17  Feb.,  1858  (g.  s.  at  Lynnfield). 
He  married  25  Nov.,  1813,  Eliza  Hawkes  5  of  Lynnfield,  born 
there  20  Dec,  1792,  died  23  June,  1829. 

He  married,  second,  4-  July,  18d0,  Hannah  (Taylor)  Crosby, 
of  Salem,  born  in  Dracut,  14  July.  1802,  .lied  26  Sept.,  1817. 

oThe  genealogical  records  of  this  family  nre  chiefly  taken  from  a  Bible 
record  In  the  Hone  family.  John  Hawkes  of  Lynnfield  died  :$  May,  1811; 
born  In  Lynnfield  n  July,  I754j  married  8  Jan.,  1777,  Rachel  Bancroft  of 
Dunstable,  born  there  18  April,  I7.f>8,  died  l  April,  1814.  These  are  prob- 
ably the  parents  of  Eltaa  (Hawkes)  Hewes  as  u.eir  record  appears  In  the 
■line    Bible    record. 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES  151 

Children,  probably  all  born  in  Lynnfield: 

11  Eliza  Jane,  born  27  Feb.,  1815 ;  died  in  Lynnfield  7  Jan., 
1864  (g.  s.).  She  married  at  Saugus  27  Dec.,  1838, 
(int.  29  Nov.,  1838)  George  Spinney,  who  became  in- 
sane. Mrs.  Spinney  was  for  some  years  a  resident  of 
Cincinnati,   and  joined  the  Roman  Catholic   church. 

12+  John,  born  25  March,  1817;  died  in  Cincinnati,  17  Feb., 
1852.     He  was  in  business  there  for  many  years. 

13+  Narcissa,  born  26  July,  1819;  died  in  Saugus,  25  May, 
1883;  married  Philip  P.  Hone  at  Saugus  10  Oct.,  1839. 

14+  James,  born  13  Nov.,  1821. 

15  Lydia  Hawes,  born  2  May,  1824;  died  in  Saugus  3  Jan., 

1855  ;  married  [ ]  Kidder,  of  Saugus.     One  child, 

a  daughter,  who  died  in  the  Danvers  Insane  Hospital. 

16  Albert  Galitan,  born  13  Dec,  1827;  died  14  April,  1832. 

By  second  marriage: 

17+  Orrin,  born  4  March,  1823;  died  in  Lynn,  1904. 

18     Harriet  Victoria,  born  29  Jan.,  1839 ;  died  22  May,  1840. 

19+  Albert  Galitan,  born  22  Nov.,  1840. 

20     William  Wirt,  born  21  Feb.,  1842 ;  died  in  infancy. 

VI.  7  JOEL  HEWES  (John),  born  in  Lynnfield,  30  Dec, 
1786;  died  18  Dec,  1827  (Family  record).  He  married  3  April, 
1808,  Ruthe  (Ruthey,  Lynn  records),  daughter  of  Joseph  and 
Mary  (Smith)  Tapley,  born  Lynnfield,  1  April,  1791.  She  re- 
married 19  April,  1829,  Oliver  Swain,7  and  died  13  Sept.,  1851. 

Children: 

21+  Sophia,  born  19  Aug.,  1809;  died  20  Nov.,  1858.     Married 

12  April,  1829,6  Jeremiah  Coney. 
22+  Joel,  born  at  Lynn,  12  Aug.,  1810,6  (Lynn  records)  ;  died 

1  April,  1875 ;  married  Sarah  Marsh. 
23+  Aaron  Tapley,  born  30  July,  1812;  died  25  Jan.,  1861; 

married  21  April,  1835,6  Louisa  Smith. 

« Lynnfield   town    and    church   records. 

7  Oliver  Swain  was  of  the  Reading  family  of  that  name,  distinguished 
for  several  generations  of  physicians.  His  sister  Betsey  was  the  mother  of 
Ebenezer  T.  Abbott.  The  Lynnfield  records  note  the  death  of  Mary,  wife 
of  Oliver  Swain,  30  Nov.,  1823.  Mr.  Swain  died  in  Reading.  By  his 
first  wife  he  had  Oliver  and  Clarissa  who  lived  at  home,  Howard  who  was 
of  Gloucester,  Benjamin,  a  graduate  of  Brown  Univ.,  and  Caroline  who 
married  and  settled  in  the  West. 


152  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES 

24+  Mary  Ann,  born  17  April,  1814 ; 6  died  2  June,  1897 ;  mar- 
ried (intention  20  May,  1832)  Benjamin  Cox,  Jr. 
25+  Ruthe,  born  16  May,  1816  ;6  died  23  Jan.,  1909;  married 

19  Feb.,  1835,  Ebenezer  T.  Abbott  of  Reading. 
26+  Charles  Wesley,  born  7  April,  1818,6  died  28  Dec,  1882; 

married  Rosa  M.  Grafton. 
27     Caleb,  born  9  Dec.,  1819 ;6  died  31  Oct.  (1  Nov.,  1822). 6 
28+  David,  born  16  May,  1882.6     Of  California. 
29+  Lucy   Ann,    born   24    (21    Dec,   Lynnfield    records)    Dec, 

1824 ;  °  married  George  C.  Richards. 
30  Caleb,  born  9  Oct.,  1826;  6  died  5  Feb.,  1827 .6 
Col.  Joel  Hewes  obtained  his  title  from  service  in  the  militia. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  fourth  regiment,  first  brigade,  second 
division,  to  which  Lynnfield  furnished  one  company.  He  was 
commissioned  ensign  23  May,  1814,  of  the  company  commanded 
by  Capt.  Samuel  Skinner.  He  was  promoted  to  be  Lieutenant  4 
April,  1815;  and  to  be  Captain,  succeeding  Capt.  Matthew  Cox, 
17  Nov.,  1815.  The  regiment  was  commanded  by  Lieutenant- 
colonel-commandant  Samuel  Brimblecom,  a  well-known  shoe  manu- 
facturer in  Lynn,  and  from  1809  to  1815  had  as  its  Adjutant 
Bowman  Viles  of  Lynnfield.  Capt.  Joel  Hewes  was  promoted 
to  be  Lieutenant-colonel  28  Jan.,  1819,  and  held  this  office  until 
honorably  discharged  from  the  service  23  Feb.,  1820.  During 
this  period  Matthew  Cox  was  Colonel  (Archives,  Adj. -general's 
Dept.,  Mass.). 

In  1814  the  militia  was  called  upon  to  defend  the  country  from 
invasion.  Companies  from  various  Essex  county  towns  were  on 
duty  at  Salem,  but  it  does  not  appear  from  the  State  archives 
that  either  Lynn  or  Lynnfield  were  called  upon  to  furnish  men. 
It  is  evident,  however,  from  traditions  in  more  than  one  Lynnfield 
family  that  the  Lynnfield  company  was  expecting  the  call  to  arms, 
and  it  is  quite  probable  that  more  than  once  the  company  was 
paraded  in  readiness  for  acuta]  service."  With  the  exception 
of  a  slight  skirmish  or  two  with  boat  parties  from  British  war 
vessels,  who  were  seeking  water  or  information,  no  actual  hos- 
tilitiea   t<«"k   place  (in  land  along  this  portion  of  our  coast. 

Col.    lb  w.s   was   a   tall  man,  of  commanding  presence   and  sol- 

•  Lynnfield  town  and  church  records. 

»Mr.  David  Hewes  remembers  Bedng  ■■<  letter  dated  at  Salem  during  this 
period,  written  by  his  father  to  his  win-  and  containing  an  allusion  to  mat- 
ters connected  with  book  military  event  there. 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES  153 

'dierly  appearance.  He  was  respected  and  popular  and  is  said  to 
have  been  an  excellent  public  speaker,  and  to  have  dominated 
meetings  in  which  he  took  part.  His  energetic  disposition  caused 
him  to  be  constantly  and  actively  engaged  in  some  affair  of  public 
interest  or  private  business.  In  his  home  work  on  the  farm  he 
was  ably  seconded  by  his  wife,  a  woman  of  energy  and  ability 
equal  to  his  own.  It  was  his  custom  to  take  the  produce  of  his 
farm  at  the  "  Three  Corners  "  to  Salem  market.  By  leaving  at 
two,  he  was  able  to  reach  home  by  ten  in  the  same  morning. 

He  began  farming  in  Lynnfield  about  1812.  His  father-in- 
law,  Joseph  Tapley,  whose  home  was  at  the  Three  Corners,  died 
11  March,  1820,  and  on  the  19  August  of  that  year  Jesse  Tapley, 
gentleman,  and  Joseph  Tapley,  yeoman,  both  of  Lynnfield,  in  con- 
sideration of  $422.67  grant  to  Daniel  Hart,  yeoman,  Joel  Hewes, 
gentleman,  Samuel  Wiley,  yeoman,  all  of  Lynnfield,  Joseph  Hart 
of  Salem,  laborer,  Benjamin  Buxton  of  Reading,  innholder, 
Clarissa  Tapley,  singlewoman,  of  Reading,  and  Ephraim  Aver- 
hill  of  Londonderry,  N.  H.,  yeoman,  30  acres  in  Lynnfield,  on 
the  north  side  of  the  road,  bounded  south  on  the  road,  west  partly 
by  land  of  Jesse  Tapley  and  partly  by  land  of  Joseph  Tapley, 
north  on  Daniel  King  and  others,  and  east  on  Oliver  Emerson 
(Essex  Deeds,  225:175).  On  the  14s  June,  the  following  year, 
all  of  these  parties  unite  in  conveying  the  same  premises  to  Joel 
Hewes  of  Lynnfield,  gentleman,  in  consideration  of  $460  (Ibid, 
227:179).  This  was  his  home  until  his  death,  and  remained  in 
the  family  until  1892.  In  the  meantime,  in  1837-8,  the  orig- 
inal house  had  been  destroyed  by  fire.  This  house  stood  on  the 
site  of  the  present  substantial  farmhouse  which  replaced  it,  and 
nearly  opposite  the  house  built  in  1740,  and  in  which  Joseph  Tap- 
ley  lived  from  1781,  the  date  of  his  settlement  in  Lynnfield. 

Lynnfield  was  a  part  of  the  town  of  Lynn  until  28  Feb.,  1814. 
Prior  to  that  the  territory  was  called  Lynn  End  or  Lynn  Farms. 
The  first  grant  to  any  individual  of  land  within  the  present  limits 
of  Lynnfield  was  in  1635,  when  500  acres  were  granted  to  John 
Humphrey,  one  of  the  most  important  of  the  early  settlers  of 
Massachusetts.  Although  he  never  occupied  the  grant,  it  was 
confirmed  to  his  heirs  after  his  death  in  1661.  In  1637,  Lynn 
was  granted  six  miles  into  the  country,  and  this  grant  covered 
the  territory  now  Lynnfield.     The  boundary  line  between  Lynn 


154-  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES 

and  Salem  met  at  Humphrey's  Pond.      Salem  was  until  quite  re- 
cently the  market  town  of  the  Lynnfield  people. 

The  church  at  Reading  was  more  convenient  to  the  dwellers  in 
Lynn  End  than  the  Lynn  church,  which  led  to  their  attending 
services  there  in  preference  to  Lynn.  Eventually,  their  numbers 
justifying  it,  Lynn  End  was  erected  into  a  separate  precinct, 
known  as  the  second  parish  in  Lynn.  This  was  17  Nov.,  1712, 
and  three  years  later  a  meeting  house  was  erected.  On  the  3  July, 
1782,  the  parish  was  established  as  a  District.  The  township 
lies  on  a  plateau,  well  up  from  ocean  level,  and  enjoys  an  enviable 
reputation  arising  from  the  character  of  its  population,  which 
is  not  large,  and  its  healthy  situation.  The  soil  affords  good 
farms,  and  much  of  the  town  is  still  well  wooded.  Although  but 
twelve  miles  from  the  State  House  in  Boston,  the  town  to-day  pre- 
serves the  delightful  simplicity  which  was  so  noted  a  feature  of 
the  older  prosperous  New  England  towns  of  a  century  ago. 

Prior  to  his  settlement  as  a  fanner  in  Lynnfield,  Joel  Hewes 
had  resided  in  Lynn,  and  there,  in  May,  1810,  he  became  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  having  "  experienced  re- 
ligion "  under  the  ministry  of  Rev.  Mr.  Stevens.  Lynn  was  the 
site  of  the  first  Methodist  Meeting  House  in  Massachusetts,  one 
having  been  erected  there  in  consequence  of  the  work  done  in  that 
place  by  Rev.  Jesse  Lee  in  1791.  Methodism  in  New  England 
dates  from  1772,  when  Richard  Boardman  came  from  Philadel- 
phia as  a  missionary  and  formed  a  church  in  Boston,  the  mem- 
bers of  which  became  scattered  during  the  Revolution.  In  1784, 
Rev.  William  Black,  on  his  way  to  Baltimore  from  Nova  Scotia, 
preached  in  Boston,  first  in  private  houses  and  halls,  later  in  the 
Sandemanian  Chapel  to  huge  congregations,  and  finally  deliver- 
ing his  farewell  sermon  from  the  pulpit  of  the  New  North  Church. 
He  reported  to  Bishop  Ashbury  upon  the  promising  field  open  to 
his  or  others'  endeavors  to  establish  Methodism  in  Boston,  but  this 
report  failed  to  reach  the  Bishop.  Four  years  later  Lee  was  ap- 
pointed by  the  New  York  Conference  as  a  missionary  to  New 
England  and  readied  Boston  in  -Inly.  175)0,  where  he  preached  on 
the  Common.      His  first  successful  effort    t«>  form  a  Society  was  at 

Lynn,  where  two  of  the  deacons  and  nearly  half  of  the  old  First 

Church   Beceded    to   form   a   Methodist    church.      In   1K00   the   first 

regular  New  England  Methodist  Confer,  nee  was  held  at  Lynn. 
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DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES  155 

house  in  Lynnfield,  and  soon,  on  the  2  April,  1816,  a  small  so- 
ciety was  formed  of  which  he  was  Class  Leader  and  Steward.  It 
is  said  in  an  Obituary,  published  soon  after  his  death,  that  some 
opposition  was  experienced  in  forming  a  society,  and  the  "  History 
of  Lynnfield  "  states  that  the  Methodists  gave  much  concern  to  Rev. 
Joseph  Mottey,  pastor  of  Lynnfield  parish  (178-3-1821).  Howes 
persevered  in  his  purpose,  and  very  soon  had  the  satisfaction  of 
seeing  the  society  so  increase  as  to  permit  the  erection  of  a  meet- 
ing house.  The  frame  of  this  house  was  gotten  out  from  timber 
cut  on  his  own  homestead,  fitted  and  made  ready  in  his  front  yard, 
and  then  teamed  to  the  village,  and  the  building  raised  in  1823. 
This  chapel  was  burned  25  Sept.,  189-1,  but  for  many  years  prior 
to  its  destruction  had  not  been  used  for  religious  purposes.  It 
stood  on  land  given,  conditionally,  by  Ebenezer  Parsons. 

Col.  Hewes  was  a  victim  of  pulmonary  consumption,  to  which 
it  is  said  he  became  vulnerable  from  passing  through  the  swampy 
country  on  his  early  morning  trips  to  market.  Prior  to  that  time 
he  had  enjoyed  excellent  health.9  For  three  years  he  fought  with 
this  disease,  never  allowing  his  condition  to  interfere  with  his 
ordinary  occupations,  until  the  winter  of  1826,  when  he  became 
aware  that  a  fatal,  and  not  long  delayed  termination  of  his  ill- 
ness was  to  be  expected.  His  exclamation  made  to  a  neighbor, 
"  Glory  to  God !  This  religion  that  I  have  recommended  to 
others,  is  my  support  in  death,  my  hope  in  eternity,  my  joy,  my 
crown  of  rejoicing,"  is  characteristic  of  the  man.  Although 
greatly  afflicted  in  body,  he  continued  to  exhort  the  church,  and 
during  the  last  year  of  his  illness  witnessed  a  great  revival  of 
religion  in  Lynnfield,  during  which  five  of  his  eldest  children  pro- 
fessed their  faith  and  joined  the  Methodist  society. 

Joel  Hewes  is  buried  at  Lynnfield   Centre  cemetery,  westerly 

of   the   old   Burial   Ground,   on    the   road   leading   to    Wakefield. 

There  a  monument  was  erected  by  his  son,  Aaron  T.  Hewes,  in 

memory  of  his  father  and  mother  and  two  infant  brothers.     There 

also  David  Hewes  erected  two  monuments,   one   to  his   brother, 

Joel,  and  another  to  his  sister,  Sophia  Coney,  which  he  bought 

in  Carrara,  Italy ;  and  at  the  same  time  and  place  he  procured 

a  monument  for  his  cousin,  Mary   Cleveland   (Hewes)    Peabody, 

e  It  is  noted  by  Lewis  in  "  History  of  Lynn,"  that  consumption  made  huge 
inroads  upon  the  health  of  Lynn  during  this  period,  which  he  justly  ascribed 
to  the  conditions  under  which  the  manufacture  of  shoes  was  then  conducted, 
in  small,  overheated  and  poorly  ventilated  buildings. 


156  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES 

which  he  erected  in  Omaha,  where  she  died  and  was  buried  March, 
1877. 

Few  women  have  equaled  the  vigorous  womanhood  of  Ruthe 
Tapley,  wife  of  Col.  Joel  Hewes  and  afterward  of  Oliver  Swain. 
She  was  born  at  the  Tapley  homestead,  in  the  northern  portion 
of  Lynnfield,  Mass.,  nearly  opposite  the  house  where  she  went  a 
bride  of  seventeen  and  where  all  her  children  were  born.  This 
was  her  home  during  the  five  years  following  her  husband's  death, 
until  the  homestead  was  taken  over  by  Joel,  the  eldest  son.  Then 
Mr.  Swain  removed  with  his  family  to  the  farm  a  little  to  the 
southeast,  on  the  same  road. 

Mrs.  Hewes  was  an  energetic,  progressive  woman.  She  did  not 
wait  until  the  necessity  came,  but  was  fore-handed,  doing  the  work 
for  the  fall  in  the  summer,  and  always  in  advance.  She  found 
time  to  be  a  teacher  in  the  Sunday  school  and  an  officer  in  the 
sewing  circle.  As  a  neighbor,  her  advice  was  constantly  sought. 
In  her  youth,  together  with  Col.  Hewes,  who  was  a  promoter  of 
Methodist  interests  in  Lynnfield,  and  a  remarkable  class-leader, 
she  was  an  ardent  Methodist ;  but  after  her  husband's  death, 
when  the  Methodist  society  became  scattered  and  separated  and 
services  abandoned,  she  joined  the  Congregationalist  church  and 
as  long  as  she  lived  taught  in  the  Sabbath  school.  The  follow- 
ing tribute  is  taken  from  the  Tapley  Genealogy. 

"  First  and  always  in  her  thought  was  the  spiritual  welfare  of 
her  children.  Above  all  things  she  desired  that  the}''  should  be 
brought  up  in  the  '  nurture  and  admonition  of  the  Lord.'  They 
can  remember  how  they  were  all  ranged  in  order  on  Sabbath  af- 
ternoon, from  the  oldest  to  the  youngest  and  instructed  in  the 
Catechism,  in  obedience  to  the  request  of  Col.  Joel  Hewes,  who 
said  to  his  wife  on  his  triumphant  death  bed,  *  May  the  family 
altar  which  has  been  erected  in  this  house  never  be  taken  down 
while  there  is  a  post  standing  in  this  building.9 

"She  was  also  Interested  in  their  secular  education,  encourag- 
ing Charles,  while  he  worked  half  a  day  and  recited  half  a  day  pre- 
paratory to  college;  giving  all  her  children  the  benefit  of  the  pub- 
lic schools,  and  sending  Ruthe  t<>  the  Academy  at  West  Reading 
and  Lucy  to  the  Charlestown  Female  Seminary,  where  she  er,-;ldu- 

ated. 

"  ller    Christian    devotion,    however,    was    the    ruling   passion    of 

h.r  life,  as  can  be  seen   from  the  extracts  of  letters  sent  to  her 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES  157 

absent  son,  David.  She  never  forgot  to  send  a  letter  by  every 
mail,  though  the  letter  postage  then  was  forty  and  sixty  cents 
for  a  single  letter  to  California.  Her  other  children  were  near 
her. 

"  '  A  contented  mind  is  worth  more  than  all  the  world.  What 
matters  it,  if  we  leave  one  dollar  or  a  million  dollars  behind  us, 
if  we  have  no  interest  in  Heaven.'  '  My  son,  live  at  the  foot  of 
the  Cross.  You  need  daily  grace,  like  the  daily  manna  of  the 
children  of  Israel  in  the  wilderness ;  it  is  to  be  daily  sought  and 
daily  used.  I  said  to  Joel  the  other  day:  If  myself  and  all  my 
family  were  as  faithful  in  serving  the  Lord,  as  we  are  in  serving 
the  world,  what  a  family  we  should  be.'  '  Do  not  feel  too  anxious 
to  get  rich,  for  fear  that  wealth  may  prove  a  clog  in  your  way.' 

"  Grand  words  these  of  a  grander  character.  One  of  the  fam- 
ily, Mrs.  Rosa  Grafton  Hewes,  writes  this  tribute :  '  My  hus- 
band's mother  had  a  strong  mind  and  will  power,  which  enabled 
her  to  overcome  all  difficulties.  She  had  a  kind,  loving  heart  and 
excellent  judgment,  always  ready  to  lend  a  helping  hand  in  sick- 
ness and  to  aid  by  her  counsel  and  superior  judgment.  She  loved 
her  children.  They  were  very  dear  to  her.  If  at  any  time  re- 
proof was  necessary,  she  did  it  so  gently  and  lovingly  that  they 
would  at  once  yield.  She  loved  her  Bible.  It  was  her  joy  and 
comfort.  Whenever  sorrow  and  affliction  came  to  her  she  took 
it  to  the  throne  of  grace  and  we  always  knew  by  the  brightness 
of  her  countenance  that  she  had  been  holding  sweet  communion 
with  her  '  Heavenly  Father.' 

"  Her  son  David  had  her  life  sized  portrait  painted  after  her 
death  from  an  excellent  miniature,  with  the  open  Bible  in  her  lap, 
and  this  characteristic  picture  hangs  by  the  side  of  her  son  in 
the  Anna  Lathrop  Memorial  Room  in  the  Museum  of  Stanford 
University." 

In  the  fall  of  1892  when  Mr.  David  Hewes  was  visiting  Lynn- 
field,  he  became  deeply  interested  in  the  subject  of  placing  in  a 
way  of  permanent  preservation  the  Tapley  house  and  tomb  at 
the  Three  Corners.  He  was  at  this  time  visiting  at  the  Joel 
Hewes,  Jr.,  house,  erected  on  the  site  of  the  old  house  destroyed 
by  fire  in  1837-8. 10  He  perceived  that  a  liberal  expenditure  of 
money  upon  the  buildings  then  on  the  place  but  not  in  very  good 

10  From  the  description  of  this  house  it  was  evidently  of  the  type  built 
after  1720,  and  like  others  still  standing  in  the  vicinity,  but  entirely  unlike 
the  "Tapley  House." 


158  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES 

repair,  would  result  in  placing  the  house  in  condition  to  stand 
for  many  years.  These  improvements  on  the  Hewes  property 
were  entirely  at  his  own  expense,  although  in  the  expense  of  re- 
storing the  tomb  and  Tapley  house,  he  was  joined  by  Messrs. 
George  Tapley  and  Ex-mayor  Hart  of  Boston.  When  these  im- 
provements were  completed  a  great  amount  of  work  had  been 
done,  including  grading  of  roads,  building  of  stone  walls  and 
drains,  and  replacing  woodwork  and  shingling  about  the  buildings. 

BE   IT   REMEMBERED   THAT 

I,  Joel  Hewes  of  Lynnfield  in  the  County  of  Essex  and  Common- 
wealth of  Massachusetts,  Gentleman,  being  weak  in  body,  but  of 
sound  and  peaceful  mind  and  memory,  with  gratitude  to  our  Heav- 
enly Father  for  the  same,  do  make  and  publish  this  my  last  will  and 
testament  as  follows,  viz. 
Imprimus 

I   direct  that  all  my  just  debts  and  funeral  expenses  be  paid  out 
of  my  estate  in  a  reasonable  time  after  my  decease. 
Item 

I  give  and  bequeath  to  my  affectionate  wife,  Ruthe  Hewes,  after  the 
payment  of  my  just  debts,  as  aforesaid,  all  my  personal  estate  of 
whatever  name  or  nature,  and  the  use  and  improvement  of  all  my  Real 
Estate  so  long  as  she  remains  my  widow,  she  my  said  Avife  to  sup- 
port and  educate  my  children  during  their  minority. 
Item 

I  direct  after  the  decease  of  my  said  wife,  or  in  case  of  her  marry- 
ing again,  that  all  my  Real  Estate  be  equally  divided  among  my  eight 
children,  viz.,  Joel  Hewes,  Aaron  Hewes.  Charles  Hewes,  David 
Hewes,  Sophia  Hewes,  Mary  Ann  Hewes,  Ruthie  Hewes,  and  Lucy 
Ann  Hewes,  or  their  legal  representatives,  and  in  the  event  of  my 
said  wife  being  now  pregnant  with  child  and  said  child  should  be 
born  alive,  I  direct  that  it  be  maintained  and  educated  by  my  said 
wife  as  is  before  provided  for  my  other  children  and  that  such  child 
or  its  legal  representative  have  an  equal  share  with  them  my  said 
children  in  my  said  real  estate. 

Lastly,  I  appoint  my  said  wife  Ruthe  Hewes  sole  executrix  of  this 
my  last  will  and  testament;  hereby  revoking  all  former  wills  by  me 
made. 

In  witness  whereof  I  have  set  my  hand  and  seal  the  sixteenth  day 
of  May  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and 
twenty-six. 

Signed^  Sealed,  published  and  delivered  by  the  above  named  Joel 
Hewefl   to    he    his    last    will    and    tesl'iinent    in    the    presenre   of    us,   who   at 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES  159 

his  request  and  in  his  presence  have  hereunto  subscribed  our  names  as 
witnesses  to  the  same.  Joel  Hewes 

Benj.  Wiley,  Lydia  Whittredge,  Asa  L.  Newhall 

Inventory  and  appraisement  of  the  Estate  of  Joel  Hewes  late  of 
Lynnfield  in  said  county,  gentleman,  deceased,  testate,  as  shown  to  us 
by  the  Executrix. 

REAL  ESTATE. 

Buildings,   field  and   orchard   6  acres  $1000- 

New  field,  pasture  and  meadows  30  acres —       540 
Pete  Meadows   8   acres —  160       $1700.00 

PERSONAL  ESTATE 

One  horse  28  dols,  five  cows  90  dols,  1  yearling  6  dols  $124. 

A  lot  of  hay  on  East  Scaffold  20  dols,  on  the  west  8  "  28. 

Two  swine  $10.50,   farm  wagon  &  harness   $35    dols  45.50 

one   light  wagon   and   harness  50. 

one  sleigh  and  harness  $10.50,  one  saddle  $2  12.50 

one  plough  $3,  one  set  traces  &  fellers  2.50  5.50 

a  grindstone   1.50,  one  wheel  barrow  $2  3.50 

two  oxes  with  an  iron  bow,  1  dol.  scythes  1.50  2.50 

a  set  of  pete  tools  1.50  cts,  a  lot  of  rakes  40  cts  1.90 

a  lot  of  lumber  75  cts,  a  lot  of  sole  leather  5  dols  5.75 

Best  bed  &  bedding  No  1   25  dols,  do  No  2   18  dols  43.00 

do  No  3,  12  dols,  do  No  4  10  dols;  do  No  5  8  dols  30. 

two  separate  bedsteads   &   bedding  2   dols  2. 

five  bed  quilts  15  dols,  11  bed  blankets  16.50  31.50 

floor  carpets  4.50  cts,  6^  pairs  of  sheets  7.80  cts  12.30 

8|  pairs  of  sheets  No  2  6.80  cts,  6.80 

8  pairs  pillow  slips  2  dols,  6  tablecloths  4  dols  6. 

18  towels  No  1   3  dols,  |  doz  do  No  2,  1.40  cts  4.40 

2  window  curtains  2.52  cts  2.50 

wearing  apparel,  suit  No  1   18  dols,  do  No  2  5  dol.«  13. 

other  wearing  apparel  12  dols,  boots  &  shoes  2  dols  14. 

a  trunk  2  dols,  an  easy  chair  3  dols,  cradle  2  dols  7. 

one  chest  No  1,  1.50  cts,  do  No  2  1  dol,  do  No  3  50  cts  3. 

2  umbrellas   1.50  cts,  a  buffalo  skin   1.50  cts  3. 

4  lbs  of  wool  rolls  2  dols,  2  spinning  wheels  50  cts  2.50 

30  lbs  of  rosin  75  cts,  a  lot  of  casks  3.50  cts  4.25 

1   bar  of  vinegar  3  dols,  half  bar  of  soap  2  dols  5. 

a  lot  of  tubs   and  wooden   ware   5   dols  5. 

a  lot  of  baskets  1.50  cts,  a  seat  and  tools  2  dols  3.50 


160  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES 

a  lot  of  carpenter's  tools  2.50  cts  2.50 

a  lot  of  iron  ware  6  dols,  2  pine  sets   3  dols  9. 

a  lot  of  brass  ware  6  dols,  a  lot  of  putr  ware  2.50  ets  8.50 
a  lot  of  tin  ware   10  dols,  a  lot  of  stone  ware  &  earthen 

ware  3  dols  13. 

25  lbs  of  butter  3.75  cts,  a  pin  50  cts  4.25 

550  lbs  of  salt  pork  44  dols,  20  bushels  corn  12  dols  56. 

50  bush  of  potatoes   10  dols,  12  do  of  barley  7-20  17-20 

half  bush  of  grass  seed  1  dol,  60  lbs  hogs  lard  6  dols  7. 

1  desk  15  dols,  1  clock  8  dol,  2  tables  10  dols  33. 

A  light  stand  1  dol,  1  desk  &  a  lot  of  tables  2  dols  3.80 

2  setts  knives  &  forks  1  dol,  2nd  lot  do  1  dol  2. 

a  lot  of  Japan  ware  2  dol,  a  set  china  ware  1.50  cts  3.50 

a  set  of  crockery  ware  2  dol,  2nd  do  4.50  cts  6.50 

2  large  silver  spoons  2  dols,  set  silver  teaspoons  $3.00  5. 
a  set  block  tin  spoons   1.25  cts,  a  teapot  and  candle  stick 

2.00  3.25 

3  looking  glasses  6  dols,  1  case  &  bottles,  1  dol  7. 
a  lot  of  glass  ware  2.50  cts,  6  bush  of  rye  4.50  cts  7- 
9  meal  bags  4.50  cts,  70  lbs  of  cheese  3.50  cts  8. 

a  lot  of  shoe  lasts  2  dols,  a  lot  of  iron  1.50  cts  21.50 

A  set  of  draws  50  cts,  a  lot  of  books  5  dols  5.50 
3  bush  of  beans  5  dols,  lot  of  shoe  thread  2  dols 

4  table  cloths  7.80 


$732.12 


Brought   forward 

Amount   of    Real    Estate  $1700- 

Amount  of  personal  732.12 


"$2432.12 

Dated  at  Lynnfield  this  27  day  of  February.  A.  D.  1828. 

Benj.  Wiley,  Jesse  Tapley,  Oliver  Emerson,  Committee. 

Hi-niK    Hkui>.    Kx< •cntrix 

VI.  8  ('APT.  ELIJAH  HEWES  {John),  born  20  Aug., 
ITS');  died  at  Lynnfield  9  Nov.,  18«7,  aged  88;  married  30  May 
1818  '-  Rebecca  Bbown,  daughter  of  James  and  Lydia  (Nichols) 
Brown,  born  at  Lynnfield,  17  Sept.,  1789;  died  there  87  dune, 
1814,'-  aged  £5  (Church  record).  He  married,  Becond,  1:5  July, 
1815,  Elizabeth  Beown  of  Danvers,  born  in  Lynnfield,  80  Sept., 
1794;  died  in  So.  Lyndeboro  '.»  Aug.,  1871,  aged  76-10-9. 

1 1  The  estate  wu  Indebted  1164. 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES  161 

Elijah  Hewes  was  commissioned  ensign  10  Jan.,  1820,  lieu- 
tenant 12  July,  1820,  and  captain  12  April,  1821,  in  the  4th 
Regiment,  1st  Brigade,  2nd  Division,  Massachusetts  Militia.  lie 
lived  on  the  farm  had  of  his  father,  which  he  enlarged. 

Children,  all  but  John  born  in  Lynnfield:  13 

31  Elijah,  bora  20  March,  1814  (born  13  March  12)  ;  married 

at  South  Reading,  16  May,  1837,  Matilda  G.  Goodnow. 

32  John,  born  1  June,  1816,  in  Danvers ;  died  17  July,  1816.12 

33  Jonathan  Brown,  born  2  June,  1817;  died  6  April,  1818.12 

34  Rebecca  Brown,  born  26  May,  1819  ;  died  23  Sept.,  1824. 12 

35  Elizabeth  Ann,  born  27  Nov.,  1820; 12  married  4  July, 

1841,  William  W.  Nichols  of  Chelsea. 
36+  George  Warren,  born  25  Oct.,  1822  ;12  married  Sophia 

Swett  ;  he  married,  second,  Lavina  Swett. 
37+  Rebecca  Brown,  born  15  Dec,  1824  ;12  married  William 

W.  Young. 

VI.  9  JOSHUA  HEWES  (John),  of  Lynnfield,  born  there 
31  May,  1782;  died  there  21  June,  1860;  married  3  Nov.,  1818, 
Jedidah,  daughter  of  Matthew  and  Mary  (Ogden)  Hunt  of 
Salem,  born  in  Abington  24  Aug.,  1798,  died  in  Lynnfield  26  Oct., 
1876. 

Joshua  Hewes  was  a  farmer  and  shoe  manufacturer.  From 
1837  to  1840  and  in  1842  he  was  town  clerk  of  Lynnfield,  and 
from  1842  to  1859  town  treasurer.  He  was  selectman  1832, 
1837  to  1840  inclusive,  and  in  1842;  and  in  1835  and  1843  rep- 
resentative to  the  General  Court. 

Children  : 

38  Joshua,  born  16  Sept.,  1819;  died  in  San  Francisco,  Calif., 
suddenly,  24  June,  1881.  He  went  to  California  with 
his  brother  Daniel,  and  for  many  years  they  engaged  in 
mining  near  Georgetown.  Joshua  afterward  went  to 
more  northern  districts  and  thence  to  Australia,  where 
he  was  for  four  or  five  years.  Coming  back  to  San  Fran- 
cisco he  found  his  brother  Daniel  in  the  employ  of  their 
cousin  Mr.   David  Hewes,   and  after  a  brief  visit  home 

i2  Lynnfield    records, 
is  Family  records. 


162  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES 

during  which  time  he  made  some  additions  to  the  home- 
stead and  some  provision  for  his  mother,  he  became  in- 
terested as  silent  partner  in  a  mercantile  business  con- 
ducted by  a  former  associate  of  his  mining  days,  Phil. 
Weaver.     He  was  never  married. 

39  Daniel,  born  5  July,  1821 ;  died  in  San  Francisco,  suddenly, 
22  Nov.,  1879.  He  was  engaged  in  mining  with  his 
brother  but  after  leaving  the  mines  he  went  to  San  Fran- 
cisco, where  he  was  employed  by  David  Hewes.  After 
Mr.  Hewes'  removal  to  Oakland,  he  obtained  an  appoint- 
ment for  Daniel  in  the  city  service.  For  a  brief  period 
he  was  engaged  in  the  lumber  trade  in  Mexico  or  the 
northwestern  coast  of  South  America.    He  never  married. 

40+  Matthew  S.,  born  6  March,  1823;  died  in  Salem,  13  April, 
1905. 

41  Harriet  Elizabeth,  born  24   Sept.,   1825;  died  29  Feb., 

1832. 

42  Joseph  Franki.ix,  born  4  Nov.,  1827;  died  in  Duluth,  10 

Jan.,  19(H).  He  married  in  Sept.,  1872,  Sarah  Gould 
of  Lynn,  who  died  in  Duluth.  Joseph  was  for  a  time  in 
California,  but  finally  settled  in  Duluth. 

43  I  Jakrikt  Euzabeth,  born  21  Feb.,  1833 ;  died  2  Jan.,  1837. 

44  Winslow,  born  7  Sept.,  1831  :  died  30  Sept.,  1839. 

45+  Mary  Cleveland,  born  31  May,  1835;  married  William 
L.  Peabody. 

VIII.  10  BENJAMIN  HEWES  (Benjamin,  John),  born 
25  April,  1804;  died  of  dropsy,  2  Feb.,  1846,  at  Lynnfield.  He 
married  in  Danvers,  15  Nov.,  1831,  Mary  Gould,  who  married 
second  :}()  May,  1847,  Edward  Burditt  of  North  Reading,  who 
also  had  been  married  before. 

Benjamin  Hewes  was  a  shoemaker  and  lived  in  a  little  house  op- 
posite the  Everett  Wilson  cottage  on  Larrabee  or  "Leatherby" 
Hill.  Alter  liis  death  the  children  were  placed  in  various  families, 
Richard   and  Abigail  being  placed  with  .loshua    Hewes. 

The  dates  of  marriage,  death  and  births  in  this  record  are 
from  Lynnfield  Vital  Records. 

(  hi  I  dn  n  : 

1(1     Moses  Warren,  horn   L6  Jan.,  L888.     He  married  a  lady 

from     Nova    Scotia. 


_x 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES  163 

47  Susan  Maria,  born  12  July,  1833;  married  Henry  Clay, 

of  Reading,  who  carried  on  the  Nathaniel  Carter  and 
Aborn  places,  and  formerly  owned  what  is  now  the 
Phillips  place.      Henry  Clay  died  at  North  Reading. 

48  Edwin  Low,  born  at  North  Reading,  25  June,  1834.    Never 

married.      It  is  thought  he  died  in  Reading. 

49  Abigail,  born  at  North  Reading,  16  Aug.,  1835. 
50+  Richard  Hayward,  born  25  Sept.,  1836. 

51  Rufus  Kingman,  born  7  April,   1838;   died  unmarried  in 

Wakefield  in  1908  or  1909. 

52  Julia  Frances,  born  7  March,  died  13  June,  1840. 

53  Nancy  Emma,  born  29  Aug.,  1841 ;  married  Charles  Pratt 

of  Reading. 

54  Frances  Ellen,  born  23  April,  1843;  married  and  lived 

in  Reading. 

VII.  12  JOHN  HEWES  (James,  John),  born  in  Lynnfield, 
Mass.,  25  March,  1817 ;  died  in  Cincinnati.  He  was  twice  mar- 
ried, his  first  wife  being  a  native  of  Nice,  France ;  his  second  wife 
of  Irish  ancestry. 

Mr.  Hewes  was  in  the  retail  shoe  business  under  the  firm  name 
of  Hewes  &  McCann,  doing  business  on  the  site  of  the  present 
Federal  building  in  Cincinnati.  He  served  a  short  time  in  the 
Union  army.  He  was  a  man  of  large  stature,  handsome  and  of 
courtly  manners  and  a  great  lover  of  books. 
Children,  by  -first  wife: 

55  John    Henry,   of   New   York.     He   received   education   at 

Phillips  Andover  Academy,  and  graduated  at  Yale  in 
1870.  His  daughter,  Mida  Hewes,  is  a  resident  of  An- 
dover, Mass. 

56  Molly,  died  about  1900,  s.  p.;  married  Arthur  Needham 

of  West  Peabody. 

VII.  13  NARCISSA  HEWES  (James,  John),  born  in 
Lynnfield,  26  July,  1819 ;  died  in  Saugus,  25  May,  1883 ;  married 
10  Oct.,  1839,  Phillip  P.  Hone  of  Saugus,  who  was  born  there, 
1  July,  1815,  and  died  there,  16  March,  1883.  Mr.  Hone  was  a 
farmer,  and  it  is  said  at  his  death  left  an  estate  of  $75,000  accu- 
mulated from  farming  and  home  investments.  He  was  a  very 
active  man  and  a  well  known  local  character.      His  wife  was   a 


164  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES 

most  energetic  woman,  and  during  her  early  married  life  would 
sit  up  nights,  after  the  daily  routine  was  finished,  in  order  to 
bind  shoes.  She  suffered  greatly  during  her  later  years  from 
rheumatism,  and  is  recalled  by  those  who  knew  her  as  a  person 
"  of  beautiful  character." 

Children,14  born  in  Saugus: 

57  Edward  P.  Hone,  born  12  Nov.,  1840;  died  25  Jan.,  1842. 

58  Byron  S.  Hone,  born  30  April,  1843;  married  16  July, 

1886,  Sarah  E.  Day  of  Woburn,  born  there  3  April,  1848. 
He  has  inherited  the  business  ability  of  his  parents ;  lives 
in  North  Saugus.  Children,  born  at  Saugus:  Eva  Nar- 
cissa  Hone,  born  14  March,  1887 ;  married  4  June,  1909, 
C.  Walter  Collins  of  Harrington,  Del.,  employed  as  an 
entomologist  by  the  United  States  and  stationed  at  Mel- 
rose Highlands.  Ella  Hone,  born  27  April,  1889.  Alice 
Hone,  born  24  July,  1892. 

59  Winseow  P.  Hone,  born  25  Dec,  1846 ;  died  28  Aug.,  1848. 

60  Rachel  B.  Hone,  born  15  Feb.,  1850 ;  died  16  April,  1854. 

VII.  14  JAMES  HEWES  (James,  John),  of  Lynnfield,  born 
in  Lynnfield  Centre,  13  Nov.,  1821 ;  died  in  Lynnfield,  20  Aug., 
1875,  and  was  buried  at  the  Centre.  He  married  20  Aug.,  1846, 
Sarah  Jane  Viles,  daughter  of  Bowman  and  Sally  (Twiss) 
Viles,  who  was  born  in  Lynnfield,  3  Aug.,  1826. 

Children,  born  in  Lynnfield: 

61  John  IIawkes,  born  22  March,  1847.     He  is  inspector  of 

Customs  in  Boston,  but  lives  at  Lynnfield  Center.  He 
was  educated  at  Phillips  Andovcr  Academy.  Mar- 
ried 5  Nov.,  1873,  Alice  A.  Bryant,  daughter  of  Jona- 
than Bryant  of  Lynnfield.  She  died  4  Feb.,  1892,  aged 
45  years.      No  children. 

62  EixaFeances,  born  4  April.  185»;  died  28  Feb.,  1863. 

6:5  Saeah  Isabel,  born  18  April.  1864;  died  29  June,  1898; 
unmarried.  She  graduated  from  the  Salem  Normal 
School.  For  many  years  she  Buffered  in  the  same  man- 
ner  as    her   aunt    NaTClSSa,   and    like   her  possessed    great 

will  power. 
c>l     James  Aethue,  burn  (>  Nov.,  1859. 
i*  From   record   In   Hour   family   Bible. 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES  165 

65  Winsi.ow  Bancroft,  born  10  and  died  27  July,  1856. 

66  Mary  Frances,  born  12  Aug.,  1869.     She  married  11  Nov., 

1891   at  Lynnfield,  Arthur  Upton  of  Peabody,  son  of 
David    Gardner    and    Hannah    Ellen     (Eaton)    Upton. 
They  live  in  Salem,  but  spend  the  summer  at  Lynnficld, 
where  they  own  the  old  Lynnfield  Hotel  site  and  have  de- 
veloped  that   section   for  summer   residences.     Mr.   Up- 
ton was  born  in  West  Peabody  22  Dec,  1867.     Children, 
born   in    Salem :     David   Gardner  Upton,   born    5    July, 
1898.     Paul  Hewes  Upton,  born  6  Oct.,   1901.     Lucia 
Upton,  born  31  May,  1905. 
James  Hewes  was  about  five  feet,  ten  inches  in  height,  and  of 
"  sandy  "  complexion.     He  was  a  quick,  wiry,  nervous  man.     For 
several  years  he  was  a  shoe  manufacturer  in  Lynnfield,  shipping 
part  of  his  product  to  his  brother  in  Cincinnati.     In   1849  he 
went  to  California,  but  came  back  the  following  year,  having  been 
absent  eleven  months.     Reticent  by  nature,  he  said  very  little  of 
his  California  experiences,  except  when  questioned.     He  claimed 
that  he  had  done  about  as  well  financially  as  though  he  had  re- 
mained at  home  in  business,  having  brought  back  $1500  in  gold. 
He  was  fond  of  humor  and  remarkably  even-tempered ;  it  is 
said  that  he  was  never  seen  angry  but  once,  when  a  cow  kicked 
over  a  milk  pail.     After  his  retirement  from  manufacturing  he 
bought  and  sold  wood  lots,  marketing  the  wood,  and  managed  a 
small  farm.     He  held  many  offices  of  trust.     In  1858-9  he  was 
a  member  of  the  Constitutional  Convention.     In  1868  he  repre- 
sented the  town  in  the  General  Court,  and  was  upon  the  Com- 
mittee of  Fisheries,  being  much  interested  in  the  preservation  of 
the  river  fish  threatened  with  extinction  by  the  saw  mills.     He 
was  sometimes  visited  by  a  Mr.  (W.  O.  ?)  Blany  of  Peabody  who 
had  been  of  the  party  with  which  he  traveled  to  California. 

Mr.  Hewes  was  in  the  shoe  business  in  Lynnfield  at  the  time  of 
the  gold  excitement  in  California,  but  being  at  that  time  in  poor 
health  joined  the  Essex  Mining  and  Trading  Company  at  Salem  15 

is  The  departure  of  the  Essex  Mining  and  Trading  Company  created  con- 
siderable interest  in  the  county.  During  the  year  several  letters  were  printed 
in  the  Salem  Gazette  and  Register  from  members  of  the  party.  On  the  19 
April,  1849,  the  Salem  Gazette  printed  the  following  news  item:  "The  Com- 
pany of  Californians  of  which  Captain  William  C.  Waters  is  president  ar- 
rived safely  from  Corpus  Christi  on  the  24th  ult.,  having  left  Boston  March 
1,  in  the  schooner  John  W.  Herbert.  Letters  from  most  of  the  members 
were   received    on    Tuesday   per   steamer   Fanny    at   New   Orleans,    after    the 


166  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES 

for  the  purpose  of  proceeding  to  California,  believing  the  journey 
■would  benefit  him. 

He  kept  a  diary  of  the  events  of  the  journey  from  March, 
1849,  until  arrival  in  Sacramento.  The  daily  record  extends 
from  April  16,  when  the  party  had  reached  a  point  in  Texas,  to 
arrival  on  the  West  Coast  of  Mexico.  This  record  is  printed  now 
for  the  first  time.  The  diary  is  in  the  possession  of  his  son  James 
Arthur  Hewes  of  Melrose.  On  a  slip  of  paper  enclosed  in  the 
diary  occurs  the  following  note:  "  Spoken.  March  14  off  Key 
West  schooner  John  W.  Herbert  Lewis  hence  March  (?)  1  for 
Corpus  Christi  with  the  Essex  Mining  and  Trading  Company  of 
Salem.     All  well." 

Copy  of   a   Diary  kept  by  James   Hewes  of   Lyxnfield,  During 
1849,  ox  a  Trip   to  California. 

March  11,  1849.  We  passed  some  Islands  off  the  Bahama  Banks. 
Mercury  at  80.  The  most  beautiful  day.  Had  divine  service  on 
board.  Cox  and  Coplin  drawn  cook's  mates  this  week.  The  water 
from  2  to  6  fathoms.     Ran  out  of  sight  of  four  ships  today. 

April  16,  1849  The  norther  done.  Mr.  Bowden  taken  sick  &  6 
o'clock  took  medicine  12  heard  the  doctor  say  he  has  got  the  cholera 
4  in  the  morning  Bowden  died  laid  out  under  a  Murget  tree. 

April  17  Wrote  to  George  Bermid.  Mr.  Parker  [and]  I  went  to 
town  to  get  coffin  Parker's  horse  died.  One  of  the  negros  died 
Went  to  town  to  get  corn.  Bought  some  mules.  Parker  was  sick 
20  hours.     4  of  the  company  sick. 

April  18.  Went  and  bathed  in  the  Rio  Grand  Mr.  Jones  taken 
sick.  One  mule  died.  Sent  the  loafing  Mexicans  out  of  the  camp. 
.Mr.  Prince  wishes  to  return  home.  The  sexton's  bill  for  two  was 
47.25.  The  doctor's  bill  8  dollars.  Crossed  the  Rio  Grand.  Jones 
died. 

April  19.  Left  Laredo.  Encamped  9  miles  out.  William  Cox, 
Prince  and  Walton  taken  sick.  Went  out  this  morning  after  my 
baggagi  which  Flenry  left  on  the  hill.  Got  coflVc  and  tortillas  for 
breakfast.      Heard   the  Comanchies   wen-   near. 

April  20  Cox,  Walton  and  Prince  taken  sick.  Cox  taken  at  one 
a.  m.  in  the  morning;  sweat  him  at  8  o'clock,  thought  he  was  better; 
began   to  grow  worse,  soon  after  died  at    12.      We  dug  his  grave  and 

Company    were    landed    flic    J.    \V.    Herbert    was    wrecked    on    Aransa    bar    on 

the  Wth  ult.  on  the  passage  to  Galveston."  Notice  <>r  the  death  of  Hoyden 
and  Parker,  mentioned  In  the  diary,  was  received  June  LI,  ihio.  The  an- 
nouncemenl  <>t'  the  arrival  of  the  Company  In  California  was  made  in  the 
Salem  papen  18  ()<•(.,  1840. 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES  167 

buried  him  at  4.  Put  up  a  monument  with  name  and  month  and 
year.16 

April  23  Dresser,  one  of  our  strongest  men,  taken  sick  9  o'clock. 
Took  the  things  out  of  the  wagon  to  put  him  and  Taylor  in  at  noon 
stopt  and  had  a  piece  of  bread.  At  8  we  reached  the  river  (Salvia?) 
at  the  same  time  Dresser  died  Robinson  taken  sick  and  Newhall 
not  well.  The  whole  company  tired  out,  having  traveled  35  miles. 
10  o'clock  made  our  bed  under  a  tree. 

April  24  This  morning  is  a  gloomy  morning.  Newhall  better. 
Buried  Dresser.  Forded  the  river  at  noon.  Traveled  15  miles.  Left 
one  of  the  mules.  Made  our  bed  in  the  chaparell.  Robinson  died 
at  11  o'clock.  We  shall  miss  him  very  much.  He  being  our  com- 
missary had  no  supper  but  a  little  tea  and  a  spoonful  of  bread. 

April  25.  This  morning  started  early  having  no  breakfast.  Bur- 
ied Robinson.  Fowler  and  Waters  sick.  Traveled  15  miles.  En- 
camped without  any  dinner.  Stopt  by  the  Mexicans  9  miles  from 
Lampasses.  Sent  to  town  for  some  bread.  Gilispe  taken  sick  he 
thinks  we  go  round  the  town   got   1   dollars  worth  bread. 

April  26.  Had  no  breakfast  until  Newhall  got  some  bread  Paid 
three  dollars  for  eighteen  little  loaves.  The  mountains  are  in  sight 
about  2  miles  distance.  We  want  to  get  on  the  table  land  but  can- 
not get  bread  to  start  with.  4  o'clock  got  8  dols.  worth  of  bread. 
Had  a  shower.     Had  some  bread  and  meat  for   supper. 

April  27.  Is  a  beautiful  morning.  No  new  cases  of  the  cholera. 
Got  10  dollars  worth  of  bread.  Started  at  11  o'clock  and  traveled 
8  miles  through  the  chaperall  to  go  round  Lampass.  Traveled  16 
miles.  Had  our  bread  and  shugar  lowance  out.  Lost  one  of  our 
mules.  A  Cavalyard  of  mustang  horses  passed  us  here  saw  corn  in 
the  silk  grown  by  Irrigation. 

April  28.  Left  the  camp  8  o'clock.  Habe  sick.  Passed  along 
the  edge  of  the  mountains  12  miles  and  stpt  at  noon.  In  the  after- 
noon travelled  10  miles.  Habe  better.  David  had  a  turn  of  the 
cholera.  The  country  appears  a  little  better.  Gilispe  our  guide  lost 
his  way.  Hindered  us  1/2  hour.  Saw  no  ranch  this  day.  Got  10 
dollars   worth  bread.     Taylor  died. 

April  29.  Travelled  18  miles.  Stpt  at  a  ranch  surrounded  by  a 
grove  of  fig  trees  with  a  cocoa  nut  tree  in  front.  The  figs  are  as 
large  as  a  walnut.  I  am  now  sitting  under  a  beautiful  grove  of 
fig  trees.  The  ranch  is  built  like  a  castle  of  sundried  brick.  Trav- 
eled 18,  encamped  on  a  beautiful  stream  with  a  heavy  can  brake. 
The  weather   [ ] . 

18  This  was  William  Emerson  Cox.  His  remains  were  brought  to  Lynn- 
field  and  interred  in  Lynnfield  cemetery. 


168  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES 

April  30  started  at  8.  Traveled  10  miles.  Came  to  the  best  ranch 
I  have  seen  at  noon,  and  a  stream  and  stpt.  The  country  a  barren 
gravel,  except  the  valley  watered  by  irrigation.  Traveled  10  miles. 
Encamped.     The   country   barren.     Very   tired,   stood   no   watch. 

May  1  Travelled  12  miles,  saw  cotton  and  wheat,  cotton  wood  and 
sycamore  on  a  beautiful  ranch.  Passed  a  company  from  Alabama 
for  California.  Came  to  Mon  Colva  at  10  o'clock.  I  am  now  sit- 
ting in  the  Almada  under  a  grove  of  Cotton  trees.  Mr.  Brooks 
resigned.     McCley  chosen  director  Semoretas. 

May  2  Bought  some  milk  and  eggs  for  breakfast.  David  Huntoon 
not  well,  took  colomel  and  jalep  had  an  tuck  on  Adobe  houses  Cane 
fence.  Multeers  afraid  of  Indians.  South  Carolina  negro  in  camp. 
Slept  in  the  Alameda.  Poultry  and  eggs  plenty,  in  camp.  Corn 
50  cents  bush. 

May  3  Is  a  beautiful  day.  Bought  hay  for  8  cents  a  bundle. 
Haughton  and  myself  went  to  see  the  town,  the  Plaza,  the  church, 
stores,  trees,  etc.  Shall  have  my  horse  shod,  the  forefeet  for  2  dol- 
lars. Went  to  the  celebration  Auction  Senoretas  Fandango.  Palm 
fruit  not  good  to  eat  horses. 

May  4.  The  Mexicans  a  set  of  thieves  took  in  Mr  Follet  sold  2 
razors.  Cannot  get  multeers.  Cannot  sell  William's  things.  Had 
an  invitation  to  a  Fandango.  Ordered  off  the  camp  ground.  Paid 
two  bits   for  damage.     Had  a  shower  in  these  mountains. 

May  5.  Hired  a  guide  and  servant  the  guide  to  find  himself  for 
five  dollars  a  day.  Bought  2  mules  for  45  dollars  and  an  old  mule. 
Changed  the  water.  Captain  Waters  made  the  Mexican  take  the 
wine  back.  Left  Mon  Cler  at  4  o'clock.  Travelled  9  miles.  En- 
camped  at  a  hacinda  on   the  banks  of  a  beautiful  mountain   stream. 

May  6.  Is  a  beautiful  morning.  We  shall  stop  at  this  camp  until 
tomorrow  and  wait  for  the  guide.  This  morning  bathed  in  the  cool 
stream.  Saw  a  Mexican  plough.  Flet  got  mil  and  Mike  chickens. 
Allen  went  into  the  mountains.     Saw   an   appletree  with   fruit  on  it. 

May  7  Had  some  whey  pudding.  Chipman  sick.  We  are  afraid 
the  guide  will  not  come.  Last  night  paid  Mexican  one  dollar  to 
catch  a  mule.  Left  the  camp  9  miles  from  MonClora  at  10  a.  m. 
Travelled  8  miles.  Mexicans  accompany  us.  Passed  a  ranch,  great 
many  cattle.      The  distance  to  Mazattan  650: 

May  8  Is  a  beautiful  day.  Had  a  shower  last  night.  The  night 
was  eery  cool.  Travelled  15  miles,  Btopl  al  a  well  that  Santa  Anna 
had  dag.  We  shall  change  our  camp  on  account  of  Indians  at  noon. 
Encamped    on    the    battle    ground    between    tin-    Mexican    and    Spanish 

armies.     Passed   the   road   made  by   Santa   Anna.     Stampede. 

Mail  !)    Left    the  camp  at,  H.       Heard  wolves.      Saw  a  wildcat.      Left 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES  169 

the  mexican  and  his  Boreca.  Travelled  18  miles.  Encamped  at  the 
end  of  the  Back  Bowe.  Sent  two  Mexicans  to  a  ranch  6  miles  to 
get  some  bread  and  a  sheep.  Got  no  sheep,  got  a  fenager  or  three 
bushels  of  corn.  Travelled  9  miles  to  a  tanke.  Passed  a  company 
of  Mexicans   for   California. 

May  10  Left  the  camp  at  7  o'clock.  Watered  at  the  tanks,  trav- 
elled 20  miles  through  a  miserable  country.  Came  to  a  hot  spring 
with  a  hacinda  near  it,  saw  the  first  vineyard.  Got  two  kids  for 
dinner.  I  got  6  eggs.  Went  and  bathed  with  Allen  and  David  in 
the  water.     Indians   here  yesterday. 

May  11  20  miles.  Got  up  at  5  o'clock.  Fed  the  horses  and  had 
tortiers  and  boiled  eggs  for  breakfast.  My  horse  is  swelled  very 
bad  across  the  kidneys.  Encamped  at  noon  at  a  mineral  spring, 
the  water  was  very  bad.  Passed  a  most  miserable  road.  Passed  a 
ranch  with  a  large  mule  train.  Camped  without  water  or  grass. 
Wolves. 

May  12  Started  at  6  in  the  morning  without  any  breakfast,  trav- 
elled over  a  very  mountainous  country.  Heard  wolves.  Travelled 
until  2  p.  M.  Camped  at  a  hacinda.  Upset  the  wagon  this  day 
Newall  and  myself  went  to  the  ranch.  Got  some  tortiers  and  eggs 
for  twelve  cents.     Travelled  10  miles  camped  at  ranch. 

May  13  This  day  we  had  some  breakfast.  Shaved  for  the  first 
time  since  we  left  Corpus  Christi.  McCloy  barber.  Today  a  Senor- 
ita  brought  some  tortiers  to  camp.  Had  eight  chickens  for  din- 
ner. Bought  a  marini,  that  is  a  pig,  weighing  40  for  2.50 
There  is  a  shower  coming  up  on  the  mountains.  Did  not  travel  this 
day. 

May  14.  25  (miles)  Left  camp  at  7  a.  m.  Went  to  the  hacinda. 
Bought  two  pounds  sugar  for  12  1/2  cents.  Saw  the  Mexicans  shell- 
ing corn  on  a  wheel  made  of  cobs.  Crossed  a  deep  ravine,  the  water 
very  bitter  and  (mineral  got  Corned  at  noon)  Camped  at  the  Ra- 
vine, had  some  good  coffee.  In  the  afternoon  we  had  a  shower. 
Have  travelled  over  a  barren  country,  good  road. 

May  15  40  (miles)  This  morning  the  horn  blowed  at  4  o'clock. 
Hewhall  made  some  chocolate.  We  heard  some  wolves  round  the 
camp,  in  the  night.  Three  of  our  company  sick  in  the  night.  Trav- 
elled 12  miles.  Stpt  at  a  cotton  ranch.  We  saw  200  acres  of  cotton. 
The  ranch  was  destroyed  by  the  Texas  rangers.  Had  no  dinner 
Travelled  30  miles.     Travelled  50  miles  without  water. 

May  16  25  (miles)  Last  night  had  no  supper;  kept  no  watch. 
This  morning  had  some  crumbs  of  bisquet  and  coffee.  The  Mex- 
icans brought  some  Augivevente.  Travelled  25  miles.  Our  mule 
gave   out.     Got  to  St.   Francisco  at   5   p.   m.     Got  wine   for   20   cts 


170  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES 

bottle.  Some  of  the  company  went  on  to  Parraz.  Passed  a  large 
wheat  field  one  mile  square. 

May  17  Got  up  at  half  past  three,  went  to  Parras.  It  is  a  pleas- 
ant place.  Its  High  Mass.  The  People  are  all  promanade.  We 
sold  our  wagon  to  the  Rough  and  Ready  Company  from  Boston  for 
80  dollars.  We  have  hired  a  building  for  37  cents  a  day  Had  as 
many  figs  as  we  wanted  last  night  went  to  the  Plaza,  a  plenty  of 
Senoritas. 

Parras  May  17,  1849.  We  arrived  in  Parras.  The  Piazza  is  sur- 
rounded by  mountains  and  has  vineyards,  figs  and  all  kinds  of  fruits. 
It  has  many  fine  buildings  and  squares  and  is  watered  by  a  fine 
mountain  stream  Wine  is  very  plenty  and  cheap.  To  Parras  in  the 
evening  to  get  bread.     Fandango. 

May  18  This  morning  went  to  the  market.  Peppers  and  onions 
and  garlic  more  than  half  of  the  produce.  Beans  and  corn  laid  in 
heaps  on  the  ground.  A  company  leaves  for  California  by  Chiwana. 
The  Boston  company  goes  with  them.  In  the  afternoon  I  went  out 
to  the   Boston   company's   camp. 

May  19.  The  church  bells  commenced  ringing  and  are  ringing 
now.  Newhall  traded  horses,  paid  8.  Hired  a  guide.  Newhall 
bought  another  mule  (paid)  14.  Went  to  the  plaza  in  the  evening, 
saw  the  illumination,  rockets,  etc.  Three  of  another  company  came 
to  camp. 

May  20  Bought  two  mules.     Went  to  see  the   [ ]    Company 

Grush  resigned  the  commissary  office.  We  had  three  of  the  Missis- 
sippi in  camp.  Bought  three  mules.  Left  Parras  at  five  o'clock. 
Encamped  three  miles  out.  Newhall  and  Hunttoon  went  Friday  the 
25  of  May.  We  had  a  hard  days  travel  our  animals  having  had 
nothing  to  eat  for  some  days.  In  the  morning  Newhall,  Huntoon 
and  myself  left  the  camp  before  the  company  and  travelled  24  miles 
passing  the  Miss.  Company  at  1 1  a.  m.  We  discovered  a  ranch  on 
our  left  about  a  mile.  We  crossed  to  it  and  paid  12  cents  for  water- 
ing four  horses,  the  company  coming  up  while  we  were  there.  We 
got  two  tortiers  and  two  bean  cukees  for  12  cents  having  had  noth- 
ing but  bread  and  water  since  the  noon  before.  We  then  went  on 
four  miles,  stopt  two  hours.  Picked  musquit  beans  for  our  animals, 
they  being  nearly  famished  for  want  of  food.  We  then  went  on  to 
Queen  Comma  where  we  arrived  at  five  p.  m..  having  gone  34  miles 
the  mercury  Btanding  at  98  in  the  shade.  When  we  arrived  at  the 
ranch    the    ranehero  claimed   our   mule,   we    thought    he    would    not    line 

her  unless  he  was  the  strongest.     When  we  had  gone  he  sent  to  the 

owner  of  the  ranch  at.  Queeil  Comma  thai  we  had  the  mule.  As  soon 
as    we    camped    he   came    and    claimed    the    mule.       lie    was    told    that   we 


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DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES  171 

had  bought  the  mule  at  Parriz  and  were  not  willing  to  give  her  up. 
The  Alcade  then  sent  for  Capt  Watters  to  come  and  see  him  about 
it.  Watters  understood  it  came  from  the  pretended  owner  and  took 
no  notice  of  it.  In  the  evening  some  of  our  men  were  in  town  and 
were  told  that  there  would  be  a  file  of  soldiers  sent  to  bring  Watters 
before  the  Alcade.  They  told  them  it  was  no  use  he  could  not  be 
taken  out  of  the  camp,  and  came  into  camp  and  told  the  company 
what  was  going  on  in  town.  There  was  some  excitement.  All 
thought  he  could  not  be  taken  from  camp.  Soon  after  two  men  came 
and  requested  Watters  to  call  on  the  Alcade,  which  he  did  in  com- 
pany with  six  of  our  men.  He  there  met  the  owner  of  the  mule 
with  his  witnesses  which  were  examined  as  to  the  brand.  They  told 
him  to  produce  his  brand  and  if  the  mule  was  his  he  could  have  her 
and  if  not  he  could  not. 

May  21  40  (miles)  Left  camp  at  8.  I  waited  for  Newhall  and 
Huntoon  to  come  back  from  Parras.  They  brought  bread  and  meat. 
They  camped  with  the  other  Miss,  company.  We  passed  over  a  rough 
country  cut  up  by  ravines  with  hardly  any  way  stations.  Passed 
several  crosses  where  Mexicans  had  been  murdered.  Had  no  dinner 
this  day.     Camp  at  a  ranch.     Cannot  get  thing  to  eat. 

May  22  20  (miles).  This  morning  I  saw  a  herd  of  deer  drink- 
ing. Bathed  last  night.  Left  camp  at  7  a.  m.  Travelled  across 
level  prairie  covered  with  flags  for  about  20  miles.  Stped  at  a  came 
de  la  Parras.  Chipman  traded  his  horse  for  a  mule,  gave  3  dollars. 
Miss.   Company  camped  near  us. 

May  23  Left  camp  at  6  a.  m.  the  Mississippi  company  going  with 
us.  Newhall,  Huntoon  and  myself  left  the  company  behind  at  8 
A.  M.,  travelled  22  miles,  stopt  at  noon  without  water  or  grass,  started 
at  2  1/2  p.  m.,  travelled  20  miles,  stopt  at  cattle  ranch.  Got  some 
tortiers   and  had  them   and   chocolate   for   supper.     Company   got   in 

3  hours  after. 

May  24  This  morning  we  felt  tired  as  well  as  our  cattle,  having 
suffered  for  water  yesterday.  The  water  we  get  here  is  pumped 
up  by  mule  power.  Corn  is  4  dollars  fenager.  Travelled  15  miles, 
came  to  a  river,  stopt  to  dinner.  Our  horses  had  no  corn  nor  grass. 
In  the  afternoon  travelled  10  miles,  camped  without  water,  had  no 
supper. 

May  25  33  miles.  Left  camp  at  5  A.  M.  travelled  24  miles,  came 
to  a  ranch,  got  water  but  no  grass  nor  corn.     Left  the  ranch,  went 

4  miles,  stopt;  picked  Musqwete  [Mousquite]  beans  for  our  fam- 
ished animals.  Got  in  to  Queen  Coma  at  6  p.  m.  Two  of  our  mules 
gave  out;  all  of  our  animals  nearly  tired  out.  The  Mexicans  stole 
our  bacon. 


172  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES 

May  26  This  morning  the  people  brought  in  grass,  6  cents  a  bun- 
dle, corn  1.87  the  fenager.  In  the  afternoon  one  of  our  mules  was 
taken  from  us  by  a  Mexican  -who  said  she  was  stolen  from  him.  I 
washed  a  shirt  in  the  river.  Hired  a  Mexican  to  take  our  baggage 
to   Durango.     The   scamp    has    backed    out.     This    is    a    (Muserdie?) 

May  27  34  (miles)  We  expected  to  have  travelled  15  miles  this 
day,  but  could  not  get  mules.  At  noon  a  party  from  Orleans  came 
into  camp.  One  of  them  saw  Prince  and  Copland  on  the  Rio  Grande, 
both  of  them  doing  well,  15  miles  from  Davis  Ranch.  Left  Queen 
Com  at  5  p.  M.,  travelled  until  3  a.  m.  when  5  of  Com  and  some 
more  a  short  time  after  the  Company  went  in  to  the   (Bau — ?) 

May  28  16  (miles)  We  started  at  7  a.  m.  to  overtake  the  Com. 
travelled  8  miles,  came  up  with  the  company  at  the  ranch  14  leagues 
from  Queen.  Got  some  bread  and  milk  for  our  brakfast,  having 
had  nothing  to  eat  for  nearly  24  hours,  and  having  gone  some  42 
miles  in  the  time.  Left  at  5,  went  6  L.  Camped  at  a  ranch,  went 
without  supper. 

May  29  32  (miles)  This  morning  the  Miss.  Company  left  here. 
We  are  in  a  good  grassy  country,  if  there  was  rain.  Left  camp  at 
ten,  travelled  twelve.  Stopt  at  Porjois,  a  miserable  little  town.  Here 
we  had  dinner  of  fowls,  eating  nine  for  dinner.  Left  there  at  6 
p.  M.  travelled  20  miles  Choro  getting  in  at  11  p.  M.  The  Doctor 
left  us  last  night,  came  in  this  morning. 

May  30  15  (miles)  This  morning  the  Doctor  came  in,  having 
been  left  behind  last  night.  This  morning  Newhall  found  the  pigs 
had  been  to  his  haversack  and  got  his  day  book,  and  partly  destroyed 
it.  Left  the  camp  at  12  M.  Travelled  15  miles,  stopt  at  a  ranch 
Passed  through  a  fine  prairie  country  with  thousands  of  horses. 

May  31  6  (miles).  This  morning  we  started  at  7  a.  m.,  trav- 
elled 6  miles.  Got  in  to  Durany  at  10  a.  m.  stopt  at  a  house,  but  did 
not  like;  moved  to  a  fine  place  near  the  church.  The  Miss  Com- 
pany stopt  in  the  same  yard.  Bought  2  mules  for  22  dollars.  Hun- 
toon  traded   horses,  paid   8   dollars.      Good  news   from   California. 

June  1.  This  morning  went  to  two  churches,  one  of  them  a  splen- 
did church.  We  board  ourselves  while  we  are  here.  Sold  16  mules 
for  160  dollars.  Fruit  of  all  kinds  ripe.  Saw  the  volcano  at  a  dis- 
tance. Senoritas  very  plenty.  Went  and  heard  the  choir  in  the 
church.       MeClnv's    horse   killed    shoeing. 

June  2  This  morning  we  have  hired  a  muleteer  to  take  us  through 

to    Mat /.at  Inn    for    1  .'i    dollars    in     11    days.      We    have    ten    cargoes.      I 

have  some  polona  making;  it  la  made  of  parched  corn  ground  with 
Sugar  and  spice.  Changed  my  horse  and  paid  5  dollars  to  boot. 
Went  to  church  in  the  evening.     Singing. 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES  173 

June  3  Had  my  horse  shod;  rode  out  of  town  in  the  morning. 
Had  a  fine  dinner,  fowles,  fruit  and  winepudding  and  in  the  after- 
noon we  went  to  the  Bull  fight.  Paid  25  cents.  There  were  seven 
fights,  six  bulls  killed,  one  horse  killed,  two  wounded. 

June  4  18  (miles)  This  morning  is  beautiful.  The  muleteer  is 
here.  Left  Durango  at  10  a.  m.  travelled  18  over  a  very  mountain- 
ous country.  We  are  in  company  with  a  government  train  loaded 
with  silver  bullion,  4000  to  a  mule.  In  all  we  number  100,  some 
soldiers  to  guard  the  train  Passed  several  crosses  where  the  Mex- 
icans had  been  murdered. 

June  5  25  (miles)  Left  camp  at  5,  travelled  three  leagues  over 
a  rough  path.  Stopt  at  a  ranch,  got  tortiers  and  corn  Newhall  and 
Huntoon  stopt  in  Durango  to  get  a  horse  shod.  Manuel  to  guide 
them,  he  ran  away  with  horse,  saddle  and  bridle  and  they  lost  their 
way;  got  into  camp  five  hours  after  the  company  Passed  through 
the  first  pine  forest  we  have  seen.     Camped  in   a  beautiful  valley. 

June  6  27  (miles)  Left  camp  at  6.  Travelled  through  a  fine 
forest  of  pine  and  arbor  vitae.  Stpt  at  Checketo  ranch.  Got  some 
tortillas.  Passed  over  a  very  high  mountain.  Passed  several  trains 
of  pack  mules  going  to  Durango  with  freight.  Had  no  dinner. 
Camped   in  a  valley  surrounded  by  mountains. 

June  7  29  miles.  This  morning  the  mercury  fell  to  40.  Left 
camp  at  7,  travelled  through  a  fine  valley.  Brooks,  Chipman,  Grush, 
Dominoquile,  and  Huntoon  went  to  Mazatlan  to  get  a  passage  to 
California.  Passed  several  crosses  where  murder  had  been  com- 
mitted. Camped  in  a  beautiful  valley.  Had  a  most  romantic  camp 
at  an  elevation  of  10,000  feet. 

June  8  27  (miles)  This  morning  left  camp  at  7«  Travelled 
through  a  heavy  pine  forest  for  two  hours,  when  we  commenced 
descending  the  mountain,  beating  our  horses  all  the  way  Saw  three 
deer  the  first  we  have  seen  in  these  parts.  Descended  for  four 
hours  through  a  frightful  path.     Came  to  a  Checo  ranch. 

June  9  25  (miles)  This  morning  started  at  6,  traveled  over  a 
rough  country,  came  over  some  of  the  highest  mountains  often  seeing 
the  clouds  below  us,  and  passing  down  through  several  of  them 
which  gave  us  a  chilly  feeling,  damping  our  clothes  through,  and 
forming  some  of  the  grandest  scenery  I  ever  saw.  Camped  in  a 
valley  surrounded  by  high  mountains. 

June  10  15  (miles)  This  morning  left  camp  late  on  account  of 
one  of  the  mules  being  stolen.  Saw  bananas,  limes,  lemons  and  all 
kinds  of  tropical  fruit.  Crossed  a  river  12  times.  Saw  a  parrot 
and  numberless  other  kinds  of  birds.  Went  to  the  Hot  Springs. 
The  water  is  scaldinghot  and  pleasant  to  drink. 


174  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES 

June  11  20  (miles)  This  morning  the  Government  train  passed 
our  camp  before  5  a.  m.  Started  at  5.  Passed  the  backbone  of 
the  American  continent.  The  water  beginning  to  run  west.  Saw 
palm  trees.  Used  mahogany  to  cook  with  last  night.  Saw  a  great 
many  bananas.  Saw  a  good  looking  senorita.  She  gave  me  a  fine 
banana.     She  gave  me  an  invitation  to  call  estar  notches. 

June  12  45  (miles)  This  morning  Capt.  Watters  requested  me 
to  accompany  him,  Fowler  and  McGaffy  to  Mazatlan  ahead  of  the 
train.  Left  camp  early.  Took  two  tortiers.  Travelled  the  river 
road.  Forded  the  river  a  great  many  times  Travelled  45  miles, 
stopt  at  a  Cheketo  ranch.     Had  one  tortiers  for  supper. 

June  13  45  (miles)  This  morning  we  started  early  without  break- 
fast. Went  a  short  distance,  got  some  breakfast.  Travelled  20 
miles  got  some  dinner.  Took  a  nap.  Left  at  twelve.  Saw  Cam- 
wood, Logwood,  and  Mahogany.  At  one  p.  M.  we  came  in  sight  of 
the  glorious  Pacific.  The  Captain  gave  three  cheers  and  declared 
money  could  not  hire  him  to  cross  this  country  again. 

June  14.  Went  and  bathed  in  the  Pacific.  A  glorious  bath.  Our 
passage  was  engaged  Tuesday  for  sixty  dollars,  to  sail  Friday  in 
the  schooner  Greyhound.  Sold  our  horses  in  fifteen  minutes  after 
we  arrived.     My  horse  brought   10  dollars. 

August  9  Left  San  Francisco  in  the  schooner  Joseph  He  wet  for 
Sacramento  City. 

Aug.  15  had  12  oz.  and  19  p'ts   (pennyweights) 
Assessments  paid  E.  M.  and  T.  E. 


March   28 

$35 

April   26 
May  4 
May   28 
Paid  out 

17.50 

20. 

10 

oz. 

Pwts 

Sept.    16. 
(The   following  probably 

is  a 

11  1/4 
record  of  a  daily 

gains   at  the 

"  dig 

gings.") 
Oct      2 

32 

3  got 

4  " 

113.60 
124 

5      " 

128.40 

6      " 

108.40 

7 

9 1.40 

8 

74.40 

9 

90.40 

10 

186. 

11 

60. 

DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES  175 

oz.  Pwts 

Oct.     12  74.40 

13  S\  52. 

15  2-19  45.60 

16  2  32. 

17  4-10  72. 

18  1-6  20.80 

22  18£  14.80 

23  1-15  28. 

24  1-14         27.20 

25  2-l£  33.60 
Sep.   15  had  14  oz.  gold  on  hand. 

17  had     1   oz.   18£   Pwt. 
30  had     8  oz. 
Sold  54^  hams 

1   bbl.  beef  $10. 

1      "     pork    38. 

His  son  recalls  his  telling  how  on  the  voyage  up  the  coast  to 
San  Francisco  the  vessel  was  becalmed  and  provisions  gave  out, 
and  the  company  were  reduced  to  a  diet  of  dried  bananas.  The 
return  from  California  was  by  way  of  the  isthmus. 

Mr.  J.  A.  Hewes  also  says  that  he  has  heard  that  either  his 
father  or  grandfather  was  responsible  for  the  founding  of  the 
first  library  in  Lynnfield.  It  was  the  custom  on  election  day,  af- 
ter the  new  selectmen  had  been  chosen,  to  treat  all  hands  at  Dea- 
con Parsons'  bar,  and  Mr.  Hewes  suggested  that  the  money  so 
used  be  expended  in  buying  a  library  for  the  town,  which  was 
done. 

VII.  17  ORRIN  HEWES  {James,  John),  born  in  Lynn- 
field,  4  March,  1833;  died  in  Lynn  22  April,  1904;  married  at 
West  Peabody  21  June,  1853,  H.  Elizabeth  Brown,  daughter  of 
Joseph  and  Dorothy  (Peabody)  Brown.  Mr.  Hewes  lived  in  Cin- 
cinnati from  1853  to  1866,  after  that  in  Lynn.  He  was  in  the 
Legislature  in  1870,  1871  and  1872,  the  last  year  as  senator.  He 
was  one  of  the  most  popular  men  in  Lynn  and  was  frequently 
elected  to  city  office.  Served  as  alderman,  superintendent  of 
highways  and  of  the  board  of  health.  He  was  trustee  of  the  Lynn 
Hospital.  In  politics  he  was  a  Democrat,  by  trade  a  shoe  oper- 
ator; an  able,  upright  man. 
Children: 
67     Rosamond,  born  1  May,  1855.     A  school  teacher  in  Lynn. 


176  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES 

68  Mabel,  born  15  Dec,  1859;  died  in  1900. 

69  Milton,  born  27  Jul}-,  1862;  foreman  of  a  shoe  factory. 

He  lives  in  North  Abington.  He  married  (1)  Myra 
Mathews;  (2)  Helen  Humphrey.  Child  re  n  ■:  Raymond 
(by  first  wife),  living  in  Torrington,  Conn.;  Clara  M., 
(by  second  wife),  and  probably  others,  deceased. 

VII.  19  ALBERT  GALLATIN  HEWES  (James,  John), 
born  22  Nov.,  1810;  died  in  Lynn,  1  March,  1910.  He  married 
in  1871,  Isabel  Richardson  of  Lynnfield,  who  is  living  in  Lynn. 

He  enlisted  in  1861  in  Company  C,  6  Ohio  Infantry,  and  in 
1861  in  Company  H,  137th  Ohio  National  Guards.  For  many 
years  preceding  his  death  he  was  a  shoe  operative  and  lived  in 
Lynn,  but  had  previously  lived  in  the  West  and  on  the  Pacific 
Coast. 

Children: 

70  Mary  Edith,  living  with  her  parents  in  Lynn  in  1909. 

VII.  21  SOPHIA  HEWES  (Joel,  John),  born  in  Lynnfield, 
19  Aug.,  1809;  died  there  20  Nov.,  1858 ;  married  12  April,  1829, 
Jeremiah  Coney,  son  of  Jeremiah  and  Rebecca  Walton  (Nichols) 
Coney,  born  in  North  Reading  9  June,  1806;  died  15  Aug.,  1889. 
He  married,  second,  19  July,  I860,  Mrs.  Emily  Parsons  born  11 
Feb.,  1825,  by  whom  he  had  two  children,  Fletcher  Coney,  de- 
ceased, and  Kate  E.  Coney  of  West  Roxbury. 

(  hildren: 

71  Sophia  Augusta  Coney,  born  30  Jan.,  1830;  died  28  Aug., 

1853;  married,  25  July,  1818,  John  Putnam  Swain  of 
North  Reading,  born  1(3  Feb.,  1826;  died  19  Sept.,  1896, 
and  had  two  children  of  whom  Lizzie  Putnam,  born  10 
Feb.,  1852,  died  16  Dec,  1856,  and  Rosa  Augusta,  born 
19  April,  1850;  married  18  May,  1874,  Charles  Andrew 
Perkins  of  Wadefield,  born  IS  April,  1850,  and  has  a  son 
Harland  A.  Perkins,  bom  26  July,  1876.  Mrs.  Rosa 
Perkins  received  education  at  the  school  of  her  uncle, 
(has.  W .  Hewes,  and  Inter  at  San  Francisco  and  the 
Baptist  Female  Seminary  a1  New  London  whither  she 
had  been  sent   hv  her  uncle,  David  Hewes. 

72  Mauv  Elizabeth  Coney,  born  14  Feb.,  1832;  died  14  Nov., 


1 

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DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES  177 

1859;  married  6  Oct.,  18.58,  Levi  S.  K.  Ckoss  of  Nashua, 
N.  H.  Prior  to  her  marriage  she  taught  school  at 
Nashua. 

73  Edwin  Sanborn  Coney,  born  13  Feb.,  1834;  died  17  Feb., 

1866,  at  North  Reading;  married  31  March,  1858,  Sahah 
Juliet  Graves,  daughter  of  Ebenezer  and  Hannah  M. 
(Campbell)  Graves,  who  now  resides  in  Denver,  Colo.  He 
enlisted  27  Oct.,  1862,  in  Co.  B.,  First  battalion  Massa- 
chusetts Heavy  Artillery  and  was  on  duty  at  Fort  War- 
ren, Boston  harbor,  until  discharged  3  April,  1865,  on 
account  of  physical  disability,  having  contracted  con- 
sumption while  in  the  service,  of  which  he  died.  Chil- 
dren: (1)  Florence  Edna,  born  16  April,  1859;  a  gradu- 
ate of  the  Salem  Normal  School  and  since  her  husband's 
death  a  successful  teacher  in  the  Denver  public  schools. 
She  married  31  Dec,  1879,  Frank  H.  Allen  of  Wake- 
field, who  died  in  Colorado,  7  Feb.,  1889.  Their  chil- 
dren were,  Ethelind  Florence  Allen  and  Maynard  Coney 
Allen.17  (2)  Clara  Juliet  Coney,  born  7  Nov.,  I860; 
graduated  from  the  Salem  Normal  School,  taught  in 
Wakefield  and  Reading  public  schools,  and  is  now  prin- 
cipal of  the  McKinley  School  of  Denver. 

74  Francis  Asbury  Coney,  born  2  Oct.,  1835 ;  died  5  Oct., 

1836. 

75  Frances  Octavia   Coney,  born  23  June,   1838;  died  25 

May,  1909;  married  at  Lynnfield,  6  Oct.,  1858,  John 
Hiram  Perkins,  born  8  Dec,  1833,  son  of  John  and 
Catherine  (Sweetser)  Perkins.  Children:  George  Coney 
Perkins,  born  5  April,  1863;  died  10  April,  1864.  John 
Winslow  Perkins,  born  28  Dec,  1866,  married  at  Lynn- 
field,  29  Nov.,  1889,  Annie  Stevens,  a  writer  of  ability, 
who  has  published  several  volumes  including  "  Thoughts 
of  Peace,"  "  Appointed  Paths,"  "  Book  of  Poems,"  and 
by  her  had  John  Perkins,  born  18  Sept.,  1893,  died  at 
Lynnfield  of  pneumonia,  20  March,  1910. 

i7  Ethelind  F.  Allen  was  born  in  Reading;,  Mass.,  25  Jan.,  1881,  and 
married  15  June,  1904,  Arthur  G.  Thomax,  and  has  Evelyn  Marie  Thoman, 
born  16  May,  1906.  Maynard  Coney  Allen  was  born  in  North  Reading, 
15  Jan.,  1883,  graduated  from  the  Colorado  School  of  Mines,  and  is  now  em- 
ployed with  a  large  mining  company  at  Ojuela,  Mexico.  He  married  Myr- 
tle Easley  of  Golden,  Colo.,  15  April,  1909. 


ITS  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES 

76  Jeremiah  Wixslow  Coney,  born  26  Oct.,  1840;  died  26 

Sept.,  184-1. 

77  Charles  Wesley  Hewes  Coney,18  born  21  March,  1813 ; 

died  3  Feb.,  1896,  after  an  illness  of  several  years.  Mar- 
ried Sophie  M.  Burton  of  San  Francisco,  who  was  born 
1  Dec,  1850.  Children:  Louise  Juliet  Coney,  born  8 
May,  1876,  married  James  Reune  Barricklo,  born  26 
Nov.,  1872.  [Their  children  are  Amy  Belle  Barricklo, 
born  3  March,  1904 ;  Charles  Burton  Barricklo,  born  4 
March,  1906.]  Amy  Frances  Coney,  born  6  Aug.,  1883, 
married  Joseph  Elmer  Barricklo,  born  1   March,  1881. 

78  George  Birney  Coney,  born  6  June,  1845,  died  5  June, 

1861. 

The  following  account  of  Mrs.  Sophia  (Hewes)  Coney  is  taken 
from  the  Tapley  Genealogy : 

"  The  eldest  child,  Sophia,  shared  with  her  young  mother  the 
cares  and  responsibilities  of  the  large  family  circle,  and  she  was 
near  to  her  mother  in  the  affection  bestowed  upon  her  by  the 
younger  children.  She  married  Jeremiah  Coney.  Like  her 
mother,  she  was  ambitious  to  have  her  children  well  educated, 
sending  two  of  her  daughters  away  to  a  seminar}7  to  be  educated 
for  teachers. 

"  The    pastor    of    the    Methodist    Church    of   North   Reading, 

Mass.,  wrote  of  her  as  follows:     'She  was  converted  at  the  age 

of  nineteen,  and  the  great  change  that  had  come  into  her  life  and 

stimulated  her  action  was  apparent  from  her  constant  activities 

is  Charles  W.  H.  Coney  enlisted  5  Aug.,  1863,  in  Company  A,  33d  regi- 
ment, at  Camp  Schooler,  Lynnfield,  and  went  to  Virginia  where  after  six 
months  Companies  A  and  K  were  transferred  to  the  41  Mass.  Reg.  then  at 
Staten  [gland,  X.  Y.,  commanded  by  Col.  Thos.  B,  Chickering.  The  41st  was 
assigned  to  accompany  Gen.  Banks  to  the  Gulf,  and  in  1S(>3  was  converted 
into  the  3d  .Mass.  Cavalry,  Col.  Sargent,  and  as  cavalry  participated  in  the 
siege  of  Port  Hudson.  In  March,  1864,  was  ordered  to  New  Orleans 
where  they  joined  the  Red  River  Expedition,  after  which  the  regiment  was 
again  organized  as  an  infantry  regiment,  and  ordered  to  Washington,  enter- 
ing Virginia  <>  Aug.,  1864,  as  part  of  the  19th  Corps  under  Sheridan.  It 
participated  in  the  battles  of  Winchester,  Fisher's  Ilill  and  Cedar  Creek, 
where  Mr.  Coney  was  wounded  in  his  right  arm,  and  was  obliged  to  walk 
ten  miles  with  his  arm  in  a  sling  to  the  hospital  at  Newtown  church  where 
his  arm  was  amputated.  The  wounded  were  taken  to  Philadelphia  suffering 
for   w.i nt    of   Care    and    attention,   and    even    refreshment,   being   several   days    on 

the   way.     Id-    was   discharged    from    Chester    Field    Hospital    1    July,    iH(>.r>. 

About     1861    or    IHfiH    he    went    to    San    Francisco    and    entered    the    employment 
ot     Mr.     David     I  hues,     and     during    the     litter's     absence     in     Furupc    was     his 

agenl   with   power  of  attorney.     He   was  never  actively  engaged   In   business 
after  this,  bui  was  employed  In  the  postal  service  [n  San  Francisco. 


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in  every  department  of  church  work.  So  true  is  this  that  on 
inditing  even  the  briefest  tribute  to  her  memory  one  finds  it  diffi- 
cult to  specifiy  her  virtues,  without  seeming  to  employ  extrava- 
gant eulogy.  She  had  all  the  advantages  of  a  common  school 
system.  She  had  a  great  deal  of  mental  vigor  and  natural  force 
of  character,  coupled  with  patience  and  kindness  of  spirit,  with 
quiet  unassuming  dignity,  uniformly  genial  and  sympathetic. 
She  was  cordially  welcomed  in  the  social  circle,  for  her  presence 
always  gave  an  impetus  to  every  enterprise.  She  was  the  light 
of  her  own  household ;  a  conscientious  church  member,  always  in 
her  pew  on  the  Sabbath,  following  the  example  of  her  devoted 
parents,  of  her  father  Col.  Joel  Hewes,  who  was  a  faithful  class 
leader  in  the  M.  E.  church  for  many  years. 

"  Sister  Coney  had  a  great  faculty  to  find  poor  and  neglected 
children  and  adults ;  to  bring  them  into  the  church  and  Sabbath 
school,  and  as  a  teacher  she  knew  how  to  keep  them  interested  in 
the  inspired  Word  of  God.  She  knew  how  to  win  souls  to  Christ, 
and  at  the  last  many  doubtless  will  rise  to  call  her  blessed.  Her 
last  days  were  a  benediction  to  those  who  witnessed  her  Christian 
fortitude.  Having  so  much  to  live  for  in  her  home  surroundings, 
an  exemplification  of  conjugal  affection,  yet  she  could  say,  '  For 
we  know  that  if  our  earthly  house  of  this  tabernacle  were  dis- 
solved, we  have  a  building  of  God,  an  house  not  made  with  hands, 
eternal  in  the  heavens.'  " 

VII.  22  JOEL  HEWES  {Joel,  John),  born  in  Lynn  12 
Aug.,  1810;  died  in  Lynnfield,  1  April,  1875;  married  28  April, 
1880,  Sarah  (Marsh),  born  in  Danvers,  10  May,  1811,  died  6 
June,  1883,  in  Lynnfield.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Capt.  Thomas 
H.  Marsh  of  Danvers,  later  of  Hartland,  Me.,  who  was  a  brother 
of  the  late  Col.  Lucius  B.  Marsh  of  Boston. 

Children,  born  in  Lynnfield: 

79     George  Warren,  born  6  July,  1832;  died  24<  Aug.,  1853, 

in  Lynnfield. 
80+  Henry  Augustus,  born  27  or  26  Dec,  1833;  died  at  New- 

bern,  N.  C,  3  Oct.,  1864,  while  in  the  army;  married  at 

Ossipee,  N.  H.,  26  Nov.,  1857,  Lizzie  Tucker.     He  is 

buried  at  Lynnfield. 
81     Frances  Matilda,  born  20  March,  1836;  died  17   May, 


180  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES 

186T;  married  19  May,  1859,  Eliab   Stone,  of  North 
Reading,  farmer.     No  issue. 
82+  Sarah  Rosaxna,  born  26  Sept.,  1837;  died  10  April,  1902; 
married  Thomas  P.  West. 

"  Joel  Hewes,  being  the  eldest  son,  his  father,  on  his  death- 
bed, naturally  felt  that  he  must  stand  as  the  head  of  the  family, 
and  committed  his  mother  to  his  loving  care.  '  See  your  grief- 
worn  mother,  who  will  soon  be  left  a  widow  to  the  mercy  of  her 
orphan  children,  tell  me,  Joel,  will  you  be  kind  to  her?'  'Yes, 
father,  I  will,'  was  the  reply,  and  that  promise  was  fulfilled.  Joel 
became  her  counsellor.  He  married  Sarah  Marsh,  bought  the 
family  homestead,  near  the  Tapley  tomb,  lived  and  died  there. 
Of  his  four  children,  three  died  of  consumption  in  early  manhood 
and  womanhood,  Henry  having  contracted  it  in  the  rebellion 
of  1860.  Mrs.  Rosa  Hewes  West  inherited  the  old  homestead, 
and  lived  there  until  within  a  few  years,  when  she  sold  it  and 
moved  to  North  Reading. 

"  Joel  Hewes  was  a  big  hearted,  generous  man,  who  could  re- 
late anecdotes  in  a  capital  way  and  enjoyed  the  humorous  side 
of  life.  As  announced  by  his  father  in  his  sickness,  he  was  one 
of  the  six  children  whom  he  found  rejoicing  in  hope,  during  a 
revival;  but  though  that  hope  doubtless  burned  in  his  soul,  his 
buoyant,  genial  nature  was  repelled  by  the  stern  dogmatism 
hurled  against  him,  and  he  joined  no  church,  professed  no  creed. 
Had  he  lived  to-day,  he  would  have  been  called  a  practical  Chris- 
tian. During  the  last  year  of  his  sickness,  his  early  religious  con- 
victions took  strong  hold  of  him,  and  he  died  giving  ample  proof 
of  being  a  devout,  sincere  Christian.  lie  was  a  man  of  in- 
domitable push  and  energy,  better  suited  to  the  present  time  than 
the  age  in  which  he  lived." — (Tapky  Gencalogi).) 

Mr.  Hewes  was  for  several  years  tax  collector  and  held  other 
town  offices.  He  was  a  successful  farmer  and  "  in  advance  of 
his  times,"  and  was  widely  and  favorably  known  in  Lynn  and 
Salem.  In  stature  he  was  the  largest  of  the  family,  being  nearly 
6  feet  tall  and  weighing  about  200  pounds.  He  had  the  curly, 
d.uk  brown  hair  of  his  father,  and  black  eves.  In  disposition  he 
Was    genial,   active    and   energetic. 

"  Died    in    Lynnfield,   Mass.,   April   1,  1.S75,  Mr.  Joel   Hewes, 

64    vears.       He    w;is    ;i    m:in    of  great    tenderness    of   spirit,   under- 
neath an  external  <>f  hard  industry;  a  man  of  large  resources,  <>f 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES  181 

fine  feeling  and  delicate  susceptibilities  ;  a  man  who  could  have 
been  more  than  he  was,  under  circumstances  and  avocations  that 
would  have  called  forth  his  finer  capacities.  For  months  prior 
to  his  death,  he  was  prostrated  by  the  disease  that  carried  him 
away,  but  during  all  the  period  of  his  sickness,  he  manifested  a 
great  deal  of  patience  and  resignation  that  grew  more  and  more 
noticeable  to  the  end  of  his  days.  Upon  the  testimony  of  those 
nearest  to  him,  who  served  him  faithfully  in  his  sickness,  the  con- 
solation is  left  that  he  passed  from  earth  as  an  heir  to  the  heav- 
enly life.  '  Oh,'  writes  a  sister  to  me,  '  I  wish  you  could  have 
heard  his  simple  and  honest  prayers,  asking  God  to  do  just  as 
He  pleased  with  him  and  it  would  be  all  right.'  '  Oh,  I  am  so 
tired,'  he  said ;  '  do,  Lord  Jesus,  come  and  take  me  to  thy  bosom, 
I  want  to  go  home.'  While  friends  were  singing,  he  said  '  All 
sing,  and  sing  cheerfully.'  Speaking  of  home  in  heaven,  he  said, 
'  Tell  David  and  Charles  I  am  almost  there.'  He  often  spoke  of 
David's  great  kindness  to  him.  Again,  '  I  want  to  be  home 
with  Mother,  Father,  Matilda.'  Still  again,  '  I  want  to  be  with 
Jesus.  I  can  almost  see  home.'  Though  never  a  member  of  a 
church,  and  to  many  appearing  thoughtless,  possibly  even  care- 
less of  religion,  the  memory  of  these  last  sayings,  reaching  back 
over  months  from  his  day  of  death,  is  unspeakably  comforting. 
There  can  be  no  question  of  his  peaceful  and  happy  death. 
Otherwise  all  evidence  is  to  be  denied.  He  leaves  a  widow  and 
daughter,  two  brothers  and  three  sisters  to  mourn  his  loss ;  be- 
sides many  nephews  and  nieces  who  loved  "  Uncle  Joel  "  much 
in  life,  and  now  that  he  has  gone,  have  much  in  their  memory  to 
recall  to  his  praise.     G.  S.  A."  19 

VII.  23  AARON  TAPLEY  HEWES  (Joel,  John),  born  in 
Lynnfield,  30  July,  1812;  died  in  North  Reading,  25  Jan.,  1861 ; 
married  Louisa  Smith,  daughter  of  William  and  Lois  (Parker) 
Smith,  who  was  born  in  Lynnfield,  26  June,  1812,  and  died  15 
June,  1861. 

Children,  born  in  Reading,  now  North  Reading: 

83+  Althea  C,  born  8  Aug.,  1841 ;  married  Francis  E.  Flint. 
84+  Marland  Smith,  born  16  Sept.,  1846. 

Aaron  Tapley  Hewes  established  himself  in  business  in  Read- 

i9  Rev.  Grenville  S.  Abbott  in  the  Herald  of  Truth. 


182  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES 

ing,  and  became  an  important  factor  in  the  life  of  that  town, 
especially  in  matters  which  concerned  the  north  parish,  in  1853 
established  as  the  town  of  North  Reading.  In  town  and  church, 
although  neither  seeking  or  accepting  office,  his  influence  was 
marked.  In  business  matters  he  was  the  very  soul  of  integrity. 
In  the  trying  times  preceding  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  War,  like 
many  other  manufacturers,  he  was  subjected  to  financial  losses 
and  great  anxieties,  but  he  met  every  demand  upon  him. 

One  of  his  children  writes  concerning  him :  "  As  I  remember 
my  father,  he  was  a  man  of  the  greatest  energy,  true  to  his 
friends,  generous  to  a  fault,  ambitious  for  himself  and  his  family, 
willing  to  make  any  sacrifice  for  their  good ;  and  desired  that  his 
children  should  be  well  educated  and  fitted  to  fill  useful  positions 
in  life.  He  sent  his  daughter,  Althea,  to  Bradford  Academy, 
where  she  graduated,  and  his  son,  Marland,  to  Phillips  Academy, 
Andover.  He  was  a  devoted  Christian,  superintendent  of  the 
Sabbath  school,  and  a  constant  attendant  at  church  and  prayer 
meeting.  His  home  was  always  open  to  visiting  ministers  and 
for  the  entertainment  of  guests  at  church  convocations.  He  was 
the  foremost  man  in  all  political  affairs  and  matters  which  re- 
lated to  the  welfare  of  the  town,  and  was  almost  radical  upon 
the  subject  of  temperance.  At  his  own  expense  he  planked  the 
walk  over  the  river  and  swamp,  connecting  the  two  parts  of  North 
Reading,  and  presented  the  bell  to  the  town,  which  still  rings  the 
curfew,  whose  soft  tones  every  night  still  echo  his  memory.  To- 
day no  name  is  more  tenderly  loved  in  that  New  England  town 
than  his,  which  bears  many  marks  of  his  enterprise  and  gen- 
erosity." 

The  Rev.  Thomas  Newton  Jones,  pastor  of  the  Congregational 
Church  at  North  Reading,  preached  the  funeral  sermon,  3  Feb- 
ruary, following  the  death  of  Mr.  Hcwcs.  Mr.  Jones  had  been 
on  very  intimate  terms  with  his  parishioner,  and  paid  to  his 
memory  a  deserved  and  honest  tribute.  He  spoke  of  his  self- 
denying  solicitude  for  liis  family,  and  of  his  charity  to  others, 
quoting  his  words,  "When  a  man  begins  to  hoard  his  wealth,  he 
ceases  i<>  enjoy  it,  and  involvea  his  family  and  society  and  him- 
self in  misery."     A  few  extracts  from  this  funeral  discourse  will 

Serve    to    illustrate    the    life    and    eharaeler    of    the    man.      "His 

charitable,  open  handed  life  tells  us  he  believed  and  practiced  to 
a   rare  extent  the  liberality  he  admired  and  commended  in  others. 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES  183 

Enjoying  only  the  advantages  of  a  common  education,  none  ap- 
preciated learning  more  than  he,  and  endured  more  sacrifices  to 
give  it  to  his  children.  If  not  versed  in  books,  he  was  a  pro- 
ficient in  reading  men,  and  in  comprehensiveness  of  ideas  and 
promptness  in  action,  was  fully  up  to  the  times  in  which  he 
lived.  .  .  .  By  activity  and  devotion  to  the  trade  he  had 
chosen  for  his  vocation,  by  native  talent  for  his  work,  a  work 
requiring  judgment,  penetration  and  forecast  second  to  none, 
from  small  beginning  he  gradually  rose  to  a  conspicuous  and 
honored  position.  Amid  sharp  competition  in  a  branch  of  manu- 
facture involving  millions  of  capital  and  thousands  of  operators, 
he  held  his  way  steadily  and  successfully,  never  depressed  by 
temporary  checks  in  a  constantly  fluctuating  trade,  nor  unduly 
elevated  by  sudden  success  .  .  .  and  I  have  yet  to  learn, 
that  any  departure  from  honesty  or  deviation  from  strict  com- 
mercial integrity,  in  the  largest  or  smallest  transaction,  marked 
his  course.  .  .  .  He  claimed  citizenship  —  understood  its 
duties  and  responsibilities.  He  studied  and  labored  for  the 
public  good.  He  was  an  earnest  advocate  for  public  improve- 
ment. .  .  .  Desiring  the  best  for  himself  —  making  his 
own  home  and  its  surroundings  tasteful  and  attractive,  he  desired 
the  same  for  the  public.  .  .  .  No  stranger  passes  his  resi- 
dence without  being  attracted  by  its  beauty  .  .  .  the 
life  of  our  brother  was  spared  to  see  the  end  of  those  dark  days ; 
his  opponents  scattered ;  his  calumniators  silenced,  and  he  stand- 
ing forth  in  freedom  and  honor  left  to  enjoy  the  few  remaining 
years  that  were  allotted  to  him  on  the  earth.  While  our  de- 
parted brother  had  strong  passions,  and  a  resolute  will,  I  know 
he  was  not  vindictive  or  in  spirit  unforgiving.  He  had  fine  feel- 
ings and  good  and  tender  sympathies,  that  responded  instantly 
to  the  touch  of  sympathy,  or  the  sight  of  distress.  But  he  was 
not  a  man  for  compromises.  When  he  thought  himself  in  the 
right,  force  or  flattery  would  bring  no  concessions.  That  he 
committed  no  errors,  none  believed,  nor  did  he  himself  af- 
firm. ...  It  may  be  said,  that  our  brother  had  an  un- 
usual number  of  enemies.  So  also  he  had  an  unusual  number  of 
friends.  ...  He  will  be  remembered  by  the  Church  and 
religious  society  of  which  he  was  a  member.  ...  It  was 
not  in  the  social  religious  meetings  where  many  brethren  appear 
to  best  advantage,  that  Brother  Hewes  made  himself  conspicuous. 


184.  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES 

He  was  not  gifted  in  prayer.  His  talents  and  usefulness  lay  in 
another  direction.  True  to  his  scripture  name,  he  was  the 
Aaron  that  upheld  the  hands  of  him  that  prayed.  Who  shall 
pay  this  tribute  to  his  memory,  if  not  his  pastor  and  friend?  " 

Mr.  Hewes  is  described  as  a  tall  fine  appearing  man,  probably 
five  feet  ten  or  eleven  inches  in  height,  with  dark  brown  hair, 
blue  eyes,  and  of  cheerful  disposition.  He  was  energetic,  fond  of 
companionship,  and  in  his  thoughts  and  ideals  in  advance  of  his 
time. 


VII.  21  MARY  ANN  HEWES  (Joel,  John),  born  in  Lynn- 
field,  17  April,  1814;  died  in  Maiden,  2  June,  1897,  and  was 
buried  in  the  old  cemetery  at  Lynnfield.  She  married  7  June, 
1832,  Benjamin  Cox,  Jr.,  born  12  Dec,  1810;  died  30  May, 
1891,  son  of  Benjamin  and  Clarissa  (Emerson)   Cox.21 

Mrs.  Cox  was  a  woman  of  ardent  temperament,  fond  of  gayety, 
enthusiastic  in  everything  in  which  she  was  interested.  She  pos- 
sessed a  large  amount  of  elasticity  in  her  mental  as  well  as  physical 
make  up,  and  enjoyed  a  debatable,  inquisitive  mind.  She  joined 
the  Methodist  church  early  in  life,  but  after  her  marriage,  in- 
fluenced partly  by  her  own  love  of  investigation,  and  partly  by 
association  with  her  husband's  relatives  who  had  already  identified 
themselves  with  the  Unitarian  movement,  it  is  not  a  matter  of 
wonderment  that  she  swung  from  the  strict  religious  tenets  of  her 
parents  to  the  liberal  religious  movement  of  the  times. 

Upon  her  marriage  she  settled  in  Lynnfield,  but  in  1851   ac- 

20  The  Righteous  Remembered.  A  Sermon  commemorative  of  Aaron  Tap- 
ley  Hewes,  preached  at  North  Reading,  Mass.,  Feb.  3,  1861,  by  Thomas  New- 
ton Jones,  Pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church.  Printed  for  the  relatives. 
Boston;  Chas.  C  P.  Moody,  52  Washington  St.,  1861.     8  vo.  pp.  15. 

21  Benjamin  Cox  who  married  Clarissa  Emerson  23  Oct.,  1805,  was  born 
28  Aug.,  1783,  and  died  5  March,  1873.  He  was  son  of  Benjamin  Cox,  born 
7  March,  1758,  died  25  Nov.,  1795,  who  married  1+  Oct.,  1779,  Susannah 
Leeds  of  Dorchester,  a  descendant  of  Humphrey  Atherton;  grandson  of 
Matthew  Cox,  horn  23  March,  1717,  died  16  Feh.,  1756,  who  married  30  May, 
1788,  Elizabeth  Ru8SeU,  granddaughter  of  Andrew  and  Elisabeth  (Dan- 
forth)   Belcher;  and  great  grandson  of  Robert  Cox. 

Cf.AHiss.v  Kmiikson  whs  the  daughter  of  Thomas  Emerson  who  married  Ruth 
Bancroft,   Whose    line   Of  ancestry   was   .lames,    Kaliani,   Thomas,  Thomas,  John. 

Thomas  Emerson  was  son  of  Capt  Thomas  and  Elisabeth  (Bruce)  Emer- 
son; grandson  of  Bbenezer  and  Mary  (Boutwell)  Emerson)  and  great 
grandson  of  Rev.  Joseph  Emerson  by  bis  wife,  Elisabeth,  daughter  of  Rev. 
Edward  Bulkeley  and  granddaughter  of  Peter  Bulkeley,  the  founder  of 
Concord,   Mass. 


MRS.  CLARISSA    (EMERSON)  COX 
Died  aged  101  years 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES  185 

companied  her  husband  and  children  to  Sacramento,  California, 
where  the  family  joined  her  brother  David,  remaining  three  years 
and  being  there  during  the  great  fire  and  flood.  In  1854,  on  ac- 
count of  the  better  educational  facilities  afforded  in  the  East, 
they  returned  thither,  and  settled  in  Wakefield,  where  they  bought 
and  beautified  a  home. 

Generous  and  hospitable  in  her  entertainment,  devoted  to  the 
solace  of  her  friends  in  sickness,  Mrs.  Cox  ever  had  a  large  circle 
of  them  about  her.  Her  two  daughters  died  in  Chicago,  and  are 
buried  in  Rose  Hill  Cemetery  near  that  city.  Mrs.  Parker  pos- 
sessed a  fine  contralto  voice,  and  with  her  sister  Adelaide,  who 
had  a  soprano  voice  and  was  a  pianist  of  great  skill,  sang  in 
the  church  choir  and  in  concerts  in  Wakefield. 

Children,  born  in  Lynnfield: 

85  Francis  Warren  Cox,  born  10  Oct. ;  died  12  Oct.,  1833. 

86  Mary  Ellen  Cox,  born  7  July,  1835 ;  died  11  March,  1871 ; 

married  26  Feb.,  1862,  Augustus  A.  Parker,  who 
died  1  July,  1901.  Child:  Frank  Augustus  Parker,  bora 
in  Maiden,  31  July,  1868.  His  parents  removed  to 
Chicago  in  1870,  where  his  mother  died,  three  months 
later.  He  received  education  in  the  Harvard  School, 
Chicago,  and  entered  the  employ  of  Armour  and  Com- 
pany, where  he  still  remains.  His  father  remarried,  in 
1876,  Mrs.  Althea  (Yeager)  Marsh  of  Chicago,  by  whom 
he  had  Elizabeth  Parker,  married  to  Charles  Warren 
Gillett,  and  Elsa  Parker,  married  to  A.  Watson  Armour. 

87  Adelaide  Hewes  Cox,  born  2  Oct.,  1840;  died  13  April, 

1865;  married  24  July,  1863,  Edward  M.  Simpson,  son 
of  George  and  Mary  (Maxwell)  Simpson.  He  married 
second  Anne  Sard  of  Chicago  formerly  of  Albany  and 
has  one  son,  Howard  Sard  Simpson. 

88  Le  Roy  Benjamin  Cox,  born   17  Nov.,   1845;  married  5 

Jan.,  1870,  Mary  Bell  Clift,22  daughter  of  William 
Stout    and    Emily    (Summers)    Clift,   born    near   Mays- 

22  Mrs.  Le  Roy  B.  Cox  (88)  is  a  descendant  of  Sir  George  Summers  who 
relieved  the  settlers  at  Jamestown  in  1609.  He  died  at  the  Bermudas  or 
Summers  Islands.  The  terrible  storm  encountered  by  him  in  his  voyage  of 
1609  has  been  immortalized  by  Shakespeare  in  the  "Tempest."  She  is  also 
a  descendant  of  Robert  Carter,  who  built  and  supported  Christ  Church  in 
Lancaster  county,  Virginia,  where  another  ancestor,  Rev.  John  Bell,  officiated 
from  1720  until  his  death  in  1T45. 


186  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES 

ville,  Ky.  Child:  Emily  Bancroft  Cox,  bom  8  May, 
1884,  in  Chicago;  married  there,  13  July,  1909,  George 
Tyler  Northup  of  Evanston,  111.,  son  of  Charles  Ward 
and  Blanch  (Root)  Northup.  Mr.  Northup  grad- 
uated from  Williams  College  in  1897;  instructor  there 
1903-5 ;  Princeton  University  1905-1912,  when  he  was 
called  to  the  University  of  Toronto.  Ph.D.  Chicago  Uni- 
versity, 1907.  Mrs.  Northup  graduated  from  Chicago 
University  in  1906,  receiving  Honorable  Mention.  She 
won  the  Senior  and  Graduate  scholarships  in  the  Ro- 
mance Department,  in  which  she  did  post  graduate  work 
for  three  years. — Child:  Richard  Cox  Northup,  born 
22  April,  1912. 

Le  Roy  Benjamin  Cox  at  the  age  of  six  accompanied 
his  parents  to  California  making  the  journey  to  San 
Francisco  by  water,  and  experiencing  many  perils  and 
hardships  on  the  trip.  At  the  age  of  fifteen  he  entered 
the  employ  of  Stearns  and  Company,  a  large  Boston  dry 
goods  house,  with  whom  he  remained  until  1864,  when 
he  went  to  Chicago  and  entered  the  wholesale  notion 
store  of  his  brother-in-law,  Edward  M.  Simpson.  Soon 
after  this  he  became  Western  agent  of  Mile  End  Spool 
Cotton,  a  position  he  held  for  twenty  years  until  the 
great  thread  consolidation.  He  is  now  in  the  commis- 
sion business,  representing  a  foreign  manufacturer,  with 
headquarters  in  Chicago. 
89  Daniel  Proctor  Cox,  born  31  May,  1848 ;  died  26  Aug., 
1850. 

VII.  25  RUTHE  HEWES  (Joel,  John),  born  in  Lynnfield, 
Mass.,  16  May,  1816;  died  in  Watertown,  23  Jan.,  1909.  She 
married  19  Feb.,  1835,  Euexezkr  Tii.di  x  Abbott,  who  was  born 
in  North  Reading,  14  March,  1808,  and  died  in  North  Reading, 
19  Nov.,  1888.  Mr.  Abbott  was  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Betsey 
(Swain)  Abbot!  of  North  Reading.  He  lived  in  North  Reading 
and  "did  much  to  promote  the  prosperity  of  thai  portion  of  old 

Reading  ...  a  pillar  in  the  Haptist  church  **  ("His- 
tory of  Reading":  Eaton).  Mr.  Abbott  was  a  descendant  of 
George  Abbott  of  Andover,      Kilo. 

•l.\n    attractive    member    of   Rntlu     Tapley    Hewcs"    family    has 


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DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES  18T 

been  her  namesake  daughter,  Ruthe  Hewes  Abbott.  Endowed 
with  beauty  of  face,  refinement  and  grace  of  manner,  the  term 
'  a  perfect  lady  '  would  fittingly  apply  to  her.  Sweet  singers 
too,  were  Ruthe  and  Tilden  Abbott,  which  gift  has  descended  to 
children  and  grand-children  in  good  measure.  The  writer  re- 
calls with  pleasure  the  delight  of  hearing  them  sing  in  soprano 
and  tenor  their  well  loved  '  Fading,  Still  Fading,  the  Last  Beam 
is  Shining,'  and  other  quaint  and  tuneful  airs  —  not  familiar 
to  the  present  generation.  When  Ruthe  married  she  went  to 
North  Reading,  Mass.,  to  live,  and  in  the  three  homes  built  by 
them,  her  life  has  been  passed.  In  these  days  of  ease  and  pleas- 
ure, few  can  realize  the  hard  work  required  from  both  husband 
and  wife  to  maintain  a  family  and  get  ahead  in  a  small  New 
England  town. 

"  Sterling  virtues  both  possessed ;  yet  it  was  Ruthe  who  was 
determined  that  her  oldest  boy  should  go  to  college  and  that  all 
of  her  children  should  have  every  advantage  possible  at  great 
sacrifice  to  herself;  her  unselfish  devotion  to  her  children  has 
never  been  surpassed.  Hospitable  too  were  they,  their  home  a 
Mecca.  Indeed,  no  home  in  the  family  was  ever  more  open  to 
the  brothers  and  sisters  than  has  been  Ruthe's,  also  to  her  minis- 
ters and  church  people. 

"  In  their  early  married  life,  Tilden  Abbott  from  the  Universal- 
ist  Church,  and  Ruthe  from  the  Methodist,  were  baptised  into  the 
membership  of  the  Baptist  Church  of  North  Reading  and  they 
gave  to  it  ever  after  their  active  support  and  a  most  loyal  alle- 
giance. The  interests  of  their  home  and  their  church  were  alike 
to  them  —  the  one  seemingly  as  dear  as  the  other  —  the  claims  of 
the  one  as  pressing  as  that  of  the  other.  They  were  veritable 
"  pillars  "  on  whose  strength  the  church  could  lean. 

"  It  has  been  Ruthe's  good  fortune  to  see  much  of  the  world 
outside  of  her  town.  Through  the  generosity  of  her  brother, 
David,  she  twice  visited  California  —  the  last  time  in  company 
with  her  husband ;  and  with  her  son,  Granville,  and  her  husband, 
accompanied  her  brothers,  Charles  and  David,  on  their  first  trip 
to  Europe.  A  marked  characteristic  of  Ruthe  Abbott  has  been 
her  intense  interest,  not  only  in  the  welfare  of  her  immediate 
family,  but  in  the  families  of  her  brothers  and  sisters  and  her 
relatives.  At  the  age  of  eighty-four  years  this  personal  interest 
is  as  keen  as  in  her  youth  and  her  love  to  all  of  them  unabated. 


188  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES 

"  The  children  of  her  son,  Granville,  reside  in  California  and 
Nevada ;  of  her  daughter,  Mrs.  Hortense  Carney,  in  New  York 
City;  of  her  youngest  son,  Grafton,  in  Watertown,  Mass.  Her 
interest  in  education  has  not  been  without  its  fruits,  for  four  of 
her  grandsons  are  college  graduates,  Dr.  Sydney  H.  Carney,  Jr., 
Carl  H.,  and  Philip  F.  Abbott  and  Alexander  Abbott.  Of  these 
one  is  a  lawyer,  two  are  physicians,  and  one  has  entered  the  minis- 
try. Another  grandson,  G.  D.  Abbott,  is  a  railroad  superin- 
tendent."     (Tapley  Genealogy.) 

Children,  born  at  North  Reading: 

90+  Granville  Sharp  Abbott,  born  £7  Feb.,  1837;  died  at 
Oakland,  Cal.,  22  Nov.,  1897. 

91  Hortexse  S.  Abbott,  born  24  April,  1840;  died  in  New 
York,  18  July,  1892;  married  30  April,  1862,  Sydney 
Howard  Carney,  son  of  James  G.  and  Clarissa  (Willet) 
Carney,  born  in  Lowell  24  Aug.,  1837;  died  22  Oct., 
1912.  Dr.  Carney  left  Amherst  College  in  1854,  in  his 
junior  year,  and  took  up  the  study  of  medicine  at  the  Tre- 
mont  Medical  School,  and  afterward  the  Harvard  Medi- 
cal School  which  granted  him  a  degree  in  1860.  He  re- 
moved from  Boston,  where  he  had  been  practicing,  to 
New  York  in  1870,  and  became  associate  medical  direc- 
tor of  the  N.  Y.  Life  Insurance  Company,  where  he  re- 
organized the  entire  medical  department,  giving  his  serv- 
ices to  this  company  for  nearly  a  quarter  of  a  century. 
Mrs.  Carney  received  education  at  the  Salem  Normal 
School  where  she  was  graduated  in  1858,  and  during  her 
life  maintained  her  interest  in  French  and  English  liter- 
ature and  in  her  painting.  She  was  a  member  of  the 
Broadway  Tabernacle  Church  of  New  York  and  an  in- 
terested member  in  its  organization  for  foreign  and  home 
missionary  work.  Children:  Sidney  Howard  Carney, 
horn  :J  Dec,  1868,  M.  D.  Dartmouth  Medical  School, 
1888,  is  recording  secretary  of  the  \.  Y.  Hist.  Soc. 
anil  historian  and  surgeon  of  Hie  Society  of  Colonial 
Wars,  also  author  of  a  Genealogy  of  the  Carney  Family 
published    in    1894).      Charles    A.    Carney,    horn    £9    April, 

died    18  Oct.,   1869.     Philip   D.  Carney,  horn   19  Oct., 
1870;   died    K)    Aug.,    1801.     Hortense    Abboti    Carney, 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES  189 

bora  31  March,  1872.     She  studied  under  Augustus  St. 
Gaudens  and  J.  Wells  Champney. 
92     T.  Gkaftox  Abbott,  born  15  Oct.,  18-19;  married  5  March, 
1872,  Henrietta  Jacobs  Winn,  daughter  of  Capt.  Wil- 
liam and  Ann  Maria  (Jacobs)  Winn,  of  Wells,  Me.,  and 
a  descendant  of  George  Jacobs  of  Salem,  Edward  Winn 
of  Woburn,  and  of  Gershom  Maxwell.     T.  Grafton  Ab- 
bott  received   education   in   the  public   schools   of   North 
Reading  and  the  English  High  School  of  Boston,  after 
which  he  entered  commercial  life  in  Boston.     After  his 
marriage  he  lived  in  Chicago.     For  the  past  ten  years 
he    has    been    manager    of    the    accountant    department 
of   the    General    Baking   Co.,   Fox    Bakery    of    Charles- 
town,  the  largest  w-holesale  bakery  in  New  England.     He 
has  a  genial  disposition.     Mr.  Abbott,  his  three  devoted 
sons,    and    daughter    Ethel,    formed    a    musical    coterie 
rarely  surpassed  in  home  life.      He  is  a  loyal  member  of 
the    First    Baptist    Church    in    Watertown.     Children: 
Ethel    Winn    Abbott,    born    Chicago,    12    Dec,     1872. 
George  Winn  Abbott,  born  at  Watertown,  30  May,  1874 ; 
in  business  in  Boston.     T.  Grafton  Abbott,  born  Water- 
town,    1    Oct.,    1877;    married    9    May,    1902,    Lucretia 
Capen,   who   died   29   Dec,   1909,   at   Montclair,   N.    J.,. 
daughter  of  Rev.   Edward  A.   and  Helen  M.    (Thomas) 
Capen.     He    is    connected    with    the    Northern    Lumber 
Co.    of   N.    Y.     Child:    Capen   Abbott,   born   25    Nov., 
1903.     Alexander   Hewes   Abbott,   born    Watertown,    15 
March,    1880;   married  30  Oct.,   1908,   Alice   Barrett,23 
born    28    May,    1882,    at    Providence,    R.    I.,    daughter 
of   William    and    Ella    (Morse)    Barrett   of   Providence, 
and    has     one    child,    Millicent    Barrett    Abbott,    born 
1  Oct.,   1909.     Mr.  Abbott  was  graduated  from  Brown 
University    in    1903,   the    same   year   that   his   wife   was 
graduated  there,  and  from  Union  Theological  Seminary 
in  1906.     He  was  ordained  as  a  Baptist  minister  at  the 
First   Baptist    Church,   Watertown,   6    Sept.,    1906,   and 
that  month  became  pastor  of  the  Church  of  the  Evangel 

23  Mrs.  Alice  (Barrett)  Abbott  is  a  descendant  of  Col.  James  Barrett  of 
Concord,  whose  farm  and  buildings  were  used  as  a  hiding  place  for  cannon. 
It  was  he  who  ordered  the  patriots  to  advance  against  the  British  troops  in 
possession  of  the  village,  which  led  to  the  fight  at  the  North  Bridge,  April 
19th,  1775. 


190  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES 

at  Narberth,  Pa.  He  is  now  (1912)  pastor  of  Em- 
manuel Baptist  Church  at  Albany,  N.  Y.  During  his 
college  life  he  was  president  of  his  class  and  of  the  col- 
lege Y.  M.  C.  A.,  and  won  his  "B"  in  both  baseball 
and  football. 

VII.  26  CHARLES  WESLEY  HEWES  (Joel,  John"), 
born  in  Lynnfield,  7  April,  1818;  died  28  Dec,  1882:  married  20 
Aug.,  1844,  Rosa  Miller  Grafton,  daughter  of  George  24  and 
Rosana  (Miller-Dodds)  Grafton,  who  was  born  Providence,  R.  L, 
5  March,  1816;  died  22  Dec,  1905,  at  St.  Helena,  California. 

Rev.  Charles  Wesley  Hewes  graduated  at  Brown  University  in 
1843;  was  at  Newton  Theological  Institution  one  year;  and  was 
ordained  in  Lonsdale,  R.  I.,  in  1844,  remaining  as  pastor  of  the 
Lonsdale  church  for  five  years.  He  then  accepted  the  pastorate 
of  the  Baptist  Church  in  Lansingburgh,  N.  Y.,  enjoying  a  highly 
successful  pastorate  there  for  eight  years.  The  next  seven  years 
he  passed  as  president  of  the  Indianapolis  Female  Institute  of 
Indiana.  This  Institute,  formerly  the  Baptist  Young  Ladies 
Institute,  was  founded  in  1858  by  the  Baptists  of  Indianapolis, 
who  formed  a  stock  company  for  that  purpose.  Rev.  J.  B.  Sim- 
mons, pastor  of  church,  Rev.  M.  G.  Clarke,  editor  of  The  Witness, 
the  denominational  paper,  Mr.  Judson  R.  Osgood  of  Sarven  Wheel 
Works  and  Mr.  James  Turner  pledged  their  individual  credit  to 
the  extent  of  $16,000,  thus  enabling  the  Company  to  buy  an  acre 
of  land  at  the  Northwest:  corner  of  Pennsylvania  and  Michigan 
streets.  The  first  superintendent  was  Rev.  Gibbon  Williams,  whose 
daughter  was  principal  of  the  school.  In  1862,  Rev.  Chas. 
Wesley  Hewes  succeeded  Mr.  Williams  and  became  substantially 
proprietor  of  the  Institution.  Up  to  1866  the  site  and  improve- 
ments had  cost  fifty-three  thousand  dollars.  For  many  years  the 
Institute  stood  on  the  residence  site  of  Robert  Underbill,  one  of 
the  earliest  iron  manufacturers  of  the  city.  In  1871  the  City 
School  Board  bought  the  site  and  building,  and  removed  the 
High  School  there  from  Circle  Hall,  also  known  as  the  Old 
Beecher  church,  and  it  is  still  occupied  for  this  purpose.  In 
I860  Mr.  Hewes  removed  to  California,  being  one  of  the  party 
which   accompanied   his   brother   David   from   the  Hast.     During 

his   first    year    in    California   he   was    a    professor   in    the   College   of 
George  Grafton  wu  born  9  June,  I790j  his  wife   '.'  Jan.,  1795. 


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DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES  191 

the  Pacific,  at  Napa,  but  being  in  ill  health,  he  resigned  and  ac- 
cepted the  invitation  of  his  brother,  David,  to  travel  in  Europe, 
Egypt  and  Palestine,  where  he  spent  two  and  one-half  years. 
After  his  return  he  served  the  Baptist  Church  in  St.  Helena,  Cali- 
fornia, for  five  years,  and  was  at  Mills  College  as  professor  and 
pastor  for  one  year.  His  love  for  the  ministry  urging  him,  he 
became  the  pastor  of  the  Fifth  Baptist  Church  of  San  Francisco, 
where  he  remained  until  death,  28  Dec,  1882. 

Rev.  Charles  W.  Hewes  endeared  himself  to  friends  and  stran- 
gers alike  by  his  great  kindness  of  nature.  He  had  a  benevolent, 
cheerful  and  happy  temperament.  His  was  an  active  and  very 
useful  life,  greatly  helped  by  a  wife  of  equal  mental  endowments 
and  greatly  devoted  to  Christian  service. 

Children  : 

93+  Charles  Wesley,  born  at  Lonsdale,  R.  I.,  15  July,  184-5. 

94«  Francis  Wayland,  born  at  Lonsdale,  R.  I.,  25  Feb.,  1848 ; 
died  much  respected  at  St.  Helena,  California,  12  March, 
1908,  s.  p.  He  received  education  at  Lansingburg  and 
Albany,  N.  Y.  He  accompanied  his  parents  to  Cali- 
fornia in  1869  and  entered  the  store  of  his  uncle,  Mr. 
David  Hewes,  where  he  remained  several  years ;  he  then 
purchased  a  farm  and  removed  to  St.  Helena,  Cal., 
where  he  resided  until  his  death.  He  was  very  active 
in  religious  work  and  held  prominent  positions  in  the 
Sunday  school.  He  was  also  especially  interested  in 
public  affairs,  and  was  frequently  chosen  to  serve  in  vari- 
ous municipal  offices. 

95  Emma  Grafton,  born  at  Lansingburg,  N.  Y.,  13  April, 
1850;  died  28  April,  1854. 

VII.  28  DAVID  HEWES  (Joel,  John),  of  Orange,  Cali- 
fornia, was  born  in  Lynnfield,  Mass.,  16  May,  1822.  He  married, 
first,  30  June,  1875,  at  Saratoga  Springs,  N.  Y.,  Mrs.  Matilda 
C.  Gray,  widow  of  Franklin  C.  Gray  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  and 
daughter  of  James  and  Sarah  S.  B.  (Henry)  French  of  Virginia. 
Mrs.  Hewes  was  born  in  Warrenton,  Va.,  and  died  in  Tustin, 
Calif.,  3  Jan.,  1887. 

James  French,  the  father  of  Mrs.  Hewes,  was  born  at  French- 
ville,  Prince  William  county,  Va.,  18  March,  1801,  and  died  in 


192  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES 

Washington,  D.  C,  6  May,  1850.  He  was  buried  in  the  Con- 
gressional Burial  Ground.  His  wife  was  Sarah  Scarborough  B. 
Henry,  whom  he  married  in  May,  1829.  She  was  born  at  Wood- 
lawn,  Pittsylvania  county,  Va.,  27  Aug.,  1808,  and  died  9  April, 
1873,  and  is  interred  at  Greenwood  Cemetery,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
She  was  daughter  of  John  Henry  and  Martha  Williams,  his  wife, 
and  granddaughter  of  Judge  James  Henry,  a  member  of  the  Con- 
tinental Congress  and  Judge  of  the  Court  of  Admiralty,  whose 
eldest  son,  Edward  Hugh  Henry,  married  a  daughter  of  Patrick 
Henry  by  his  second  wife,  Miss  Dandridge.24 

Mrs.  Matilda  C.  (French)  Hewes  was  a  gifted  woman  and 
charming  hostess,  but  was  a  sufferer  from  bronchial  and  other 
complications  arising  therefrom  for  nearly  a  score  of  years  pre- 
ceding her  death,  and  for  many  years  had  sought  relief  in  many 
climates.  For  two  and  a  half  years  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hewes  traveled 
in  Europe  in  search  for  climatic  conditions  which  later  were  found 
almost  at  their  very  door  at  home.  The  critical  condition  of 
Mrs.  Hewes'  health  during  the  latter  part  of  their  residence  in 
Oakland  caused  a  clerical  friend  who  had  lived  in  Southern  Cali- 
fornia to  advise  a  visit  to  that  region.  At  Tustin  her  health  im- 
proved in  a  surprising  manner  and  she  passed  the  remaining 
years,  June,  1881,  to  Jan.,  1887,  very  comfortably,  finding  much 
enjoyment  not  only  in  the  pleasant  climate,  but  in  her  interest 
in  the  little  Presbyterian  church  at  Tustin  which  she  and  her 
husband  had  been  the  means  of  forming,  and  especially  in  the 
Sabbath  school  connected  with  it ;  and  also  in  the  development  of 
the  ranch  and  the  literary  activities  of  her  daughter  who  had 
formed  an  Ebell  Society  in  Tustin  and  Santa  Ana. 

James  French,  her  father,  had  lived  not  only  in  Warrcnton, 
Va.,  but  in  Washington.  He  had  a  plantation  on  which  he  had 
freed  his  slaves  before  the  war.  His  wife,  Mrs.  Hewes'  mother, 
was  of  the  same  stock  as  Patrick  Henry.  Their  son  Marccllus 
now     lives     in     Houston,    Halifax     County,    Va.      Another     son, 

2*  It  is  supposed  by  the  family  that  the  Henry  families  of  Virginia  are 
of  the  Bame  stock.  The  name  appears  on  the  land  records  of  Virginia  as 
early  as   1627  when  John   Henry  took  up  150  acres  in   Elisabeth  county.    A 

John  Henry  was  of  Hanover  county  in  1786,  and  Hugh  Henry  of  Lunen- 
burg county  in  1758.  The  Scottish  Henrys  claim  to  be  of  Norman  lineage. 
John  Henry  migrated  to  Virginia  prior  to  1780.  He  was  son  of  Alexander 
Henry  and  Jean  Robertson  of  Aberdeen,  Scotland,  and  a  friend  of  Robert 
Dinwiddle,  governor  of  Virginia  Jean  Robertson  was  sister  of  Rev.  Wil- 
liam  Robertson,  father  of  Dr.  William  Robertson,  the  historian  and  distin- 

gul    bed   divine. 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEVVES  193 

James  H.,  was  sent  when  quite  young  to  San  Antonio,  Texas, 
where  he  became  a  merchant  and  banker,  and  was  twice  elected 
mayor  of  the  city.     A  son  of  this  brother  of  Mrs.  Hewes,  Junius 

B.  French,  whose  education  at  a  Virginia  Theological  seminary 
was  provided  for  by  his  aunt,  is  now  settled  over  a  church  in 
Fort  Worth,  Texas.25  Rosa  French,  sister  to  Mrs.  Hewes,  and 
for  many  years  a  companion,  married  Mr.  Arthur  Brown  of 
Honolulu  and  died  in  San  Francisco  in  1887. 

By  her  first  marriage,  Mrs.  Hewes  had  a  daughter,  Franklina 

C,  who  married  in  March,  1878,  William  S.  Bartlett  of  San  Fran- 
cisco. Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bartlett  resided  with  Mrs.  Hewes  until  the 
removal  to  Tustin  in  1881,  after  which  they  lived  in  Tustin  and 
Santa  Ana,  where  Mr.  Bartlett  established  the  Santa  Ana  Com- 
mercial Bank,  but  later  removed  to  Los  Angeles,  taking  charge 
of  the  Union  Savings  Bank,  which  is  now,  after  several  consolida- 
tions, called  the  German  American  Bank,  with  a  capital  of  $12,- 
000,000,  and  of  which  Mr.  Bartlett  is  president.  Mrs.  Bart- 
lett has  two  sons  and  a  daughter.  The  following  tribute  to  her 
mother  appeared  in  a  Richmond,  Va.,  paper: 

A  BEREAVED   HOME. 

Tustin,  Cal.,  January  23,  '87- 
Messrs.  Editors, —  Among  the  many  homes  weekly  gladdened  by  the 
coming  of  your  paper,  there  is  none  where  it  has  been  more  welcome 
than  in  one  hidden  among  the  orange  groves  of  Southern  California. 
Here  it  has  for  several  years  sought  a  gentle  hand  whose  influence 
has  been  so  potent  and  tender  that  of  it  we  feel  constrained  to 
tell  you. 

Some  lives  ring  with  deeds  which  stir  the  pulses  of  all  who  hear 
them;  some  float  upon  the  stream  of  time  as  idly  as  a  water-lily  un- 
folding to  the  sunshine;  and  some  God  hushes  to  an  inaction  from 
which  a  power  flows  as  the  perfume  arises  from  the  hidden  violet, 
as  verdure  follows  in  the  path  of  moisture.  The  silence  of  such 
lives  speaks  louder  than  the  whirlwind;  theirs  is  "the  still  small 
voice  "  which  tells  that  God  is  near. 

On  a  broad  veranda  screened  from  view  by  a  high  climbing  Bank- 
sia  rose,  on  a  reclining  chair,  lies  a  gentle  invalid.  The  sunshine 
filtering  through  the  rose-leaves  flecks  her  with  light  and  shadow. 
The  vagrant  breeze,   fresh  from  the  surrounding  orchards,   fans   her 

25  Rev.  Junius  B.  French  was  for  a  time  pastor  of  the  Tustin  church, 
being  called  to  that  pulpit  soon  after  the  death  of  his  aunt,  Mrs.  Hewes. 


194  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES 

with  perfume.  The  nesting  birds  perch  on  the  vines  fearless  of 
her  presence.  The  inmates  of  her  home  find  here  their  Mecca.  Are 
they  sad?  She  has  an  unfailing  store  of  sympathy  and  comfort. 
Are  they  glad?  Her  smiles  are  ever  ready  to  brighten  their  joy. 
Is  counsel  needed?  Who  so  wise  as  she,  grown  so  from  many  silent 
ponderings.  Beyond  the  trees  her  eyes  can  rest  upon  a  church  steeple. 
The  ground  upon  which  it  stands  was  her  gift;  its  erection  was  in- 
spired by  her  prayers  and  wishes.  Prevented  by  sickness  from  en- 
tering its  walls,  when  its  bell  calls  to  worship,  she  lies  in  her  leafy 
nook  and  raises  her  petitions  for  pastor  and  people  who  gather  there. 
Many  a  soul  was  strengthened  by  those  prayers,  and  knew  it  not. 

For  years  this  dear  presence  has  made  this  spot  a  shrine;  but  the 
rose-leaves  lie  untouched  about  the  empty  chair  now,  and  those  who 
love  her  shun  its  silence.  Weeks  of  intolerable  anguish  lie  between 
those  days  and  these;  weeks  when  chamber  echoed  to  moans  of  pain 
but  never  to  repining.  Standing  now  in  the  lonely  twilight  of  sor- 
row, we  ask  what  was  the  lesson  of  her  life?  We  can  best  answer 
in  her  own  words,  chosen  from  different  conversations  during  her 
last   illness. 

One  day,  sitting  up  in  bed  that  she  might  easier  catch  her  labored 
breath,  she   said: 

"  Oh !  how  good  a  God  I  have  had !  I  can  see  now  how  tenderly 
He  has  led  me.  As  a  timid  young  girl,  helplessly  ignorant  of  the 
world,  I  plunged  into  the  waters  of  great  affliction,  which  would 
have  overwhelmed  me  had  He  not  gone  with  me.  I  have  often 
lacked  strength  for  tomorrow,  but  I  have  always  had  sufficient  for 
today.  ...  I  feel  that  I  am  dying,  and  heretofore  I  have  feared 
death.  The  inevitable  can  always  be  borne,  and  I  have  braced  my- 
self to  bear  whatever  God  sends.  The  only  earthly  pang  I  feel  is 
that  of  parting  from  my  loved  ones.  I  have  no  visions  of  what  lies 
beyond  the  grave,  but  I  hold  His  promise  that  I  shall  be  satis- 
fied. .  .  .  My  only  prayers  now  are,  '  God  have  mercy  on  me/ 
and  '  Thy  will  be  done.'  .  .  .  Sickness  is  not  the  time  to  pre- 
pare for  death.  If  my  peace  with  God  had  not  been  made  before 
this,  it  would  never  have  been  made.  Right  living  is  the  only  test 
of  Christianity.  To  live  well  is  so  much  more  difficult  than  to  die 
well." 

One  day  she  constantly  ejaculated,  "  Lord,  is  there  no  end  to  this 
circle-"  On  being  .asked  what  she  meant,  she  replied:  "I  dreamed 
I  was  in  a  great  circle  of  pain,  and  I  wandered  around  and  around 
looking  for  the  Gate  of  Death,  through  which  alone  I  could  roach 
Heaven,  which   I   plainly  saw  lay  just  beyond." 

A   few  hours  before  she  fell  asleep  she  said:  "  I   am  bo  tired,  so 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES  195 

tired.  If  I  could  only  rest!"  The  next  morning  she  was  still 
quietly  sleeping.  In  her  sleep  she  found  the  Gate  of  Death,  and 
woke  in  Heaven !  Oh !  blessed  waking,  which  knows  no  pain,  no 
night,  no  weariness !  We  strained  our  ears  to  hear  the  seraphs' 
songs  as  she  passed  through  the  celestial  portals.  Alas !  they  were 
too  dull  to  catch  a  single  echo.  But  we  saw  the  lines  of  suffering 
fade  from  her  face,  and  we  felt  that  God's  gentlest  angel  had  kissed 
her  brow  and  left  upon  it  the  seal  of  peace. 

This  sense  of  peace  is  with  us  still.  Her  patience  in  long  sick- 
ness, her  conscientious  fulfilment  of  every  duty,  her  hourly  unselfish- 
ness, live  in  our  memories  as  an  inspiration  for  the  rest  of  the  jour- 
ney we  must  accomplish  without  her  presence.  The  room  which  wit- 
nessed her  final  divorce  from  pain  will  ever  be  our  counsel  chamber, 
where  our  perplexities  and  sorrows  will  receive  a  silent  baptism  of 
rest. 

Surely  if  the  joy  of  heaven  can  be  increased  by  the  repentance  of 
one  sinner,  its  beauty  must  also  be  intensified  by  the  addition  of  one 
such  soul  to  the  ranks  of  those  who  "  have  come  through  great 
tribulation  and  have  washed  their  robes  in  the  blood  of  the  Lamb." 

F.  C.  G.  B. 

David  Hewes  married,  second,  11  June,  1889,  at  San  Francisco, 
Anna  M.  Lathrop,  daughter  of  Dyer26  and  Jane  (Shields)  Lath- 
rop  of  Albany,  N.  Y.,  where  she  was  born  22  September,  1832. 
A  sister,  Jane  E.,  married  Hon.  Leland  Stanford  and  with  her 
husband  founded  the  Leland  Stanford  Junior  University. 

Mrs.  Anna  M.  Hewes  was  a  descendant  of  John  Lowthroppe 
of  Cherry  Burton,  Yorkshire,  who  was  living  in  the  time  of  Henry 
VIII.27  She  died  in  San  Francisco  3  Aug.,  1892.  A  memorial 
volume  was  published  by  her  husband  the  year  following  her  death, 
from  which  selections  are  reproduced  in  an  Appendix  to  this 
genealogy. 

David  Hewes  is  living  at  Orange  on  the  ranch  "  Anapauma," 

26  Dyer  and  Jane  (Shields)  Lathrop  had  the  following  children:  Daniel 
Shields  Lathrop,  born  13  April,  1825;  died  13  Feb.,  1883;  married  18  Dec., 
1855,  Harriet  Monteath.  Children:  Jennie  W. ;  Tiena  D.;  Amy  G.  Axxa 
Maria  Lathrop,  born  1826;  died  1830.  Jake  Elizabeth  Lathrop,  born  25 
Aug.,  1828;  died  28  Feb.,  1905;  married  30  Sept.,  1850,  Leland  Stanford, 
who  died  20  June  1893.  Child:  Leland  DeWitt  Stanford,  born  14  May,  1868,  at 
Sacramento.  Ariel  Lathrop,  born  39  Dec,  1830;  married  6  Oct.,  1857,  Cather- 
ine P.  Beardsley.  They  live  in  California.  Anna  Maria  Lathrop,  born  22 
Sept.,  1832;  died  3  Aug.^  1892;  married  David  Hewes.  Henry  Clay  Lathrop, 
born  20  May,  1844.  Charles  Gardner  Lathrop,  born  11  March,  1819,  married 
Miss   Griswold. 

27  See  Appendix. 


196  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES 

which  he  bought  shortly  after  his  settlement  at  Tustin.  It  was 
at  the  time  of  his  purchase  a  sheep  ranch.  He  planted  it  first  as 
a  raisin-grape  vineyard,  and  for  several  years  made  raisins. 
When  the  vines  were  destroyed  in  the  great  epidemic  which  ruined 
so  many  vineyards,  he  planted  the  ranch  to  oranges,  lemons, 
olives,  and  walnuts.  It  is  now  in  a  high  state  of  cultivation. 
About  two  hundred  acres  are  given  over  to  hay  and  forage  crops.28 

28 v*  The  wilderness  and  the  solitary  place  shall  be  glad  for  them ;  and  the 
desert  shall  rejoice,  and  blossom  as  the  rose." 

This  is  just  as  true  to-day  as  it  was  when  Isaiah  was  singing  his  songs, 
760  years  before  the  Christian  era,  to  the  people  of  Judea.  There  have  been 
men  in  all  times  whose  special  mission  on  earth  seemed  to  be  to  beautify 
and  bring  into  productiveness  the  bare  and  waste  places.  Southern  Cali- 
fornia has  been  blessed  with  countless  numbers  of  these  true  philanthropists 
(for  who  is  more  of  a  philanthropist  than  he  who  does  what  he  can  to  make 
the  world  better  to  live  in?)  and  Orange  county  has  had  her  share  of  them. 
Men  who  came  here  and  uprooted  the  cactus  and  planted  the  vine  and  fig 
tree,  took  the  barren  hills  and  planted  flowers  and  made  them  to  bloom. 

One  of  the  most  splendid  evidences  of  this  spirit  is  manifested  in  the  de- 
velopment and  beautifying  of  the  Anapauma  (Spanish  word  meaning  place 
of  rest)  ranch,  which  was  purchased  by  Mr.  David  Hewes,  the  present  owner, 
25  years  ago,  when  it  was  a  sheep  ranch. 

When  Mr.  Hewes  bought  the  tract,  which  then  consisted  of  over  800 
acres,  he  at  once  set  the  place  to  vines,  and  he  saw  the  land  improve  from 
a  value  of  a  few  dollars  per  acre  to  several  hundred  dollars  per  acre,  and  he 
also  saw  it  go  back  from  a  well-developed  raisin  grape  vineyard  to  a  barley 
farm. 

When  the  blight  killed  the  grapes  in  Orange  county,  these  splendid  vine- 
yards went  the  way  of  all  the  others,  and  the  owner  faced  the  loss  of  years 
of  work  and  care,  and  the  expenditure  of  large  sums  of  money,  with  nothing 
left  him  but  the  bare   ground. 

Many  a  man,  situated  as  Mr.  Hewes  was,  with  large  interests  in  San 
Francisco,  would  have  quit  here,  and  either  sold  the  land  or  held  it  for  an 
improvement  in  price  brought  about  by  others  developing  along  new  lines. 
But  David  Hewes  is  not  made  that  way.  He  began  to  experiment  and  spend 
money  and  for  many  years  the  earnings  of  his  interests  in  San  Francisco 
were  spent  on  Anapainna,  with  the  result  that  to-day  he  has  a  ranch  of  7:30 
aens  that  has  few  equals  in  Southern  California.  The  ranch  lies  at  the 
base  of  the  mountains,  of  which  there  is  a  splendid  view  on  three  sides,  and 
to  the  west  is  an  unobstructed  view  of  the  Sunset  Sea.  On  a  clear  day, 
from  the  top  of  a  knoll  that  lies  just  north  of  the  ranch  house,  Catalina 
Islands   are  in   plain   view. 

And  this  knoll  — a  barren  hill-top  but  a  few  years  ago  —  is  now  a  perfect 
flower    garden,   through    which    arc   made    beautiful   walks    and    driveways. 

Two  years  ago  Mr.  Hewes  began  work  on  this  hill,  with  the  intention  of 
making  it  the  beauty  spot  of  the  Santa  Ana  valley,  and  how  well  he  has 
Succeeded  is  attested  by  the  thousam'.  of  visitors  that  drive  ever  it  and  rest 
no  i I  -,  splendid  Crest,  drinking  iii  the  beauties  of  mountains  and  sea,  bloom- 
ing orchard  and  flowering  bush. 

The  work  on  the  hill  is  under  the  supervision  of  Mr.  R.  G.  Fraser,  of 
I' i  irlcii.i,  who  has  an  extensive  lepul  at  ion  as  a  landscape  designer  in  South- 
ern California.  Ft  was  he  who  designed  and  carried  out  the  work  done  at 
tin-  VdolphUB  BuSCh  home  in  Pasadena,  on  which  work  there  has  been  Spent 
miii. 

Mr.  I'rascr  said,  in  speaking  of  the  Ilcwes'  Hill:  "It  has  more  landscape 
po    Abilities   than    has  any   other  spot    in   Southern   California." 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES  197 

The  administration  and  oversight  is  entirely  in  Mr.  Hewes'  hands. 
This  is  characteristic  of  the  man,  who  at  eighty-nine  years  of  age 
remains  as  interested  in  work  and  affairs  as  he  ever  was. 

In  the  summer  of  1909,  Mr.  Hewes  visited  the  East,  making 
a  pilgrimage  to  his  birthplace.  On  this  occasion  he  pointed  out 
to  the  friends  who  were  with  him  the  site  of  the  house  in  which 
lived  his  ancestor,  John  Hewes,  the  site  of  the  church  which  his 
father  Joel  Hewes  had  erected,  his  own  birthplace  and  the  Swain 
place  where  he  spent  four  years  of  his  boyhood.  Not  the  least 
striking  characteristic  of  Mr.  Hewes  is  his  clear  memory  of 
events  happening  during  his  long  life.  It  is  true  his  life  has  been 
full  of  episodes  which  could  not  but  otherwise  than  leave  clear 
impressions  in  his  mind. 

It  will  take  three  to  five  years  yet  to  finish  the  work  that  Mr.  Hewes  has 
planned.  Over  $20,000  has  already  been  spent  and  thousands  more  will  be 
expended,  and  every  dollar  that  Mr.  Hewes  spends  on  his  place  enhances 
the  value  of  every  acre  in  the  valley. 

For  the  watering  of  the  hill  he  "has  constructed  a  large  reservoir  100x50 
feet,  made  of  concrete.  The  basin  is  nine  feet  deep  and  will  hold  an  im- 
mense amount  of  water.  Around  the  crest  of  the  hill  is  laid  a  two-foot 
steel  pipe  675  feet  long,  to  which  all  of  the  laterals  for  the  irrigation  of 
the  hill  are  attached.  This  gives  the  park  a  splendid  water  service  for  the 
propagation  of  the  plant  life  on  its  sides  and  crest.  On  the  south  slope  is 
the  largest  pansy  bed  in  the  world.  It  lies  on  the  west  side  of  the  drive 
and  the  east  side  of  the  same  drive  is  a  veritable  field  of  poppies. 

Thus  around  the  immense  hill  is  the  idea  being  gradually  carried  out,  and 
to  appreciate  the  beauties  one  must  see  it.  The  whole  effect  is  beyond  mere 
words  to  describe  —  it  is   magnificent,  soul-satisfying. 

The  ranch  as  a  revenue  producer,  has  few  equals  in  this  land  of  splen- 
did ranches.  After  the  blight  killed  the  grapes,  Mr.  Hewes  again  cleared 
the  ground  and  began  to  plant  oranges,  lemons,  walnuts  and  olives,  and  he 
now  has  400  acres  of  oranges  and  lemons,  20  acres  of  walnuts,  and  75  acres 
of  olives,  while  the  remainder  is  in  hay  and  grain. 

Each  road  or  avenue  is  to  be  shaded  by  the  best  selection  of  avenue  trees. 

From  the  orange  and  lemon  orchards  last  year  Mr.  Hewes  received  $72,000, 
besides  the  revenue  from  walnuts  and  olives,  and  his  hay  and  grain  land. 

These  statements  of  the  revenue  of  the  ranch  have  been  given  to  us  by 
the  foreman,  Mr.  John  Adams,  who  has  been  identified  with  the  ranch  some 
eighteen   years,   as   has    also   another  employe^   Mr.    Herbert   Isaacs. 

From  the  crest  of  the  hill  the  entire  ranch,  with  its  orchards  of  orange 
and  lemon,  groves  of  olive  and  walnut,  and  its  waving  fields  of  yellow  grain, 
lies  spread  before  one  and  it  would  be  hard  indeed  to  compare  it  to  any- 
thing less  beautiful  than  the  vista  that  lay  beneath  the  gaze  of  the  Children 
of  Israel  as  they  viewed  from  the  mountains,  the  wonders  of  the  promised 
land. 

Running  along  the  base  of  the  range  is  one  of  the  large  branches  of  the 
Santa  Ana  Valley  irrigating  system,  which  furnishes  the  cheapest  water  of 
all  the  systems  in  Southern  California  and  along  the  west  line  runs  the 
snow  ditch.  These  two  splendid  water  ways  furnish  the  necessary  irrigation 
for  the  foothill  district. 

The  water  for  the  family  is  taken  from  a  large  filter  constructed  in  the 
reservoir   that   was    built    for   the   irrigation    of   the   hill. —  Santa   Ana   Daily 


198  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES 

The  life  of  David  Hewes  presents  a  striking  similitude  to  that 
of  his  New  England  ancestor,  Lieutenant  Joshua  Hewes.  Both 
were  left  fatherless  at  about  the  same  age ;  both  migrated  to  a 
new  country  thousands  of  miles  distant  where  they  established 
themselves  in  business ;  both  were  deeply  interested  in  religion 
yet  not  narrow  minded ;  both  early  in  their  career  were  success- 
ful and  suffered  complete  loss  from  no  fault  of  their  own ;  both 
at  the  close  of  their  business  life  took  up  an  agricultural  pursuit. 

Lieutenant  Joshua  Hewes  lived  in  a  period  of  such  strenuous 
activity  that  it  was  the  exception  for  a  man  to  attain  as  many 
years  even  as  are  allotted  to  him  in  the  Scriptures,  but  so  far  as 
we  know  he  had  the  strong  physical  as  well  as  mental  make-up 
which  has  been  inherited  through  all  the  generations  by  his  de- 
scendant. 

On  his  ranch  at  Orange,  Mr.  Hewes  has  not  only  built  a  most 
pleasant  home  and  convenient  offices  for  the  management  of  the 
estate,  but  has  found  much  pleasure  in  converting  a  conical  hill, 
one  of  the  natural  features  of  the  place,  covering  about  ten  acres, 
into  an  immense  flower  garden.  This  hill,  widely  known  through- 
out the  county,  commands  a  grand  view  of  the  valley,  and  in  its 
development  into  a  place  of  surpassing  beauty,  Mr.  Hewes  has 
had  the  services  of  Mr.  R.  G.  Fraser,  a  landscape  gardener  of 
great  skill,  and  who  has  made  the  sunken  gardens  of  Mr.  Adol- 
phus  Busch  at  Pasadena  one  of  the  great  attractions  of  that 
town.  Here  while  on  the  ranch,  Mr.  Hewes  finds  distraction 
from  the  cares  of  his  busy  life.  Hewes  Hill  is  open  to  the  public 
and  offers  mute  and  glowing  testimony  to  the  owner's  love  of 
nature  and  esthetics. 

/,'<  gisU  r,  Dec.  2,  1907.  It  is  proper  to  add  that  since  the  above  was  pub- 
lished, it  has  been  demonstrated  thai  a  permanent  subterranean  water  supply 
exists  in  the  valley,  which  adds  greatly  to  the  possibilities  of  that  district. 
Two  artesian  wells  are  on  the  Hewes  ranch,  and  others  on  neighboring  ranches, 
all  \  ielding  abundantly. 

The  v.i  II  is  500  feet  deep.  The  water  rises  to  within  110  feet  of  the  sur- 
face, in  an  !H  inch,  steel-pipe  bore.  This  bore  is  encased  to  water  level  (140 
feet)  in  a  re-iri forced  concrete  pit  7  feet  in  diameter,  which  pit  contains  the 
pumping  machinery  consisting  of  a  150  H.l'.  dynamo  that  runs  a  centrifugal 
pump  with  a  capacity  of  150  miner's  heads.  A  miner's  head  according  to 
mea  uremenl   In  Orange  county  is   L00  cubic  inches.     In  other  counties  where 

water  is   seine   a   head    is  but  .10  cubic   inches. 

Water  from  this  well  is  raised  to  the  highest  point  on  the  Hewes  ranch,  175 
feet  above  water  level,  whence  it  is  distributed  through  cement  pipes  to  all 
points    of    the    ranch. 

Mr.  s.  I •'.  Catey  of  Los  Angeles,  recognizee!  as  one  of  the  best  engineers 
on  the  Pacific  ('oast,  in  this  line  of  work.  Installed  this  equipment,  and  con- 
siders the  Hewes  well  the  finest  he  has  ever  put  down.  The  cost  of  the  in- 
stallation  was  nearly  (130,000,     (Editor.) 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES  199 

Mr.  Hewcs  has  always  been  interested  in  art.  During  his 
many  years  of  residence  abroad  he  collected  such  objects  as 
pleased  him,  not  with  the  idea  of  forming  a  great  collection  of 
noted  subjects,  but  small  objects  which  appealed  to  his  own  8< 
of  beauty  and  which  he  would  be  able  to  enjoy  in  his  own  home. 
This  collection  some  years  later  he  presented  to  the  Leland  Stan- 
ford, Jr.,  Museum  20  in  memory  of  his  wife.  The  earthquake  of 
1906  wrought  great  damage  to  the  museum  and  shattered  much 
of  the  statuary,  which,  however,  was  skillfully  repaired  and 
largely  replaced  in  a  wing  of  the  Museum  in  which  a  room  35x60 
feet  is  set  apart  for  it. 

Mr.  Hewes  has  demonstrated  his  business  ability  and  good  judg- 
ment in  real  estate,  and  still  believes  in  the  great  future  of  both 
San  Francisco  and  Los  Angeles,  both  of  which  places  he  has  seen 
grow  from  small  beginnings,  and  in  both  of  which  he  still  retains 
large  interests. 

In  obtaining  from  Mr.  Hewes  the  statement  which  is  printed 
elsewhere,  it  was  evident  that  many  affairs  in  which  he  was  deeply 
concerned  and  was  an  important  factor,  were  but  lightly  touched 
upon  or  not  in  any  way  alluded  to.  He  liked  best  to  dwell  upon 
his  association  with  Mr.  Cunningham,  his  visits  East,  his  pleasant 
home  relations  and  the  completion  of  the  great  trans-continental 
railway.  His  own  part  in  creating  enthusiasm  and  interest  in 
the  project  of  the  railroad  is  hardly  spoken  of.  To  him  was  of- 
fered the  opportunity  of  becoming  one  of  the  largest  contractors 
for  building  the  road,  a  contract  which  perhaps  wisely  he  refused 
to  accept. 

When  in  Greece  he  became  deeply  interested  in  the  project  of 
preservation  of  ancient  sites  of  archaeological  interest,  and  on  his 
return  interviewed  some  of  our  most  wealthy  citizens,  hoping  to 
obtain  from  some  of  these  the  money  necessary  to  purchase  the 
site  of  Delphi.  Unfortunately  at  that  time  Mr.  Stanford  was 
deeply  engrossed  in  politics.  If  it  had  not  been  for  this,  it  is 
probable  that  he  would  have  obtained  for  the  American  Institute 
that  historic  place. 

29  The  history  of  the  foundation  and  growth  of  the  Leland  Stanford, 
Junior,  University  is  too  well  known  to  require  comment  in  this  place.  The 
grant  of  Senator  Leland  Stanford  and  Jane  Lathrop  Stanford,  his  wife,  of 
the  Palo  Alto  estate,  one  of  the  finest  private  estates  in  America,  and  other 
properties  to  twenty-four  trustees  to  establish  a  university  took  place  11 
Nov.,  1885.  The  deed  of  trust  recites  that  "the  idea  of  establishing  an  in- 
stitution of  this  kind  for  the  benefit  of  mankind  came  directly  and  largely 
from  our  son  and  only  child,  Leland."  The  organization  of  the  Trustees 
occurred  14  Nov.,  1885. 


200  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES 

Mr.  Hewes  has  always  been  ready  to  do  his  part  in  contributing 
time  or  money  to  those  movements  which  seemed  to  him  to  merit 
success.  He  has  been  especially  active  in  church,  charitable  and 
educational  work.  He  is  one  of  those  who  has  contributed  to- 
ward the  endowment  of  Mills  College,  of  which  he  was  a  trustee 
for  many  years.  He  was  also  one  of  the  original  trustees  of  the 
"  Crocker  Home  for  Aged  People,"  and  was  a  trustee  for  the 
First  Presbyterian  Church.  To  this  society  he  presented  por- 
traits of  each  of  the  pastors  of  the  church.  But  a  small  part  of 
his  gifts  to  public  and  private  institutions  is  known. 

Among  his  gifts  to  Mills  College  was  a  collection  of  specimens 
of  natural  history  and  valuable  historical  objects  now  installed 
in  a  room  in  the  Nathaniel  Gray  Hall  of  Science.  He  also  gave 
the  chime  of  bells  in  the  Campanile,  one  of  the  architectural  fea- 
ture of  the  college. 

Mills  College  was  chartered  as  a  college  in  1885. 

In  1852  a  few  residents  of  Benicia  realizing  the  need  for  a 
girls'  boarding  school  brought  a  teacher  from  the  East  and  set 
up  a  school.  Later  Miss  Mary  Atkins  purchased  the  school  and 
extended  its  scope  and  usefulness.  In  1865  Cyrus  T.  Mills, 
D.  1).,  and  his  equally  noble  wife,  Susan  L.  Mills,  purchased  the 
institution  which  in  1871  was  removed  to  Seminary  Park,  Alameda 
County.  When  the  original  purchase  of  160  acres  in  the  Ala- 
meda foothills  was  made  by  the  Mills  there  were  only  a  few  scat- 
tered oaks  growing  on  the  estate.  Sixty  thousand  trees  were 
planted  during  the  life  time  of  Dr.  Mills.  To-day  the  college 
is  most  romantically  situated  in  a  beautifully  wooded  park.  Dr. 
Mills  died  20  April,  1884>.  Mrs.  Mills  continued  as  President  of 
the  college  until  19  May,  1909,  when  Miss  Luella  Clay  Carson, 
LL.l).,  long  associated  with  the  University  of  Oregon,  was  elected 
as  her  successor,  and  as  President  Emeritus  until  her  death  in 
1912. 

The  college  has  a  serviceable  and  growing  plant  and  already 
leads  -til  Western  institutions  for  the  education  of  women.  The 
enrollment  of  students  has  very  largely  increased  in  the  past 
four    years.     Many   gifts   of  buildings   have   been   made  to  the 

College,   notably   by    Miss   Sarah   Sage  of  Ware,    Mass.,  by  Andrew 

Carnegie,  James  !'.  Tierce,  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank  M.  Smith. 
The  lasl  m <l  gave  the  picturesque  bell  tower,  Spanish  in  char- 
acter, of  unique  and  beautiful  design,  in  which  to  install  the 
Chime  of  Hells   presented  two   vears  before  by   David  llewes. 


EL    CAMPERNIL,    MILLS    COLLEGE,    WITH    CHIME    OF    BELLS 

GIVEN    BY    DAVID   HEWES 

"Following  the  old  custom  of  naming  the  bells,  Mr.  Hewes  earnestlj 
desired  that  they  should  bear  the  names  of  the  graces  ol  the  Spirit  as 
found  in  Galatians,  v:  22,  23.  The  four  that  ring  the  chimes  are  Faith, 
II,,,,,..  iv;i,r.  ,inv.  'I'll,-  urenirsi  ,,['  the  bells  is  Love,  and  the  smallest 
Meekness.  The  others  are  Gentleness,  Goodness,  Self-Control,  and  Long 
Suffering.     The  names  are  indicated  in  gold  letters  upon  the  bells. 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES  201 

In  an  address  by  President  Mills  at  the  dedication  of  the  Cam- 
panile, she  said  of  the  Chime  of  Bells:  "  They  were  cast  in  Cin- 
cinnati  for  the  World's  Fair,  where  they  received  a  medal.  They 
were  afterward  brought  to  San  Francisco  for  the  Midwinter 
Fair,  receiving  another  medal.  At  the  close  of  the  Midwinter 
Fair  they  were  purchased  by  Hon.  David  Hewes.  In  May,  1902, 
they  were  presented  by  him  to  Mills  College.  I  cannot  say  enough 
in  praise  of  this  friend.  David  Hewes  is  one  of  our  well-known 
residents.  He  was  for  some  years  a  Trustee  of  Mills  College. 
He  resigned  because  of  long  absence  from  the  country.  He  has 
been  a  constant  and  helpful  friend.  In  his  modest,  unassuming 
way  he  has  been  a  frequent  giver  to  the  college.  The  Chime  of 
Bells,  however,  is  his  crowning  gift." 

In  1910  Mr.  Hewes  presented  to  the  Golden  Park  Museum  of 
San  Francisco  a  state  coach  which  he  and  Senator  Stanford  had 
purchased  in  Paris  and  brought  to  San  Francisco  nearly  fifty 
years  ago.  This  coach  was  built  in  Paris  for  the  Spanish  am- 
bassador to  France.  It  is  of  massive  and  sumptuous  construc- 
tion. The  royal  arms  of  Spain  are  enameled  on  the  panels.  At 
the  time  of  its  importation  it  was  the  grandest  equipage  ever  seen 
in  San  Francisco.  Gen.  Grant  rode  in  it  when  he  passed  through 
San  Francisco  on  his  tour  around  the  world.  It  was  also  used  by 
President  Hayes.  Mr.  Hewes,  because  of  its  remarkable  work- 
manship and  historic  associations,  in  presenting  it  to  the  Museum, 
has  dedicated  it  to  the  Mechanics  and  Grand  Army  Veterans  of 
San  Francisco. 

More  than  thirty  years  ago  Mr.  David  Hewes  began  collec- 
tions of  genealogical  material  for  the  purpose  of  determining  his 
paternal  ancestry.  A  busy  life  remote  from  original  sources  of 
genealogical  information,  prevented  his  carrying  out  his  intentions 
regarding  the  systematic  collection  of  and  publication  of  material 
until  recently.  Such  material  as  had  survived  the  vicissitudes 
of  these  years  were  placed  in  the  hands  of  the  compiler  of  this 
volume.  Aside  from  evidences  of  Mr.  Hewes'  own  line  of  descent 
from  Joshua  Hewes,  and  a  genealogical  monograph  of  the  family 
to  which  belonged  Joseph  Hewes,  a  signer  of  the  Declaration  of 
Independence,  the  data  placed  at  the  disposal  of  the  compiler 
was  scanty  in  the  extreme.  Investigation  of  the  Massachusetts 
and  Boston  and  other  local  records  revealed  the  material  from 
which  it  was  possible  to  estimate  the  worth  and  activities  of  Joshua 


202  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES 

Hewes.  This  pioneer  was  discovered  to  have  been  a  man  of  un- 
common parts.  His  modesty  and  ability  alike  commended  him 
to  the  attention  of  the  New  England  leaders.  His  family  con- 
nections in  England  enabled  him  to  be  of  great  service  in  the  es- 
tablishment of  the  iron  works  at  Lynn. 

The  striking  coincidences  between  the  lives  of  Joshua  Hewes 
and  of  his  descendant,  David  Hewes,  deserve  comment.  They  are 
of  especial  interest  from  the  standpoint  of  heredity.  There  are 
five  generations  between  Joshua  Hewes,  the  first  of  his  family  to 
settle  on  the  Atlantic  coast,  and  David  Hewes,  the  first  of  his 
descendants  to  settle  on  the  Pacific  coast  two  centuries  later. 
Both  were  pioneers.  Both  were  left  fatherless  at  about  the  same 
age ;  both  were  faithfully  guarded  in  their  youth  by  relatives,  and 
both  sought  a  wider  field  for  their  activities  at  the  same  age. 

Joshua  Hewes  made  his  first  entrance  into  commercial  life  as 
an  ironmonger.  David  his  first  commercial  venture  on  a  large 
scale  as  the  consigner  of  cast  iron  houses  to  California.  Prob- 
ably each  began  life  with  about  the  same  relative  capital.  Both 
suffered  total  loss  at  about  the  same  age,  and  from  no  fault  of 
their  own.  Neither  sought  political  preferment,  but  each  was 
called  to  serve  in  public  office  when  the  occasion  arose.  The  de- 
sire to  acquire  landed  estate  was  common  to  both.  Both  men 
were  keenly  alive  to  their  religious  responsibilities,  and  each  faith- 
fully performed  the  duties  which  have  fell  to  his  lot. 

Sweeping  aside  the  conditions  which  more  than  two  centuries 
have  brought  about,  the  life  of  both  was  spent  in  doing  much 
the  same  things,  except  that  the  necessities  of  the  times  forced 
Joshua  Hewes  to  enter  patriotically  into  military  life,  while  the 
life  of  his  descendant  has  been  devoted  to  spreading  the  doctrine 
of  peace  and  good  will. 

The  chapters  devoted  to  each  of  these  men  very  inadequately 
set  forth  in  greater  detail  the  story  of  their  lives. 

Some  years  ago  there  was  published  a  genealogy  of  the  Tapley 
family,  to  which  family  Mr.  Hewes"  mother  belonged.  Mrs. 
Susan  1).  Ahhott  prepared  for  that  volume  a  brief  sketch  of  Mr. 
Hewes9  life,  which  Is  reprinted  here: 

In  IS  11,  David  Hewes  entered  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass., 
paying  all  of  bis  expenses  by  work  during  term  time  and  in  vaca- 
tions,   nnd     while    there    lie    accomplished    a    result,    assisted    by    other 


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students,  which  he  recalls  with  great  satisfaction  —  the  establishing 
of  the  first  Sunday  School  in  what  is  now  the  City  of  Lawrence, 
Mass.  Pursuing  the  same  policy  of  unceasing  industry,  when  he 
entered  Yale  in  1847,  he  earned  his  living  by  canvassing  for  Peter 
Parley's  Merry  Museum.  His  little  inheritance,  with  the  accumula- 
tions of  his  hard  earned  wages,  amounted  to  about  three  thousand 
dollars  when  the  gold  fever  in  California  broke  out,  and  hearing  that 
building  materials  were  scarce  there,  he  invested  all  of  his  three 
thousand  dollars  in  Peter  Naylor's  galvanized  iron  houses,  and 
shipped  them  to  California  in  the  care  of  his  cousin,  George  YV. 
Hewes. 

"  He  felt  obliged  to  follow  this  cousin  in  a  few  months,  via  the 
isthmus,  to  convey  to  him  the  news  of  the  death  of  his  wife  and  child, 
intending  at  the  time  to  return  and  continue  his  studies;  but  the 
business  opportunities  of  the  new  state  were  too  attractive  and  set- 
tling in  Sacramento,  he  opened  a  general  merchandise  store,  acquir- 
ing quite  a  fortune  in  three  and  one-half  years.  First  by  fire  and 
then  by  flood,  the  accumulations  of  all  his  years  were  swept  away 
and  he  entered  San  Francisco  in  July  of  1853,  penniless. 

"  Falling  in  with  a  Scotchman,  James  Cunningham  by  name,  who 
had  brought  iron  rails,  excavator  and  an  entire  grading  outfit  from 
Boston,  he  became  enthused  in  talking  over  and  seeing  with  him 
the  splendid  possibilities  of  San  Francisco  as  a  commercial  city. 
They  saw  alike  her  future  greatness,  the  need  of  having  her  sand 
hills  levelled,  her  streets  graded  and  her  harbor  prepared  for  her 
destiny.  Who  shall  say  with  these  visions  in  his  mind  that  it  came 
accidentally  to  Mr.  Hewes  to  commence  grading  on  his  own  account 
in  a  small  way.  A  friend,  expecting  his  family  to  join  him,  desired 
a  lot  graded,  that  he  might  build  a  house,  and  Mr.  Hewes  undertook 
to  do  it.  He  got  a  wheel-barrow  and  a  shovel,  hired  a  Chinaman 
at  two  dollars  a  day,  without  means  to  pay  him  until  some  work  was 
accomplished,  and  set  resolutely  out  on  a  new  career.  In  a  few 
months  he  had  twenty  men  at  work  and  at  the  end  of  five  years  he 
had  purchased  the  entire  outfit  of  his  old  acquaintance,  Mr.  Cun- 
ningham, at  a  cost  of  $42,500,  and  had  contracts  on  hand  which 
required  large  financial  backing. 

"  He  not  only  made  a  large  area  of  the  present  business  section 
of  the  city  but  made  the  land  from  Sansome  and  Fremont  Streets 
to  the  Oakland  Ferry  landing,  also  Mission  Bay  between  Brannan 
street  and  the  Potrero.  His  appliances  and  outfit  were  also  used 
in  building  the  sea  wall  from  the  ferry  landing  to  the  foot  of  Powell 
Street.  Upon  his  retirement  from  business,  he  sold  his  entire  outfit 
to  Henry  Villard,  who  was  then  building  the  Northern  Pacific 
Railroad. 


204.  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES 

"  The  prayers  of  his  parents  were  answered  for  him,  for  his 
naturally  devout  spirit  expressed  itself  in  earnest  work  for  the 
church  with  which  he  united.  He  brought  across  the  isthmus 
with  him  a  Sunday  School  library,  believed  to  be  the  first  to  enter 
California,  and  presented  it  to  the  First  Congregational  Sunday 
School  in  Sacramento,  and  also  raised  by  subscription  the  money  to 
build  the  first  church  edifice  which  they  erected. 

"  When  he  removed  to  San  Francisco  he  united  with  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  and  served  as  one  of  its  trustees  for  many 
years,  having  also  Sunday  School  classes  in  his  busiest  years  in  both 
churches.  Having  been  a  resident  of  Sacramento  in  the  early  days 
with  the  builders  of  the  overland  road  and  appreciating  the  magni- 
tude of  the  enterprise,  at  the  completion  of  the  road  in  1869,  he 
gave  the  gold  spike  which  was  used  at  the  ceremonies  of  completion, 
and  in  August  of  1869,  after  twenty  years'  absence,  he  returned 
overland  to  New  England,  remained  two  months  and  brought  back 
to  California  eighteen  of  his  relatives  and  settled  them;  and  it  was 
but  six  months  after  this,  just  after  getting  them  established  in  busi- 
ness, that  he  was  obliged  to  leave  them,  but  he  continued  the  super- 
vision of  their  interests  while  absent  and  sick  abroad. 

"  Great  as  had  been  his  misfortunes  by  the  loss  of  his  property  by 
fire  and  flood;  greater  was  the  misfortune  which  came  to  him  in  1856 
by  the  appearance  of  an  epithelioma  on  his  face,  which  compelled 
him  after  some  years,  in  Aug.,  1870,  to  give  up  his  business  and  go 
to  Europe  for  treatment.  It  was  at  this  time  that  he  took  his  brother, 
Charles,  his  sister,  Ruthe,  and  her  husband,  and  his  nephew  Granville. 
He  remained  abroad  two  and  one-half  years.  Few  would  have  had 
the  courage  and  nerve  necessary  to  undergo  the  heroic  treatment  which 
he  endured  and  to  battle  successfully  as  he  did  for  sixteen  long  years 
with  such  an  insidious  foe. 

"  The  vigor  and  undaunted  courage  of  this  life  must  be  apparent 
to  all  who  read  this  sketch,  yet  it  but  faintly  touches  on  the  obstacles 
which  had  to  be  overcome  and  disappointments  which  fell  to  his  lot. 
The  marvel  is  that  at  seventy-seven,  liis  energy  is  unabated  and  that 
he  attends  to  his  property  interests  as  keenly  .is  a  man  of  forty  years. 
He  defies  the  touch  of  time,  both  mentally  and  physically.  Yet  not 
in  these  characteristics  will  In-  !»■  remembered;  nor  yet  in  his  happy 
cheerfulness.     The  greater  marvel  is  the  wide  extent  and  number  of 

his   benefactions.      Through   all   his   life,   with  a  lavish   hand   he  has  be- 
stowed gifts  upon  the  church,  his    family  and   his   friends. 

"  In  his  family  of  brothers  and  sisters,  there  is  not  a  member  who 
has  not  had  occasion  to  have  loving  rememhrances  of  him,  and  this 
tender     thoUghtfulneSS     has     been     extended     even     to     their     children. 


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DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES  205 

Wide  also  is  the  number  of  personal  friends,  whom  he  has  included 
in  his  generous  giving  and  loving  thought;  and  wider,  possibly  greater, 
in  its  helpfulness  has  been  the  atmosphere  of  kindness  and  tender 
sympathy  which  has  constantly  radiated  from  him  to  those  in  need." 

VII.  29  LUCY  ANN  HEWES  (Joel,  John),  born  at  Lynn- 
field,  £4  Dec,  1824;  married  31  Dec,  1848,  at  North  Reading, 
George  C.  Richards,  who  was  born  in  Newton,  18  July,  1824, 
and  died  in  Maiden,  10  Jan.,  1892. 

Mrs.  Richards  received  her  education  in  the  Charlestown 
(Mass.)  Seminary,  and  for  several  years  taught  school  in  North 
Carolina.  Four  years  of  her  married  life  were  spent  in  California 
but  the  remainder  of  her  life  she  has  resided  in  Maiden. 

It  is  said  of  her,  "  No  mother  was  ever  more  fondly  cherished 
by  husband  and  children;  and  no  family  was  ever  more  lovingly 
and  tenderly  cared  for  than  hers.  Her  home  was  the  center  of 
her  life  and  thought.  To  grace  of  intellect  is  coupled  loyalty 
of  friendship  and  deep  sympathy  for  those  in  need." 

Children: 

96  Alice  Bishop  Richards,  born  at  Roxbury,  Mass.,  5  Jan., 

1850;  married,  14  June,  1882,  Adelbert  A.  Wicker, 
born  in  Ordway,  Vt.,  son  of  Ira  B.  and  Cynthia  B.  (Van 
Vliet)  Wicker;  died  31  July,  1893.  She  was  favor- 
ably known  in  Boston  as  a  singer.  Children,  born  in 
Melrose  Highlands  :  Adele  Hardy  Wicker,  born  24  March, 
1888;  Richard  Van  Vliet  Wicker,  born  10  Nov.,  1889. 

97  Fannie   Heaves   Richards,   born   at  Lansingburg,   N.   Y., 

on  18  May,  1855;  died  6  Nov.,  1856. 

98+  George  Louis  Richards,  born  in  Maiden,  Mass.,  14  Dec, 
1858. 

99  David  Elmer  Richards,  born  in  Maiden,  20  June,  1861 ; 
unmarried.  He  accompanied  his  parents  to  San  Fran- 
cisco, Cal.,  when  eight  years  of  age,  where  they  re- 
mained four  years.  After  the  return  to  Maiden  he  at- 
tended the  public  schools  there  and  also  became  efficient 
in  stenography  and  typewriting.  In  1898  on  the  outbreak 
of  the  Spanish-American  war  he  entered  the  Quarter- 
master's Department.  He  was  sent  to  Cuba  where  he 
remained    for    several   years,    and    became    interested    in 


206  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES 

Cuban  lands.  He  has  also  spent  several  years  in  Cali- 
fornia studying  the  growing  of  citrus  fruits.  He  is 
actively  interested  in  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  and  in  whatever 
aids  the  poor  and  unfortunate. 

100  Charles  Frederick  Richards,  born  in  Maiden,  18  April, 

1864;  died  12  Nov.,  1865. 

101  Francis    Tapley    Richards,    born    in    Maiden,    18    April, 

1864;  died  at  birth. 

102  Grace  Richards,  born  in  Maiden,  9  Oct.,  1867  ;  married, 

29  Jan.,  1902,  Ernest  E.  Carl,  D.  M.  D.,  son  of  Amos 
D.  and  Laura  A.  (Wiggin)  Carl.  Children:  Earl 
Richards  Carl,  born  24  Oct.,  1902  in  Maiden;  Ruth 
Hewes  Carl,  born  18  May,  1906,  died  10  Nov.,  1906; 
Natalie  Richards  Carl,  born  10  March,  1907. 

VII.  36  GEORGE  WARREN  HEWES  (Elijah,  John), 
born  in  Lynnfield,  25  Oct.,  1822;  died  at  Reading  20  Oct.,  1909. 
He  married  3  December,  184:5.  at  Chelsea,  Mass.,  Sophia  Swett, 
daughter  of  Samuel  and  Charlotte  Swett  of  Readfield,  Me.  Mrs. 
Hewes  died  3  Oct.,  1849.  He  married,  second,  26  June,  1853, 
at  Sacramento,  Calif.,  Lavinia  Swett,  sister  of  his  first  wife, 
She  died  21  May,  1907. 

Mr.  George  W.  Hewes  sailed  for  California  in  1849  by  way 
of  Cape  Horn  in  charge  of  consignment  of  corrugated  iron  houses 
shipped  by  David  Hewes,  who  on  learning  of  the  death  of  his 
cousin's  wife  attempted  to  intercept  him  at  New  York,  but  failing 
proceeded  to  San  Francisco  and  arrived  via  Panama  before  his 
agent.  Mr.  G.  \Y.  Hewes  was  a  contracting  mason  in  Sacra- 
mento and  San  Francisco  1st!)  to  1852,  when  he  returned  to 
New  England.  He  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  barrels  at 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  1866  to  1SH7.  The  last  years  of  his  life 
were  spent  at    Reading. 

Children: 

102a  William   I...  born  5  Dee.,  1844:  died  1   Sept.,  1857. 
102b  George  B.,  born  80  Feb.,  1847;  died  1  \-  Oct..  1SJ-7. 
102c  George  W..  bora  24  duly,  1849;  died  4  Oct..  1849. 
108     Henri  W..  horn  !)  Aug.,  L856,  died  14  Oct.,  ISSu". 
loi     Frank  0.,  born  :$  Dec.,  1857;  of  Cleveland,  Ohio. 
lor,     Emma  S.,  born  !-'b"  Sept.,  1860;  married   E.  S.   Boardman. 


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DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES  207 

106  Alanson  M.,  born  in  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  22  Oct.,  1868; 
married  15  Oct.,  1901,  Helen  Steele.  Mr.  Hewes 
writes :  "  I  lived  in  Grand  Rapids  until  twenty- 
one  years  of  age.  I  went  to  work  in  1886  as 
stenographer  for  the  Phoenix  Furniture  Company,  Grand 
Rapids,  and  left  them  voluntarily  in  August,  1888,  go- 
ing to  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  with  a  grain  commission  firm 
as  head  bookkeeper.  I  developed  a  talent  for  organiz- 
ing office  work,  and  held  a  very  good  position  until  1894, 
when  owing  to  the  business  depression  the  firm  failed, 
and  I  moved  to  Chicago.  I  secured  employment  with 
the  Electrical  Installation  Company  in  July,  1894,  as 
stenographer  and  bookkeeper ;  was  made  Secretary  in 
the  fall  of  1895,  and  bought  controlling  interest  in  the 
Company  in  January,  1899.  The  Company  did  a  large, 
profitable  and  rapidly  increasing  business  until  the  panic 
of  1907,  which  caught  us  with  a  million  and  a  quarter 
of  debts  and  slow  assets.  I  am  doing  business  now  on 
my  own  account  as  contractor  for  electric  railways, 
water  power  plants,  and  public  utilities,  and  expect  to 
continue  in  that  way,  as  I  have  been  very  successful." 

107+  Charlotte  E.,  born  18  Aug.,  1869;  married  F.  W.  Allen. 

VII.  37  REBECCA  BROWN  HEWES  (Elijah,  John), 
born  15  Dec,  1824;  died  26  Nov.,  1903;  married  5  Nov.,  1813, 
William  W.  Young  of  Dover,  N.  H.,  who  died  26  Nov.,  1903. 
Mr.  Young  accompanied  his  cousin,  George  W.  Hewes,  to  Cali- 
fornia and  for  a  few  years  lived  in  Sacramento  where  he  worked 
as  a  carpenter.  Mr.  David  Hewes  employed  him  in  the  erection 
of  his  hotel  building,  paying  him  the  current  wages,  an  ounce  of 
gold  dust  a  day.  An  ounce  of  gold  dust  was  equivalent  to  six- 
teen dollars. 
Children: 

108  William  S.  Young,  died  in  early  youth. 

109  George  B.  Young,  died  in  infancy. 

110  George  Wallace   Young,   died   in   South  Lyndeborough, 

N.  H.,  19  Oct.,  1864;  unmarried. 

111  Carrie    A.    Young,    born    in    Chelsea,    18    July,    1847; 

died  in  Wilton,  N.  H.,  24  Nov.,  1909;  married  31  March, 
1874,     David     S.     Philbrook.     Children:    George     W. 


208  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES 

Philbrook,  born  10  Jan.,  1877;  married  10  Jan.,  1897, 
Alice  Hobbs  of  Hampton,  N.  H.  Children:  Clarence 
G.  Philbrook,  born  3  Jan.,  1902;  Wallace  H.  Philbrook, 
born  3  Nov.,  1904. 

VII.  40  MATHEW  (Joshua,  John),  born  at  Lynnfield,  6 
March,  1823;  died  13  April,  1905,  at  Salem;  married  21  Dec, 
1845,  Eliza  Wiley,30  daughter  of  Jacob  and  Nabby  (Parsons) 
Wiley  of  Lynnfield,  born  there  19  Feb.,  1824,  died  there  9  Jan., 
1866.  He  married,  second,  Sept.,  1872,  Mary  Ann  Gay,  of 
Salem,  born  in  Maine,  Jan.,  1829 ;  died  in  Salem,  5  Jan.,  1908. 

Children  except  Clara  E.,  born  in  Lynnfield: 

112  Emily  Mama,  born  26  Sept.,  1846,  of  Salem.     Miss  Hewes 

possesses  the  portraits  of  John  Hewes  and  wife,  which 
are  reproduced  in  this  volume.      She  is  a  school  teacher. 

113  Winslow  Cardell,  born  12  March,  1849;  died  30  April, 

1849. 

114  Clara  Elizabeth,  born  in  Lowell,  19  Dec,  1850;  married 

24  Nov.,  1875,  Charles  Henry  Danforth  of  Salem, 
son  of  John  and  Sarah  Hawkes  (Perkins)  Danforth  of 
Lynnfield.  Children:  Raymond  Hewes  Danforth,  born 
8  Nov.,  1877;  married  Dec,  1905,  Dora  Philbrick, 
daughter  of  Joseph  Thissell  and  Josephine  H.  (Tenny) 
Woodbury  of  Beverly.  Arthur  Perkins  Danforth,  born 
19  Jan.,' 1879.  John  Danforth,  born  19  Dec,  1880. 
Helen  Eliza  Danforth,  born  22  Sept.,  1883. 

115  Mary  Winslow,  born  14  Jan.,  1856. 

VII.  45  MARY  CLEVELAND  HEWES  (Joshua,  John, 
Samuel,  Joshua,  Joshua),  born  in  Lynnfield,  31  May,  1835;  died 
in  Omaha,  Neb.,  27  March,  1877;  married  5  Nov.,  1862,  Wil- 
liam Lawrence  Peabody,  son  of  Enoch  and  Susan  (Weston) 
Peabody  of  Reading.  Mr.  Peabody  was  graduated  from  Dart- 
mouth in  1856.  He  was  formerly  judge  of  probate  at  Omaha, 
and  is  now  employed  in  the  Pension  office  at  Washington. 

(  hihlrcn : 

116  Lawrence  Hewes  Peabody,  horn  in  Lynn,  15  Oct.,  1863; 

died  in  Savannah,  6a.,  April,  1K()5. 
to  Lynnfield  Vital  Records. 


MRS.    MARY    CLEVELAND    (HEWES)    PEABODY 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN   HEWES  209 

117  Mabel  Lawrence  Peahody,  born   in   Savannah,  23  Jan., 

1866. 

118  Alice  Cleveland  Peabodv,  born  in  Lynnfield,  1868;  died 

aged  a  few  days. 

119  Alice  Hewes  Peabody,  born    in  Omaha,   15   Feb.,   1870; 

married  24  April,  1905,  Harris  Perley  Gould  of  Wash- 
ington, D.  C.  Children,  born  in  Washington:  Law- 
rence Peabody  Gould,  born  28  Feb.,  1907.  Stanley 
Wadsworth  Gould,  born  7  Sept.,  1908. 

120  Marion   Cleveland   Peabody,   born   in   Omaha,    15   Nov., 

187-1;  married  25  June,  1902,  William  Hauck,  born  in 
Watertown,  Mass.,  son  of  William  and  Margaret  Hauck. 
Children:  Margaret  Hauck,  born  23  March,  1905,  in 
New  York;  Donald  Peabody  Hauck,  born  22  May,  1908, 
in  Brewster,  N.  Y. 

121  William    Lawrence    Peabody,    born    March,    1877;    died 

July,  1877. 
Mary  C.  (Hewes)  Peabody  had  a  most  attractive  personality 
and  her  lovable  disposition  won  her  hosts  of  friends.     When  her 
brother  Joshua  returned  to  California  after  his  visit  home,  she 
accompanied  him.      She  is  best  remembered  by  a  large  circle  of 
California  friends  as  a  successful  teacher  in  the  Boys'  and  Girls' 
High  School  of  San  Francisco  where  for  many  years  she  was  the 
only  woman  teacher.     Mr.  Holmes  was  principal  of  the   school 
at  that  time.     When  Mrs.  Peabody  left  the  school  and  returned 
to  the  East,  her  former  pupils  formed  a  Mary  C.  Hewes  Club, 
and  met  annually.     At  their  last  meeting,  shortly  before  Mrs. 
Peabody's  death,  the  Club  took  steps  to  send  her  a  beautifully 
bound  album  containing  their  photographs;  but  the  testimonial 
did  not  reach  her  home  until  after  her  death.     Mr.  David  Hewes 
was  at  Cannes  when  he  learned  of  her  decease.     He  purchased  a 
marble  monument  at  Carrara  and  caused  it  to  be  erected  over  her 
grave  at  Omaha.      Mrs.  Peabody  influenced  very  greatly  the  so- 
cial and  intellectual  life  of  her  associates,  especially  those  who  re- 
ceived the  benefit  of  her  instruction. 


VIII.  50  RICHARD  HAYWARD  HEWES  (Benjamin, 
Benjamin,  John),  bora  in  Lynnfield,  25  Sept.,  1836;  married 
Harriet  Elizabeth  Townsend. 


210  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HE  WES 

Children: 

122  Frank,  lived  in  Lynn  ;  married  a  daughter  of  Samuel  Reed 

of  North  Reading. 

123  Caroline,  married;  [ ]  Lassell  of  Lynn  where  she 

lives. 

VIII.  6i  JAMES  ARTHUR  HE  WES  (James,  James, 
John),  born  in  Lynnfield  Centre,  6  Nov.,  1859.  Married 
in  Melrose,  9  Oct.,  1883,  Sarah  Mayers  Chisam,  daughter  of 
Samuel  Chisam31  and  Arietta  (Mayers)  Chisam,  who  was  born 
in  Pittston,  Maine,  9  Nov.,  1857. 

Mr.  Hewes  settled  in  Melrose  in  1883.  Although  as  a  boy 
ambitious  to  become  a  physician,  he  entered  business  life  in  Boston 
with  J.  W.  Smith  &  Co.  In  1889  he  established  the  firm  of  Hewes 
&  Potter,  now  one  of  the  best  known  and  largest  manufacturers 
of  suspenders  and  men's  wear.  He  is  said  to  resemble  his  father, 
having  blue  eyes  and  light  brown  hair,  and  of  good  stature.  His 
height  is  6  ft.  \  in.,  his  weight  about  210  pounds.  His  daugh- 
ter has  the  family  physical  characteristics.  Mr.  Hewes  received 
education  at  the  Wakefield  High  School  and  Bryant  and  Stratton 
Business  College. 

Child: 

124  Bessie  C,  born  4  Aug.,  1888,  in  Melrose. 

VIII.  80  HENRY  AUGUSTUS  HEWES  (Joel,  Joel, 
John),  of  Lynnfield,  born  there  27  or  26  Dec,  1833;  died  in  the 
army  at  Newbern,  N.  C,  3  Oct.,  1864;  married  at  Ossipee,  N.  H., 
26  Nov.,  1857,  Sarah  Elizabeth  Tucker. 

Henry  A.  Hewes  was  for  a  year  or  more  with  his  uncle,  David 
Hewes,  al  San  Francisco,  acting  as  an  assistant,  but  returned 
East  to  enlist  in  the  army. 

Child: 

125  Nellie  Gbeteude,  born  8  Aug.,  1862;  died. 

VIII.     83     SARAH  ROSANNA  HEWES  (Joel,  Joel,  John), 

born  in  Lynnfield,  26  Sept.,  1887;  died  10  April,  1002;  married 

■■1  Samuel  Chisam  was  born  :n  Dec,  1891,  in  Alna,  Maine,  Ha  was  a  sliip 
builder  al  Wlscaasett,  His  father  was  William  Chisam,  i>orn  i  May,  1785, 
a  tanner  In  Alna. 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HE  WES  211 

27  Jan.,  1857,  Thomas  Pratt  West,  born  in  Augusta,  Me.,  18 
Oct.,  1834,  now  living  in  North  Reading,  Mass.,  a  veteran  of  the 
Civil  War,  son  of  Amrai  and  Lavinia  (Thomas)  West.32 

Children : 

126  Rose   Lavinia   West,   born    in   Lynnfield,   23   May,   1857; 

died  in  North  Reading,  27  Oct.,  1897 ;  married  25  Aug., 
1877,  Albert  Mosman  Ritchie,  of  Wakefield.  She  mar- 
ried, second,  Dr.  William  P.  Davis,  of  North  Reading, 
who  served  as  surgeon  in  the  Spanish  War.  Children: 
Katie  Mosman  West  Ritchie,  born  6  April,  1878;  d.  y. 
Rose  Maud  Ritchie,  born  2  Oct.,  1880;  d.  y.  Nettie 
Hewes  Ritchie,  born  21  Aug.,  1882;  d.  y.  Effie  Hor- 
tense  Ritchie,  born  in  Plymouth,  13  Oct.,  1888;  mar- 
ried 15  Aug.,  1907,  Ralph  Harrison.  Their  Children: 
Gladys  Hortense  Harrison,  born  in  North  Reading,  18 
March,  1909 ;  Ruth  Ritchie  Harrison,  born  in  Reading. 

127  Charles  Elmer  West,  born  in  North  Reading,  16  Nov., 

1859;  died  23  Nov.,  1859. 

128  Francis  Edgar  West,  born   in  North  Reading,   14  Nov., 

1860 ;  died  in  Lynnfield,  17  Sept.,  1875. 

129  George   Henry   West,   born   in    South   Danvers,   3   Nov., 

1867;  died  at  Lynnfield,  15  June,  1894. 

VIII.  83  ALTHEA  L.  HEWES  {Aaron  T.t  Joel,  John), 
born  in  North  Reading,  Mass.,  8  Aug.,  1841 ;  married  there  27 
Nov.,  1860,  Francis  Eaton  Flint,  born  1823,  son  of  Major 
Daniel  and  Sarah  (Eaton)   Flint 33  of  North  Reading,  who  died 

32  Ammi  West,  J.  P.,  was  born  in  Freeport,  Me.,  16  March,  1802;  lived 
a  while  in  Greene,  Mass.;  died  in  Augusta  15  Oct.,  1848.  He  was  a  daguer- 
reotypist  while  living  in  Augusta  and  at  the  time  of  his  death.  His  wife, 
Lavinia,  was  born  in  Frankfort,  Me.,  26  July,  1805,  and  died  in  Lynnfield, 
Mass.,  7  Nov.,  1889.  She  was  one  of  five  daughters  of  Benjamin  and  Bet- 
sey (Holt)  Thomas.  Betsey,  another  daughter  of  Benjamin  Thomas  married 
John  Pratt  of  North  Reading.  The  family  record  relates  that,  "  Elder 
Joseph  Holt,  an  English  minister,"  had  a  son  Benjamin  Holt,  whose  son 
Joseph  Holt  had  a  son  and  a  daughter,  the  Betsey  named  above,  who  died 
in  1774,  aged  89.  The  other  daughters  of  Benjamin  and  Betsey  (Holt) 
Thomas  were:  Ruth,  married  to  Robert  McClure  of  Sherman,  Me.;  Pauline, 
married  to  Thomas  Abbott  of  North  Reading,  Mass.,  and  Mary  Ann,  mar- 
ried to  Edmund  Groom  of  Boston.  This  information  was  obtained  from  an 
ancient  paper  in  possession  of  Mr.  West  (aged  89)  and  signed  by  Betsey 
Robbins,  sister  to  the  above  mentioned  Benjamin  Thomas.  At  that  time 
all  of  the  five  sisters  were  living. 

33  Major  Daniel  Flint  died  3  May,  1871,  aged  76  years,  1  month,  eleven 
days.     He  was   the  eldest   son  of  Col.   Daniel   and   Priscilla    (Sawyer)    Flint, 


212  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES 

27  Feb.,  1887.  Mrs.  Flint  married,  second,  25  Jan.,  1893, 
George  M.  Daxskin  of  Los  Angeles,  who  died  without  issue. 

Mr.  Flint  was  for  some  years  resident  in  San  Francisco  where 
he  was  employed  by  the  firm  of  Flint,  Peabod}^  &  Company,  of 
which  his  uncle  was  the  senior  member.  He  accumulated  con- 
siderable property,  returned  to  the  East  and  took  over  his  father's 
farm,  where  he  lived  some  years.  During  this  period  he  married. 
In  1869  he  was  living  in  Chicago,  and  was  persuaded  by  Mr. 
David  Hewes  to  again  remove  to  San  Francisco  with  his  family, 
where  he  for  a  time  was  associated  with  Mr.  Hewes  in  the  grocery 
business,  and  later  he  was  in  business  for  himself.  For  many 
years  he  was  employed  by  the  street  railway  company,  as  super- 
intendent of  a  branch  line. 

Children: 

130  Frank  Putnam  Flint,  born  in  North  Reading,  15  July, 

1862 ;  married  in  Los  Angeles,  25  Feb.,  1890,  Katherine 
J.  Bloss,  daughter  of  Henry  Augustus  and  Glory  Theresa 
(Hirley)  Bloss.  He  received  education  in  the  public 
schools  of  San  Francisco.  He  began  business  life  with 
Blake  and  Moffit,  paper  dealers,  and  was  later  associated 
with  his  brother  Motley  H.  Flint  in  the  same  business. 
For  a  short  time  he  was  with  his  great-uncle  David 
Hewes  on  the  latter's  ranch,  but  soon  entered  the  office 
of  Judge  Allen,  and  was  admitted  to  the  Bar.  In  1892 
he  received  the  appointment  of  Assistant  United  States 
District  Attorney.  In  1897  was  appointed  U.  S.  Dis- 
trict Attorney  for  the  Southern  District  of  California. 
In  January,  1905,  he  was  elected  Senator  from  Cali- 
fornia to  succeed  the  Hon.  Thomas  R.  Bard,  and  served 
until  March,  1911.  He  was  appointed  to  the  Monetary 
Commission  from  winch  he  resigned  in  the  summer  of  1911. 
Children:     William   Flint;   Katherine   Flint. 

131  Motley  Hewes  Flint,  born  in  Somerville,  Mass.,  19  I'd)., 

1864;  married  Geetbude  Cotteell,  daughter  of  I).  \Y. 
and  Emily  Cottrell.  lie  received  education  in  the  public 
schools  of  San  Francisco.     He  entered  the  employment 

find    prcnt    prandsnn   of    Rev.    Daniel    Putnam,    the   first    minister   (if   the   parish 

nt  North  Reading.  Major  Plinl  was  representative  t"  tin-  General  Court, 
nrul  held  town  office.  I  lis  wife,  Sarah  Baton,  was  daughter  <>f  Rev.  Peter 
Baton  and  granddaughter  <>f  Kev.  Bliah  Stone, 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES  213 

of  the  American  Tract  Society,  and  later  was  in  the 
paper  business  in  San  Francisco.  He  removed  to  Los 
Angeles  and  engaged  in  the  book  trade.  In  1886  lie  en- 
tered the  United  States  Postal  service.  As  inspector  and 
auditor  he  became  thoroughly  acquainted  with  the  needs 
of  the  service.  He  was  appointed  postmaster  at  Los 
Angeles  in  1904  and  held  that  position  until  March, 
1910,  when  he  resigned  to  take  the  position  of  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  Los  Angeles  Trust  and  Savings  Bank.  Mr. 
Flint  has  been  active  in  the  councils  of  various  fraternal 
orders,  in  which  he  has  held  the  highest  offices. 

VIII.  84  MARLAND  SMITH  HEWES  (Aaron  7\,  Joel), 
born  in  North  Reading,  16  Sept.,  1846 ;  married  in  Chicago, 
Celia  Gertrude  Warner,  daughter  of  Alonzo  and  Ruth  (Cooke) 
Warner. 

Mr.  Hewes  went  to  Chicago  with  his  brother-in-law  Mr.  Flint, 
when  quite  a  young  man.  After  the  great  fire  of  1871  he  re- 
moved to  St.  Louis  and  later  to  Los  Angeles.  He  was  well  known 
in  the  boot  and  shoe  trade,  being  a  member  of  a  wholesale  house 
in  San  Francisco.  He  lives  in  Berkeley.  Mrs.  Hewes  has  ex- 
ceptional talent,  and  takes  an  active  part  in  educational  matters. 

Child: 

132  Mabel   Warner,   born    13   Feb.,   1877;   married   29  June. 

1910,  Henry  Edmonds  Chandler  of  San  Francisco, 
prominent  in  real  estate  circles.  They  live  in  Oakland. 
Mrs.  Chandler  graduated  from  Mills  College  in  1897 
with  high  honors,  and  for  several  years  was  president 
of  the  Alumnae  Association.  Child  :  Edmonds  Hewes 
Chandler,  born  26  July,  1912. 

VIII.  90  REV.  GRANVILLE  SHARP  ABBOTT  (Ruthe, 
Joel,  John),  born  in  North  Reading,  Mass.,  27  Feb.,  1837; 
died  at  Oakland,  Calif.,  22  Nov.,  1897.  He  married  15  Oct., 
1863,  Sarah  Hines  Davis,  born  4  Jan.,  1840;  died  4  Jan.,  1909, 
daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Catherine  F.  Davis. 

Children: 

133  Granville  Davis  Abbott,  born  in  South  Boston,  3  Feb., 

1866;    married   3    Dec,    1896,    Florence,    daughter    of 


2U  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES 

Joseph  George 34  and  Susan  M.  (Lincoln)  Brackett. 
Children:  Granville  D.  Abbott,  born  12  Sept.,  1897; 
Ruthe  Abbott,  born  30  July,  1900.  Granville  D.  Ab- 
bott was  fifteen  years  of  age  when  his  parents  removed 
to  San  Francisco.  He  attended  the  San  Francisco  pub- 
lic schools  and  prepared  for  college  at  Wright's  Private 
School  at  Oakland.  Preferring  a  business  career,  he  en- 
tered the  employment  of  the  Southern  Pacific  Railroad,  in 
the  office  of  General  Superintendent  A.  N.  Town.  He 
was  later  assigned  to  the  Salt  Lake  Division,  whence 
he  was  promoted  to  the  company  offices  at  Oakland 
Pier,  and  became  assistant  to  Mr.  Wilder,  superintend- 
ent of  division.  Here  he  remained  until  appointed 
superintendent  of  a  narrow  gauge  road  from  Palisades 
to  Eureka,  which  post  he  has  held  for  the  past  twelve 
years.  For  several  years  he  lived  at  Palisades,  Nevada, 
but  more  recently  at  Piedmont,  Calif.  He  is  also  inter- 
ested in  various  oil  companies  near  Bakersfield. 

134  Cart,  Hewes  Abbott,  born  in  South  Boston,  4  Aug.,  1867. 
He  attended  the  schools  of  San  Francisco  and  Oakland, 
Calif.,  and  prepared  for  college  at  Providence,  R.  I. 
He  obtained  his  A.  B.  from  Brown  in  1888,  and  L.  L.  B. 
from  Hastings  College.  He  entered  the  law  offices  of 
George  and  William  H.  Sharp,  and  later  that  of  Robert 
Fitzgerald,  whose  partner  he  now  is. 

3  35  Phillip  Fanning  Abbott,  born  in  Watertown,  Mass.,  1 
July,  1874.  He  was  fitted  for  college  at  Mr.  Moodey's 
school  at  Mount  Herman,  Mass.,  and  graduated  at  Stan- 
ford University  in  1898.  During  his  college  life  he  was 
president  of  the  Glee  Club.  After  graduation  from 
Cooper  Medical  College,  in  1900,  he  studied  abroad.  He 
was  appointed  surgeon  for  the  Great  Northern  Railroad 
and  associate  surgeon  of  the  copper  mines  controlled  by 
the  Guggenheims  in  Ely,  Nevada.  Before  the  fire  he 
practiced  in  San  Francisco  and  is  now  located  in  Oakland. 
Dr.    and    Mrs.    Abbott    were   identified   with    the   religious  life   of 

California  to  an  unusual  extent.     Mr.  Barnes,  a  lifelong  friend, 

writes  of   t  hem   as   follows  : 

>*Mr.  Joseph  ('■.  Bracketl  was  ;i  resident  of  Oakland,  Calif.,  but  wis  horn 
in   Bo  ton,  s  cousin  df  Gov.   Bracketl  <>f  Massachusetts.    Mrs.  Brackett  de- 


REV.  GRANVILLE   S.   ABBOTT 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES  215 

"  A  prominent  feature  in  the  history  of  the  Hewes  family  is  their 
enthusiastic  and  unselfish  labor  in  the  cause  of  religion  and  humanity, 
and  the  grandmother  and  mother  of  Granville  Abbott  stand  forth  pre- 
eminent as  practical  and  untiring  workers.  He  inherited  his  love 
and  ardor  for  that  which  is  good,  and  it  was  but  natural  after  fitting 
for  college  at  Pierce  Academy  of  Middleboro,  Mass.,  in  1853-56, 
graduating  with  honors  from  Brown  University  in  1860,  and  from 
Newton  Theological  Seminary  in  1863,  that  he  should  enter  upon 
the  Master's  work  immediately,  and  being  ordained  as  a  minister  of 
the  Baptist  Church  at  South  Boston,  Mass.,  on  September  4th,  1863, 
he  commenced  his  first  pastorate  with  that  Church  on  that  date. 

"  At  the  beginning  of  his  chosen  life  work,  as  stated,  he  married 
in  October,  Susan  Hines  Davis,  and  a  coincidence  worthy  of  note,  is 
found,  regarding  the  name  of  Davis,  for  on  examining  the  genealogical 
record  of  the  Tapleys,  it  is  seen  that  '  Captain  Jesse  Taply,  in  1788, 
married  Eliza  W.  Davis,  a  sister  of  Rev.  Gustavus  S.  Davis,  a  famous 
evangelist,  who  for  many  years  was  the  pastor  of  the  First  Baptist 
Church  of  South  Reading,  Mass.,  and  also  of  the  First  Baptist  Church 
of  Hartford,  Conn.,'  and  who  also  '  found  in  his  wife  a  true  helpmeet, 
a  woman  endowed  with  all  the  Christian  graces,  of  great  energy,  and 
loved  by  all  who  knew  her.'  These  words  can  be  honestly  and  truth- 
fully applied  to  the  faithful  and  loving  wife  of  Granville  Abbott. 

"  Together  they  started  the  journey  of  life,  and  really  the  history 
of  one  is  almost  the  record  of  both. 

"  He  remained  in  South  Boston,  doing  most  efficient  and  successful 
work,  until  called  to  Watertown,  Mass.,  October,  1869,  where  he 
labored  with  marked  ability  until  April,  1876,  at  which  time,  by  the 
kindness  of  his  uncle,  David  Hewes,  of  San  Francisco,  he  was  privi- 
leged to  experience  that  most  joyous  and  valuable  journey  in  the  life 
of  a  Christian,  namely,  a  visit  to  Egypt,  Palestine,  and  the  land  of  the 
Orient. 

"  Returning  from  abroad  to  San  Francisco,  California,  he  was  called 
to  the  Pioneer  Church  of  that  city,  the  First  Baptist,  in  January,  1877, 
where  he  remained  until  invited  to  the  First  Baptist  Church  of  Oak- 
land, in  April,  1878,  where  for  four  years,  until  January,  1882,  he 
was  the  loved  pastor  of  this  people. 

"  His  business  and  literary  ability  were  of  such  a  character  as  to 
demand  that  they  be  more  extensively  and  generally  employed,  and  he 
reluctantly  gave  up  the  pastorate  to  become  the  coast  representative 
of  the  American  Baptist  Publication  Society  of  Boston,  which  needed 
most  imperatively  at  that  time  the  many  talents  he  possessed:  energy 

scended   from   the   Nottingham    family   of   Virginia,   and   was   a   "  relative   of 
Abraham    Lincoln." 


216  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES 

and  practical  business  knowledge,  combined  with  literary  ability  and 
Christian  fortitude.  To  work  he  unhesitatingly  and  unreservedly  gave 
himself,  bringing  order  and  success  out  of  uncertainty  and  almost 
previous  failure. 

"  In  1881,  he  originated  and  founded  the  Herald  of  Truth,  a  Bap- 
tist journal,  inspiring,  progressive,  practical  and  useful,  and  for  nine 
years  made  it  a  power  for  the  Baptist  cause  on  the  Pacific  Coast. 
His  reputation  as  a  writer  was  national;  as  an  author  of  Sunday 
School  literature  none  stood  higher,  while  his  contributions  to  the 
Bibliotheca  Sacra  evidenced  the  student  and  thinker,  and  attracted 
world  wide  attention. 

"  Brown  University  and  the  University  of  California  each  honored 
him  with  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity. 

"He  was  a  member  of  the  D.  K.  E.  College  Fraternity;  of  the 
Phi  Beta  Kappa  Society;  and  a  charter  member  of  Adelphi  Masonic 
Lodge  of  Boston.  Student,  author,  writer,  thinker,  as  he  was,  not 
only  could  he  dig  from  the  treasures  of  his  resources  and  bring  to 
light  matters  abstruse,  so  that  the  casual  reader  and  hearer  might  un- 
derstand, but  he  also  possessed  a  genial  attribute  of  heart  and  mind 
which  fascinated  the  young,  and  won  the  esteem  of  those  with  whom 
he  came  in  contact.  While  his  writings  were  of  a  character,  generally, 
calling  for  prose,  yet  a  poetic  vein  permeated  his  mind,  which  his  class 
recognized,  and  selected  him  as  their  poet,  and  here  and  there,  in  the 
Herald  of  Truth,  might  now  and  then  be  seen,  a  gem  of  poesy,  un- 
signed, but  yet  patent  to  those  who  knew  him,  that  it  was  from  his 
pen. 

"  Having  recorded  his  service,  and  meritorious  honors  won  in  public, 
there  yet  remain  phases  of  the  man  which  we  cherish  and  honor  far 
beyond  any  yet  given:  those  of  husband,  father,  friend.  It  was  in 
the  close  and  intimate  associations  of  life  that  his  intrinsic  and  innate 
wortli  shone  with  the  brilliancy  of  the  morning  star  in  the  heavens; 
and  only  those  who  were  privileged  to  visit  this  inner  circle  can  have 
more  than  a  casual  idea  of  his  loving  nature.  At  his  home,  surrounded 
by  liis  family,  the  busy  cares  and  anxieties  of*  daily  toil  laid  aside  for 
tin  linn  being,  lie  was  a  delightful  host,  his  well  stocked  mind  capable 
of  always  presenting  something  interesting  t<>  either  old  or  young; 
familiar  with  painting,  literature  and  music,  enjoying  that  which  was 
humorous  as  well  as  grand;  always  dignified,  yet  never  supercilious 
or  pedantic,   who   that    has    participated    can    ever    forget   a   visit   to   the 

Abbotts    at    tlnir    hospitable    1 le.     One    evening   stands   out   in   our 

memory  never  to  he  forgotten.  Their  uncle,  David  Hewes,  had  sent 
to  tliein  for  transient  care,  his  magnificent  collection  of  paintings  and 

statuary    (now  at   Stanford    (.'Diversity).      With   what   delight   they  were 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES  217 

exhibited;  their  history  and  worth  illustrated;  their  love  and  en- 
thusiasm, as  this  or  that  noted  work  of  art  was  described.  The  pages 
of  the  past  were  opened ;  the  heroes  of  old  —  the  master  of  ages 
gone  —  brought  to  view;  and  gratitude  for  the  privilege  of  beholding 
permeated  every  heart. 

"  It  needs  not  to  be  recorded  that  when  the  Master  called  him  home, 
his  mortal  remains  were  laid  to  rest  in  honor,  and  that  every  merited 
tribute  which  good  men  could  pay  by  word  or  pen,  was  willingly  and 
sincerely  tendered,  for  such  men  do  not  die,  they  simply  fade  away. 

"  As  fades   the  morning  star 
Which   goes  not  down  behind  the   darkening  west, 
Nor  hides  itself 

Amid  the  dim  obscurity  of  the  coming  storm 
But  melts  away  into  the  light  of  Heaven." 

Of  Mrs.  Abbott,  Mr.  Barnes  writes:  "When  a  child,  her  parents 
removed  to  Providence,  R.  I.,  where  she  enjoyed  the  finest  educational 
advantages,  and  there  met  her  future  husband,  who  was  at  that  time 
a  member  of  Brown  University.  When  he  graduated  from  the 
Newton  Theological  Institution  they  were  married,  and  this  loving, 
brilliant,  enthusiastic  Christian  pair,  hand  in  hand,  commenced  a 
career  which  has  linked  the  names  of  Granville  and  Susan  Abbott  with 
honored  and  sacred  recollections  which  will  endure  until  time  shall  be 
no  more. 

"Of  her  Rev.  Dr.  Vosburgh,  of  Oakland,  said:  'The  special  de- 
mands made  upon  a  minister's  wife  were  regarded  by  her,  not  as 
burdens,  but  as  opportunities.  But  more  than  this,  Mrs.  Abbott  had 
a  strong  and  impressive  personality  that  made  her  a  distinct  force  in 
every  church  of  which  she  was  a  member,  and  in  every  community  in 
which  she  lived.  Her  mind,  naturally  brilliant,  had  been  disciplined 
by  training  and  enriched  by  reading,  reflection  and  refined  associa- 
tions. Of  her  many-sided  nature,  two  qualities  may  be  emphasized: 
First,  was  her  responsiveness.  She  saw  the  best,  in  nature,  in  litera- 
ture, in  friendship,  and  in  religion.  Her  nature  was  "  tremblingly 
sensitive  "  to  the  finer  movements  of  thought  and  the  greater  tend- 
encies of  religious  activity.  Living  in  sincere  fellowship  with  Christ, 
she  saw  the  spiritual  element  everywhere.  Second,  was  her  restless- 
ness; not  the  restlessness  of  an  unsteady  will,  but  the  restlessness  of 
a  Christlike  spirit  that  cannot  be  at  ease  when  there  is  important 
work  to  be  done.  Mrs.  Abbott  could  never  sit  down  contentedly  and 
occupy  a  softly  cushioned  seat  in  society,  but  the  spirit  of  the  Master 
sent  her  forth  upon  ceaseless  errands  of  mercy  and  helpfulness. 
Therefore  it  was  given  to  her  as  to  Thomas  Arnold,  "  many  to  save 
with  herself."     She  nobly  fulfilled  her  mission  in  life.' 


218  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES 

"An  equally  just  tribute  was  paid  by  Rev.  E.  J.  Abar,  of  Orange, 
who  said:  '  Our  sister  and  friend  possessed  the  essentials  of  a  suc- 
cessful life  to  a  marked  degree.  Rich  in  mind,  having  a  strong  men- 
tal grasp  of  the  complex  problems  of  life  and  the  ability  to  put  her 
thoughts  into  clear  and  forceful  English;  a  brilliant  conversationalist; 
rich  in  her  heart,  possessing  a  strong  mother's  love  for  her  children, 
and  a  deep  love  for  relatives  and  friends;  a  heart  full  of  sympathy 
for  the  suffering  and  sorrowful;  rich  in  soul,  with  an  understanding 
of  spiritual  things  and  a  right  conception  of  revealed  truth;  rich  in 
loyalty  to  self,  a  self-loyalty,  not  so  much  as  bordering  on  selfishness, 
but  a  loyalty  to  others,  and  loyalty  to  Christ,  who  was  her  all-in-all.' 
Rich  in  heart,  because  God  had  renewed  that  mind  early  in  life.  Rich 
in  heart  because  her  heart  had  been  surrendered  to  the  Father.  Rich 
in  soul  because  God  had  opened  her  eyes  that  she  might  behold 
wondrous  things  out  of  His  law.  Rich  in  loyalty  because  she  realized 
the  meaning  of  the  Master's  words:  '  If  any  one  will  be  my  disciple, 
let  him  take  up  his  cross  and  follow  me.' 

"  An  estimate  of  her  character  also  appeared  in  the  Oakland,  Cali- 
fornia, Tribune,  from  which  we  quote:  '  She  was  one  of  the  most  re- 
markable women  of  her  time,  and  best  known  to  many  as  the  able 
President  of  the  Oakland  Red  Cross,  one  of  the  most  efficient  officers 
the  State  had,  in  the  critical  time  when  the  army  was  mobilized  in 
the  early  days  of  the  Spanish  War;  when  thousands  upon  thousands 
of  hungry  soldiers  were  fed  and  clothed ;  sent  on  their  way  comforted ; 
and  in  many  cases  their  lives  saved.  Her  Red  Cross  work  has  gone 
down  into  history  as  a  remarkable  chapter  in  the  annals  of  the  coast, 
for  future  generations  to  read;  but  another  story  is  written  in  many 
hearts  —  the  story  of  a  brave,  true  woman,  who  has  been  for  so  many 
years  so  faithful  and  loyal  a  friend  to  many  of  us.' 

"  After  the  decease  of  her  husband,  Mrs.  Abbott  made  her  home 
with  her  uncle,  David  Hewes,  and  for  some  months  previous  to  her 
death  had  been  residing  at  the  large  orange  grove  at  Orange,  Cali- 
fornia.     Her  funeral  and  interment  were  in  Oakland. 

"  The  lives  and  labors  of  Granville  and  Susan  Abbott  were  so  similar 
and  blended  —  their  dispositions  and  desires,  coupled  with  results,  so 
intimate  and  harmonious,  that  words  written  of  one  suffiee  for  the 
other,  in  many,  many  respects. 

"Their    gentle    words    nnri    kindly    speech 

Dispelled  the  gloom  of  others. 

Their   u;iys   through   life   <lid    much    to   tench 

Thai  .ill  men  could  In-  brothers." 
Tin-  sons  have  caused  a  beautiful  memorial  window  to  he  placed  in 

the    First    Baptist    Church  of  Oakland,  C.ili  fornia,  :is  a  token  of  their 


MRS.   SUSAN    II.   ABBOTT 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  IIEWES  219 

reverence  and  love;  and  in  Fabiola  Hospital,  Oakland,  David  Hewes 
fitted  up,  for  the  use  of  a  library,  a  room  called  the  Research  Room, 
in  memory  ofv  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Abbott.  These  tributes  will  ever  show 
to  the  living  how  noble  were  the  lives  —  how  loved  the  memories  —  of 
these  two  faithful  servants  of  the  Master." 

VIII.  93  CHARLES  WESLEY  HEWES  (Charles  IF., 
Joel,  John),  born  in  Lonsdale,  R.  I.,  15  July,  1845;  died  16  Jan., 
1911 ;  married  1  Jan.,  1867,  Fannie  H.  A.  Underwood,  who  was 
born  in  Milford,  Ind.,  14  Oct.,  1847,  daughter  of  Alexander  Les- 
lie 35  and  Helen  Avery  Underwood  of  St.  Paul,  Ind. 

He  attended  Prof.  Anthony's  Academy  and  the  Bryant  and 
Stratton  Commercial  School  at  Albany,  N.  Y.  In  1863  he  accom- 
panied his  parents  to  Indianapolis  where  he  was  appointed  Sec- 
retary in  the  office  of  the  Baptist  Female  Institute,  of  which  his 
father  was  president,  at  that  time  the  most  prominent  young 
ladies'  school  in  the  state.  Miss  Fannie  Underwood,  who  be- 
came his  wife,  was  a  graduate  of  the  Institute.  They  resided  in 
Indianapolis  until  1869,  when  Rev.  Charles  Wesley  Hewes  moved 
to  California.  After  a  short  residence  in  Louisiana  he  moved  to 
San  Francisco  in  May,  1870,  and  entered  the  store  of  his  uncle, 
Mr.  David  Hewes,  as  bookkeeper.  He  has  since  filled  responsible 
places  as  an  expert  accountant.  For  twenty  years  he  was  con- 
fidential clerk  in  one  of  the  largest  mercantile  houses  in  San 
Francisco. 

Children: 

136  Charles  Leslie,  born  in  Indianapolis,  9  Nov.,  1868;  mar- 
ried 17  April,  1899,  Emelie  Mellville  Shaw,  daughter 
of  Eleabe  and  Mary  Elizabeth  (Morse)  Shaw  of  Colum- 
bia, Cal.  Charles  L.  Hewes  received  education  in  the 
Oakland  schools  and  entered  business  life  in  the  hard- 
ware business.  He  early  became  interested  in  military 
matters  and  enlisted  in  the  Signal  Corps,  and  was  later 

35  Dr.  Alexander  Leslie  Underwood  died  at  St.  Paid,  Ind.,  5  March,  1870, 
aged  56  years,  one  of  the  most  esteemed  citizens  of  Indiana.  He  was  born 
in  Hardwick,  Vt.,  24  June,  1814,  and  removed  to  Indiana  in  1843.  In  1852 
he  was  elected  to  the  State  Legislature.  He  declined  congressional  honors 
for  a  more  congenial  field,  the  study  of  medicine,  in  which  he  was  most 
successful.  In  his  profession  he  recognized  the  high  obligations  to  the  dis- 
tressed, and  for  his  many  generous  acts  for  which  there  was  no  financial 
remuneration  Dr.  Underwood  was  sincerely  mourned  by  all  Decatur  County. 
He  married  14  Oct.,  1841,  Helen  Avery,  who  was  born' in  Ulysses,  N.  Y.,  il 
Nov.,  1812,  and  died  in  New  Iberia,  La.,  22  May,  1881. 


220  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES 

commissioned  captain.  Gen.  Koster  appointed  him  on 
his  staff  with  rank  of  Lieutenant  Colonel.  In  the  mean- 
time he  became  manager  for  Dunham,  Carrigan  &  Hay- 
den  in  Seattle.  While  there  he  was  attacked  by  footpads 
and  in  defending  himself,  was  shot  and  severely  wounded. 
While  yet  in  the  hospital  he  received  news  of  the  San 
Francisco  disaster  and  immediately  left  for  home,  chang- 
ing into  his  uniform  on  the  train.  After  release  from  his 
military  duties  in  San  Francisco,  when  the  city  woke  to 
new  activity,  he  was  recalled  by  his  firm  from  Seattle, 
as  his  services  were  needed  in  San  Francisco.  When 
after  the  fire  it  became  necessary  for  purposes  of  re- 
organization to  muster  out  the  demoralized  militia  com- 
panies of  San  Francisco,  it  was  planned  to  re-establish 
the  city  militia  as  a  coast  artillery  corps.  To  carry  out 
this  plan  Governor  Gillette  appointed  Colonel  Hewes  in 
command  of  the  battalion  of  artillery.  Colonel  Hewes 
found  much  dissatisfaction  in  the  corps  and  was  greatly 
handicapped  by  various  incidents  in  the  reorganization, 
but  eventually  brought  his  command  to  a  high  state  of 
military   efficiency. 

137  Lillie  Florene,  born  25  Feb.,   1870;  married  27  Nov., 

1902,  Charles  Poe  Morgan.  Children:  Helen  Leslie 
Morgan,  born  11  Feb.,  1905  ;  Thelma  Scott  Morgan,  born 
19  Aug.,  1906. 

138  Edna  Emma,  born  28  April,  1880;  married  25  Nov.,  1899* 

George  Lyman  Dealey,  son  of  James  Edward  and 
Sophia  E.  (Bragg)  Dealey,  who  were  born  respectively 
in  Maine  and  Minnesota.  By  a  former  marriage,  Mr. 
Dealey  has  a  daughter,  Dodair  Dealey,  born  in  San 
Francisco,  11  Aug.,  1894.  Children,  born  in  San 
Francisco:  George  Lyman  Dealey,  born  29  May,  1901; 
Richard  Underwood  Dealey,  born  12  May;  died  17  July, 
1902.     They  live  in  San  Francisco. 

VIII.     98     GEORGE   LOUIS   RICHARDS    {Lucy  A.,  Joel, 

John),  bom    in    Maiden,   Mass.,   14    Dec,    L858 \  married  11  June, 

mo'.'.  Id  i.i  \  Raymond  Robinson,  daughter  of  Roswel]  K.  Rob- 
in son    <>f    M  1 1 1  ( I  ( •  n ,    .Mass. 

Mr.  Richards  received  education  in  the  public  schools  of  Mai- 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES  221 

den  and  later  continued  his  studies  for  several  years  with  an 
instructor  of  Harvard  University,  even  after  entering  active  busi- 
ness life. 

He  has  always  been  deeply  interested  in  religious  and  charitable 
work.  At  seventeen  years  of  age  he  became  a  member  of  the 
First  Baptist  Church  of  Maiden,  and  on  becoming  of  age  was 
chosen  a  trustee  of  that  church,  a  position  he  held  for  twenty 
years,  being  a  constant  attendant  and  active  participant  in  the 
church  and  Sunday  school  activities.  He  was  instrumental  in 
organizing  a  Young  Men's  Christian  Association  in  Maiden  in 
1883,  of  which  for  twenty-one  years  he  was  a  director,  also  serv- 
ing several  terms  as  vice-president,  but  declined  the  office  of  presi- 
dent. He  was  one  of  the  incorporators  of  the  State  Executive 
Committee  and  a  member  of  that  body  for  ten  years.  During  a 
quarter  of  a  century  he  has  been  influential  in  shaping  the  policy 
of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  in  both  District  and  State.  His  interest  in 
civic  affairs  led  him  to  take  an  active  part  in  home  politics  —  his 
first  vote  on  becoming  of  age  was  cast  at  a  town  meeting  called 
to  accept  a  charter  under  which  Maiden  became  a  city.  His 
strong  personality  and  eager  desire  to  have  his  city  represent  all 
that  was  good  in  civic  government  led  to  a  demand  from  the 
citizens  of  Maiden  that  he  should  become  a  member  of  the  munic- 
ipal government,  and  for  four  successive  years  he  was  elected 
a  member  of  the  City  Council  and  was  twice  elected  its  president ; 
the  first  time  over  the  strenuous  opposition  of  the  political  ma- 
chine then  dominating  most  branches  of  the  city  government ;  the 
second  time  by  a  unanimous  vote.  He  was  nominated  for  school 
committeeman  and  although  opposed  by  the  "  machine  "  element 
was  elected  for  a  three-year  term  by  a  large  vote,  and  was  re- 
elected to  that  position  by  the  largest  vote  ever  cast  in  the  city. 

In  the  meantime  he  had  found  opportunity  to  advance  the  in- 
terests of  the  city  and  its  inhabitants  in  many  ways.  About  the 
same  time  that  he  organized  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  he  with  two  others 
organized  a  militia  company  which  became  known  as  the  Maiden 
Rifles,  being  L  company  of  the  5th  regiment  M.  V.  M.  He  is 
now  vice-president  of  the  Past  Members  Association. 

In  1905  he  became  president  of  the  Boys'  Club,  an  association  of 
citizens  which  directed  the  industrial,  physical  and  social  work 
of  hundreds  of  boys  in  Maiden,  especially  those  less  fortunately 
situated.      This  movement  taking  on  a  national  character  he  be- 


222  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES 

came  one  of  the  incorporators  and  a  director  of  a  national  or- 
ganization with  headquarters  in  Boston,  and  in  1911  was  chosen 
head  of  a  committee  to  make  the  Boys'  Club  movement  of  truly 
national  extent,  which  resulted  in  the  affiliation  with  the  great 
philanthropic  movements  in  New  York  and  the  adoption  of  a 
plan  by  which  headquarters  have  been  opened  in  that  city. 

In  many  ways  he  has  contributed  to  the  welfare  of  the  poor 
and  the  unfortunate : —  he  was  an  organizer  of  the  Associated 
Charities  of  Maiden ;  every  summer  for  many  years  has  person- 
ally arranged  for  visits  of  poor  women  to  the  seashore ;  he  is 
president  of  a  society  which  annually  gives  a  day's  outing  to  1200 
poor,  blind  or  crippled  children,  who  are  taken  in  200  automobiles 
25  miles  into  the  country  where  they  enjoy  the  delights  of  a 
beautiful  grove  and  lake.  In  these  and  other  ways  he  has  made 
his  life  a  benefit  to  others. 

His  public  spirit  led  to  his  selection  as  a  reform  candidate 
for  mayor  of  Maiden,  and  his  consequent  election  and  reelection 
by  increased  majorities.  One  of  his  first  steps  after  election  as 
chief  executive  was  the  formation  of  a  Board  of  Trade  which  has 
proved  of  great  value  to  the  city.  He  instituted  practical  meth- 
ods in  the  administration  of  the  public  affairs ;  established  a 
laboratory  and  did  away  with  the  disgraceful  conditions  attend- 
ing the  milk  industry ;  brought  about  the  completion  of  im- 
portant street  improvements  which  had  been  dormant  for  years ; 
reorganized  the  fire  department,  and  appointed  a  committee  of 
business  men  to  investigate  and  improve  insurance  methods ;  he 
brought  into  touch  with  modern  methods  the  administration  of 
city  finances,  and  effected  a  reduction  of  the  tax  rate  which  was 
becoming  burdensome ;  but  perhaps  the  most  important  and  far 
reaching  of  his  policies  was  the  reorganization  of  the  School 
Department,  giving  the  city  the  most  efficient  schools  in  its  his- 
tory. 

Finding  that  it  was  necessary  to  give  more  attention  to  busi- 
ness, he  had  been  identified  with  the  Boston  Rubber  Shoe  Com- 
pany for  twenty-one  years,  he  felt  obliged  to  sever  his  political 
connections.  He  i>  n<>\v  at  the  head  of  the  Buffalo  Shoe  Com- 
pany  "ill)   offices   in    Boston. 

He  still  finds  time  to  serve  as  Trustee  of  the  park  bequeathed 
to  Maiden  and  .'in  adjoining  municipality,  to  be  president  of  the 

Civic  Association,  organized  during  his  term  as  mayor,  and  to  be 


DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES  223 

a  director  in  the  New  England  Evangelistic  Association  and  the 
Boston  and  Lakeshore  Home  in  Sharon.  He  is  a  member  of 
various  social  clubs  and  of  Converse  Lodge  F.  and  A.  M. 

Characteristic  of  Mr.  Richards  is  his  quick  appreciation  of  men 
and  methods.  Some  years  ago  when  the  Salvation  Army  was  a 
novelty  in  this  section,  and  before  the  value  of  its  peculiar  meth- 
ods had  been  fully  demonstrated,  the  parades  of  the  "  army  " 
were  the  cause  of  much  excitement  and  no  little  opposition,  which 
led  to  retaliation  by  rough  sympathizers  of  "  soldiers."  In  Mai- 
den an  unusual  condition  had  developed,  arising  in  part  through 
the  determination  of  the  leader  of  the  Salvationists  to  parade  in 
the  streets  in  spite  of  police  orders  to  the  contrary.  One  memo- 
rable evening  it  was  announced  that  the  parade  would  be  held, 
come  what  might,  and  that  the  police  would  be  resisted.  For 
several  nights  the  streets  had  been  the  scene  of  turbulent  gather- 
ings ;  the  Salvationist  leader  had  been  frequently  arrested  and 
affairs  had  reached  such  a  condition  that  roughs  from  neighbor- 
ing cities  congregated  for  the  purpose  of  doing  what  mischief 
they  could.  On  the  night  in  question  Mr.  Richards,  then  a  young 
man,  happening  on  the  street,  discovered  that  the  unruly  element 
was  not  only  bent  on  mischief  but  that  many  carried  firearms 
and  other  weapons,  and  that  there  was  an  openly  avowed  inten- 
tion of  attacking  the  police  when  they  should  carry  out  their 
orders  to  prevent  the  parade.  Pushing  his  way  into  the  crowded 
hall  where  the  "  soldiers  "  were  gathered  preparatory  to  attempt- 
ing the  parade,  Mr.  Richards  finally  succeeded  in  persuading  the 
leader  to  accompany  him  to  City  Hall  for  a  conference  with  the 
Mayor.  On  the  way  they  called  upon  and  secured  the  presence 
of  a  valued  adviser,  a  clergyman.  By  reason  of  the  obstinacy 
of  the  "  captain,"  the  city  officials  adhering  to  their  refusal  to 
grant  him  a  permit  to  parade,  the  conference  was  maintained  so 
long  that  it  was  too  late  for  the  parade.  Danger  of  the  threat- 
ened riot  was  averted.  A  peaceful  solution  of  the  difficulty  was 
obtained  the  following  day.  Commenting  upon  the  affair  the 
press  united  in  describing  the  condition  as  most  serious,  and  that 
"  every  law  abiding  citizen  is  glad  the  trouble  ended  without 
bloodshed,  which  doubtless  might  have  been  the  result  had  the 
parade  been  held  that  night."  That  it  was  not,  was  due  to  Mr. 
Richards'  instant  appreciation  of  the  seriousness  of  the  situation, 
and  his  energetic  initiative. 


224  DESCENDANTS  OF  JOHN  HEWES 

VIII.  104  FRANK  O.  HEWES  (George  TV.,  Elijah,  John), 
born  3  Dec,  1857 ;  married  23  Aug.,  1882,  at  Big  Rapids,  Mich., 
Violetta  Jerrietta  Gingrich,  born  March,  1862,  at  Big  Rap- 
ids, Mich.,  died  8  June,  1889,  daughter  of  Amos  Gingrich.  He 
married,  second,  11  Jan.,  1892,  Myrtle  Langley,  born  2  May, 
1869,  daughter  of  Morgan  W.  and  Harriet  O.  Langley. 

Mr.  Hewes  is  an  electrician  and  lives  in  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

Children: 

138  Blanche  Violetta,  born  26  Dec,  1886,  at  Big  Rapids; 

married    19    Dec,    1906,    Edgar    Appleton    Brown    of 
Reading,  Mass.,  son  of  Henry  Morton  and  Martha  Har- 
ris  (Appleton)   Brown. 
By  second  marriage: 

139  George  Wellington,  born  16  Feb.,  1899,  at  Urbana,  111. 

140  Clarence  Frederick,  born  28  Feb.,  1903,  at  Warren,  Ohio. 

VIII.  105  EMMA  S.  HEWES  (George  TV.,  Elijah,  John), 
born  26  Sept.,  1860;  married  25  Oct.,  1882,  Eugene  Stone 
Boardman,  born  30  Nov.,  1857,  son  of  William  Davis  and  Lucy 
Ellen  (Newhall)  Boardman  of  Saugus.  They  live  in  Reading. 
Mr.  Boardman  is  with  the  Corey  Leather  Co.  of  Boston. 

Child: 

141  Harold  Hewes  Boardman,  born  8  Feb.,  1887;  married  12 

Sept.,  1908,  Mildred  Gowerd  Chandler,  born  22  Jan., 
1888,  daughter  of  Alfred  Davis  and  Myra  (Gow- 
erd)  Chandler  of  Reading. 

VIII.  107  CHARLOTTE  E.  HEWES  (George  TV.,  Eli- 
jah, John),  born  18  Aug.,  1869;  married  3  June,  1896.  Fred- 
eeick  William  Allen,  born  3  May,  1869,  son  of  Frederick  and 
Elizabeth  Dean  (Plummer)  Allen  of  Gloucester.  They  live  in 
Reading.  Mr.  Allen  is  treasurer  of  the  New  England  Trust 
Co.  of  Boston. 

( 'hildren: 

1  l'l     Gordon  Hkwes  Ai.i.i.x,  born  5  Sept.,  1897. 
148     Laweence  Waeeen  Allen,  born  13  Jan.,  1900. 
1  I  \-     Feedeeic  W'ii.i.ia.m  Allen,  l><>ni  18  Sept.,  1905. 


DAVID  HEWES 
OF  CALIFORNIA 


DAVID  HEWES 

Painted   in    IS')', 


DAVID  HEWES 

AN   AUTOBIOGRAPHY 

I  was  the  fifth  and  with  the  exception  of  a  younger  brother, 
Caleb,  who  died  in  infancy,  the  youngest  son  of  Col.  Joel 
Hewes.  The  death  of  my  father  in  1827  left  my  mother  with 
the  care  of  a  family  of  eight  children,  of  whom  the  eldest  was 
nineteen,  and  the  youngest  three  years  of  age.  Every  Sunday 
afternoon,  before  evening  service,  it  was  the  custom  to  call  the 
children  into  the  long  family  room  where,  seated  on  a  bench,  we 
were  taught  the  catechism  by  our  mother,  and  every  morning  we 
all  united  in  family  worship. 

My  mother  had  the  improvement  of  her  husband's  estate  as 
long  as  she  remained  a  widow,  in  consideration  of  her  support 
and  education  of  the  children  during  their  minority.  Two  years 
after  the  death  of  her  husband,  Mrs.  Hewes  married,  19  April, 
1829,  Oliver  Swain.  Mr.  Swain  leased  the  Hewes  farm  until 
1832,  when  he  removed  with  his  wife  and  the  younger  children  to 
the  Swain  place  near  by.  I  was  then  ten  years  of  age ;  old  enough 
in  the  opinion  of  Mr.  Swain  (following  the  custom  of  that  time) 
to  be  set  at  tasks  about  the  farm,  which  would  bring  ample  com- 
pensation for  my  maintenance.  Association  with  my  step- 
father impressed  me  with  the  importance  of  work  and  industry ;  I 
was  obliged  to  rise  early  and  perform  work  which  was  equal  to 
two-thirds  the  work  of  a  man.  The  Swain  farm  comprised  25 
acres,  chiefly  heavy  peat  land.1  Mr.  Swain's  position  in  the  com- 
munity was  excellent;  he  was  justly  considered  a  man  of  worth, 
and  his  attendance  upon  church  was  limited  only  by  the  facilities 
afforded.  On  the  Sabbath,  when  possible  he  attended  service 
twice  and  even  three  times. 

The  children  attended  school  at  the  Three  Corners,  near  the 
Hewes  farm,  and  my  earliest  recollections  of  my  teachers  are  of 
the   pleasantest.     Miss   Mary   Ann   Tucker,    the   first  teacher   I 

i  A  field  opposite  the  house  was  entirely  cleared  of  boulders  and  large 
stones  through  the  efforts  of  David  Hewes,  and  is  to-day  a  monument  of  hii 
industry. —  [Editor.] 

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226  DAVID  HEWES 

remember,  was  succeeded  by  a  Miss  Richardson,  who  in  turn  was 
succeeded  by  William  Rhodes  of  Lynn ;  a  young  man,  who  boarded 
in  the  family.  The  scholars  were  drilled  in  the  multiplication 
table,  fractions  and  "  The  Rule  of  Three  ";  were  instructed  in 
reading,  spelling  and  writing,  and  taught  the  Ten  Commandments 
and  the  Lord's  Prayer.  Before  and  after  school  the  chores  were 
done.  At  that  time  it  was  the  custom  to  improve  the  long 
evening  hours  of  winter  in  some  gainful  occupation,  in  which  I 
had  my  part. 

When  about  14?  years  old  I  was  given  a  small  remunera- 
tion by  Mr.  Swain,  and  a  holiday  all  my  own.  I  did  not  spend 
this  money  foolishly,  but  the  morning  I  received  it  I  walked  12  or 
1-i  miles  to  Lowell  to  visit  Gustavus,  Fellows  and  George  Tapley 
(my  favorite  cousins),  and  while  at  Lowell,  I  hired  a  horse  and 
chaise,  to  go  to  Deerfield,  N.  H.  (25  miles),  to  visit  my  favorite 
school  teacher,  Miss  Mary  Ann  Tucker.2 

Soon  after  the  marriage  of  Mrs.  Hewes  to  Mr.  Swain,  her 
brother-in-law  (Joshua  Hewes)  of  Lynnfield,  was  appointed 
guardian  for  the  five  younger  children ;  Mary  Ann,  Ruthe, 
Charles  Wesley,  David,  and  Lucy  Ann,  as  well  as  Aaron  T., 
who  then  had  reached  the  age  of  19.  The  elder  brother,  Joel, 
had  attained  his  majority,  the  elder  sister  had  married.  The 
appointment  of  Joshua  Hewes  as  guardian,  was  dated  Nov.  15, 
1831,  and  his  inventory  of  the  estate  of  his  wards  showed  that 
each  was  entitled  to  a  one-eighth  interest  in  the  land  at  Lynn- 
field,  consisting  of  25  acres  and  the  buildings  thereon,  and  a 
similar  interest  in  a  lot  of  wood-land,  near  the  other,  a  pasture 
bf  30  acres,  and  8  acres  of  peat  meadow.  Each  child's  portion 
was  inventoried  at  $198.12  1-2.  At  the  age  of  fourteen  years, 
I  was  "  bound  out  "  by  my  uncle  and  guardian,  Joshua 
Hewes,  to  my  brother-in-law,  Benjamin  Cox,  Jr.,  who  four  years 
previously  had  married  Mary  Ann  Hewes.  According  to  articles 
of  indenture,  I  was  to  receive  $30  a  year  for  clothing,  board  and 
lodging,  and  six  weeks'  schooling  each  year  in  return  for  my  serv- 
ices until  I  was  seventeen  and  one  half  years  old,  when  I  was 
t<>  receive  my  freedom.     The  last  year  of  my  apprenticeship,  Mr. 

Cox   gave  nie  12  weeks'  schooling,   in    recognition   of  my   faithful- 

'-  Miss  Tucker  thought  as  much  of  the  pupil,  M  the  Latter  of  his  teacher. 
Mr.  Hewes  has  in  his  possession,  with  oilier  cherished  mementoes,  a  letter 
written    by    Mi  ia    linker,   Hie   "first    letter   he  e\er    received    from   a  lady." 


DAVID  HEWES  227 

ness.  During  these  years  of  my  apprenticeship  I  had  attended 
school  at  Lynnfield  Centre,  and  my  associations  at  the  Centre  led 
me  to  realize  the  value  of,  and  to  desire  a  higher  and  better  educa- 
tion than  it  was  possible  to  obtain  in  Lynnfield  schools.  At  the 
end  of  my  apprenticeship  I  had  saved  $15  from  my  clothing  al- 
lowance. With  this,  and  having  agreed  to  work  for  my  brother- 
in-law  for  board  and  tuition,  I  entered  West  Reading  Academy, 
an  institution  of  high  local  reputation,  then  conducted  by  Master 
John  Batcheldor.  For  two  years  this  arrangement  was  in 
vogue;  certain  hours  before  and  after  school  being  devoted  to 
the  farm  work.  West  Reading  Academy  was  two  and  one-half 
miles  from  the  Cox  farm.  Although  I  was  prepared  for  Phillips 
Academy  at  Andover,  after  consultation  with  my  brother,  I  ac- 
cepted an  offer  made  me  by  Mr.  Allen  Rowe,  a  prosperous  mer- 
chant and  shoe  manufacturer  of  Stoneham,  to  become  his  clerk.  I 
remained  with  Mr.  Rowe  four  years.  Mr.  Rowe  took  consider- 
able interest  in  his  new  clerk,  and  through  his  good  advice  I  was 
able  to  accumulate  a  little  money  from  trading  ventures  in  con- 
nection with  my  duties  at  the  store.  My  compensation  as  clerk 
during  the  first  two  years  was  $12.50  a  month,  with  board.  This 
was  afterward  raised  to  $16,  and  at  this  rate  I  remained  for  two 
years  longer,  until  I  was  of  age.  My  life  at  Stoneham  was  busy 
and  eventful.  Mr.  Rowe  was  a  man  of  noble  characteristics,  a 
type  of  the  successful,  honorable  merchant  of  his  day,  and  my  as- 
sociation with  him  did  much  to  mould  my  future  life  as  a  business 
man.  During  the  four  years  I  was  in  his  employ  I  had  but 
limited  opportunities  for  study,  as  my  duties  at  the  store  de- 
manded my  attention  from  early  morning  until  late  in  the  evening. 
The  young  men  had  organized  a  debating  club,  and  of  this  I  was 
elected  president.  Questions  of  the  day  were  debated  in  open 
meetings  to  which  the  citizens  of  the  town  were  invited.  Sin- 
gularly enough,  as  it  seems  to  me  now,  the  great  question  before 
the  country  at  that  time  was  the  Tariff.  As  a  Club  we  subscribed 
for  the  leading  papers  and  magazines  in  the  country,  which 
treated  of  topics  of  national  interest.  The  views  presented  by 
Horace  Greeley  in  the  New  York  Tribune  were  especially  inter- 
esting to  me,  and  were  as  true  then  as  they  are  now.  I  well  re- 
member studying  the  tariff  question  between  the  hours  of  ten  and 
twelve,  at  night,  after  being  released  from  my  duties  in  the  store. 
I  remember  my  enthusiasm  in  the  Whig  campaign,  which  took 


228  DAVID  HEAVES 

place  while  I  was  attending  the  Academy  at  Reading,  and  I 
greatly  enjoj'ed  singing  with  my  companions  such  campaign 
songs  as  extolled  Gen.  Harrison,  our  candidate  for  president, 
and  who  was  called  the  "  National  Hero,"  as  he  was  the  hero  of 
the  battle  of  Tippecanoe.  There  are  few  people  even  at  the  pres- 
ent day  who  are  not  familiar  with  the  refrain  "  Tippecanoe  and 
Tyler  too."  As  my  judgment  matured  I  found  myself  even  more 
strongly  inclined  to  the  Whig  party,  in  the  doctrines  of  which 
party  I  took  as  deep  an  interest  at  that  time  as  I  ever  have  since. 

While  with  Mr.  Rowe  I  had  one  week  vacation  each  year, 
which  I  spent,  with  my  brother  Charles,  then  a  student  at  Brown 
University.  I  realized  plainly  the  need  and  the  object  of  a 
higher  education  than  accorded  by  the  limited  school  facilities 
I  had  so  far  enjoyed.  Therefore  I  followed  the  advice  of  my 
brother  Charles :  to  leave  the  store  in  which  I  worked,  prepare 
for  college,  and  get  a  college  education,  as  I  would  then  be  better 
fitted  to  enter  business  life.  Believing  his  advice  to  be  wise  and 
good,  I  left  the  store  and  entered  the  English  Department  of 
Phillips  Academy  at  Andover  in  1844,  and  was  graduated  in  1847. 
I  look  back  to  my  preceptor,  Samuel  H.  Taylor,  a  noted  educator 
of  young  men,  as  a  guiding  star,  whose  grand  influence  went 
with  me  and  helped  form  my  character  and  stimulated  me  through 
life.  His  influence  was  supplemented  by  Theodore  Woolsey,  one 
of  the  noblest  of  Yale's  presidents. 

In  order  to  meet  my  expenses  at  Andover  I  undertook  part  of 
the  care  of  the  buildings  of  the  Abbott  Female  Seminary,  where 
I  was  engaged  on  Wednesday  and  Saturday  afternoons  as  care- 
taker. During  vacation  I  sawed  wood  for  the  boarding  house, 
but  always  succeeded  in  obtaining  a  week's  visit  to  my  mother  in 
Lynnfield. 

I  recall  vividly  the  faces  of  many  of  my  classmates  and  fellow 
students  at  Andover.  Among  them  were  L.  P.  Fisher,  later  of 
San  Francisco,  Edward  Buck,  James  Austin  Gallup,  and  Charles 
W.  Kendall,  later  a  congressman  from  Maine,  all  of  whom  were 
later  at  Yale,  George  E.  Jackson,  Peter  S.  Bycrs,  the  class  fa- 
vorite, George  0.  Shattuck,  Edwin  B.  Trumbull,  Benjamin  W. 
Harris.  Another  was  Rev.  George  A.  Moors,  who  later  came  to 
California.'' 

8  Rev.  George  A.  Moors  wns  pastor  of  the  Congregational  church  at  South 
Andover,    his    native   place.     Subsequently    he    was    pastor    of   the    First   Con- 


ALLEN    ROWE 

Born    1!   Feb.,    1789.     Died  ..'   Dec, 
1869 


MRS.    PHEBE    I.YXDK    HOWE 
Born    .'/    March.    1798.     I>i<<l    1876 


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DAVID  HEWES  229 

In  18-A5  or  1846,  with  other  students  4  I  organized  a  Sabbath 
school  on  the  Andover  side  of  the  river.  We  met  in  a  school- 
house.  Soon  after  this  we  organized  a  Sabbath  school  on  the 
opposite  or  Methuen  side  of  the  river,  also  meeting  in  a  school- 
house,  and  this  was  the  first  Sabbath  school  organized  within 
the  present  limits  of  the  City  of  Lawrence.  When  the  church 
was  organized  of  which  Mr.  Lyman  Whiting  became  pastor,  the 
Sabbath  school  was  transferred  to  that  church,  which  erected  an 
edifice,  and  which  is  now  the  Lawrence  Street  Congregational 
church.  Forty-six  years  after,  in  1893,  I  had  the  satisfaction  of 
attending  service  in  this  church,  which  awakened  most  pleasant 
memories  concerning  those  who  were  connected  with  the  Sabbath 
school  and  church  in  those  by-gone  years. 

A  little  record  book  containing  the  names  of  the  children  who 
attended  our  Sabbath  school,  and  other  matters  of  interest,  was 
long  in  my  possession,  but  which  in  the  many  vicissitudes  to  which 
my  private  effects  were  subjected,  disappeared. 

As  the  day  drew  near  when  our  class  was  to  graduate,  I  was  ap- 
pointed a  committee  to  procure  the  music,  and  proceeded  to  Bos- 
ton where  I  secured  a  band  for  commencement.  At  commence- 
ment I  had  a  part ;  5  and  being  now  prepared  was  admitted  to 
Yale. 

While  at  Andover  I  became  a  member  of  both  the  Literary  So- 
cieties of  the  English  Department  where  questions  pertinent  to 
the  times,  both  religious  and  social,  were  debated. 

Prof.  Smith  of  Andover,  who  had  traveled  in  Europe,  deliv- 
ered lectures  to  us  telling  about  Jerusalem,  and  I  do  not  think 
any  man  ever  inspired  us  more  to  travel  than  did  this  man. 

gregational  church  of  Oakland,  Calif.  He  was  appointed  a  professor  in  the 
Presbyterian   Theological   Seminary   at   Berkeley.     He  died  in   Berkeley. 

4  While  examining  letters  and  papers  in  Mr.  Hewes'  possession,  some 
dating  from  1844,  there  was  discovered  a  report  on  the  condition  of  a 
library,  evidently  the  property  and  especial  care  of  a  body  of  the  students. 
This  report  shows  how  earnestly  and  conscientiously  the  librarian,  David 
Hewes,  had  conducted  his  duties.— [Editor.] 

6  The  records  of  Phillips  Academy  show  that  David  Hewes  was  a  member 
of  the  Teachers'  Seminary  in  the  spring  of  1844,  and  was  admitted  to  the 
Classical  Department  of  Phillips  Academy  5  Sept.,  1844;  that  he  graduated 
3  Aug.,  1847,  with  a  part  on  the  Commencement  programme  entitled  "  Des- 
cussion:  Does  the  Spirit  of  the  Present  Age  Indicate  a  Moral  Revolution?" 
The  participants  were  David  Hewes  and  James  A.  Gallup. 

The  records  of  Yale  University  show  that  David  Hewes  entered  Yale  1 
Oct.,  1847,  with  the  class  of  1851,  and  left  in  Oct.,  1S4S.  He  returned 
in  Oct.,  1849,  entering  the  sophomore  year  of  the  class  of  1852. — [Editor.] 


230  DAVID  HEWES 

I  boarded  in  Commons,  while  in  the  English  and  Latin  Depart- 
ments. The  board,  as  I  well  remember,  ranged  from  $1.00  to 
$1.25  a  week.  At  the  beginning  of  the  term,  students  would  ap- 
point a  committee  to  prepare  a  bill-of-fare,  which  was  after- 
ward submitted  to  the  whole  body  and  would  be  changed  to  suit 
the  majority  of  the  students,  both  as  to  the  quality  and  cost. 

It  was  probably  during  the  period  between  my  graduation 
from  Andover  and  going  to  Yale,  that  I  was  for  a  short  time  in 
the  store  of  Mr.  Work  in  Wilmington. 

On  entering  Yale  I  obtained  a  room  on  the  lower  floor  of  the 
old  North  College. 

It  was  during  my  course  at  Yale,  being  in  need  of  aid  to  pur- 
sue my  studies,  that  during  vacation  I  canvassed  for  a  magazine 
called  Peter  Parley's  Merry  Museum.  My  first  experience  in 
that  line  of  work  was  in  Lowell  where  I  secured  one  thousand 
subscriptions  in  thirty  days,  on  which  I  received  a  40%  com- 
mission. I  also  secured  a  large  number  of  subscriptions  for  the 
Mother's  Assistant.  My  classmate,  Stewart,  later  senator  from 
Nevada,  canvassed  by  my  permission  in  New  Haven.  At  this 
day  there  can  be  no  objection  to  telling  that  at  that  time  I  be- 
came security  for  him  for  the  purchase  of  a  suit  of  clothes.  A  few 
years  later,  while  in  business  in  Sacramento,  on  one  Sunday 
morning  on  my  way  to  church  I  most  unexpectedly  met  my  old 
classmate.  He  was  in  his  shirt  sleeves  with  broad-brimmed  hat. 
Not  knowing  he  was  in  the  country,  this  meeting  proved  a  pleas- 
ant surprise.  I  invited  him  to  church,  but,  being  a  Yale  man,  he 
thought  overalls  and  broken  straw  hat  not  a  suitable  costume  in 
which  to  attend  divine  services,  and  declined  my  invitation.  I 
said,  "  Stewart,  where  did  you  come  from  and  what  are  you  doing 
here?  "  He  replied  that  he  had  taken  a  contract  to  mow  a  lot  of 
hay  below  Sacramento  and  had  been  at  work  on  it.  Soon  after 
he  made  a  venture  in  a  business  way.  He  rented  a  hall  over  a 
drug  store  on  Front  Street  opposite  the  steamboat  landing,  where 
he  opened  a  restaurant.  I  soon  became  a  patron  of  his.  He 
ran  this  restaurant  only  a  few  months,  and  there  I  took  my 
lunches  and  dinners.  I  think  I  was  waited  on  by  Stewart  him- 
self when  other  waiters  were  busy.  He  was  a  very  smart  man, 
Baw  daylight  from  dark  quickly.     One  morning  1  learned  he  had 

taken    a    trip    up    the    river,    which    great  1  v    surprised    me.      After 

several    months'   absence   lie   wrote   me   of   his   hard   experiences 


DAVID  HE  WES  231 

after  leaving  Sacramento ;  of  being  taken  desperately  sick  and 
having  only  the  accommodation  of  a  big  oak  tree  a  hundred  milts 
up  the  river,  where  he  expected  to  leave  his  bones.  I  next  heard 
of  him  in  Nevada  where  he  was  practicing  law,  and  where  he  W&B 
soon  elected  sheriff.  Not  long  after  this  he  married  Senator 
Foote's  daughter.  His  political  career  commenced,  and  he  be- 
came associated  with  William  F.  Herrin,  who  has  proved  that  he 
learned  well  his  lessons  from  Stewart,  but  whom  he  never  out- 
stripped. 

My  success  as  a  canvasser  was  largely  due  to  the  fact  that  the 
mothers  of  the  children  had  been  readers  of  Peter  Parley's  Mu- 
seum, when  they  were  children,  and  the  Mother's  Assistant  was 
equally  as  desirable  for  the  mothers  as  the  Museum  was  for  their 
children. 

I  found  myself  a  good  canvasser  as  well  as  organizer  in  laying 
out  my  work.  I  called  in  the  aid  of  the  teachers  of  the  public 
schools  to  recommend  it  to  their  pupils,  as  they  were  fa- 
miliar with  its  usefulness  to  children  from  their  own  experience. 
So  this  made  it  easy  and  pleasant  to  get  subscribers.  As  solicitor, 
I  was  aided  by  four  years'  experience  in  a  store.  From  this  one 
month's  canvassing  in  Lowell  I  netted  more  than  $400.  I  would 
say  in  connection  with  this  that  Mr.  Samuel  G.  Goodridge 
(author  of  the  Peter  Parley's  Museum  and  Cabinet  Library  and 
other  works)  himself  canvassed  from  Maine  to  Georgia.  I  also 
canvassed  for  the  Museum  during  my  vacation  at  Yale. 

Mr.  Goodridge  having  completed  a  long  tour  in  Europe  with 
his  son  —  on  his  return  having  learned  about  me  through  his 
manager  of  the  Merry  Museum  and  Cabinet  Library  — sent  for 
me  for  a  conference  as  to  the  propriety  and  possibility  of  estab- 
lishing a  new  magazine  or  newspaper,  jointly  with  himself  and  his 
son,  and  as  an  inducement  offered  me  $1,500  a  year.  But  as  I 
had  started  out  to  get  an  education,  and  did  not  feel  warranted 
in  making  a  change,  I  went  back  to  Yale. 

Theodore  Woolsey  was  the  president  of  Yale  while  I  was  there. 
I  remember  one  of  the  students  had  quite  a  difficulty  with  one  of 
the  professors,  and  the  faculty  took  it  up,  dealing  out  to  the  stu- 
dent his  portion  of  trouble.  At  that  time  the  senior  class  fol- 
lowed the  custom  of  burying  their  friend  Euclid,  an  author  not 
beloved  by  all.  During  this  sacred  but  hilarious  ceremony  few 
wept,  and  all  joined  in  boisterous  song,  which  caused  dogs  to  bark 


232  DAVID  HEWES 

and  sedate  citizens  to  raise  their  windows,  in  vain  attempt  to  in- 
timidate the  students  with  rebuke. 

The  life  of  the  Yale  student  was  mixed  with  pleasure  for  the 
bright  boys,  and  with  groans  from  the  dull  ones,  who  often  had 
recourse  to  the  student's   "  pony,"   for   relief.     It  was  and  still 
continues  the  custom  for  the  classes  to  have  reunions,  one  of  the 
class  of  '52  I  attended  in  1897.     At  that  time  forty-five  mem- 
bers of  a  class  of  ninety  were  living.     The  class  of  '52  was  the 
most  distinguished  of  any  class  graduated  at  Yale,  numbering 
among  its  members  Rev.  J.  F.  Bingham,  D.D.,  L.L.D.,  professor 
of  Greek  and  of  Logic  and  Metaphysics  at  Rutgers  College,  Hon. 
William  Wallace  Crapo,  L.L.D.,  Charles  William  Curtis,  Ephraim 
Cutter,  M.D.,  L.L.D.,  Rev.  H.  E.  Dwight,  M.D.,  D.D.,  Daniel 
Coit   Gilman,   L.L.D.,   president   of   Johns    Hopkins   University, 
Prof.  G.  E.  Jackson,  L.L.D.,  William  Preston  Johnson,  L.L.D., 
president  of  Louisiana  State  University  and  of  Tulane  University, 
Hon.   C.  W.  Kendall,  Rev.  A.  N.  Lewis,  long  secretary  of  the 
class,  Lawrence  McCully,  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
Hawaiian  Islands,  Prof.  W.  A.  Reynolds,  Charles  Cotton  Salter, 
M.A.,   Homer   Baxter   Sprague,   Ph.D.,   president   of   University 
of  North  Dakota,  Hon.  William  Morris  Stewart,  U.  S.  S.  from 
Nevada,  Melancthon  Storrer,  M.D.,  Charles  E.  Vanderling,  Jus- 
tice of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Minnesota.     In  1910  thirteen  of 
the  class  are  still  living.     In  1907  a  speaker  at  the  class  reunion 
made  the  following  statement:     "From  1800  to  1875  Yale  gave 
presidents  to  twenty-five  universities.     My  own  class  of  '52  has 
given  presidents  to  six  of  the  twenty-five.     To  Yale  it  gave  three 
tutors  and  two  professors." 

While  at  Yale  my  attention  was  arrested  by  the  accounts  pub- 
lished in  the  Eastern  newspapers  regarding  California,  and  I  was 
attracted  by  the  opportunities  for  making  an  investment  there, 
but  had  no  intention  of  going  West.  I  made  an  investment  in 
"  Peter  Naylor's  Iron  Houses."  Naylor  was  of  New  York  and 
had  prepared  galvanized  iron  houses  of  varying  size,  from  8  X  10 
fee)  Up  to  20  H)  feet,  such  as  were  necessary  for  various  kinds 
of  offices  and  business.  As  there  was  no  building  material  pre- 
pared in  California  a1  thai  time  and  I  knew  that  George  Warren 
Hewes  was  going  to  California,  I  thought  it  a  desirable  oppor- 
tunity  to  invest   money,  of  which   I  had  about  $8,000.      I  went   on 

*.,  \.  u  York,  and  purchased  these  galvanized  iron  houses,  which 


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were  boxed  and  shipped  to  Boston  to  be  reshipped  on  the  ship 
Norfolk  on  which  my  cousin  and  his  brother-in-law,  William 
Young,  were  to  sail  to  California  via  Cape  Horn.  The  vessel 
sailed  the  15th  of  June,  1849.  Soon  afterward  my  cousin's  wife 
and  only  child  died,  and  knowing  that  when  he  should  learn  of 
this  it  would  utterly  unfit  him  to  attend  to  selling  my  buildings, 
I  deemed  it  best  to  secure  a  leave  of  absence  from  college  to  give 
me  time  to  make  a  trip  to  San  Francisco  via  the  Isthmus,  so  to 
be  there  when  the  ship  arrived,  not  only  to  break  the  sad  news 
to  my  cousin,  but  to  relieve  him  of  the  responsibility  of  disposing 
of  my  property. 

I  engaged  passage  on  the  steamship  Crescent  City  and  sailed 
from  New  York  11  Dec,  1849.  There  were  on  board  Com- 
modore Vanderbilt  and  Mr.  Morgan,  founder  of  the  Morgan  line, 
who  were  planning  some  extension  of  their  transportation  facili- 
ties and  to  survey  the  route  via.  Tehuantepec.  The  vessel's  en- 
gines broke  down  off  the  coast  of  Florida,  one  hour  after  dinner 
of  a  Sunday  evening,  but  the  voyage  was  continued  under  sail 
until  the  next  morning  when  a  small  schooner  was  sighted.  She 
proved  to  be  a  vessel  of  ninety  tons,  heavily  laden  with  lumber 
from  Maine,  bound  for  Key  West.  She  was  hailed  and  arrange- 
ments made  with  her  skipper  to  take  a  score  of  passengers  from 
the  steamer  to  Panama.  A  part  of  her  cargo  was  thrown  over- 
board, although  even  then  it  was  possible  to  dip  water  out  of 
the  sea  with  a  bucket  from  the  deck.  Among  those  who  con- 
tinued their  passage  were  Capt.  Eccleston  of  Salem,  Mr.  Leland  ° 
and  myself.  The  steamer  returned  to  Norfolk.  Arrival  at  the 
isthmus  followed  without  further  incident.  The  ascent  of  the 
river  Chagres  was  made  in  boats,  and  several  days  were  consumed 
in  reaching  the  Pacific  port  of  Panama,  where  it  was  found  the 
regular  steamship  had  already  left  and  we  were  obliged  to  lay 
over  nearly  a  month.  Finally,  we  took  passage  on  an  old  tramp 
steamer,  the  Unicorn,  which  put  in,  already  crowded  with  passen- 
gers. The  accommodations  were  anything  but  pleasant.  The 
company  aboard  ship  proved  to  be  of  the  most  miscellaneous 
character,  rough  flotsam  and  jetsam  of  the  great  tide  of  migra- 
tion to  California,  as  well  as  many  very  nice  people.      Conditions 

e  Mr.  Leland  will  be  remembered  as  having  a  hotel  at  Saratoga.  He  was 
brother  of  the  founder  of  the  Leland  hotel  at  Chicago.  Another  brother 
was  also  a  hotel  keeper. 


234  DAVID  HEWES 

under  such  circumstances  had  better  be  left  to  the  imagination 
than  described  in  print.  We  had  miserable  food,  and  vile  water, 
the  odor  of  which  could  be  perceived  many  feet  away,  and  even 
coffee  made  with  it  was  unbearable.  This  voyage  up  the  coast 
was  so  disagreeable  that  although  planning  an  early  return,  it 
was  with  the  mental  proviso  that  it  would  not  be  by  water.  I 
had  brought  out  with  me  from  New  York  3,000  copies  of  the  last 
issues  of  the  New  York  papers  containing  the  inaugural  address 
of  President  Zachary  Taylor,  expecting  to  find  a  ready  market 
at  San  Francisco  at  as  much  as  a  dollar  a  copy.  The  delay  on 
the  isthmus  caused  my  speculation  to  fail,  for  on  arrival  at 
San  Francisco  we  found  two  steamships  in  ahead  of  us.  I  was 
glad  to  dispose  of  my  papers  to  Hill,  who  afterward  had  a  news- 
stand on  Washington  Street,  for  wrapping  paper. 

San  Francisco  was  at  that  time  overstocked  with  all  sorts  of 
goods  sent  from  the  East  with  the  expectation  of  a  ready  market, 
and  as  no  provision  could  be  made  for  storage,  the  goods  were 
piled  up  everywhere.  The  streets  were  in  terrible  condition  from 
mud  and  the  constant  teaming.  I  recall  using  square  boxes  filled 
with  tobacco,  which  had  been  placed  in  the  more  impassable  places 
for  that  purpose,  as  stepping  stones  to  make  my  way  about  one 
part  of  the  town. 

I  had  expected  to  return  home  upon  arranging  my  affairs. 
Notwithstanding  my  previous  business  training  predisposed  me 
to  a  mercantile  life,  I  felt  inclined  to  take  up  one  of  the  learned 
professions,  but  had  not  yet  decided,  however,  whether  law,  medi- 
cine or  the  ministry.  The  vessel  in  which  my  cousin  sailed  be- 
came disabled  and  had  to  put  into  port  for  repairs,  which  de- 
tained her  about,  two  months.  Thus  I  was  compelled  to  remain 
in  California  until  the  Bhip  arrived.  By  advice  of  Mr.  Dunbar,7 
a  nephew  of  Samuel  I.  G.  Goodridge,  and  to  whom  I  bore  a  letter 
from  his  uncle,  I  wenl  to  Sacramento,  where  I  employed  my  time 
advantageously  buying  and  selling  goods  and  soon  found  myself 
engaged    in    a   trade   which,   at   Hie   end   of  two   or   three  months, 

"Mr.  Dunbar  was  an  assayer  .- •  i » » l  I  found  was  casting  five  dollar  gold 
ji  ece  ,  so  perfect  that  they  passed  current  with  those  bearing  the  U.  S. 
Governmenl  Stamp  and  were  recognized  us  of  equal  value.  Following  this 
denomination  coin,  Dunbar  casl  gold  pieces  of  t  sided  octagon  shape,  of  the 
value  of  fifty  dollars,  bearing  tin  In  ignia  of  the  twenty-dollar  piece  (U.  S.). 
These  al  o  passed  current  in  trade.  There  Was  at  that  time  in  San  Francisco 
no    I       S.    Mint    or  Sub  -Treasury    for   handling  money,  nor  any  blank  paper. 


DAVID  HEWES  235 

proved  so  profitable  that  I  formed  a  partnership  with  a  Mr. 
Huntoon  from  South  Heading  °  and  began  a  regular  mercantile 
business  in  Sacramento  in  February,  1850.  This  connection 
lasted  about  two  years.  We  rented  a  large  store  at  the  corner 
of  J  and  2nd  streets,  about  25  X  90  feet,  for  which  we  paid 
$1,000  a  month  rent. 

I  also  erected  my  iron  buildings  in  3rd  Street,  Sacramento, 
which  I  readily  rented  for  offices,  etc.,  and  which  proved  to  be 
a  very  good  investment,  as  did  also  the  business  in  which  I  en- 
gaged with  Huntoon.  During  the  year  1851,  as  rents  were  very 
high,  I  purchased  a  lot  on  the  northwest  corner  of  J  and  7th 
Streets,  on  which  I  erected  a  large  six-story  building,  using  the 
basement  and  the  first  story  for  mercantile  purposes  and  the 
upper  stories  as  a  large  hotel,  which  I  named  the  Queen  City 
Hotel.  This  hotel  was  burned  in  the  great  conflagration  of  2 
Nov.,  1852,  when  Sacramento  City  was  completely  destroyed,  the 
fire  burning  back  nine  blocks  from  the  river,  leaving  neither  a 
church,  school  nor  business  building. 

During  the  early  months  of  my  first  year's  residence  in  Sacra- 
mento there  was  no  regular  school,  or  place  of  worship,  except 
poorly  constructed  tents  of  cloth.  Theaters,  places  of  amuse- 
ment, and  gambling  houses  were  run  without  any  restraint.  The 
first  Sunday  after  my  arrival  I  listened  to  a  sermon  preached  by 
Rev.  J.  A.  Benton,  under  a  large  sycamore  tree.  Rev.  J.  A.  Ben- 
ton was  a  graduate  of  Yale  and  valedictorian  of  the  class  of 
1850.  He  came  to  California,  not  as  a  missionar}T,  but  as  an 
able  minister  of  the  gospel.  At  this  time  gambling  and  vice  was 
so  noticeable  that  the  press  took  up  the  matter.  The  Sacramento 
Times,  published  by  able  and  high  minded  men,10  especially  wafl 
prominent  in  advocating  that  it  was  time  to  recognize  that  the 
best  welfare  of  the  people  demanded  active  measures  should  be 
taken  to  establish  a  better  sentiment,  both  moral  and  religious,  in 
the  community. 

With  the  cooperation  of  the  press,  I  started  a  subscription  for 
funds  to  build  a  church.  A  committee  was  appointed,  of  which 
I  was  a  member.  Our  paper  was  subscribed  by  all  of  the  better 
class,  both  bankers  and  merchants.  Even  the  gambling  houses 
contributed  very  generously.     We  found  it  not  at  all  difficult  to 

»  See  Diary  of  James  Hewes. 
io  Messrs.  Fitch  and  Pickering. 


236  DAVID  HEWES 

secure  sufficient   funds   to   erect   a  very   substantial,   comfortable 
and  commodious  church  building,  which  would  seat  from  three  to 
five  hundred  people,  and  which  was  crowded  every  Sunday.      Dr. 
Benton  had  the  tact  and  ability  to  reach  the  large  heterogeneous 
class  of  people  that  pervaded  this  new  country.      He  was  able  to 
command    the   highest    respect,    and    built    up    a    Congregational 
church,  which  was  always  the  leading  church  in  Sacramento  City, 
maintaining  all  the  customary  weekly  and  Sunday  services,  and 
also  a  large   Sabbath  school  to  which  I  gave  a  large  and  well 
selected  library.     This  library  I  had  selected  before  leaving  home 
and  had  brought  with  me  across  the  Isthmus,  knowing  what  would 
be  required  for  such  a  purpose  as,  while  at  Andover,  I  had  es- 
tablished a  Sabbath  school  at  Lawrence,  Mass.,  five  years  before. 
The  church  building  was  dedicated  in  October,  1850,  and  gave 
great  satisfaction.      Services  were   attended  by  large  and  often 
crowded  congregations.     I  took  pains  to  see  that  the  cornerstone 
of  that  church,  which  was  laid  with  brick,  contained  a  tin  or  cop- 
per box,   sufficiently  large  to  hold  necessary  papers  and  public 
documents    relating   to   the  history   of   the    church   and   Sunday 
school,   as   well   as   other   data   pertaining  to   Sacramento.      The 
frame  of  that  church,  brought  from  Australia,  I  secured  when 
I  went  to  San  Francisco  for  the  purpose  of  procuring  material 
and  assistance  in  building  the  church.     Our  church  was  burned 
during  the  great  fire,  together  with  Dr.  Benton's  library  and  his 
study,  which  joined  to  the  church.      As  no  insurance  on  build- 
ings was  possible  in  those  days,  the  loss  was  total.     There  was 
also  no  insurance  on  merchandise  or  any  other  kind  of  property. 
On  the  rebuilding  of  the  city,  a  new  brick  church  was  erected  on 
the  opposite   side  of  6th  Street,  near  the   former  site.     Among 
the  citizens  of  Sacramento  vrho  contributed  to  the  rebuilding  of 
the  church   after  the  fire,  members  of  the  society,  were  Leland 
Stanford,  D.  O.  Mills,  Chas.   and   K.   B.  Crocker,  Mark  Hopkins, 
Capt.    Waters,    Fitch    and    Pickering  of   the   Sacramento   Times, 
.lames  Anthony  &  Co.,  Sacramento  Steamer  Union,  and  myself. 
\Ci\    soon   the   Methodists  also  built   a  fine  church.     Rev.  M. 
C.     BriggS    W&B    pastor    of    that     BOciety    for    many    years.      The 
Baptists,   and    almost    all   other  denominations,  soon  established 
churches. 

My  I'ig  stoiv  and  all  my  goods  were  burn!  in  the  lire  of  1852. 
I  soon   rebuiH   and  got   in  a  fresh  stock  of  goods.     The  Indians 


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DAVID  HEWES  237 

now  predicted  a  wet  winter;  but  little  attention  was  paid  to  the 
subject  of  a  probable  jnundation  of  the  city.  The  flood  came, 
however,  and  the  American  and  Sacramento  rivers  were  flush  with 
the  levees.  Probably  rats  and  gophers,  driven  from  the  soil  by 
the  rising  waters,  took  refuge  in  the  levees  and  by  so  doing, 
weakened  them,  and  brought  about  the  first  break. 

On  the  last  day  of  December  of  the  same  year  the  levee  broke, 
and  six   feet  of  water  covered  Sacramento  valley.     People  who 
remained  in  the  town  during  the  flood  reached  the  steamer  by 
means  of  small  flat  boats  drawn  by  mules,  who  would  wade  belly 
deep  dragging  the  boat  through  the  streets.     I,  with  other  mer- 
chants, saved  what  goods  we  could,  by  putting  them  on  board  a 
stern-wheel    steamer,    drawing    only    about    two    feet    of    water. 
We  took  our  goods  to  Brighton,  which  was  high  land,  and  there 
we  erected  tents,  and  conducted  business  for  the  next  four  months. 
At   this   time   certain   rich  merchants   from   San  Francisco   pur- 
chased a  tract  of  land,  high  ground,  five  miles  below  Sacramento, 
on  which  they  attempted  to  build  a  city,  and  solicited  our  mer- 
chants to  move  to  the  new  town  site,  which  they  called  "  Sutter- 
ville,"  offering  them  corresponding  lots  to  those  they  owned  in 
Sacramento.     The    experiment    soon    failed.     During    that    time 
the  question   again   arose   regarding  title   to   the   site   of   Sacra- 
mento    City.     "  Squatters  "     brought     down     buildings     erected 
up    the    river,    where    they    had    attempted    to    establish    small 
towns,    and   erected   them   in    Sacramento,    setting   up    claim    to 
the  ownership  of  the  land.     Like  others  I  suffered  from  these  un- 
warranted encroachments  and  was  forced  to  bring  suit  of  eject- 
ment at  great  cost  and  expense.     The  "  Squatter  Riots,"  which 
created  great  excitement  in  the  California  settlements,  arose  from 
the  attempts  of  landless  and  more  or  less  lawless  individuals  to 
disregard  the  title  to  land  held  under  the  Spanish  grant  to  John  A. 
Sutter.     The  crisis  was   reached  in  August  after  my  arrival  in 
Sacramento.     A  small   party   of  rioters,  headed  by   a   squatter 
leader,  engaged  a  hastily-gathered  law  and  order  posse,  and  sev- 
eral persons  were  killed  and  wounded. 

Disgusted  with  my  experiments  in  Sacramento,  and  the  disputes 
over  titles,  I  determined  to  go  to  San  Francisco,  and  on  leaving 
Sacramento,  I  carried  all  my  worldly  possessions  in  a  hand  bag. 
I  reached  San  Francisco,  put  up  at  a  hotel,  and  then  went  out  to 
look  about  the  town,  which  was  a  comparatively  new  city  to  me. 


238  DAVID  HEWES 

I  had  only  limited  acquaintance  with  the  city,  obtained  from  fre- 
quent trips  to  buy  goods.  My  first  intention  on  leaving  Sacra- 
mento had  been  to  go  to  Southern  California  where  extensive 
ranches  could  be  leased  of  the  Spanish  possessors  of  leagues  of 
land,  at  a  small  rental,  with  option  of  buying  later  at  a  nominal 
figure.  Stearn  and  others  did  this.  My  love  of  realty,  how- 
ever, although  without  means  to  invest,  led  me  to  look  over  the 
hills  of  San  Francisco.  Wherever  I  saw  on  a  lot  a  sign  "  For 
Sale,"  or  "  To  Lease,"  I  sought  the  owner  to  learn  its  value  and 
his  opinion  about  the  future  of  San  Francisco.  While  doing  this 
I  fell  in  with  Mr.  George  Amorage,  who  owned  a  50  vara  lot 
at  the  northeast  corner  of  Stockton  and  O'Farrell  streets.  Mr. 
Amorage  did  not  want  to  sell  or  lease  his  lot,  on  which  was  a 
high  sand  hill,  but  was  anxious  to  have  it  leveled,  so  he  could 
build  a  house  on  it  for  his  family  who  were  contemplating  coming 
from  the  East. 

In  making  my  acquaintance  with  the  city  I  had  met  Mr.  James 
Cunningham,  who  was  engaged  in  grading  on  an  extensive  scale. 
Mr.  Cunningham  had  filled  lands  in  New  York  City  and  Brook- 
lyn, and  thence  had  gone  to  Boston  where  he  also  engaged  in  con- 
tracting. In  or  earlier  than  18-49  he  visited  San  Francisco,  and 
saw  the  probabilities  to  enter  into  business  here  along  the  lines 
he  was  accustomed  to.  He  sent  East  for  a  steam  shovel,  switch- 
ing engines  and  cars.  These  latter  had  on  them  the  name  of  a 
Worcester,  Mass.,  firm  of  car  builders.  Mr.  Cunningham  had 
ample  capital,  and  before  quitting  the  enterprise  on  which  he 
had  embarked  had  graded  as  high  as  the  corner  of  Market  and 
Third  Streets.11 

I  mentioned  to  Mr.  Cunningham  the  need  of  Mr.  Amorage. 
Mr.  Cunningham  held  views  regarding  the  future  of  the  city, 
which  coincided  with  my  own.  Me  was  at  that  time  doing  work 
on  Market  street  where  the  Palace  Hotel  now  stands,  and  mov- 
ing the  sand  to  fill  Market  Street.  Mr.  Cunningham  said  to  me, 
"  Fitch  in  and  grade  it,  Mr.  Ilewcs:  you  can  do  it,  and  get  China- 
men at  $2  a  day,  while  you  would  have  to  pay  an  Irishman  $4." 
Thinking  well  of  his  judgment,  and  perceiving  that   if  there  was 

"Mr.  Cunningham,  who  at   one   time  had   his  son   Frank   associated  with 

him    i"    San    Francisco,    returned    to    the    Kasl.      He    revisited    San    Francisco 

every  two  or  three  years  to  look  after  his  buildings,  or  to  build  on  land  lie 
had  purchased.  During  his  absence  Mr.  Hewes  looked  after  some  of  his  af- 
fairs  on   the  Coast. 


DAVID  HEWES  239 

to  be  a  city  there,  streets  would  have  to  be  leveled,  walla  built, 

cellars  dug,  and  filling  carried  on,  I  acted  on  his  advice  and  went 
to  Hawley  &  Company,  hardware  merchants,  boughl  me  a  shovel 
and  wheelbarrow,  and  went  up  into  Chinatown,  and  hired  me 
one  Chinaman  and  set  him  to  work  grading  Mr.  Amorage's  lot. 
This  was  a  fifty  vara  lot,  being  137  1/2  feet  square.  The  first 
contract  brought  me  a  profit  of  $600.  Very  soon  I  had  ten,  and 
then  twenty  Chinamen,  with  their  shovels  and  wheelbarrows,  en- 
gaged in  pushing  the  work  by  filling  lower  portions  of  the  lot. 

The  next  project  of  importance  on  which  I  entered,  was  that 
of  bidding   on   a   city    contract   for   grading  and   leveling   Bush 
Street  from  Kearney  to  Mason ;  a  distance  of  four  blocks.    There 
was  cutting  and  filling  in  of  parts  of  those  four  blocks,  from  noth- 
ing up  to  15,  20,  40,  or  even  60   feet.     I  put  in  a  bid  to  the 
city  for  doing  this  work,  and  it  was  awarded  to  me.     The  city 
required  a  bond  of  $40,000  for  the  faithful  performance  of  the 
work,  which  I  fortunately  was   able   to   furnish  with  the  aid   of 
Mr.   Amorage,   and  another  friend  by  the  name   of  O'Callahan, 
who   evidently   had   more   faith   in   my   undertaking   and   evident 
push,  than  any  knowledge  of  my  ability.     They  knew  that  my 
capital  was  limited  to  about  $1,000  in  money,  and  an  equipment 
of  about  two  dozen  wheelbarrows,  and  handcarts  and  shovels.     It 
puzzled  me  how  to  undertake  and  complete  so  large  a  contract 
without  any  horses  or  teams;  for  a  good  part  of  the  work  was 
cutting  through  clay  and  rock  as  well  as  sand.     Mr.  Cunning- 
ham's assistance  and  advice,  however,  offered  ways  and  means  to 
begin   and  carry  on  the  work.     It  finally  resolved  itself  into   a 
business  proposition  between  Mr.  Cunningham  and  myself.     Mr. 
Cunningham  had  some  dozen  or  fifteen  large  horses,  which  he  had 
used  in  handling  his  sand  trains  in  grading  Market  Street,  but 
had  no  further  use  for  after  his  contract  was  completed.     We 
entered   into   an   agreement,  by   which   he   was   to   turn   over  his 
horses,  carts,  harnesses  and  equipments  for  a  stated  price.     And 
as  security  I  was  to  assign  to  him  my  contract  for  the  grading 
of  Bush  Street,  before  referred  to.     He  also  was  to  furnish  me 
money  weekly  to  pay  my  help  and  feed  my  horses,  and  had  the 
right  to  collect  the  assessments   against   the  property   adjacent. 
I  soon  paid  him  in  full  for  the  horses,  carts,  business  and  other 
equipments  and  for  all  money  that  he  advanced  me  from  time  to 
time.     This  contract  proved  in  the  early  part  of  the  work  greatly 


210  DAVID  HEWES 

advantageous  to  me,  as  many  of  the  buildings  along  the  line  of 
the  contracted  ground  had  to  be  raised  up  to  the  street  level 
■where  the  street  level  was  raised,  and  lots  below  street  level  had 
to  be  filled.  This  work  being  outside  of  my  city  contract,  was 
subject  to  private  agreement,  and  from  the  profits  of  this  work 
I  obtained  means  with  which  to  discharge  my  debt  of  $3,000 
to  Mr.  Cunningham  for  advances.  .  Thus  I  became  an  independ- 
ent contractor  and  manager  of  public  works  on  my  own  account. 

I  continued  in  this  line  of  contract  work  from  the  fall  of  1853 
to  1858.  It  was  during  this  period  that  the  events  occurred 
which  lead  to  the  great  Vigilance  Committee  of  1856,  and  which 
resulted  in  the  establishment  of  an  excellent  municipal  government. 
The  captain  of  the  company  to  which  I  belonged  was  named  Dove. 
There  was  a  grand  parade  of  the  Vigilance  Committee,  and  Third 
Street,  from  Market  to  Folsom,  was  solidly  packed  by  the  march- 
ing body. 

Mr.  Cunningham  suggested  to  me  in  1858  that  I  buy  the 
outfit  which  he  had  brought  from  Boston  for  the  purpose  of 
leveling  the  hills  and  filling  the  harbor  of  San  Francisco.  His 
work  was  brought  to  a  stop  by  an  order  of  the  council,  which 
prevented  him  from  running  his  cars  in  the  streets  after  a  cer- 
tain date,  upon  the  penalty  of  $50  a  day  imposed  on  him  for  the 
non-fulfilment  of  a  contract  upon  a  certain  date.  This  penalty 
amounted  to  $1,300  before  he  finished  the  contract.  He  had 
also  to  meet  much  opposition  among  his  laborers  in  the  use  of 
the  steam  shovel.  Being  angered,  he  swore  that  his  steam  shovels 
should  never  shovel  another  yard  of  dirt  while  he  owned  them. 
He  stored  his  cars,  iron  and  steam-shovels  on  his  property  at  the 
southeast  corner  of  Second  and  Market  streets,  where  they  laid 
for  four  or  five  years.  At  the  end  of  that  time,  he  solicited  me 
to  purchase  the  outfit.  Our  previous  business  relations  had  been 
so  satisfactory  that  he  proposed  to  sell  me  the  outfit  for  $12,500, 
on  very  easy  trims  out  of  the  profits  of  the  business.  I  com- 
menced  the  work  of  grading  Market  Street,  at  the  corner  of 
Third  .•hhI  Market,  where  the  hill  was  nearly  as  high  as  the  present 
Call  building,  in  the  fall  of  1858.  I  also  proceeded,  on  the  same 
plan,  with  the  work  of  grading  Market  Street  and  filling  in  water 
[ota  on  the  south  Bide  of  Market  from  Fremonl  to  Stuart,  which 
W;1.   the  east  line  of  the  Bay  south  of  Market  Street.     When  this 

TOM  done.   I   began   filling  in  the  Bay  on  the  north  side  of  Market 


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DAVID  HE  WES  241 

Street  from  Battery  down  to  East,  taking  material  from  Market 
Street  between  Third  and  Fourth,  and  the  sand  hills  between 
Market  and  Mission.  When  this  was  completed  I  took  up  my 
track  and  laid  it  down  Fourth  Street,  from  Market  to  King 
Street,  filling  Fourth  and  lots  on  the  east  and  west  side.  I 
began  removing  the  sandhills  from  Stockton  Street,  between  Mar- 
ket and  Post  Streets,  adjacent  to  Union  Square,  and  over  as 
far  as  Powell  Street  near  Fourth  Street.  The  lots  adjacent  on 
the  east  and  west  of  Fourth  Street  were  filled  in,  and  the  hills 
on  Stockton,  Geary,  and  Post  streets  between  Stockton  and 
Powell,  adjacent  to  Union  Square,  were  leveled.  I  then  took 
up  my  track  and  laid  it  down  Fifth  Street,  filling  that  street 
from  Market  to  King  Street  and  the  lots  adjacent  thereto,  the 
same  as  I  did  on  Fourth  Street,  and  then  leveled  the  sandhills 
on  the  north  side  of  Market  Street,  reaching  up  as  far  as  Post 
Street,  and  on  the  east  and  west  of  Fifth  Street.  When  Fifth 
Street  and  the  adjacent  lots  on  the  other  side  were  finished,  I 
moved  my  track  out  to  Seventh  Street,  doing  the  same  on  that 
street,  from  the  head  down  into  the  Bay,  as  I  had  done  on  Fourth 
and  Fifth  Streets.  From  Seventh  I  moved  to  Ninth  and  to 
Tenth,  doing  the  same  work  as  on  the  other  streets  above  named, 
until  Mission  Bay  was  filled  in  nearly  to  the  line  of  its  present 
mprovement.  My  track  took  in  about  two  miles  in  extent,  in 
what  is  known  as  Hayes'  Valley,  to  Fourth  and  Townsend  streets. 
I  completed  my  contracting  in  filling  in  San  Francisco  Bay, 
and  also  Mission  Bay  in  1873.  The  long  trestle  work  re- 
quired for  part  of  this  work  will  be  recalled  by  the  older  resi- 
dents. 

The  last  large  contracting  I  made,  was  grading  the  present 
City  Hall  property,  bounded  by  Market,  Larkin  and  McAllister 
Streets,  which  comprised  seventeen  acres,  and  Avhich  had  been 
kept  as  the  city's  burying  ground  from  its  earliest  days  in  184-9 
to  1869,  when  the  city  ordered  the  remains  of  persons  buried 
there  to  be  taken  up  by  their  friends  or  moved  at  the  city's  ex- 
pense. In  doing  this  public  work,  as  it  were,  in  leveling  the  hills 
and  filling  valleys  and  bays  about  San  Francisco,  old  resi- 
dents sometimes  gave  me  the  complimentary  title  of  "  The  Maker 
of  San  Francisco."  After  completing  my  contract  I  stored  my 
cars,  engines,  iron,  etc.,  until  1873,  when  I  sold  my  outfit 
to  Henry  Villard,  who  was   then  building  the  Northern  Pacific 


242  DAVID  HEWES 

Railroad.  I  sold  all  except  my  three  engines.  He  did  not 
require  any  extra  motive  power;  having  engines  enough.  When 
I  commenced  leveling  the  hills  and  filling  the  Bay  I  built  a 
locomotive,  "  The  Pioneer,"  with  which  to  handle  my  trains, 
which  was  the  first  locomotive  ever  built  in  California,  and 
which  I  now  own,  and  intend  to  present  to  the  State  of  Cali- 
fornia as  its  first  home-built  locomotive.  I  soon  found  I  needed 
a  second  and  larger  locomotive  able  to  handle  twenty-five  cars, 
and  this  I  still  have,  which  cost  me  $13,000,  and  which  I  shall 
probably  give  to  the  State  also.  During  the  progress  of  my  work 
I  bought  from  the  Oregon  Steam  Navigation  Company  the  first 
locomotive  built,  in  1863,  for  that  railroad  and  used  for  commercial 
purposes  of  a  railroad  at  The  Dalles.  I  used  it  as  a  switching 
engine.  I  believed  that  Oregon's  first  locomotive,  which  I  bought 
from  the  Oregon  Steam  Navigation  Company,  should  find  its 
future  home  in  some  place  in  Oregon.  I  did  not  know  of  any 
museum  or  proper  place  in  that  state  where  such  a  worthy  gift 
could  be  placed  and  preserved.  The  sentiment  which  caused  the 
preservation  of  Stephenson's  first  locomotive  had  always  ap- 
pealed strongly  to  me,  and  probably  influenced  me  in  determining 
to  retain  this  historical  relic  until  a  proper  disposition  could  be 
made  of  it.  The  organization  of  the  Lewis  and  Clark  Exposi- 
tion provided  a  means  of  presenting  to  the  State  of  Oregon  the 
locomotive  which  I  had  kept  in  storage  from  1873  to  that  time. 
I  hope  the  possession  of  this  relic  will  be  enjoyed  in  the  future 
with  as  much  pride  and  pleasure  as  I  have  had  in  preserving  it 
for  posterity. 

To  make  sure  that  Oregon's  "  First  Locomotive  "  should  be 
distinctly  marked  as  such,  when  I  presented  it  to  the  State  of 
Oregon  by  a  deed  of  gift,  I  had  inscribed  upon  a  brass  plate, 
14x18  inches,  which  is  blind  bolted  to  the  boiler,  the  following 
legend : 

"  Oregon's  First  Locomotive.  Presented  to  the  State  of  Ore- 
gon by  David  Hewes:  A  pioneer  of  San  Francisco,  California, 
illustrative  of  the  development  of  commerce  up  the  Colum- 
bia Hirer,  by  the  Oregon  Steam  Navigation  Com  pan//." 

The  locomotive  proved  to  be  one  of  the  most  interesting  ex- 
hibits ;d    the   Imposition. 

When    I    purchased    this    engine,    I    named    it    "The  Oregon 

Pony."      I  so  named  it  on  account  of  its  size,  strength  and  power 


DAVID  HEWES  243 

—  it  being  a  geared  engine,  and  having  the  power  of  a  large 
locomotive.  It  was  of  standard  gauge,  and  weighed  ten  or  twelve 
tons. 

After  I  removed  to  San  Francisco  from  Sacramento,  I  con- 
nected myself  with  the  Congregational  Church,  situated  in  Green- 
wich street,  near  Telegraph  Hill,  of  which  Dr.  Pond  was  pastor. 
This  was  in  the  fall  of  1853.  Mr.  Pond  was  a  most  excellent  and 
efficient  pastor,  and  built  up  a  strong  church.  At  the  end  of 
four  or  five  years  Mr.  Pond  lost  his  wife,  soon  after  which  he 
removed  from  San  Francisco  to  Downieville,  where  he  had  a 
successful  pastorate.  About  that  time,  as  the  Congregational 
Church  was  remote  from  where  I  lived,  I  became  a  member  of  the 
old  First  Presbyterian  Church,  which  was  worshiping  at  that 
time  in  the  Chinese  brick  chapel,  at  the  corner  of  Sacramento  and 
Stockton  Streets,  while  they  were  building  the  large  church  on 
the  west  side  of  Stockton  Street  between  Clay  and  Washington 
Streets.  This  was  one  of  the  Sid-e-Hill  churches.  All  the  prin- 
cipal denominations  built  in  that  vicinity.  Among  these  churches 
was  the  Unitarian,  whose  pastor  was  Thomas  Star  King;  the 
Baptist,  whose  pastor  was  O.  C.  Wheeler;  the  Methodist,  whose 
pastor  was  W.  C.  Briggs.  The  pastor  of  the  Presbyterian  Church 
was  that  well-known  and  able  minister,  Dr.  W.  C.  Anderson.  I 
was  not  only  a  member  of  that  church,  but  president  of  the  board 
of  trustees,  and  teacher  in  the  Sunday  school.  I  maintained  all 
these  relations  with  this  church  until  1870,  when  I  went  to  Europe. 
On  my  return,  after  an  absence  of  two  and  one-half  years,  I  re- 
sumed my  relations  with  the  old  church,  and  so  continued  until 
1877,  when  I  moved  to  Oakland  and  became  one  of  the  congrega- 
tion of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  that  place,  whose  pastor 
was  Rev.  James  Eells,  formerly  pastor  of  the  old  First  Church 
in  San  Francisco,  while  I  was  a  member  there.  I  remained  with 
this  church  until  1881,  when,  on  account  of  Mrs.  Hewes'  ill  health, 
I  removed  to  Southern  California. 

It  was  not  until  we  formed  the  Presbyterian  church  at  Tustin 
that  I  withdrew  my  membership  in  the  First  Church  at  San 
Francisco.  As  I  have  stated  I  was  one  of  the  congregation  of 
Mr.  EelPs  church  in  Oakland  during  my  residence  there,  and  was 
very  intimate  with  that  able  man,  who  was  accustomed  to  con- 
sult me  about  the  affairs  of  the  church.  Mr.  Eells,  after  leaving 
San  Francisco,  was  settled  over  a  parish  in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  and 


244.  DAVID  HEWES 

I  was  among  those  who  called  him  to  Oakland.  Mr.  Eells  had  two 
great  aims  —  to  establish  a  paper  which  should  be  the  organ  of 
the  Presbyterian  church  on  the  Coast,  and  to  bring  about  the 
establishment  of  a  State  University  upon  broad  liberal  lines.  He 
was  an  earnest  worker.  As  early  as  1849,  Frederick  Billings  had 
become  interested  in  the  plan  to  establish  a  College  of  California. 
He  was  one  of  the  proposed  trustees,  and  in  1850  applied  for  a 
charter  under  the  General  Law,  but  because  of  a  technical  point 
raised  by  the  Supreme  Court  regarding  the  valuation  of  the  prop- 
er tv  which  was  to  form  part  of  the  endowment  of  the  College, 
and  which  by  law  was  required  to  be  $20,000,  the  charter  was  not 
obtained.  Among  the  men  interested  with  Mr.  Billings  was  Rev. 
S.  H.  Willey,  who  had  preceded  me  to  California  and  whose 
relatives  I  was  acquainted  with  in  Stoneham.  The  initiative  in 
the  matter  of  organizing  a  college  had  rested  with  the  Presby- 
terians, although  it  was  not  the  desire  nor  intent  to  conduct  the 
institution  upon  narrow  or  sectarian  lines.  Mr.  Billings  was 
one  of  the  principal  members  of  the  First  Church  in  San  Fran- 
cisco, and  was  always  liberal  in  his  contributions  to  church  work. 
It  was  his  custom  to  meet  all  bills  contracted  for  the  church, 
making  up  the  deficit  himself.  When  the  church  was  first  or- 
ganized it  worshiped  in  a  tent,  then  in  a  schoolhouse,  which  Mr. 
Billings  cared  for  and  swept  out  himself.  In  1850  a  church 
building  was  erected,  and  this  is  still  standing.  Although  a  debt 
of  $72,000  was  incurred,  this  was  the  first  church  to  discharge 
its  debt.  After  Mr.  Billings'  return  to  Vermont  (where  he  died 
in  1890,  Laving  to  the  University  of  Vermont  a  handsome  be- 
quest  which  resulted  in  the  magnificent  Billings'  library),  a  com- 
mittee, of  which  I  was  one,  presented  him  with  a  set  of  silver.  He 
had  become  interested  in  and  president  of  the  Northern  Pacific 
railroad,  and  had  a  hard  fight  on  his  hands  to  protect  his  own 
and  the  interests  of  his  friends  in  that  mad  when  Villard  ob- 
tained  control.  Inducements  were  offered  him  to  arrange  mat- 
ters uith  Villard  without  taking  into  consideration  the  interests 
of  the  less.r  shareholders,  hut  he  would  listen  to  nothing  which 
did  not  trr.it  .ill  equally.  I  have  had  many  conversations  with 
Capt.  A  in -worth,  who  was  active  in  I  he  set  t  lenient  of  the  difficulties 

between  Billings  and  Villard,  and  once  read  a  letter  from  Mr. 
Billings  in  which  he  stated  that  he  considered  $7,000,000  too  much 
for  any  one  man  to  have.      Mr.   Billings  was  one  of  the  first  trus- 


DAVID  HEWES  245 

tees  of  the  College  of  California,  chartered  in  1855  to  carry  out 
the  plans  of  Mr.  Durant. 

Henry  M.  Durant  was  a  graduate  of  Yale,  and  in  middle  life 
came  to  California  with  the  purpose  of  establishing  an  educa- 
tional institution  of  high  order.  This  was  in  185-3.  That  year 
he  established  a  classical  school  at  Oakland  having  secured  the 
cooperation  of  the  Presbytery  of  San  Francisco  and  the  Con- 
gregational Association  of  California.  I  was  a  member  of  the 
board  of  Trustees  of  his  Academy.  At  that  time  there  were  only 
a  few  houses  in  Oakland,  mainly  along  Broadway  and  near  the 
landing.  This  was  considered  the  first  step  toward  the  establish- 
ment of  a  college.  Many  difficulties  were  met  and  overcome.  In 
1855  the  Board  of  Academy  Trustees  was  organized,  and  on  the 
13  April,  1855,  the  College  of  California  was  chartered,  but  it 
was  not  until  1860  that  the  first  class  was  admitted,  which  is  the 
reason  for  the  celebration  at  this  time  (May,  1910)  of  the  fiftieth 
anniversary  of  the  foundation  of  the  University  of  California. 
Berkeley  was  selected  in  1857  as  a  site  for  the  College,  and  the 
"  College  School  "  at  Oakland,  which  was  Mr.  Durant's  school, 
began  preparations  which  ultimately  resulted  in  the  incorporation 
of  the  school  with  the  college,  of  which  Mr.  Durant  became 
president. 

Mr.  Eells  was  chairman  of  the  Committee  appointed  by  the 
trustees  of  the  College  of  California,  in  1867,  to  carry  out  the 
provisions  of  the  vote  whereby  the  College  of  California  became 
an  integral  part  of  the  University  of  California  when  organized. 
My  intimate  association  with  Mr.  Eells,  and  with  Mr.  Durant, 
gave  me  opportunities  to  learn  of  the  work  they  were  doing, 
and  I  have  always  felt  that  to  Mr.  Eells  more  than  any  other 
man,  except  Durant,  was  due  the  credit  of  the  foundation  of  the 
University  upon  its  present  very  broad  and  very  successful  basis. 
He  drew  up  the  charter  of  the  University.  The  rough  draft  of 
the  charter  is  in  his  handwriting,  and  I  am  informed  that  is  now 
preserved  in  the  University  library.  Mr.  Eells  had  been  as- 
sociated with  Gov.  Haight,  a  northern  man,  who  was  elected  gov- 
ernor of  California  on  the  Democratic  ticket,  and  Gov.  Haight 
had  long  been  somewhat  interested  in  Durant's  school.  Haight, 
like  Durant,  was  a  graduate  of  Yale.  The  charter  as  granted 
left  the  appointment  of  the  trustees  of  the  University  in  the  hands 
of  the  governor.      This  led  to  certain  appointments  and  results 


246  DAVID  HEWES 

not  anticipated  by  Mr.  Eells.  This  charter  was  granted  in  March, 
1868,  and  the  College  of  California  transferred  to  the  University 
its  entire  plant  and  property,  on  condition  that  a  classical  course 
should  always  be  maintained. 

I  have  mentioned  that  Mr.  Durant  had  established  his  school 
upon  broad  unsectarian  grounds.  This  was  displeasing  to  cer- 
tain members  of  the  Presbyterian  body,  principal  among  whom 
was  the  Rev.  W.  A.  Scott,  pastor  over  a  church  in  San  Fran- 
cisco, and  a  man  with  strong  Southern  sympathies,  he  himself 
having  come  from  Tennessee.  Mr.  Scott  left  San  Francisco  soon 
after  the  outbreak  of  the  war;  but  before  leaving  was  subjected 
to  the  humiliation  of  being  obliged  to  bow  to  the  flag  while 
leaving  his  church.  He  had  preached  or  prayed  in  his  pulpit 
after  a  manner  which  did  not  please  his  more  patriotic  congrega- 
tion, whereupon  some  of  them  left  the  church  and  procuring  a 
flag  draped  it  in  such  way  that  Mr.  Scott  was  forced  to  pass  and 
bow  under  it  as  he  left  the  church.  To  Mr.  Billings,  one  of 
Durant's  warmest  supporters,  was  due  in  a  great  measure  the  re- 
pression of  the  secession  sentiment  which  at  one  time  threatened 
trouble  in  California.  Mr.  Scott  established,  in  San  Fran- 
cisco, a  rival  school  to  Mr.  Durant's,  but  his  course  did  not  meet 
with  the  approbation  of  the  leading  and  progressive  element  in 
the  church. 

After  the  War  Mr.  Scott  returned  to  San  Francisco  and  died 
there  in  1885. 

I  have  mentioned  that  Mr.  Eells  felt  the  necessity  of  a  Presby- 
terian paper  on  the  Pacific  Coast.  To  finance  such  a  publication 
was  not  an  easy  undertaking,  so  to  insure  its  publication,  six  men, 
of  whom  I  was  one,  became  responsible  for  the  estimated  cost  of 
publication,  about  $3,600. 

While  engaged  in  contracting,  I  met  many  people,  with 
and  without  money,  and  exchanged  my  labor  improving  lots  and 
property,  by  taking  part  of  my  pay  in  land,  as  did  also  my 
predecessor,  who  was  my  old  friend  and  adviser.  He  secured 
in  payment  for  his  services  while  improving  Market  Street  from 
First  to  Third,  several  large  pieces  of  property.  Among  these 
pieces  he  Becured  a  TOO  vara  lot  on  the  southeast  corner  of  Sec- 
ond and  Market,  also  a  large  triangular  piece  now  known  as 
the  Crocker  and  Woolworth  Hank  lot,  also  a  50  vara  lot  where 
the   present    Palace    Hotel    now    stands.      And   also   a  nearly   100 


HEWES   MARKET,   LOS    ANGELES,   CALIF 


HEWES     BUILDING,     SIXTH     AND     MARKET     STREETS,     SAN 

FRANCISCO 
Destroyed   19 


DAVID  HEWES  217 

vara  lot  at  the  southeast  corner  of  Third  and  Market,  now  oc- 
cupied by  the  San  Francisco  Examiner  and  the  Monadnock 
Building. 

I,  like  Mr.  Cunningham,  took  land  in  part  payment  for  work 
done,  and  also  purchased  city  lots  from  time  to  time.  The  first 
investment  of  this  nature  was  on  the  north  side  of  Market  Street, 
between  Third  and  Fourth  Streets,  where  the  Claus  Spreckels 
Market  now  stands.  My  purchase  consisted  of  three  ungraded 
lots,  each  with  a  frontage  of  twenty-five  feet,  which  cost  me  $1,100 
each.  Also  in  the  rear  of  these  lots  I  bought  two  twenty-foot 
lots  on  Stevens  Street,  at  $700  each.  These  purchases  were  made 
in  about  1853-4,  at  an  auction  sale  of  all  the  lots,  held  by  Selover 
&  Sinton.  The  lowest  price  obtained  for  any  lot  in  the  block  was 
$100.  These  lots  I  graded  and  held  until  just  before  I  purchased 
the  lot  on  the  corner  of  Sixth  and  Market  Streets,  when  I  obtained 
$125,000  for  them.  At  that  time  I  felt  that  I  was  making  a  mis- 
take perhaps,  but  the  Sixth  Street  lot  advanced  much  more 
rapidly  in  value  than  the  lots  I  had.  A  lot  at  Market  and  Sixth 
Streets  cost  me  in  1869,  the  year  that  the  Central  Pacific  Rail- 
road was  finished,  $12,500.  On  this,  after  it  was  graded,  I  put 
up  a  three-story  wooden  building  at  a  cost  of  $10,000  which 
was  designed  and  used  for  a  military  hall.  The  rents  from  this 
property  have  always  been  more  at  any  period  up  to  the  present, 
than  its  selling  price  if  put  at  interest  would  ever  have  amounted 
to. 

Since  the  earthquake  I  have  erected  another  building  on  the 
same  ground,  in  height  fourteen  stories,  containing  one  hundred 
and  eighty  offices  above  the  basement  and  first  and  second  floors. 
The  city,  pending  the  erection  of  a  City  Hall,  has  taken  the 
upper  seven  floors  for  their  offices.  There  have  been  varied  opin- 
ions among  architects  and  builders  as  to  which  was  the  best 
building  erected  since  the  earthquake.  The  Trades  Union  voted 
that  this  building,  called  the  "  David  Hewes  building,"  was  the 
best.  After  the  earthquake  a  government  commission  was  ap- 
pointed to  examine  the  building  construction  in  San  Francisco, 
and  found  that  the  Call  Building  of  twenty-five  stories,  which 
stood  on  a  base  of  75x70  feet,  and  which  swung  back  and  forth 
at  the  time  of  the  earthquake  but  came  back  so  nearly  plumb 
that  the  elevator  could  run  the  next  day,  came  nearest  to  meeting 
the    proper    requirements    in    construction.       This    building   was 


248  DAVID  HEWES 

erected  by  the  Reid  Brothers  twelve  years  prior  to  the  earthquake. 
Because  of  their  former  experience  and  additional  knowledge  in 
building  acquired  after  the  earthquake  which  increased  their  abil- 
ity and  skill,  I  considered  myself  fortunate  in  securing  these  per- 
sonal friends  as  architects  for  my  new  building.  It  might  be  said 
here  that  this  building  is  exceedingly  artistic  and  graceful,  both 
externally  and  internally,  and  is  so  pronounced  by  all  observers. 


THE    BUILDING    OF    THE    CENTRAL    PACIFIC    RAILROAD 

After  completing  my  contract  work  in  1872  and  1873,  I  sold 
my  outfit  to  Harry  Villard  &  Company  when  they  were  build- 
ing the  Northern  Pacific  Railway  Company.  Having  lived  in 
Sacramento  from  1850  to  1853,  I  was  well  acquainted  with  Stan- 
ford, Hopkins,  Huntington,  and  the  two,Crockers  (Charles  and 
E.  B.),  who,  like  myself  were  engaged  in  mercantile  life,  and  who 
also  passed  through  the  floods  and  fires  of  '52  and  '53.  These 
merchants,  knowing  that  I  possessed  not  only  the  experience  but 
an  equipment  needed  in  railroad  building,  immediately  after  the 
bill  for  building  this  railroad  was  passed  by  Congress,  very 
strongly  solicited  me  to  join  with  them  in  the  construction  of  the 
Central  Pacific  Railroad.  Having  lost  my  fortune  in  Sacramento, 
and  having  a  well-established  business  in  San  Francisco,  and  with 
no  competition,  I  felt  as  though  I  had  a  mortgage  on  the  sand 
hills  and  bays  of  San  Francisco.  I  did  not  care  to  risk  my  pros- 
pects for  the  future,  and  all  of  my  property,  and  become  engaged 
in  the  proposed  railroad  enterprise.  However,  in  this  enterprise, 
from  its  inception  to  the  commencement  of  building  of  that  road, 
no  one  had  more  faith  or  confidence  in  its  speedy  completion  than 
myself. 

A>  evidence  of  in y  faith  in  the  building  of  the  Pacific  Railroad, 
five  yean  before  the  commencement  of  the  building  of  the  road, 
I  had  on  my  billhead  .a  picture  which  presented  not  only  my 
works  with  steam  shovels,  cars,  engines,  etc.,  but  also  a  view  of 
the  Sierra  Nevada  Mountains,  the  Truckee  River,  and  a  train 
of  ears  climbing  the  Sierras,  <>n  which  appeared  the  name  "  At- 
lantic and  Pacific  Railroad."  Also  a  moonlight  scene,  showing 
,in  Indi.in  camp,  and  a  train  of  passenger  ears  passing  up  the 
mountains.     On  the  end  of  the  last   car  was  the  note  "A.  &  P. 

K.    R."  which   meant   Atlantic    \m>   PAI  [PIC    ftAILEOAD.      In  a  cor- 


DAVID  HEWES  249 

ner  of  my  billhead,  I  had  the  sentiment:  "  The  Atlantic  and  Pacific 
Railroad,  the  Immediate  Want  of  the  Age  and  the  /'topic  of  the 
United  States." 

On  the  completion  of  the  railroad,  seeing  that  there  wis  no 
proper  sentiment  being  expressed  by  the  people  of  the  Pacific 
Coast,  and  especially  by  the  great  mining  industries  of  the  terri- 
tories through  which  this  railroad  passed,  it  came  to  be  my 
thought  that  the  Central  Pacific  and  Union  Pacific  should  not  be 
united  except  by  a  connecting  link  of  silver  rails.  The  two 
great  roads,  the  Central  Pacific  and  Union  Pacific,  connected  the 
two  great  oceans  which  then  and  for  all  future  time  must  carry 
the  commerce  of  the  world.  As  the  road  passed  over  the  noted 
gold  and  silver  belts,  and  was  a  matter  of  such  national  and 
local  importance  to  our  country  and  state,  I  thought  that  it 
would  naturally  create  some  sentiment  among  the  rich  men  of 
the  Comstock,  who  were  shipping  ton  upon  ton  of  silver  cast 
in  the  shape  of  bricks.  I  felt  hurt  and  mortified  that  there  was 
no  recognition  being  made  of  such  a  great  event.  At  the  last 
moment,  I  said,  "  There  was  one  last  thing  to  be  done,  a  last 
tie  and  a  last  spike  to  be  furnished  before  the  great  work  can 
be  finished."  As  an  individual,  I  presented  a  gold  spike  and 
polished  laurel  tie,12  with  a  silver  shield,  on  which  was  inscribed 
as  follows :  "  The  last  tie  which  unites  in  part,  and  helps  complete 
the  great  road  across  the  Continent."  The  spike  bore  the  in- 
scription on  four  sides  as  follows;  on  one  side:  "The  Central 
Pacific.  Ground  broken  Jan.  8th,  1863  —  Completed  May  10, 
1869."  Another  side:  "  Names  of  Directors:  Hon.  Leland  Stan- 
ford, Charles  Crocker,  Mark  Hopkins,  E.  H.  Miller,  Jr.,  C.  P. 
Huntington,  E.  B.  Crocker,  A.  P.  Stanford,  Charles  Marsh," 
Another  side:  "Officers:  Hon.  Leland  Stanford,  President:  C.  P. 
Huntington,  Vice-President;  E.  B.  Crocker,  Attorney;  Charles 
Crocker,  Superintendent;  Mark  Hopkins,  Treasurer;  E.  H.  Mil- 
ler, Jr.,  Sec. ;  S.  S.  Montague,  Chief  Engineer ;  S.  C.  Gray,  Con- 
sulting Engineer.  Presented  by  David  Hewes  of  San  Francisco." 
Another  side,  the  sentiment :  "  May  God  continue  the  unity  of  Our 

12  The  tie,  like  the  spike,  was  later  replaced  with  more  serviceable  mate- 
rial, and  was  long  kept  in  the  office  of  the  Southern  Pacific  Railroad  at  the 
corner  of  Fourth  and  Townsend  Streets,  where  it  was  finally  destroyed  dur- 
ing the  great  fire.  The  railroad  company  was  once  offered  $3,000  for  the 
tie,  the  intention  being  to  work  the  wood  into  souvenirs  for  sale. 


250  DAVID  HEWES 

Country  as  this  Railroad  unites  the  two  great  oceans  of  the 
world." 

Perhaps  it  is  due  to  mention  what  lead  to  my  giving  a  golden 
spike  to  complete  the  Central  &:  Union  Pacific  Railroads.  When 
a  boy  at  school,  I  remember  reading  of  Wyeth's  journey  across 
the  plains  to  Oregon.  During  my  early  residence  in  Sac- 
ramento I  numbered  among  my  acquaintance  the  leading  men 
and  early  settlers,  who  were  often  called  upon  to  extend  relief 
to  the  early  emigrants  who  came  across  the  plains.  The  emi- 
grants were  frequently  attacked  by  Indians,  and  suffered  from 
cholera  and  other  sickness.  These  early  acquaintances  had  of- 
ten been  called  upon  to  communicate  with  the  emigrants  and  to 
forward  provisions  and  other  means  to  bring  them  across  the 
mountains  to  the  end  of  their  long  journey.  We  early  felt  the 
importance  of  an  overland  railroad,  and  this  need  was  never  for- 
gotten. The  stage  line  early  established  was  soon  followed  by  the 
Overland  Pony  Express  to  bring  the  mail  by  horses  across  the 
country,  and  this  eventually  led  to  the  beginning  of  the  Overland 
Railroad.  The  act  of  Congress  granted  subsidies  of  land  to  the 
Central  Pacific  and  also  to  the  Union  Pacific.  General  Fremont 
during  his  campaign  aroused  great  enthusiasm  among  the  people 
of  the  Pacific  Coast,  regardless  of  their  political  views,  and  it  be- 
came of  such  national  importance  to  the  Government  that  both 
parties  urged  the  early  completion  of  the  roads.  The  question 
of  the  railroad  became  of  paramount  importance  to  all  of  the 
questions  of  the  day.  Ground  was  broken  for  the  Central  Pacific 
road  at  Sacramento  in  1862.  The  railroads,  once  begun,  were 
pushed  night  and  day  with  great  energy.  The  shovel  that  turned 
the  first  spade  of  dirt  is  preserved  in  a  glass  jar  in  the  Stanford 
museum  as  a  memento  of  thai  event,  as  is  also  the  first  shovelful 
of  dirt,  the  silver  hammer  used  in  driving  the  golden  spike,  the 
golden  spike  and  several  souvenir  rings  made  from  a  portion  of 
I  lie  spike  left  for  thai  purpose. 

My  Idling  in  regard  to  the  road  was  so  strong,  that  when 
solicited  by  The  Pacific,  a  Congregational  paper  established  in 
Sacramento  in  1860,  for  an  advertisement,  I  inserted  as  con- 
veying my  sentiments  regarding  this  railroad,  the  design  above 
d(  jcribed  as  being  upon  my  billheads.     It  occupied  a  space  of  two 

Columns    ill    width    and    aboul    six    inches    deep,    and    appeared    five 

years   before  the  Central   Pacific  was  talked  of.     I  often  joked 


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my  friends,  saying  they  stole  my  thunder,  and  went  on  and  built 
the  railroad.  As  the  road  neared  completion  the  people  of  San 
Francisco  began  making  preparations  for  a  suitable  celebration 
of  the  event.  I  had  hoped  that  the  silver  mining  interests  would 
contribute  a  pair  of  silver  rails,  sixteen  feet  long,  to  fill  the  last 
gap  in  the  line  and  over  which  both  engines  should  be  run.  Sena- 
tor Stanford's  brother,  E.  P.  Stanford,  was  appointed  to  act  as 
Marshal  of  the  occasion.  He  requested  me  to  ask  Leland,  his 
brother,  the  President  of  the  road,  what  signal  he  would  send 
him  when  the  road  was  completed.  I  conveyed  to  Senator  Stan- 
ford his  brother's  request,  and  at  the  same  time  suggested  to  him 
the  plan  of  attaching  a  wire  to  throw  over  the  company's  tele- 
graph line  and  thus  connecting  with  the  Golden  Spike,  and  have 
it  operate  in  some  way  like  a  telegraph  instrument,  so  that  sig- 
nals for  the  firing  of  heavy  guns  by  electricity  could  be  pro- 
duced. The  blows  of  the  hammer  striking  the  spike  would  have 
acted  as  a  telegraph  operator's  fingers  do  on  the  sending  instru- 
ments. I  consulted  with  officers  of  the  Western  Union  Telegraph 
Co.  as  to  the  probability  of  being  able  to  fire  cannon  by  electric- 
ity, and  of  firing  a  national  salute  from  Fort  Point  at  the 
entrance  of  the  Golden  Gate,  by  this  means.  I  also  consulted 
with  General  Ord  (commanding  on  the  Pacific  Coast)  with  regard 
to  the  matter.  Gen.  Ord  obtained  permission  from  Washington 
to  connect  the  telegraph  wires  with  the  parapet  guns  in  the  fort 
at  Fort  Point.  The  Telegraph  Company  ran  their  wires  about 
two  miles  to  make  a  connection  with  the  Fort,  and  a  telegraphic 
operator  was  sent  to  take  charge  of  the  wires  connected  with  the 
parapet  guns.  It  wras  also  in  my  mind  to  arrange  with  the  Gov- 
ernment officers  so  that  a  National  salute  should  be  fired  from 
cannons  placed  on  Alcatraz  Island,  a  fort  in  the  harbor,  as  the 
officers  there  would  quickly  observe  the  flash  of  the  gun  on  Fort 
Point.  This  National  salute  would  give  notice  to  the  whole  city 
and  prove  to  be  a  national  and  worthy  recognition  of  the  great 
event  of  building  these  two  roads. 

I  remember  that  Secretary  Seward,  who  came  over  the  road 
to  San  Francisco  in  July,  following  the  completion  of  the  road, 
speaking  from  the  balcony  of  the  Occidental  Hotel,  predicted  that 
there  would  be  five  great  trans-continental  railroads,  and  his 
prophecy  has  long  since  come  time.  It  was  to  Secretary  Seward 
that  I  presented  a  symbolic  gold  ring,  made  from  the  gold  nugget 


252  DAVID  HEWES 

which  I  had  moulded  on  the  end  of  the  spike,  for  the  purpose 
of  making  souvenirs  of  the  great  event  marking  the  completion 
of  the  road.  The  ring  was  made  with  two  oval  shaped  emblems, 
one  made  of  California  gold  quartz,  and  the  other  of  quartz  con- 
taining moss-agate,  which  was  found  in  the  Rocky  Mountains ; 
the  gold  quartz  representing  the  Central  Pacific,  and  the  moss- 
agate  the  Union  Pacific.  On  presenting  the  Senator  with  this 
ring,  he  modestly  pointed  to  his  shirt  bosom,  saying,  "  Mr.  Hewes, 
you  see  that  I  wear  nothing  but  pearl  buttons ;  I  have  never  in- 
dulged in  any  jewelry,  but  if  you  tell  me  this  is  made  from  a  part 
of  the  gold  spike  which  completed  the  roads  which  I  have  long 
hoped  for  and  advocated,  I  pledge  you,  I  shall  always  wear  it." 
As  at  that  time  I  was  planning  to  visit  Europe  for  medical  ad- 
vice, he  offered  me  letters  to  the  various  American  ministers  at 
the  European  Courts,  which  afterward  proved  of  service  to  me. 
Secretary  Seward  expressed  much  concern  for  my  health,  and 
pressed  me  to  write  him  as  to  my  condition  later.  A  year  or  two 
later  my  pleasure  at  meeting  him  in  Paris,  where  he  was  accom- 
panied by  his  daughter,  was  much  marred  by  his  condition.  Sad 
to  say,  his  hands  and  arms  were  resting  in  a  sling,  having  been 
paralyzed. 

The  last  railroad  tie  and  the  spike  were  taken  up  and  replaced 
with  an  iron  spike  and  common  redwood  tie.  This  tie  required 
replacing  very  often,  as  visitors  would  cut  chips  from  it  with 
their  knives,  or  kick  up  splinters  with  their  shoes  or  hob-nail 
boots,  and  save  them  as  souvenirs. 

T  j) resented  the  gold  spike  to  Gov.  Stanford,  as  a  compliment  to 
tin  Central  Pacific  Railroad,  and  after  he  had  taken  as  much  of 
the  nugget  as  he  required  to  make  certain  souvenirs,  it  was  re- 
turned to  me  and  by  me  eventually  presented  to  the  Stanford  Mu- 
seum 'it   the   time  my  art  collection  found  location  there. 

In  August  following  the  completion  of  the  road,  after  an  ab- 
bi  ace  <>f  twenty  years,  I  visited  my  old  home  in  Lvnnfield,  Mass., 
and  sought  medical  advice  in  Boston.  When  I  returned  to  Cali- 
fornia in  November,  1869,  I  was  accompanied  by  relatives  and 
friends,  eighteen  in  number,  some  of  whom  became  permanent 
residents   of  California. 

M  v  business  cares  were  greatly  increased  on  my  return,  as  I 
bad  undertaken  the  contract  to  grade  the  City  Hall  lot  of  seven- 
ton    acres.      Before    I    gave   up   my   contracting  business,   I  was 


DAVID  HEWES  253 

obliged  to  visit  Europe.  In  August,  1870,  I  went  to  Vienna  by 
the  advice  of  my  friend,  that  distinguished  physician  and  surgeon, 
Dr.  Levi  C.  Lane,  who  gave  me  letters  of  introduction  to  Prof. 
Billroth  and  Prof.  Hebra  for  special  treatment  for  a  serious 
cutaneous  trouble  on  my  face.  Although  this  seemed  to  be  a  type 
of  epithelioma  the  treatment  proved  successful. 

It  was  a  great  disappointment  to  me  to  so  soon  leave  my  rel- 
atives, who  had  come  by  my  advice  to  California  with  the  hope  in 
view  of  better  prospects  in  a  new  country.  Before  my  departure, 
considering  the  uncertainty  of  human  life,  I  arranged  with  pru- 
dence and  forethought  my  affairs. 

On  my  trip  abroad  I  took  my  much  esteemed  nephew,  Rev.  G. 
S.  Abbott,  his  mother  my  favorite  sister,  and  his  father.  I  also 
took  my  brother  Charles,  who  had  been  suffering  for  a  year  or 
two  from  nervous  breakdown,  brought  on  by  the  cares  of  the 
school  he  had  so  ably  managed  for  nine  years.  Dr.  Abbott  was 
only  able  to  spend  his  three  months'  vacation  with  us,  as  his  church 
work  required  his  return.  My  sister  and  brother-in-law  remained 
with  me  the  best  part  of  the  year,  when  they  were  also  obliged  to 
return  home.  After  recovering  my  health  I  spent  part  of  the 
year  in  traveling,  visiting  twenty  or  more  important  provinces 
and  countries  of  the  continent  as  well  as  England,  Wales,  and 
Scotland.  I  returned  to  California  in  February  of  1872,  and 
turned  my  attention  to  improving  my  property.  I  also  assisted 
many  friends  in  various  callings  and  business  pursuits  which  they 
had  embarked  in. 

In  1874  I  became  interested  in  the  Seattle  Coal  Company,  and 
having  a  majority  of  the  stock  outstanding,  deemed  it  best  to 
give  the  mining  operations  as  much  of  my  attention  as  though 
I  was  sole  owner.  I  spent  the  last  half  of  that  year  at  the 
mine  13  and  constructed  and  reconstructed  a  line  of  rail  from  the 

is  The  following  description  of  this  property  may  prove  of  interest  to  the 
reader.  The  clipping  is  from  a  newspaper  of  1874.  under  the  head  of  Seattle 
Correspondence : 

"  The  mines  of  the  Seattle  Coal  Company  at  the  present  time  demand 
more  than  a  passing  notice.  They  embrace  some  thousand  acres  of  coal  land, 
with  veins  of  varying  thickness  running  through  it,  two  of  which  are  open 
and  a  third  in  part.  The  improved  transportation  facilities  are  now  com- 
pleted, or  nearly  so,  under  the  direction  of  David  Hewes,  who  has  during 
the  last  Summer  performed  a  herculean  task,  and  has  done  it  well.  Ample 
bunker  room  at  the  mines,  with  all  necessary  and  desirable  screens  and  fa- 
cilities, have  been  provided;  three  and  a  half  miles  of  track  from  the  mines 
to   the  Lake  have   been  laid,   with  T   rail,   with   good   grades,   curves,  turn- 


254  DAVID  HEAVES 

mine  to  Lake  Washington.  This  construction  work  included 
building  of  tramways,  a  barge  to  carry  the  coal,  a  railway  across 
the  isthmus  between  Lakes  Union  and  Washington,  and  facilities 
for  loading  steamships.  I  found  my  associates  unwilling  and  un- 
able to  carry  on  their  share  of  the  undertaking.  I  did  not 
relish  association  with  men  who  were  unwilling  to  leave  matters 
in  my  hands,  although  looking  to  me  to  develop  the  property. 
Also  I  discovered  that  during  my  absence  certain  unfair  con- 
tracts had  been  made,  concerning  mining  and  freighting  the  coal, 
which  would  have  left  no  profit.  Therefore  I  offered  to  sell  out 
at  what  my  investment  stood  me,  and  did  so.  Before  the  trans- 
action was  completed  the  control  of  the  property  passed  to  the 
Villard  interests  in  the  Northern  Pacific  Railroad.  These  in- 
terests attempted  to  "  freeze  out "  the  minority  shareholders  who, 
however,  from  a  beneficent  provision  of  the  California  statutes, 
were  protected,  and  received  compensation  equal  to  what  the  ma- 
jority interest  had  cost.  This  was  one  of  the  most  trying  expe- 
riences of  my  life,  as  my  investment  was  large  and  the  management 
of  affairs  was  not  wholly  satisfactory  to  me.  The  mines  have 
since  been  operated  by  the  Northern  Pacific  Company. 

Early  in  the  spring  of  1865,  Mrs.  Matilda  C.  Gray  and  her 
daughter  visited  the  Pacific  Coast  for  a  part  of  the  year.  The 
acquaintance  I  then  made  ripened  into  a  very  great  friendship 
and  culminated  in  our  engagement  and  marriage.     We  were  mar- 

tables,  sidetracks,  and  switches  whenever  needed,  and  an  engine  placed  there, 
and  now  in  readiness  for  work.  The  cars  are  run  down  an  incline  to  the 
Lake,  and  conveyed  across  on  the  steamer  Chehalis,  to  the  putage  so  called, 
at  which  place  they  are  taken  from  the  steamer,  by  another  engine  and 
drawn  across  the  portage,  and  upon  the  steamer  Lina  C.  Gray,  and  by  it 
cars  and  engine  taken  across  Lake  Union  and.  by  the  engine  mentioned,  the 
cars   an-   taken   to   the   chute  at   Seattle.     When   vessels   are   ready,  the  coal  is 

deposited   in   them   fr the  same  cars   that   left  the  mines.     The  entire  track 

is  Iron  rail,  and  the  appointments  are  such  that  one  hundred  and  fifty  tons 
per  day  can  be  readily  taken  to  tide  water,  and  double  that  amount  when 
the  contemplated  steamer  is  dune.  Mr.  Hewes  deserves  credit  for  his  un- 
tiring perseverance  In  carrying  through  the  transportation  improvement  work 
committed  to  him  by  the  company.  When  he  shall  render  his  account,  they 
will  lie  compelled  to  pronounce  tin-  verdict  well  done.  The  Seattle  mines  are 
now  a  success.  An  experienced  Superintendent,  Mr.  Jones  of  Pennsylvania, 
has  arrived,  and  is  commencing  the  work  of  setting  the  concern  in  operation 
from  one  r\\A  to  the  other.     Life,  activity  and  promise  prevail. 

"Ill,      tlentOIl    Coal    mines    may     also    be    pr need    a     success.      The    new 

beamer   for  towing  all   necessary   barges  is  already   afloat,  and  will  soon  do 
all  necessary  service  it)  the  li n<-  of  water  transportation.     Mr.  Shattuck,  with 
hi,  u  uai  tut  and  quiel  perseverance,  is  carrying  everything  forward  to  suc- 
,1  completion." 


DAVID  HEWES  255 

ried    at    Saratoga    Springs,    in    1875,    by    Rev.    G.    S.    Abbott. 

We  began  our  wedding  trip  by  sailing  down  the  Hudson.  We 
visited  the  Catskills  and  West  Point  and  other  places  of  in- 
terest on  our  way  to  New  York,  where  we  were  entertained  by 
friends,  both  in  New  York  and  Brooklyn,  which  had  been  my 
wife's  residence  for  many  years.  Thence,  in  company  with  my 
wife's  daughter  and  sister  Rosa,  we  toured  England,  inspect  ing 
many  places  of  interest.  We  passed  from  England  to  the  Conti- 
nent, visiting  the  most  prominent  cities  and  places  of  twenty-two 
different  countries,  seeking  rest  and  health  for  Mrs.  Hewes.  On 
this,  my  second,  tour  to  Europe  we  took  notes  of  such  objects 
of  artistic  value  which  Ave  thought  we  might  like  to  purchase  be- 
fore our  return.  At  that  time  we  visited  Egypt,  Palestine,  Greece 
and  Italy,  and  on  our  return  from  those  places  had  planned  to 
spend  the  winter  in  the  south  of  France.  Mrs.  Hewes'  suggestion 
that  I  could  improve  my  time  better  than  spending  it  quietly  at 
some  resort,  had  led  me,  while  in  Jerusalem,  to  invite  Dr.  Abbott 
to  join  me.  Dr.  Abbott  for  seven  years  had  prepared  the  Bap- 
tist National  Sunday  School  Question  Book.  I  wrote  to  Dr. 
Abbott  that  if  he  would  resign  his  pastorate  and  come  for  rest 
and  study  for  a  year  I  would  pay  his  expenses.  I  extended  this 
invitation  to  him  in  the  early  spring,  and  he  came  over  in  Decem- 
ber. We  made  the  trip  up  the  Nile,  visited  Jerusalem  and  its 
environment,  the  Dead  Sea,  Jordan,  and  all  the  celebrated  and 
sacred  places,  including  a  journey  to  Galilee  and  Damascus. 
Important  members  of  our  party  were  the  distinguished  Biblical 
scholar,  Dr.  Philip  Schaff  and  Mrs.  Schaff,  the  latter  remaining 
under  my  charge  while  her  husband  journeyed  into  the  desert. 
Dr.  Schaff  was  president  of  the  American  Committee  for  the  re- 
vision of  the  Authorized  Version  of  the  Bible.  I  have  always 
felt  that  this  visit  to  the  East,  during  which  we  traversed  so  large 
a  portion  of  the  countries  so  closely  associated  with  the  Bible 
narratives,  was  one  of  the  most  important  and  interesting  periods 
of  my  life.  Such  accomplished  Biblical  students  as  Dr.  Schaff 
and  Dr.  Abbott  made  the  journey  so  instructive  that  my  apprecia- 
tion and  understanding  of  the  sacred  writings  could  not  but  be 
greatly  stimulated  and  broadened.  This  journey  afforded  Dr. 
Abbott  constant  inspiration,  and  during  his  after  life  it  was  fre- 
quently referred  to  by  him. 

At  the  conclusion  of  our  travels  in  the  Holy  Land,  we  took 


2,56  DAVID  HEWES 

the  steamer  at  Sidon  for  Alexandria,  thence  proceeded  to  Brindisi, 
and  by  way  of  Genoa,  Naples,  and  other  Italian  cities  to  Mentone 
where  my  wife  was  staying.  On  this  trip  I  collected  many  works 
of  art,  as  I  did  also  while  visiting  the  Carrara  Mountains,  where 
we  selected  some  choice  statuary.  At  the  time  of  my  second  mar- 
riage I  presented  this  collection  to  my  wife  as  a  wedding  gift, 
with  the  request  that  she  would  bequeath  it  to  the  Stanford 
Museum  as  a  memorial  to  her  and  myself. 

On  our  return  from  Europe  in  the  fall  of  1877  we  settled  in 
Oakland,  where  we  continued  until  June,  1881.  Both  Mrs.  Hewes 
and  her  daughter  were  highly  gifted  ladies,  and  our  home,  because 
of  their  interest  in  such  matters  and  our  collections,  became 
the  meeting  place  of  the  two  French  sections  of  the  Ebell  Society, 
devoted  to  the  study  of  art  and  literature.  When,  in  1879,  the 
City  Council  of  Oakland  entertained  President  Hayes,  the  Presi- 
dent and  Mrs.  Hayes  were  the  guests  of  the  Ebell  Society  which 
selected  our  home  to  entertain  them.  President  Hayes  was  the 
first  President  of  the  United  States  to  visit  the  Pacific  Coast, 
and  Mrs.  Hayes  was  pleased  to  tell  us  that  she  had  never  been 
more  graciously  entertained.  Not  long  after,  General  Grant, 
returning  from  his  tour  of  the  world,  visited  San  Francisco  and 
Oakland.  His  ship  was  met  at  dusk  by  a  fleet  of  brilliantly  illumi- 
nated vessels  which  escorted  him  through  the  Golden  Gate.  Both 
cities  vied  in  doing  him  honor,  and  San  Francisco  was  gor- 
geously illuminated.  At  Oakland  the  schools  were  closed  and 
thousands  of  school  children,  dressed  in  white,  strewed  the  way 
with  flowers  for  him  to  ride  and  walk  over.  The  scene  was  most 
impressive  and  beautiful.  The  city  council,  chamber  of  com- 
merce, and  other  associations  entertained  him  after  a  great  public 
reception  and  dinner  at  the  Tubbs  Hotel. 

During  "in-  residence  in  Oakland  I  was  invited  to  stand  for 
election  to  the  Oakland  Council,  and  at  first  declined.  The  bet- 
ter judgment  of  my  wife,  who  thought  it  my  duty  as  a  citizen  to 
do  mv  pari  toward  helping  make  good  laws  and  preserving  good 
order  tor  the  people  among  whom  I  lived,  influenced  me  to  accept 
t  he  nominal  ion. 

I  u.i>  elected,  and  appointed  chairman  of  the  Judiciary  Com- 

mittee.       At    thai    time   the  validity  of  the   title  to   the  water  front 
was    ill    dispute.      The    Southern    Pacific    in    its    earliest   days    had 

located  there,  having  acquired  a  title  by  legislative  act  and  the 


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DAVID  HEWES  257 

acts  of  the  Oakland  municipality.  A  provision  of  their  location 
was  the  passing  of  a  perfect  title,  and  expenditure  by  the  rail- 
road of  $500,000  on  improvements.  When  the  town  was  yet  in 
embryo,  Mr.  Carpentier  attempted  to  acquire  title  to  the  entire 
water  front,  for  he  perceived  its  great  future  possibilities,  and 
had  obtained  certain  privileges  in  exchange  for  erecting  a  school- 
house  for  the  town,  upon  which  he  based  a  claim  to  the  water 
front.  An  agitation  had  also  been  begun,  encouraged  by  certain 
papers,  which  had  lead  squatters  to  locate  along  the  shore.  As 
chairman  of  a  committee  especially  charged  with  investigation 
of  this  matter,  I  carefully  examined  into  the  existing  conditions. 
Upon  reaching  a  conclusion,  supported  by  the  best  citizens  and 
heaviest  taxpayers  of  the  city,  whose  property  would  have  been 
liable  to  meet  the  expense  of  a  long  and  useless  litigation  in 
attempting  to  undo  what  had  already  been  done,  I  refused  to 
yield  to  the  solicitations  of  the  politicians  and  lawyers,  who  de- 
sired to  commence  proceedings  to  recover  the  water  front,  and  to 
recommend,  as  chairman  of  the  Judiciary  Committee,  any  action 
whatever  to  be  taken  by  the  Council.  Such  action  would  have 
unsettled  and  lessened  the  value  of  the  undeveloped  lots  along  the 
water  front,  then  in  great  demand  for  building  large  docks,  etc. 
Most  of  this  was  already  lost  to  the  city  beyond  any  question. 
Great  sums  were  spent  on  this  question  of  the  title,  which  caused 
Oakland  to  lose  that  which  would  have  contributed  largely  toward 
the  support  of  the  city.  In  order  to  carry  their  point,  the  fac- 
tion seeking  further  legal  proceedings  persuaded  a  certain  mem- 
ber to  resign  from  the  Council,  whose  place  was  filled  by  a  man 
favorable  to  their  project,  and  upon  whose  election  a  reorganiza- 
tion of  committees  was  brought  about.  In  the  end  this  party 
failed  to  carry  out  their  object,  which  was  to  secure  a  huge  com- 
pensation for  the  dismissal  of  the  suit.  The  very  parties  who  were 
to  urge  these  suits,  finding  they  could  not  accomplish  their  purpose 
of  depriving  the  railroad  and  others  of  their  rights,  drew  up  an  or- 
dinance for  the  purpose  of  settling  them  and  asked  me  to  introduce 
it,  being  ashamed  to  introduce  it  themselves,  but  I  refused  to  be 
connected  with  any  such  transaction.  The  matter  was  finally 
settled  by  the  railroad  company  paying  $1200,  the  costs  incurred 
in  getting  a  judicial  settlement.  This  was  my  first  and  I  hope 
my  last  experience  in  political  life. 

In   1878,  Rev.  Granville  Sharp  Abbott  accepted  the  pastorate 


258  DAVID  HEWES 

of  the  First  Baptist  Church  in  San  Francisco,  and  brought  out 
his  family.  He  came  to  be  a  power  in  the  church,  as  will  be  seen 
by  referring  to  the  sketch  of  his  life  by  his  friend,  Mr.  William 
H.  Barnes. 

In  June,  1881,  Mrs.  Hewes  and  myself,  accompanied  by  her 
physician,  visited  Southern  California,  hoping  there  to  find  a  cli- 
mate favorable  to  Mrs.  Hewes'  health.  After  some  search  we 
found  a  pleasant  home  in  Tustin,  which  we  rented.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Bartlett  and  ourselves  purchased  lands  and  built  adjoining 
houses.  The  dryness  of  the  atmosphere  and  salubrious  climate 
proved  efficacious  in  prolonging  Mrs.  Hewes'  life  for  six  years, 
during  which  time  I  bought  the  ranch  upon  which  I  now  live.  In 
the  beautiful  village  of  Tustin  there  was  no  Presbyterian  Church. 
Mrs.  Hewes  felt  that  in  all  probabilities  this  place  would  be  her 
last  home,  and  desired  to  do  something  toward  building  a  small 
church.  Complying  with  her  sentiments,  which  accorded  with  my 
own,  I  undertook  this  work.  Mrs.  Hewes  purchased  a  lot  from  a 
friend  who  had  been  unable  to  build  upon  it,  and  with  the  assist- 
ance of  friends  in  San  Francisco  and  Oakland,  who  contributed 
money  and  materials  of  various  kinds,  and  of  residents  of  Tustin 
who  contributed  $700,  we  accomplished  the  work.  We  erected 
a  small  but  sufficiently  commodious  church  at  a  cost  of  $4,000. 
This  church  has  always  been  free  from  debt.  It  was  dedicated 
in  October,  1884,  there  being  twenty-nine  members.  I  am  still 
a  member  of  this  church,  of  which  I  was  one  of  the  original  trus- 
tees. 

Mrs.  Hewes  felt  that  the  erection  of  this  church  would  be  of 
especial  benefit  to  the  young  people  of  Tustin,  and  that  it  would 
contribute  greatly  toward  the  future  good  of  the  place.  The 
congregation  of  children  and  young  people  attending  there  the 
past  twenty  Years  shows  how  well  Mrs.  llewes'  expectations  have 
been  realized.  The  Sunday  school  now  lias  a  membership  roll 
of  125,  A  picture  of  this  church  and  of  our  Tustin  home,  which 
I   have  preserved   in  sweel    remembrance  of  my  wife,  appears  in 

the  Hewes  Genealogy.  When  the  Sunday  school  was  organized 
I  presented  it  with  a  small  library,  and  every  book  added  to  that 
library  was  first    read  by  Mrs.  Hewes,  in  order  that    its  suitability 

for  voung  readers  should  he  determined. 

Prior  to  the  dedication  of  the  Presbyterian  church  in  Santa 

Ana    the   church    there   had    worshiped    in   a   hall.       Santa    Ana    was 


PRESBYTERIAN   (  III  RCII   AT  TUSTIN 


DAVID  HEWES  259 

much  older  than  Tustin,  and  some  of  the  enterprising  citizens 
of  that  place,  who  were  members  of  the  church,  desired  to  have 
a  church  building  of  their  own.  They  solicited  our  aid  to  help 
erect  one  on  a  lot  already  purchased  through  the  efforts  of  the 
ladies  of  the  church.  Again  our  friends  in  San  Francisco  con- 
tributed toward  that  end,  and  soon  Santa  Ana  had  a  very  nice 
little  church.  The  congregation  now  possesses  a  fine  building 
costing  from  $30,000  to  $40,000,  which  I  think  is  fully  paid 
for.  While  on  the  subject  of  churches,  I  might  mention  that  dur- 
ing the  years  1886-88  there  was  an  attempt  to  make  El  Modena 
the  chief  Quaker  settlement  in  Southern  California.  The  com- 
munity built  a  comfortable  and  commodious  church  on  land  ad- 
joining my  ranch,  and  I  presented  the  church  with  a  bell.  The 
settlement  at  Whittier,  a  place  named  after  the  poet  Whittier, 
and  only  twelve  miles  from  Los  Angeles,  proved  to  be  better  lo- 
cated for  the  purposes  of  the  people  interested  in  forming  the 
settlement,  and  the  Whittier  advocates  succeeded  in  attracting 
numbers  of  that  denomination.  There  a  college  has  been  estab- 
lished in  which  candidates  for  their  pastorates  are  educated,  and 
it  has  a  most  encouraging  outlook  to  become  the  greatest  in- 
stitution of  its  kind  in  Southern  California. 

On  my  first  visit  with  Mr.  Bartlett  to  Tustin  and  Santa  Ana, 
we  were  shown  the  ranch,  consisting  of  about  800  acres,  which 
I  afterwards  purchased,  and  which  gave  me  pleasant  occupation 
after  my  previous  active  life.  This  ranch,  which  is  situated 
about  two  and  one-half  miles  northeast  of  Tustin,  and  but  two 
miles  east  of  Orange,  I  began  in  March,  1882,  to  develop  by 
planting  grapevines.  I  planted  the  Malaga  raisin  grape,  which 
was  just  then  being  planted,  as  we  found  it  was  acclimated  and 
the  soil  suitable.  The  first  raisins  ever  made  in  California  were 
made  by  Robert  McPherson  on  land  adjoining  my  ranch.  At 
first  it  was  very  difficult  to  introduce  these  raisins  in  the  eastern 
market.  The  California  growers,  however,  because  of  the  quality 
and  quantity  of  their  product,  gradually  gained  a  favorable  mar- 
ket, until  after  ten  years,  the  eastern  markets  bought  our  raisins 
almost  exclusively.  Since  then  California  has  largely  supplied 
the  home  demand  for  raisins.  I  planted  about  500  acres,  mostly 
in  Malaga  grapes.  I  also  planted  at  that  time  50  acres  of 
apricots,  and  50  acres  of  prunes  and  ten  acres  of  pears.  Before 
long  a  disease  attacked  all  the  vineyards  of  Los  Angeles,  Orange, 


260  DAVID  HEWES 

and  largely  Riverside  counties.  Not  knowing,  and  being  unable 
to  find  out  the  nature  of  the  disease,  we  were  unable  to  check  it. 
For  several  years  our  vineyards  produced  less  and  less,  until  they 
did  not  pay  the  expense  of  production,  when  most  of  us  took  out 
all  our  vines.  We  then  planted  lemons  and  oranges,  and  olives 
and  walnuts,  which  are  now  the  staple  product  of  Southern 
California. 

In  1890,  while  in  Europe  on  a  trip  with  my  second  wife,  I  had 
to  take  out  every  vine  on  some  four  hundred  acres,  and  after- 
ward every  acre  of  prunes,  apricots  and  pears.  I  bought  ad- 
jacent land.  My  bearing  vineyard,  producing  raisins  at  the 
rate  of  $400  per  acre,  I  had  to  dig  up,  in  three  or  four  years, 
leaving  the  land  worth  only  $20  or  $30  an  acre,  its  value  for 
producing  hay  and  grain.  To  restore  my  ranch  I  purchased 
fifty  thousand  young  orange  trees,  putting  them  in  nursery, 
and  budding  them  at  the  end  of  one  or  two  years  to  oranges  and 
lemons.  At  one  or  two  years  old  the  trees  were  large  enough  to  be 
placed  in  orchard.  I  began  restoration  of  my  land,  mostly  with 
orange  and  lemon  groves,  and  now  have  nearly  three  hundred  acres 
in  lemons,  and  two  hundred  and  fifty  in  oranges,  which  are 
largely  Valencias  and  Washington  Navels,  besides  what  I  am 
now  planting  to  oranges.  I  have  also  seventy-five  acres  in  olives, 
most  of  which  I  shall  replace  with  lemons,  and  thirty  acres  in 
walnuts,  and  the  rest  of  my  seven  hundred  and  twenty  acres  I 
keep  for  hay  and  grain  for  my  stock.  My  ranch  is  beautifully 
located  adjacent  to  the  foothills  of  Orange  County,  and  almost 
entirely  in  the  "  Frostless  Belt."  It  has  an  abundance  of  irriga- 
ble water,  which  costs  not  over  $1.50  to  $2  an  acre  a  year  for  all 
irrigating  purposes. 

During  the  year  following  Mrs.  Hewes'  death,  which  occurred 
in  January,  1887,  I  continued  to  make  Tustin  my  home,  look- 
ing after  my  Tustin  and  ranch  property.  My  wife's  daughter, 
Mrs.  Bart  let  t.  removed  to  Santa  Ana  and  I  returned  to  San  Fran- 
cisco, employing  a  manager  for  my  ranch,  which  I  was  able  to 
\  fail   only  a   few  times  a  year. 

On  my  return  from  Europe  in  1877  I  brought  to  Miss  Lathrop 

and  her  sister,  Mrs.  Stanford,  many  souvenirs  which  I  had  col- 
lected.      After  niv    return   to  Oakland   in   1888,  I  built  a  new  gal- 

lery  for  my  own  collections,  Dot,  however,  intending  to  make  a 
public  exhibit,  though  it  was  always  open  to  my  friends.     The 


DAVID  HE  WES  261 

desire  of  Miss  Lathrop  to  see  the  gallery  proved  the  renewal  of 
former  pleasant  days  of  our  acquaintance  and  friendship  in 
Sacramento,  where  she  had  been  a  member  of  the  Stanford  fain- 
ily. 

Miss  Lathrop  became  my  wife  June  11,  1889,  being  given  away 
by  Governor  Stanford,  at  whose  San  Francisco  residence  we 
were  married  by  Rev.  Dr.  Abbott  and  Rev.  Dr.  McKenzie. 

Not  satisfied  with  delightfully  entertaining  us,  the  Governor 
placed  his  private  car  at  our  disposal  for  our  wedding  trip  across 
the  continent.  We  visited  Albany,  the  early  home  of  Mrs.  Hewes, 
and  of  Governor  and  Mrs.  Stanford.  At  New  York  Mrs.  Hewes 
experienced  great  pleasure  in  meeting  her  many  friends  there, 
but  on  June  27th  we  sailed  for  the  Old  World  and  landed  at 
Southampton  on  the  4th  of  July.  During  the  remainder  of  the 
year  Ave  visited  the  principal  and  most  interesting  places  in  nearly 
a  score  of  European  states,  but  January  found  us  journeying 
up  the  Nile.  It  was  on  this  occasion  that  I  purchased  the  three 
ancient  mummies,  in  exceptionally  beautiful  mummy  cases,  which 
I  presented  to  Mrs.  Stanford  for  her  museum  at  Palo  Alto.  On 
reaching  Cairo  on  our  return  journey  we  found  a  draft  which 
Mrs.  Stanford  asked  us  to  use  in  purchasing  casts  of  the  best 
subjects  of  Egyptian  antiquities  for  the  museum  at  Leland 
Stanford  Junior  University.  Returning  to  Europe  we  spent  the 
greater  part  of  the  year  there,  and  were  fortunate  to  be  able 
to  witness  the  Passion  Play  at  Oberammergau.  While  on  our  way 
home  we  received  a  telegram  from  Senator  Stanford  inviting  us 
to  meet  him  and  Mrs.  Stanford  at  the  Bristol  Hotel  in  London 
where  a  pleasant  week  was  spent  as  their  guests.  Among  our 
London  friends  was  Mr.  Childers,  a  member  of  Mr.  Gladstone's 
cabinet.  Mr.  Childers  while  on  a  journey  around  the  world 
had  been  entertained  by  Senator  Stanford  at  San  Francisco,  on 
which  occasion,  because  of  the  illness  of  Mrs.  Stanford,  Mrs. 
Hewes  had  joined  with  the  Senator  in  extending  social  courtesies. 
We  in  turn  were  now  placed  under  obligations  to  Mr.  Childers 
who  took  much  pleasure  in  arranging  our  itinerary  for  further 
exploration  of  the  interesting  historic  places  of  England. 
Through  him  too,  we  received  invitations  to  a  Parliamentary 
session  at  which  Mr.  Gladstone  was  to  speak,  and  also  to  Mr. 
Gladstone's  Golden  Wedding.  We  were  also  afforded  the  oppor- 
tunity of  meeting  many  noted  people  and  of  visiting  interesting 


262  DAVID  HEWES 

places,  such  as  Windsor  Castle  and  Hawarden  u  under  very  favor- 
able auspices. 

Returning  to  America  we  visited  ni}r  birthplace  and  the  first 
American  home  of  Mrs.  Hewes'  ancestor,  Rev.  John  Lathrop,  at 
Scituate,  also  Mrs.  Searles,  formerly  Mrs.  Mark  Hopkins,  at 
her  palatial  residence  at  Great  Barrington.  She  was  the  widow 
of  Mark  Hopkins,  who  had  been  associated  with  Gov.  Stanford 
and  the  Crockers  in  building  the  overland  railroad. 

We  were  especially  interested  in  the  visit  to  the  home  of  Rev. 
John  Lathrop.  He  was  the  progenitor  of  a  long  line  of  dis- 
tinguished Americans.  He  came  to  New  England  in  the  same 
ship  which  bore  my  own  ancestor,  Lt.  Joshua  Hewes,  to  these 
shores. 

Mrs.  Hewes  while  fully  appreciating  the  benefit  derived  from 
a  line  of  noble  ancestry,  by  no  means  placed  undue  stress  upon 
such  matters.  Not  long  after  her  death  an  article  appeared  in 
the  Overland  Monthly  for  January,  1896,  written  by  Mr.  Frank 
Elliott  Myers,  entitled  "  Our  Colonial  Dames,"  from  which  I  have 
caused  to  be  made  the  following  abstract:  "The  late  Mrs. 
Anna  Lathrop  Hewes'  Colonial  inheritance  was  of  the  highest 
quality,  added  to  which  she  possessed  a  lofty  personal  character 
and  true  womanhood  that  would  have  made  her  association  with 
the  Colonial  Dames  greatly  to  be  desired.  Coming  from  long 
lines  of  Colonial  and  Revolutionary  patriots  both  on  the  paternal 
and  maternal  sides,  Mrs.  Hewes,  soon  after  its  organization  be- 
came a  life  member  of  the  National  Society  Daughters  of  the 
American  Revolution,  and  by  that  body  was  tendered  its  appoint- 
ment of  first  regent  of  Sequoia  Chapter  of  San  Francisco,  but 
owing  to  illness  she  was  obliged  to  decline.  Her  marriage  with 
Mr.  Hewes  not  only  augmented  those  patriotic  claims  she  had 
by  inheritance,  but  connected  her  with  a  line  of  royal  ancestry. 
The  family  of  Hewes  lB  shows  itself  to  be  of  royal  Welsh  origin, 
and  according  to  Burke's  Peerage,  to  have  sprung  from  Gwaith 
Y.uil  Ilawr,  king  of  Gwent  and  Prince  of  Cardigan,  and  from 
Bleythn  ap  Cynyn,  prince  of  Powis.  It  is  also  of  the  line  of 
Hwfa   ap   Cynddola,   lord   of   Llys   Llifon    (living   in   the   time   of 

11  In   the   Hewes  collection   presented   t<>   Stanford   University  Museum  is 
:m  ,i\  unci-  used  by  Gladstone,  together  with  chips  which  fell  from  it.    Mr. 
Hewes  has  other  Interesting  mementoes  of  the  great  statesman,  of  whom  be 
i    Incere  •■uimirrr. 
e  Introduction, 


DAVID  HEWES  263 

Owsa  Gwynedd,  prince  of  North  Wales,  who  died  in  1170)  \sho 
was  founder  of  the  noble  tribe  of  Wales  from  whom  the  English 
lines  take  descent." 

Our  home  in  San  Francisco  was  at  the  corner  of  Van  Ness  and 
Pacific  Avenues,  where  Mrs.  Hewes  had  lived  since  her  mother's 
death,  which  took  place  in  Albany,  N.  Y.  With  us  lived  mv  irife's 
brother,  Mr.  Charles  G.  Lathrop,  whose  motherless  daughter, 
Jennie  Stanford  Lathrop,  was  the  light  and  joy  of  our  home. 
After  the  death  of  Mrs.  Hewes  her  niece  became  a  member  of  her 
aunt  Stanford's  family,  and  by  her  was  educated  at  the  convent 
in  San  Jose,  and  after  her  marriage  to  Mr.  Walter  C.  R.  Watson 
came  to  reside  in  Los  Angeles.  Mrs.  Hewes'  health  began  to  fail 
about  the  time  of  the  dedication  of  Leland  Stanford,  Jr.,  L'ni- 
versity,  and  she  passed  away  at  San  Francisco  2  Aug.,  1892, 
during  the  absence  of  her  sister  in  Europe. 

It  was  always  Mrs.  Hewes'  desire  that  she  might  be  laid  beside 
her  mother,  father,  and  brother  in  the  Albany  Cemetery.  After 
her  mother's  death  in  Albany,  several  years  before  our  mar- 
riage, she  visited  her  mother's  grave  daily,  and  seemed  so  grieved 
and  heart-broken  as  to  alarm  her  friends.  It  was  while  at  her 
mother's  grave  on  our  way  to  Europe  that  she  asked  me  if  I 
would  be  willing  for  her  to  be  laid  there.  When  she  passed  away 
I  took  her  remains  to  Albany  and  placed  her  to  rest  beside  her 
loved  ones  on  Aug.  16,  1892,  on  the  anniversary  of  which  day  I 
have  provided  that  her  grave  should  be  decorated  with  a  mat  of 
flowers.  I  have  also  made  similar  provision  in  loving  memory  of 
my  first  wife,  who  lies  in  the  Greenwood  Cemetery  on  Long 
Island. 

I  passed  the  summer  and  fall  of  1892  in  the  East,  mainly  oc- 
cupied in  visiting  historic  sites  and  scenes  of  my  youth.  At 
this  time  I  attended  the  funeral  of  the  poet  Whittier.  The  re- 
union of  the  Tapley  family  was  held  in  November,  1892.  As  this 
was  my  mother's  family,  I  took  great  interest  in  the  compilation 
of  the  genealogy  of  the  family,  and  had  the  Tapley  tomb  at 
Lynnfield  restored.  At  this  time  I  also  began  collecting  mate- 
rials for  a  genealogy  of  my  branch  of  the  Hewes  family,  a  sub- 
ject which  has  always  appealed  to  me. 

In  1897,  I  went  to  Los  Angeles  to  live,  and  becoming  interested 
in  real  estate  there  erected  what  was  known  as  the  Hewes  Mar- 
ket.    I  now  own  all  but  a  few  feet  of  the  entire  block  in  which 


261  DAVID  HEWES 

it  is  situated,  between  Eight  and  Ninth  and  Santee  and  Los 
Angeles  streets. 

Soon  after  1900  I  came  to  the  ranch  to  live,  and  added  a  large 
wing  to  my  ranch  house  in  1907.  In  the  meantime  the  earth- 
quake had  destroyed  San  Francisco.  I  heard  of  the  loss  of  my 
buildings  in  San  Francisco  at  the  ranch  and  immediately  wired 
to  my  relatives  East,  who  I  feared  might  think  I  was  in  San 
Francisco : 

"  Safe ;  destroyed  to-day,  build  to-morrow,"  and  immediately 
began  to  plan  how  to  place  upon  my  lot  a  building  which  should 
be  a  credit  to  the  city.  This  building  I  have  already  described. 
It  was  completed  in  July,  1909,  although  occupied  in  part  prior 
to  that  date.  The  upper  seven  stories  were  leased  by  the  city  as 
quarters  for  the  administration  of  those  departments  rendered 
homeless  by  the  destruction  of  the  City  Hall  in  1906. 


EXPLANATION  OF  THE  PLAN 
OF  ANAPAUMA 


Explanation  of  the  Plan  of  Anapauma 

Twenty  years  ago,  before  the  selection  of  Whittier  as  headquarters  for  the 
Society  of  Friends  in  Southern  California,  those  interested  in  the  establish- 
ment of  a  colony  of  Friends  selected  as  a  desirable  site,  a  tract  of  land 
north  of  and  adjoining  the  ranch  owned  by  Mr.  David  Hewes. 

Tins  proposed  town  was  called  El  Modena  and  several  families  settled 
there;  in  consequence  of  which  Mr.  Hewes  donated  land  for  school  play- 
grounds, and  presented  a  bell  to  the  meeting-house,  as  well  as  in  other 
ways   manifesting  his   interest  in   the  project. 

Because  of  the  anticipated  establishment  of  a  community  of  such  character 
as  the  proposed  settlement  woidd  be,  Mr.  Hewes  conceived  the  project  of 
subdividing  his  large  estate  and  erecting  or  encouraging  the  erection  of  a 
hotel   on   what   has   since   become   well-known   as    Hewes'    Hill. 

The  plan  herewith  shown  was  made  at  that  time  and  is  very  instructive 
as  showing  what  had  been  accomplished  by  Mr.  Hewes  in  189:2  toward  the 
development  of  a  fruit  ranch,  and,  by  comparison,  what  has  been  the  result 
of  his  labors  since  that  date. 

El  Modena  and  Esplanade  Avenues  shown  on  the  plan  have  been  included 
in  the  private  grounds  of  the  owner.  Hewes  Avenue  is  now  known  as  Hewes 
Boulevard,  and  extends  by  the  reservoir  to  a  junction  with  the  road  marked 
on  the  plan  as  Esplanade  Avenue. 

The  acreage  devoted  to  the  miscellaneous  fruits  has  been  converted  to 
orange  and  lemon  culture.  To-day  the  ranch  consists  of  7-20  acres,  developed 
as  an  entirety,  nearly  the  whole  acreage  being  set  out  to  citrus  fruits. 

There  are  a  few  acres  remaining  in  olives,  and  some  acres  devoted  to 
raising  fodder  for  ranch  use.  The  rest  of  the  ranch  forms  one  immense  grove 
of  oranges  and  lemons. 

Where  the  farm  buildings  are  shown  on  the  plan  are  the  quarters  for  part 
of  the  employees,  the  main  ranch  offices,  stables,  and  the  residence  of  the 
owner,  a  comfortable,  roomy,  artistic  ranch  house  with  all  modern  conven- 
iences. Pictures  of  the  ranch  house  and  of  the  gardens  on  the  hill  arc  shown 
elsewhere  in  this  volume. 

Mr.  Hewes  long  ago  abandoned  the  project  of  subdividing  this  ranch,  say- 
ing that  he  would  preserve  it  intact,  as  the  beautiful  hill  and  surroundings 
were  an  ideal  location  for  the  home  of  some  cultured  man  of  wealth,  who 
would    appreciate    the    ownership    of    so    large    and    beautiful    an    estate,    which 

was  also  a  good  paying  investment. 

Such  is  the  proximity  of  Anapauma  to  Orange  and  to  Los  Angeles,  and 
such  is  the  permanenl  value  of  these  lands  with  unequaled  water  privileges 
from  canal  irrigation  from  the  mountain  watersheds  and  from  driven 
wells,  and   such   is   the  attractiveness  of   the  well-kepi    roads,  bordered   with 

eucalyptus    trees,    that    the   owner   can    well    take    the    satisfaction    and   pride   in 

the  ranch  thai  be  does.  To  \isit  Anapauma  is  to  sympathize  with  the  owner's 
desire  thai  the  property  should  !><•  kepi  intacl  for  generations  to  come,  and 
thai  his  successor  in  proprietorship  will  receive  the  same  satisfaction  ,ind  en- 
joyment  from  the  property  thai  he  has  had. 


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ADJOINING  EL  MODENA 

Near  Orange,  Orange  County,  California 


This  folder  contains  a  full  description  of  a  lovely 
spot  in  the  foothills  of 

Santa  Ana  Valley,  Southern  California 


CONTAINING 


820  ACRES 

Mure  than  half  of  which  is  planted  to  a  variety  of 
Fruits : 

Oranges  Walnuts  Prunes 

Olives         Pears         Apricots 

Raisin  Grapes 

In  bearing  condition ;  also 

50,000Orange  and  Lemon 

(budded  stock) 

All  beautifully  laid  out  in  Avenues  with  Shade 
Trees 


Two  -  Complete  -  Water  -  Systems 

One  for  Irrigation,  the  other  for  Domestic 
Purposes. 


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This  Prospectus  contains  Maps,  Testimonials, 
Location  and  Complete  Inventory  and  De- 
scription of  the  Property. 

For  further  particulars  as  to  disposition,  and 
prices    and    terms    of    sale,    for    homes    in 

Anapai'.ma,  apply  to 


(This  prospectus  was  issued  in  1892  ;  since  which 
time  the  plans  of  the  owner  have  changed. 
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JOSEPH  HEWES,  THE  "  SIGNER  " 

Mr.  Dexter  H.  Walker  of  Jamaica,  N.  Y.,  devoted  much  time 
and  labor  to  proving  the  ancestry  of  Joseph  Hewes.  The  results 
of  his  researches  were  systematically  arranged  and  a  limited  num- 
ber of  copies  prepared  for  private  distribution  but  which  were 
not  printed.  Mr.  Walker  placed  his  manuscript  and  notes  at 
the  disposal  of  Mr.  David  Hewes,  and  so  much  of  it  as  can  prop- 
erly be  inserted  in  this  volume  is  presented  below.  The  life  of 
Joseph  Hewes  has  never  been  adequately  written,  but  there  have 
appeared  brief  sketches,1  each  relating  to  some  part  of  his  life 
and  activities  not  dwelt  upon  so  fully  by  the  others.  Besides 
the  account  prepared  by  Mr.  Walker,  there  has  been  reprinted 
the  sketch  in  Volume  VII  of  the  Biography  of  the  Signers  of  the 
Declaration  of  Independence,  and  Prof.  Sikes'  article  in  Vol.  IV, 
No.  5,  North  Carolina  Booklet.  Also,  later  investigations  have 
enabled  slight  additions  to  be  made  to  Mr.  Walker's  genealogy 
of  the  family,  thereby  inserting  an  additional  generation  between 
Joseph  and  his  emigrant  ancestor  William.  With  those  excep- 
tions, and  a  few  minor  changes,  although  some  transpositions  of 
the  material  found  in  Mr.  Walker's  manuscript  have  been  made, 
the  genealogy  2  as  given  closely  follows  that  authority. 

i  See  also  A  Biography  of  the  Signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence, 
hy  L.  Carroll  Judson,  Philadelphia,  1839,  and  Biographical  Sketches  of  Sign- 
ers of  Declaration  of  Independence,  by  B.  T.  Lossing,  1854.  Lossing  omits 
the  unverified  statement  of  the  earlier  biographer  regarding  the  history  of  the 
Signer's  ancestry,  but  committed  himself  to  the  Connecticut  origin,  since  dis- 
proved by  Mr.  Walker. 

2  In  default  of  definite  information  the  following  abstracts  from  Salem, 
N.  J.,  probate  records  are  placed  here  rather  than  in  their  probable  place 
in  the  genealogy. 

JOHN  HEWES  of  Mannington  precinct,  Salem  County,  yeoman.  Will 
proved  24  March,  1714-5.  To  wife  Martha,  and  sons  John  and  Jonathan. 
To  Catherine  Browen  and  William  Buckley.  Farm  called  Rich  Neckland 
on  Mill  Creek  in  Salem  County.  Wife  and  Bartholomew  Wiatt  executors. 
Book  1,  p.  538. 

JEDEDIAH  HUGHES  of  Cape  May  county.  Will  proved  18  Feb., 
1714-5.  Brother  John  Hughes  executor.  Brothers  Humphrey,  Constant, 
John,  and  cousin  Martha  Hughes.     Book  1 :504. 

THOMAS    HUGHES     (HUSE)    of    Gloucester    countv,    innkeeper.     Will 

265 


266  JOSEPH  HEWES,  THE  "  SIGNER  " 

A  search  of  the  Friends'  Records  preserved  at  the  general 
depositor}'  at  Devonshire  House,  London,  failed  to  disclose  Wil- 
liam Hewes  connected  with  the  London  or  Middlesex  societies  of 
Friends2*  as  early  as  1675.  It  is  thought,  and  with  reasonable 
probability,  that  William  Hewes  may  have  been  of  the  same  stock 
as  the  New  England  emigrant.  Until  Mr.  Walker's  researches 
established  his  descent  from  William  Hewes  of  New  Jersey,  it  was 
supposed  that  Joseph  Hewes,  the  signer,  was  of  Connecticut  ori- 
gin. This  tradition  of  New  England  origin  goes  back  at  least 
to  a  time  when  contemporaries  of  Joseph  Hewes  were  living.  A 
knowledge  of  relationship  may  have  existed  in  early  days,  but  no 
record  evidence  substantiating  such  a  claim  has  been  found. 

I.  1  WILLIAM  HEWES,  ancestor  of  the  "  Signer,"  and 
wife  Deborah  came  to  America  about  1674-5.  William  Hewes, 
or  as  the  name  was  sometimes  spelled  Hughes,  lived  in  the  parish 
of  Shadwell,2b  London,  and  was  a  cooper.  He  was  a  subscriber  to 
the  "  Delaware  Lands,"  a  company  organized  by  John  Fenwick, 
to  whom  William  Penn  had  granted  large  tracts  of  land  in  New 
Jersey  and  Pennsylvania.  Before  leaving  England,  he  arranged 
with  Fenwick  to  take  up  certain  portions  of  the  latter's  lands, 
locating  500  acres  on  Cohansey  or  Alloways  Creek,  in  Salem 
County,  N.  J.,  the  deed  for  which  was  filed  at  Salem  in  1674-5 
(see  Salem  County  Records,  Book  I,  p.  36,  also  N.  J.  Archives, 
Vol.  I,  p.  414).  By  some  it  is  claimed  that  he  came  in  one  of 
Penn's  first  ships  in  1684.  It  is  possible  that  he  came  with  Fen- 
wick in  1674-5,  but  his  name  does  not  appear  in  the  list.  It  is 
also  possible  that  he  "  located  "  before  leaving  England,  sending 

proved  27  Nov.,  1723.  Legacy  to  kinsman  George  Barber.  To  wife  all 
other  estate.  Administration  wns  granted  to  Elizabeth,  widow  of  Thomas 
Hughes.     Book  2:255.     See  Calendar  of  Wills,  New  Jersey  Archives,  vol.  23. 

2a  Baptismal  records  from  Kill,  Marriage  records  from  1657,  and  Burials 
from  [661  to  1675  were  examined  for  London  and  Middlesex  Meetings.  The 
following  burials  were  found:  I  li/.ilieth  Hewes,  living  in  St.  Giles  in  the 
Fields,  died  8  Oct.,  1661,  in  childbed.  Mar\  Hewes  died  SI  Aug.,  1665,  lived 
in  Headman's  Place,  Soutliwark.  Both  the  above  were  buried  in  Bunhill 
Fields.  Elizabeth  Hewes,  living  in  SI.  Saviour's,  Soutliwark,  daughter  of  John 
Hue,  (sic),  died  I  (let.,  1665.  John  Hewes  of  St.  Saviour's,  Soutliwark,  died 
IS  Oct.,    1665.      Both    the   above   Were   buried    in    Soutliwark.      Mary    Hewes   died 

u  Sept.,  1670,  aged  six,  daughter  of  John  Hewes.     Mary  Hewes  died  SO  Sept., 

1674,    aged    H,    wife   Of  John    Hewes,    farrier,    living   in   Chick    lane.     Both   the 

above  buried  In  Chequer  Alley. 
2i'  The  parish  register  of  St.  Paul's,  Shadwell,  does  nol  commence  until  1680. 


JOSEPH  HEWES,  THE  "  SIGNER  "  267 

the  deeds  to  Salem  for  registration  in  167-4-5.  Be  this  as  it  may, 
in  1678-9  he  purchased  land  at  or  near  Marcus'  Hook,  from 
Roger  Pedrick,  and  settled  there,  on  the  west  side  of  Delaware- 
River.  This  date  should  probably  be  June  24,  1679.  His  name 
appears  as  juror  at  the  first  court  held  under  Penn's  Govern- 
ment. He  was  a  Friend,  a  member  of  that  Society,  and  a  founder 
of  Chichester  Meetings  (sec  Geo.  Smith's  History  of  Delaware 
County,  Pennsylvania,  page  468).  In  the  Quaker  community,  we 
first  hear  of  William  Hewes  with  John  Bezar  and  John  Harding 
as  being  present  at  "  the  fearst  Monthly  Meeting  held  by  Friends 
at  Chichester,  Penn,  on  ye  17th  of  first  month  in  ye  year  1684." 
The  name  of  his  wife  Deborah  appears  as  a  consenting  party  to 
transfer  of  certain  parcels  of  land  in  Salem  County,  N.  J.,  as  late 
as  December,  1687  (Salem  Co.  Records  1,  Dec.  2,  1687). 

It  is  very  probable  that  between  1674  and  1684  Friends  were 
so  few  in  the  neighborhood  that  no  regular  meetings  were  held 
until  1684,  when  they  were  organized  at  Chichester.  Even  at  the 
latter  date  the  meetings  were  held  alternately  at  different  places, 
at  Chichester  and  Concord,  Pennsylvania,  at  Robert  Piles'  house 
at  Bethel  (page  159),  at  Pearce's  house  in  Thornberry  (p.  165), 
and  at  all  these  William  Hewes  was  a  regular  attendant.  The 
settlement  was  in  fact  so  small  that  finally  it  was  ordered  "  on 
account  of  the  thinness  of  our  Monthly  Meetings  they  be  held  at 
Concord,  Pennsylvania "  (Concord,  Pa.,  records  of  Friends' 
Monthly  Meetings,  page  150). 

On  12  Oct.,  1687,  at  Chichester  Monthly  Meeting  (which  ap- 
pears to  have  been  resumed)  William  Hewes  "  produced  a  Serti- 
ficate  signifing  his  truth-Like  life"  (Concord  Records).  He 
continued  to  attend  these  meetings  and  we  find  him  at  Pearce's 
as  late  as  Oct.  9th,  1690  (Ibid.,  p.  165). 

In  addition  to  land  already  purchased,  he  on  Aug.  9,  1686, 
with  his  wife  Deborah  obtained  a  parcel  on  Auldman's  Creek  (be- 
ing part  of  300  acres  granted  by  Penn  to  either  Fenwick  or  John 
Stanbank  on  22  Aug.,  1683)  (Salem  Records  3,  page  253).  It 
also  appears  that  on  2  Dec,  1687,  he,  with  his  wife  Deborah's 
"  special  consent  "  sold  the  first  500  acres  located  by  him.  He 
was  then  described  as  being  "  of  Chichester  Co."  (Salem  Rec- 
ord 3,  p.  258.) 

William  Hewes  died  in  1698.  On  the  12  Oct.  of  that  year  ad- 
ministration was  granted  on  his  estate  in  Salem  County,  to  his 


268  JOSEPH  HEWES,  THE  "  SIGNER  " 

son  and  heir  William  Hewes.  An  inventory  was  presented  19 
Oct.,  disclosing  a  farm  on  Ouldman's  Creek,  valued  at  £20  and 
personalty  of  £3-12-00.  In  the  probate  act  he  is  described  as 
of  Chittester  county,  Pa.,  cooper  (Salem  Wills  3:28). 

There  is  no  list  of  his  children,  those  ascribed  to  him  by  Mr. 
Walker  were  children,  so  far  as  known,  of  his  son  William. 

Child: 

2+  William,  son  and  heir. 

II.  2  WILLIAM  HEWES  (William)  succeeded  his  father 
at  Ouldman's  Creek,  and  like  him  belonged  to  the  society  of 
Friends.  He  married,  1689,  Sarah  Bezer,  daughter  of  Edward 
Bezer  (Carter  Memorial).  For  account  of  the  wedding  and  pro- 
ceedings see  Martin's  "  History  of  Chester,"  page  406.  He  left 
a  will  dated  7-2  mo.,  1733,  proved  22  May  following,  in  which 
he  bequeathed  to  wife  Sarah,  and  daughter  Ruth  the  bed  she  lies 
on,  all  furniture,  and  £15.  To  son  Thomas,  his  riding  coat,  son 
Edward,  tools,  dwelling  house,  and  plantation  adjoining  James, 
with  a  strip  taken  from  the  land  "  I  bought  of  James  Logan,  210 
acres,"  son  Thomas,  "  the  rest  of  land  bought  of  Logan,  194 
acres,  where  he  now  lives,  adjoining  Edward's  land  "  (Salem 
Wills,  3:320). 
C  h  ildren : 

3  William.     According  to  the  Carter  Memorial  he  had,  be- 

sides  other   children,   a   son  John,  born   1716,  who   died 

early  in  1759,  leaving  widow  Mary  (daughter  of 

Barnard),  daughter  Christiana   (married  Elisha 

Dick),  and  Jacob,  born  1752;  died  1795;  who  married 
Rachel  Perkins  and  Esther  Pvle.  John  was  a  tanner 
and  lived  in  Chichester  township.  He  was  a  Friend.  A 
record  of  his  descendants  will  be  found  in  the  Carter 
Memorial. 

4  Sarah. 

5  Moses. 

6  Ruth,  named  in  her  father's  will. 

7  Deborah,  "Deborah  Hughs  and  Zacheus  Dunn  were  pres- 

ent   at   second   passing  24   Feb.,    L728." 

8  Edward,  named  in  his  father's  will.     Married  in  1721  Han 
Salem,  N.  J.,  Monthly  Meeting. 


JOSEPH  HEWES,  THE  "  SIGNER  "  269 

nah  Abbott,  and  in  1733  Hannah  Bakbes.  His  will, 
dated  5-10mo.,  1739,  was  proved  8  June,  1741.  Son 
Elihu  when  14  to  be  bound  out  to  brother  Aaron  Hewes, 
son  Benjamin  to  be  bound  out  to  brother  Joseph  Hewes. 
He  was  of  Ouldman's  Creek.  Children,  by  rcife  Han- 
nah:8  Elihu,  born  16-llmo.,  1725.  Tabitha,  born 
29-7mo.,  1727.  Benjamin,  born  17-12mo.,  1728.  Han- 
nah, named  in  father's  will. 
9  James,  married  1736,  Jane  Lodge,  and  1740,  Elizabeth 
Huggixs.3  The  only  child  by  first  marriage  was,  Jane, 
born  9  Aug.,  1737.:;  By  second  wife  he  had:3  Susanna, 
born  18-5mo.,  1741.  James,  born  26-9mo.,  1743. 
Jemima,  born  24-1  lmo.,  1745-6. 

10  Thomas,  of  Ouldman's  Creek:  died  1735,  leaving  will  proved 
26  March,  in  which  he  names  brother  Edward  Hewes, 
wife  Mary,  children  Joseph,  Thomas,  and  a  daughter, 
unnamed,  under  25  (Salem  Wills  4:28).  He  made  ac- 
knowledgment for  taking  his  wife  "  out  of  meeting." 

11+  Aaron,  not  named  in  father's  will,  but  named  in  brother 
Edward's  will :  born  1700 ;  died  1735. 

12  Joseph,  born  1709:  married  early  in  1733,  Anxe  Worth. 
A  certificate  was  granted  5  May,  1737,  for  himself  and 
wife  to  remove  to  the  verge  of  Center  Monthly  Meetings, 
Chester  county,  Pennsylvania.  He  is  called  son  of  "  Wil- 
liam Hewes  deceased."  4 

III.  11  AARON  HEWES  {William,  William)  born  in 
1700;  died  17  July,  1753,  and  was  buried  in  the  Friends'  Bury- 
ing-ground  in  Philadelphia.  The  following  abstracts  from  ex- 
tracts from  Chesterfield,  N.  J.,  monthly  meeting  records  give  his 
marriage  5  and  children. 

"  At  a  Monthly  Meeting  of  Friends  held  at  their  Meeting  House 
in  Chesterfield  the  4th  of  the  3  mo.,  1727. 

"  Aaron  Hews  and  Providence  Worth,6  daughter  of  Joseph 
Worth,   late    deceased,    declared   their   intention    of   taking   each 

3  Salem,    X.    J.,    Monthly    Meeting. 

4  Chesterfield  Monthly  Meeting. 

s  First  book  of  Minutes,   pp.  236-8. 

6  Children  of  Joseph  and  Sarah  (Giles)  Worth:  All  except  the  two  elder 
born  at  Stony  Brook: 

Mary,  born  Dec.   22,   1695,   at  Piscattaway,    X.   J. 

Giles,  born  Dec.  10,  1697,  at  Piscattaway",  X.  J. 

Sarah,  born  March  18,  1700;  died  about  June,  1783. 


270  JOSEPH  HEWES,  THE  "  SIGNER  " 

other  in  marriage;  he  produced  a  Certificate  from  the  Monthly 
Meeting  of  Friends  at  Chichester  and  Concord  in  Pennsylvania 
and  also  from  under  the  Hands  of  his  parents,  declaring  their 
Consent  thereto  and  his  Mother  appearing  here  Signifying  her 
consent.  Whereupon  Friends  refer  the  consideration  thereof  un- 
till  our  next  Monthly  meeting." 

"  At  the  Monthly  Meeting  of  Friends  held  at  their  Meeting 
House  in  Chesterfield  the  4th  of  the  3  mo.,  1727. 

"  Aaron  Hewes  and  Providence  Worth  being  presented  and 
Friends  finding  them  to  continue  of  the  same  minde  &  things  ap- 
pearing clear  so  far  as  we  know  of  anything  that  would  obstruct 
their  proceedings  they  have  liberty  to  accomplish  their  said  mar- 
riage according  to  the  good  order  used  among  Friends  and  ap- 
point our  Friends  Samuel  Large  and  Thoma  Combs  to  take  care 
at  the  marriage  and  give  account  to  our  next  Monthly  Meeting." 

"  At  a  Monthly  Meeting  of  Friends  held  at  their  Meeting 
House  in  Chesterfield  the  1st  of  the  4th  mo.,  1727. 

"  Some  Friends  appointed  to  oversee  at  the  marriages  that 
were  past  at  our  last  Monthly  Meeting,  Report  that  '  they  ob- 
served nothing  but  what  was  orderly.'  " 

"  At  a  Monthly  Meeting  of  the  Friends  held  at  their  Meeting 
House  in  Chesterfield  (N.  J.)  the  3rd  day  of  ye  mo.  2,  1746: 

"  Nathaniel  Allen  of  Philadelphia,  and  Sarah  Hews  appeared 
at  this  Meeting  and  declared  their  intention  of  marriage  —  it 
being  the  first  time  the  said  Nathaniel  Allen  brought  a  Certifi- 
cate from  the  Monthly  Meeting  at  Philadelphia,  which  was  ap- 

Joseph,  born  Jan.   10,  1702;  died  Sept.   16,  1729. 

Providence,  born  April  16,  1704;  died  Sept.  19,  1788. 

Elizahkth,  born   May   13,  1706. 
\vnk.  horn   May  2\,  1708. 

Benjamin,  born  May  24,  1710;  died  July  12,  1711. 

James,  born  May  16,  1712. 

SAMUEL,  bom  May   LI,   1714;  died  May  27,  1794. 

I'iisii.a,  wife  <>f  Samuel;  died  Dee.  16,  1805. 

\V  i i.i.i am,  born  April   Ifi,  1716. 
Joseph   Worth   (the  father)   died  July  80,  ITS W.     Sarah   (Giles)  Worth   (the 
mother)  died   Feby.  4,  1769,  and  was  buried  al  Stony  Brook,  N.  J.     (Records 
Chesterfield,    N.  .i..   Monthly    Meetings  of   Friends,  page   25.)     James  Giles, 

married    Elizabeth    [ I    who    came    from    England,    settled    at    Bound 

Brook,   Piscattaway,  Middlesex  Co.,   \.  .].,  in   1689,  and  died  there  (Family 

Record).     He  was  ma  jot  of  the   tones  of  that   county  and  on   Dee.  :{,   1683) 

ordered  to  raise  a   trained  Company.    Hi'  was  a  Justice  of  the  Peace 

March  14,  1686,  and  again  March    '<>.  n;*s  (Concessions  and  Acts  of  the  As- 

Bembly).     Their    daughter   Sarah    married   Joseph   Worth,    father  of   Anne   and 

Providence    Worth. 


JOSEPH  HEWES,  THE  "  SIGNER  "  271 

proved  by  said  Meeting,  and  also  his  father's  consent  in  writing." 

"At  a  Monthly  Meeting  of  Friends  held  at  their  .Milling 
House  in  Chesterfield,  the  first  day  of  the  3rd  month,  1740: 

"  Nathaniel  Allen  and  Sarah  Hews  the  second  time  appeared 
and  declared  they  continued  their  intentions  of  marriage. 
Nothing  appearing  to  obstruct,  this  Meeting  gives  them  liberty 
to  accomplish  the  same  according  to  good  order,  and  appoints 
James  Clark  and  John  Clark  to  attend  the  marriage." 

"  At  a  Monthly  Meeting  of  Friends  held  at  their  Meeting 
House  in  Chesterfield  the  first  day  of  the  4"  mo.,  1746 

"  The  Friends  appointed  to  attend  the  marriage  of  Nathaniel 
Allen  and  Sarah  Hews,  not  being  here,  this  Meeting  have  no  ac- 
count of  the  said  marriage." 

"  At  a  Monthly  Meeting  of  Friends  held  at  their  Meeting 
House  at  Chesterfield  the  3rd  day  of  the  5th  mo.,  1746,  The 
Friends  appointed  to  attend  the  marriage  of  Nathaniel  Allen 
report  it  was  orderly."      (Ibid.,  Vol.  2,  pp.  93-94.) 

Abstract  of  Will  of  Aaron  Hewes. 

Be  it  Remembered  that  I,  Aaron  Hewes  of  the  County  of  Sum- 
merset and  Province  of  East  New  Jersey,  being  indisposed  of  Body, 
but  of  Sound  Disposing  Mind  and  Memory,  thanks  be  given  to  God 
therefore  calling  to  minde  the  Mortality  of  my  Body  and  Knowing 
it  is  Appointed  for  all  Men  once  to  Dye,  do  Make  and  Ordain  this 
My  last  Will  and  Testament  in  the  following  manner  and  form  that 
is  to  Say, 

Principally  and  first  of  all  I  Give  and  Recommend  my  Soul  to 
God  that  Gave  it  and  my  Body  I  commit  to  the  Earth  to  be  decently 
burey'd  at  the  discretion  of  my  Executors  hereafter  named. 

And  as  Touching  Such  Worldly  Estates  wherewith  it  hath  pleased 
God  to  bless  me  in  this  Life,  I  Give  and  Dispose  of  the  same  in  the 
following  manner  and  form  Viz:  first  My  Will  is  that  my  Just 
Debts  and  Funeral  Charges,  shall  be  all  Well  and  Truly  paid  or  Or- 
dained to  be  paid  in  convenient  time  my  Deceas  by  my  Executors. 

Imprimis,  I  give  and  Bequeath  unto  my  Dear  and  Well  beloved 
Wife  P/ovidence  Hewes,  the  sum  of  Two  hundred  and  Fifty  Pounds 
to  be  levied  out  of  my  Estate  to  her  her  heirs  and  Assighns  forever. 

Item  —  My  will  and  pleasure  is  that  my  Mansion  House  and  Planta- 
tion Should  be  sold  by  my  Executors  and  the  Money  Arising  from 
the  Sale  to  be  equally  Divided  between  my  Four  Sons,  Joseph  Hewes, 
Josiah  Hewes,  Daniel  Hewes  and  Aaron  Hewes,  after  the  other 
Legacys  are  paid  and  Discharged  to  them  their  Heirs  and  Assigns 
forever. 


272  JOSEPH  HEWES,  THE  "  SIGNER  " 

Item  —  I  give  and  bequeath  unto  My  oldest  daughter  Sarah  Allen 
the  sum  of  Twenty  five  pounds  to  be  levied  out  of  my  Estate  To  her, 
her  heirs  And  Assigns  forever. 

Item  —  I  give  and  bequeath  unto  my  second  daughter  Mary  Hewes 
the  sum  of  One  hundred  Pounds  to  Levey'd  out  of  my  Estate  to  her 
her  heirs  and  Assigns  forever. 

Item  —  I  give  and  bequeath  unto  my  Kinswoman  Mary  Hewes  who 
I  have  brought  up  the  Sum  of  Twenty  five  pounds  to  be  levey'd  out 
of  my  Estate  to  her  her  heirs  and  Assigns  forever. 

My  Will  and  pleasure  for  her  is  that  if  either  of  my  Sons  should 
Dye  before  they  should  come  to  the  age  of  Twenty  one  years  that 
then  the  money  or  portion  of  the  Deceased  shall  be  equally  Divided 
between  the  surviving  Brothers.  Lastly  I  do  hereby  constitute  make 
and  Ordain  my  two  brothers  by  Law  Samuel  Worth  and  William 
Worth  my  Executors  of  this  my  last  Will  and  Testament.  .  .  . 
Dated  31st  day  of  January,  1753. 

The  records  do  not  justify  the  statement,  that  the  immediate 
ancestors  of  Joseph  Hewes  (the  Signer)  fled  from  Connecticut, 
to  near  Kingston,  N.  J.,  to  escape  the  Indians.  It  is  known  that 
from  William  Hewes  (Hews,  Hughs,  Hughes)  who  came  from 
England  between  1675-1684  and  located  a  plantation  on  Fen- 
wick's  Patent  at  or  near  Salem,  New  Jersey  (and  thereabouts) 
to  Joseph  Hewes,  the  Signer,  there  has  been  no  break  of  residence 
in  New  Jersey  and  adjacent  Pennsylvania  towns  —  except  when 
Joseph  went  to  Edcnton,  N.  C. 

Aaron  Hewes  is  shown  by  the  records  to  have  been  William's 
grandson.  His  children  were  all  born  in  New  Jersey.  The 
Chesterfield,  N.  J.,  records  show  that  his  daughter  Sarah,  born 
in  1728  and  Joseph  in  1730  were  born  in  New  Jersey.  He  asked 
for  a  "  certificate  "  to  Crosswicks  in  Jany.  1726-7  and  there  is  no 
evidence  of  any  of  his  immediate  ancestors  ever  having  removed 
beyond  Pennsylvania.  This  is  important,  because  it  establishes 
beyond  dispute  that  William  Hewes,  Jr.,  was  Aaron's  father,  and 
both  were  continuous  residents  of  New  Jersey  and  Pennsylvania. 

Joseph  Hewes,  the  Signer,  Is  shown  to  have  been  born  and 
reared  in  New  . Jersey  until  he  went  to  Edenton,  N.  ('. 

He  was  evidently  named  after  his  paternal  Uncle  Joseph 
(Aaron's  brother  who  married  Anne  Worth,  daughter  of  Joseph 
Worth  of  Stony  Brook,  \.  J.  and  sister  of  Providence  Worth, 
mother  of  Joseph  Hewes)  as  is  shown  by  the  Chesterfield,  N.  J. 
records  of  Friends  Meet  ings. 


JOSEPH  HEWES,  THE  "  SIGNER  "  273 

It  appears  that  Joseph  Hewes  (Aaron's  brother)  remained  in 
New  Jersey  until  1737  (or  seven  years  after  his  nephew  Jo- 
seph's birth,  1730)  when  he  applied  to  the  Chesterfield  Monthly 
Meeting  for  a  Certificate  to  remove  to  near  the  verge  of  Center, 
Chester  Co.,  Pa.7 

Children,   (name  spelled  "  Hughs  "  on  the  record) : 

13     Sarah,  born  24,  5  mo.,  1728;  died  1,  3  mo.,  1785. 
14+  Joseph,  born  23,  4  mo.,  1730;  died  11  mo.,  1775). 

15  Josiah,  born  10,  11  mo.,  1732. 

16  Mary,  born  25,  4  mo.,  1735;  died  14,  12  mo.,  1779. 

17  Daxiel,  born  21,  4  mo.,  1738;  died  3,  11  mo.,  1767. 

18  Aaeon,  born  25,  12  mo.,  1742-3 ;  died  2,  6  mo.,  1789. 

JOSEPH  HEWES8 

Joseph  Hewes  was  born  near  Kingston,  N.  J.,  Jan.  23,  1730. 
He  was  the  son  of  Aaron  Hewes  and  Providence  Worth ;  and  the 
direct  descendant  of  William  Hewes  who  came  to  America  from 
England  between  1675  and  1684  and  "  located  "  on  Auldman's 
Creek,  Salem  Co.,  N.  J.  Joseph  was  educated  at  Princeton  and 
early  in  life  went  to  Philadelphia  where  he  engaged  in  mercantile 
pursuits. 

His  sister  Sarah  (born  1728)  married  Nathaniel  Allen  (April 
14,  1746)  son  of  one  of  the  Commissioners  sent  by  William  Penn 
in  the  John  and  Sarah  in  1681  to  arrange  matters  with  the 
Indians,  and  lay  out  the  City  of  Philadelphia. 

About  1760  Mr.  Hewes  removed  to  Edenton,  N.  C,  taking  his 
nephew,  Nathaniel  Allen,  with  him,  where  he  continued  his  busi- 
ness, eventually  taking  his  nephew  into  partnership.  Much  that 
relates  to  the  daily  life  of  Joseph  Hewes  is  found  in  the  "  Life 
and  Correspondence  of  James  Iredell."  Mr.  Iredell  was  in  inti- 
mate relations  with  Mr.  Hewes  and  kept  a  Diary  of  events  just 
preceding  the  Revolution.  Although  Mr.  Hewes,  and  his  An- 
cestors were  "  Friends  "  yet  he  was  an  ardent  instigator  and 
supporter  of  the  Rebellion  against  Great  Britain,  and  thereby 
severed  his  connection  with  the  "  Friends  "  Society. 

7  Statement  of  Mr.  Dexter  H.  Walker. 

s  The  following  sketch  was  taken  from  the  manuscript  of  Mr.  Dexter  H. 
Walker. 


274  JOSEPH  HEWES,  THE  «■  SIGNER  " 

We  find  him,  during  his  life  at  Edenton,  one  of  the  most  active 
of  those  who  laid  the  foundations  upon  which  the  Revolution  be- 
came a  fact. 

In  the  midst  of  all  these  surroundings  he  was  engaged  in  social 
intercourse  with  his  neighbors,  passing  the  time  in  business,  pol- 
itics, visiting,  card  playing  and  amusements  customary  in  polite 
and  high-bred  society   at  the  time. 

The  greater  part  of  his  life  was  spent  in  Edenton  which  was 
sometimes  called  Roanoke,  and  is  situated  on  the  north  shore  of 
Albemarle  Sound.  It  was  founded  in  1716  and  named  in  honor 
of  the  Royal  Governor,  Eden.  "  Here  dwelt  the  first  inhabitants 
of  North  Carolina.  A  little  to  the  Southeast  is  Roanoke  Island, 
where  Sir  Walter  Raleigh  left  his  first  Colony  in  America  in  1585, 
and  where  was  born  Virginia  Dare,  the  first  child  of  English  par- 
entage who  ever  gamboled  upon  the  soil  of  the  New  World.  On 
the  opposite  side  of  the  River  resided  Col.  John  Dawson,  a  Vir- 
ginian by  birth,  whose  wife  was  daughter  of  Gov.  Gabriel  John- 
ston "  (Iredell,  Vol.  I,  p.  3-A)  and  it  is  probable  that  the  Mary 
Dawson  who  became  Nathaniel  Allen's  second  wife,  was  of  the 
same  family. 

Mr.  Iredell  says  of  Edenton,  that,  "  within  its  vicinity  there 
was  in  proportion  to  its  population  a  greater  number  of  men 
eminent  for  ability,  virtue,  and  erudition,  than  in  any  other  part 
of  America."  In  1774  Mr.  Hewes  was  sent  from  Edenton  to 
Congress,  then  sitting  in  Philadelphia,  serving  until  his  death, 
Nov.  10th,  1779. 

In  1775  the  Continental  Congress  appointed  a  "  Committee  to 
fit  out  Armed  Vessels."  They  were  John  Hancock,  Francis  Hop- 
kinson,  William  Whipple,  George  Read,  Robert  Morris,  George 
Walton,  Arthur  Middleton,  Francis  Lewis,  and  Joseph  Hewes. 
The  Committee  on  Dec.  22nd,  1775,  reported  to  Congress 
their  appointment  of  Ezek  Hopkins  as  Commander  in  Chief 
of  the  Fleet ;  and  also  that  of  John  Paul  Jones  to  be  Lieu- 
tenant. 

Mr.  Hewes  appears  to  have  been  I  lie  active  member  of  the  Com- 
mitter, conducting  the  correspondence  and  appointments.  We 
(ind  many  letters  passing  between  him  and  the  officers  of  the 
Fleet  (American  Archives  Vol.  5,  page  932  —  also  Vol.  6,  p.  511 
el   .-.I). 

Tli-    Committer   addressed   a  letter  to  John   Paul   Jones,  dated 


JOSEPH  HEWES,  THE  "SIGNER"  275 

Aug.  6th,  1776,  placing  him  in  Command  of  the  Privateer  Prov- 
idence, then  ready  for  sea,  concluding  with  the  injunction;  "we 
also  recommend  humane  kind  treatment  to  your  prisoners  "  (Am. 
Arch.  Vol.  1,  p.  46). 

I  diverge  from  the  main  topic  of  this  paper  to  say  that  within 
the  past  few  months  (1900)  Col.  Cadwallader  Jones,  of  the  late 
Confederate  Army,  and  once  a  prominent  politician,  died  at  Co- 
lumbia, S.  C,  aged  86.  He  married  Isabella,  daughter  of  Gov. 
Iredell,  of  North  Carolina.  He  was  graduated  in  1832  from  the 
University  of  North  Carolina.  Two  of  his  sons  were  Colonels  in 
the  late  (1898)  Spanish-American  War.  His  grandfather  was 
aid  to  General  Lafayette ;  and  John  Paul  Jones  changed  his 
name  from  "  Paul  "  to  Jones  in  consideration  for  kindnesses  re- 
ceived by  him  at  the  hands  of  this  distinguished  family.  Joseph 
Hewes,  Wm.  Hooper  (a  "Signer")  and  Samuel  Johnston  were 
appointed  by  the  Legislature  of  North  Carolina  in  Dec,  1773, 
a  Committee  of  Correspondence  with  the  other  Colonies  (Clark's 
State  Records  of  N.  C,  Vol.  2,  p.  8).  About  the  time  Mr.  Hewes 
most  desired  to  be  active,  and  when  the  Colonists  were  ripening  for 
the  impending  Revolution,  he  wrote  from  Philadelphia  (Julv  8, 
1775): 

"  Close  attention  to  business,  bad  health,  and  a  weakness  of  my 
eyes,  all  contribute  to  prevent  my  doing  so  much  as  I  otherwise 
should  do.  I  write  in  pain  and  can  scarcely  see  what  I  have  writ- 
ten "  (Iredell,  Vol.  1,  p.  258)).  He  sent  his  picture  to  Miss  Nel- 
lie Blair  and  her  father  in  acknowledging  the  same,  under  date  of 
June  9th,  1776,  said,  "  Your  negroes  have  been  coming  to  see  your 
picture  and  were  transported  with  it.  I  met  *  Cam  '  at  the  door 
one  day  and  brought  him  in.  He  was  in  Perfect  ecstasy  *  Mas- 
ter every  bit,'  says  he.  *  Ah !  the  old  gentleman  has  grown  hand- 
some '  "  (Iredell,  Vol.  2,  p.  599). 

Mr.  Hewes  was  engaged  to  be  married  to  Isabella  Johnston, 
daughter  of  John  Johnston,  who  emigrated  from  Dundee,  Scot- 
land, to  this  country  about  1736.  She  was  sister  of  Gov.  Samuel 
Johnston,  and  Hannah  Johnston,  who  married  one  of  the  Asso- 
ciate Justices  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  U.  S.  (Wheeler's 
Reminiscences  of  North  Carolina,  p.  122.)  Miss  Johnston  died 
just  before  the  time  appointed  for  her  marriage,  and  it  is  said 
Mr.  Hewes  never  recovered  from  the  blow  (Saunders  Col.  Rec- 
ords of  North  Carolina,  Vol.   10,  p.   47)  ;  but  continued  to   de- 


276  JOSEPH  HEWES,  THE  "  SIGNER  " 

cline  in  health  until  he  died.  He  was  always  regarded  by 
the  Johnstons  as  a  member  of  the  family 9  (Iredell  Vol.  1, 
page  34). 

A  little  marble  tablet  placed  by  Mr.  H.  H.  Dixon  in  the  brick- 
work of  a  store  standing  at  the  corner  of  Main  and  King  Streets, 
Edenton,  marks  the  site  of  Mr.  Hewes'  place  of  business.  His 
partners  were  Robert  Smith  (an  attorney  at  law)  and  his  nephew 
Nathaniel  Allen  —  the  firm  name  was  Hewes,  Smith  &  Allen. 
After  Mr.  Hewes'  death  the  business  was  continued  by  Mr.  Allen, 
who  was  his  principal  heir,  and  to  whom  he  was  greatly  attached. 

Mr.  Hewes  appears  to  have  been  a  regular  attendant  at  the 
Episcopal  Church.  Mr.  Iredell's  Diary  (Aug.  22,  1770,  Vol.  1, 
page  70)  "  Went  to  Church  with  Mrs.  Blair,  the  Miss  Johnstons, 
and  Mr.  Hewes  —  nobody  to  make  the  responses  but  Mr.  Hewes 
and  myself,  and  neither  of  us  had  a  prayer  book." 

While  attending  Congress  in  Philadelphia,  he  was  asked  to  get 
a  locket  made  for  Mrs.  Iredell.  He  explained  the  delay  saying, 
"  In  these  times  when  every  mechanic  is  employed  in  learning  how 
to  kill  Englishmen,  it  is  impossible  to  get  anything  done  right  " 
(Mr.  Hewes  to  Mr.  Iredell,  March  26,  1776,  Vol.  1,  p.  274).  Jo- 
seph Hewes  was  one  of  the  most  important  personages  of  his 
time.  Of  Quaker  parentage,  he  departed  from  the  teachings  of 
his  youth  and  ventured  upon  the  broader  field  of  politics,  where 
he  found  scope  for  his  higher  ambitions.  He  was  a  persistent, 
earnest  patriot  in  the  trying  days  of  1776.  As  a  Signer  of  the 
Declaration  of  Independence  he  immortalized  and  endeared  his 
memory  to  Americans  for  all  time.  He  died  in  Philadelphia  Nov. 
10th,  1779.  His  funeral  was  attended  by  Congress  and  the  As- 
sembly, and  other  Authorities  of  Pennsylvania,  the  minister  of 
France,  and  a  general  assemblage  of  citizens.  Congress  resolved 
to  wear  crepe  on  the  left  arm  for  one  month.  (Iredell  Vol.  1, 
p.    l:J6.) 

William  Hooper  (one  of  the  "Signers")  wrote  to  Mr.  Iredell 
about  Dec  10,  1779:  "  He  was  my  intimate  friend.  I  knew  and 
had  probed  tin  Becrel  recesses  <>f  his  soul,  and  found  it  devoid  of 
guile  and  replete  with  benignity.  I  loved  him,  and  I  believe  that 
I   n ;i>  \ ery  d<  ar  to  him." 

""'I'lic  John  tons  are  an  ancient  Family,  and  Prom  the  Barony  of  Johns- 
ton in    Vmandale,  Scotland.     Fr L40O  t<>  1701   they  attained  to  the  dignity 

of  u  Marquisate"  (Iredell,  Vol.  L,  ]>.  :{:i-:it). 


JOSEPH  HEWES,  THE  "  SIGNER  "  277 

In  the  published  diary  of  Jacob  Hiltzheimcr,  of  Philadelphia, 
appears  the  following  entry: 

"  Nov.  11th  1779  Mr.  Barge  and  myself  attended  the  burial 
of  Hon.  Joseph  Hewes,  member  of  Congress  from  North  Caro- 
lina whose  body  was  taken  from  Mrs.  House's,  S.  W.  cor.  Market 
and  Fifth  Streets  to  Christ  Church  Yard.  The  Rev.  William 
White  took  for  his  text  1  Cor-15-55." 

His  will  disposed  of  his  entire  estate  to  his  mother,  brothers, 
and  sisters,  to  Nathaniel  Allen,  and  his  "  Kinswoman  Mary." 
He  left  £500  to  one  Joseph  Hewes  Pile  (or  Gile)  son  of  Captain 
John  Pile  (or  Gile)  of  London,  England.  His  will  was  left  in 
charge  of  Mr.  Iredell,  who  was  his  most  intimate  friend.  (Ire- 
dell, Vol.  1,  p.  436.) 

WILL  OF  JOSEPH  HEWES 

I,  Joseph  Hewes  of  Edenton,  in  the  State  of  North  Caro- 
lina, Merchant,  being  in  an  ill  state  of  health,  but  of  sound 
mind  and  memory  and  understanding,  do  make,  publish  and  de- 
clare this  to  be  my  last  will  and  testament,  in  manner  and  form  fol- 
lowing. 

First:  My  will  and  desire  is  that  all  my  personal  estate  of  every 
kind  whatsoever,  that  is  not  specified,  and  given  away  by  this  will, 
be  sold  immediately  after  my  death  either  at  public  or  private  sale, 
for  ready  money  or  credit,  at  the  discretion  of  my  executors,  and  that 
all  my  just  debts  be  paid  as  soon  as  possible. 

Second:  It  is  my  will  and  desire  that  the  late  co-partnership  of 
Hewes  &  Smith  and  the  present  one  of  Hewes,  Smith  &  Allen  be 
settled  immediately  after  my  death  by  selling  off  such  goods,  vessels 
and  other  articles  that  may  be  on  hand  so  that  my  proportion  of  said 
co-partnership  and  such  sum  as  may  be  due  from  them  or  either  of 
them  may  be  drawn  out  in  order  to  complete  the  settlement  of  my 
estate  as  soon  as  possible. 

Third:  I  give  and  bequeath  to  my  dear  mother  Providence  Hewes, 
one  thousand  pounds  to  be  paid  to  her  as  soon  as  it  can  be  con- 
veniently raised  out  of  my  estate,  but  if  it  shall  so  happen  that  she 
should  die  before  me,  then  my  will  and  desire  is  that  the  said  sum 
of  one  thousand  pounds  be  divided  among  my  brothers  and  sisters 
and  their  children,  share  and  share  alike. 

Fourthly:  I  give  to  my  brother,  Josiah  Hewes  of  the  City  of 
Philadelphia,  Merchant,  one  thousand  pounds. 

Fifthly:  I  give  to  my  brother,  Aaron  Hewes  of  the  State  of  New 
Jersey,  one  thousand  pounds. 


278  JOSEPH  HEWES,  THE  "  SIGNER  " 

Sixthly:  My  will  and  desire  is  that  if  either  of  my  brothers 
Josiah  or  Aaron,  should  die  before  me  the  sum  given  them  so  dying, 
should  be  equally  divided  between  and  among  the  children  of  my 
brothers  and  sisters  share  and  share  alike. 

Seventhly:  I  give  to  my  brothers  Josiah  and  Aaron  in  trust  the 
support  of  my  sister  Sarah  Allen  and  Mary  Middleton,  and  after 
their  decease  to  be  equally  divided  among  the  children,  two  thousand 
pounds. 

Eighthly:  I  give  and  bequeath  to  my  nephew,  Nathaniel  Allen 
Jr.,  my  two  water  lots,  wharf  and  warehouses  thereon,  in  the  town  of 
Edenton,  being  opposite  to  the  two  lots  distinguished  by  the  letters 
and  numbers  D.  190  and  E.  191  in  the  new  plan  of  said  town,  to  him, 
the  said  Nathaniel  Allen  Jr.,  his  heirs  and  assigns  forever. 

Ninthly:  I  give  to  my  nephew,  Nathaniel  Allen,  Jr.,  all  my  house- 
hold furniture,  plate,  jewels,  arms,  books,  and  wearing  apparel,  which 
at  a  moderate  calculation  may  be  estimated  at  two  thousand  five  hun- 
dred pounds. 

Tenthly:  I  give  to  Joseph  Hewes  Pile  (or  Gile?)  son  of  Captain 
John  Pile  (Gile?)  and  Hannah  Pile  of  London,  in  the  Kingdom  of 
Great  Britain  five  hundred  pounds. 

Eleventhly:  I  give  unto  Mrs.  Helen  Blair  and  Mrs.  Peggy  Blair, 
daughters  of  George  Blair,  Esquire,  deceased,  one  hundred  and  fifty 
pounds. 

Twelfthly:  I  give  to  my  friend  Archibald  Correl,  Esq.,  as  a  small 
token  of  my  regards,  two  hundred  pounds. 

Thirteenthly :  My  will  and  desire  is  that  in  case  it  should  so  hap- 
pen that  my  estate  should  be  reduced  in  any  manner  whatsoever  so 
as  not  to  amount  to  the  sums  herein  given  away  in  legacies  that  the 
said  legacies  be  paid  in  proportion  to  the  value  of  my  estate. 

Fourteenthly :  It  is  also  my  will  and  desire  that  if  it  should  be 
found  necessary  to  sell  my  real  estate  either  to  make  a  division  of  it 
or  for  payment  of  my  debts  and  legacies  herein  given,  I  say  in  that 
case  it  is  my  will  that  the  whole  or  any  part  of  real  estate  be  sold 
at  the  discretion  of  my  executors,  and  my  said  executors  hereafter 
named,  or  any  two  of  them  are  hereby  authorized  and  empowered  to 
make  and  execute  proper  deeds  and  conveyances  for  the  same. 

Si.rtcrnthly:  After  the  payment  of  all  my  just  debts  and  legacies 
hereby  bequeathed,  I  give  all  the  rest  and  residue  of  my  estate  of 
what  nature  (or)  kind  soever,  or  wherever  the  same  shall  be  found 
to  be  equally  divided  between  my  brother  Josiah  Hewes  and  my 
nephew  Nathaniel  Allen,  Jr.,  to  tin  in.  their  heirs  and  assigns  for- 
ever, but  if  it  shall  happen  s<>  that  my  brother  Josiah  should  die  be- 
fore    in*  .   then   my  will   and   desire   is   that    the   part  which  would  have 


JOSEPH    HEWES 
Signer  of  Declaration  of  Independence 


JOSEPH  HEWES,  THE  "  SIGNER  "  279 

been  given  to  him  should  be  equally  divided  between  the  children  of 
my  brother  and  sisters,  share  and  share  alike. 

Lastly:  I  do  hereby  constitute  and  appoint  my  dear  brother 
Josiah  Hewes,  of  Philadelphia,  my  friends  Sam'l.  Johnson,  James 
Iredell,  Chas.  Bond,  Sr.,  Walter  P'erguson,  and  my  nephew  Nathaniel 
Allen  Jr.,  Executors  of  this  my  last  will  and  testament,  and  my  will 
and  desire  is  that  my  said  Executors  or  such  of  them  as  shall  qualify 
and  act  shall  be  allowed  the  usual  commission  of  five  per  cent  for  their 
trouble  and  expense  in  transacting  the  business  of  my  estate. 

In  Witness  Whereof,  I  the  said  testator,  have  hereunto  affixed 
my  hand  and  seal  the  12th  day  of  August  in  the  year  of  our  Lord 
one  thousand  seven  hundred  and  seventy-eight. 

Signed,  sealed,  executed,  published  and  declared  by  the  said  testa- 
tor to  be  his  last  will  and  testament,  in  the  presence  of  us. 

(Signed)   Joseph  Hewes.      (Seal) 

I.  B.  Blount. 

Robert  Jerat. 

James  Lochart. 

I, —  H.  C.  Privatt,  Clerk  —  Superior  Court,  in  and  for  Chowan 
Co.,  N.  C,  at  office  in  Edenton,  hereby  certify  that  the  foregoing  is 
a  true,  full  and  complete  copy  of  the  will  of  Joseph  Hewes  as  ap- 
pears on  record  in  my  office.     This  July  31st,  1876. 

(Seal)      H.  C.  Privatt, 
Clerk  Superior  Court, 
Chowan  Co.,  N.  C. 
Joseph  Hewes 

[From   Biography   of  the   Signers   to   the   Declaration   of   Independence,   Vol. 

VII] 

Concerning  Joseph  Hewes,  the  circumstances  known  are  much 
less  abundant  and  particular  than  we  desire.  Nearly  half  a 
century  has  passed  since  he  died,  he  left  no  children,  and  no  very 
near    relatives    now    survive,   from    whom    the   details   of   his   life 

could  be  ascertained. Joseph  was  born  in  the  year 

1730,  and  after  enjoying  the  advantages  of  education  common  at 
that  period,  in  the  immediate  neighborhood  of  Princeton  College, 
he  went  to  Philadelphia  to  acquire  a  knowledge  of  commercial  busi- 
ness. 

He  entered,  as  soon  as  his  term  of  apprenticeship  in  a  count- 
ing-house was  closed,  into  the  bustle  and  activity  of  trade ;  and 
availing  himself  of  the  fortunate  situation  of  the  colonies  in 
respect  to  commerce,  and  the  great  opportunities  then  afforded 
by  the  British  flag,  particularly  when  used  to  protect  American 


280  JOSEPH  HEWES,  THE  "  SIGNER  " 

ships,  he  was  soon  one  of  the  large  number  of  thriving  colonial 
merchants,  whose  very  prosperity  became  a  lure  to  Great  Britain, 
and  induced  her  to  look  to  this  country  for  a  revenue. 

Mr.  Hewes  did  not  remove  to  North  Carolina  until  he  was 
thirty  years  of  age,  previous  to  which  time  he  had  been  residing  at 
New  York  and  Philadelphia  alternately,  with  occasional  and  fre- 
quent visits  to  his  friends  in  New  Jersey. 

Having  made  choice  of  Edenton  for  his  future  home,  he  soon 
became  distinguished  in  the  community  of  that  city  for  his  suc- 
cessful career  as  a  merchant,  his  liberal  hospitalities,  great 
probity  and  honour,  and  his  agreeable  social  qualities. 

Although  nearly  a  stranger  in  the  state,  he  was  very  shortly 
invited  to  take  a  seat  in  the  colonial  legislature  of  North  Caro- 
lina,— an  office  to  which  he  was  repeatedly  chosen,  and  which  he 
always  filled  with  advantage  to  the  people  of  that  colony,  and 
with  credit  to  himself. 

When  the  British  ministry  had  proceeded  so  far  as  to  close  the 
port  of  Boston, — thus  by  a  most  decided  and  severe  act  evincing 
their  fixed  determination  to  proceed  in  their  plan  of  taxing  the 
colonies, —  and  the  committees  of  correspondence  instituted  first 
at  Boston  and  afterwards  elsewhere,  had  proposed  a  meeting  of 
deputies  to  a  general  congress  to  be  held  at  Philadelphia,  Mr. 
Hewes  was  one  of  three  citizens  selected  by  North  Carolina  to 
represent  her  in  such  assembly. 

On  the  fourth  of  September,  in  the  year  177-1,  this  first  congress 
began  their  session ;  and  on  the  fourteenth  of  the  same  month, 
Mr.  Hewes  arrived  and  took  his  scat. 

The  members  were  generally  elected  by  the  authority  of  the 
colonial  legislatures;  but  in  some  instances,  a  different  system  had 
been  pursued.  In  New  Jersey  and  Maryland,  the  elections  were 
made  by  committees  chosen  in  the  several  counties  for  that  par- 
ticular purpose;  and  iii  New  York,  where  the  royal  party  was 
very  strong,  the  people  themselves  assembled  in  those  places  where 
the  spirit  of  opposition  to  the  claims  of  parliament  prevailed,  and 
elected  deputies  who  wire  received  into  congress,  ii  being  known 
thai    no   legislative   act    authorizing   Hie  election   of  members   to 

represenl    thai   colony   in   such  a   meeting,  could  have  been  obtained. 

The  powers,  too.  with  which  the  representatives  of  Hie  several 
colonies    were    invested,   were   not    only   variously   expressed,   but 

were   of  various  extent.       Most    generally   they   were  authorized  to 


JOSEPH  HEWES,  THE  "  SIGNER  "  281 

consult  and  advise  on  the  means  most  proper  to  secure  the  liberties 
of  the  colonies,  and  to  restore  the  harmony  formerly  subsisting 
between  them  and  the  mother  country.  In  some  instances,  the 
powers  given  appear  to  contemplate  only  such  measures  as  would 
operate  on  the  commercial  connection  between  the  two  countries ; 
in  others,  the  discretion  was  unlimited. 

The  credentials  of  Mr.  Hewes  spoke  a  bolder  language  than 
was  found  in  those  of  most  of  the  delegates  ;  while  the  greater 
part  of  the  colonies  professed,  in  appointing  the  members,  an 
earnest  desire  of  reconciliation,  and  named  the  return  of  harmony 
as  the  principal  object  of  their  assembling, —  North  Carolina  re- 
solved, by  a  general  meeting  of  deputies  of  the  inhabitants  of  the 
province,  that  the  people  approved  of  the  proposal  of  a  general 
congress  to  be  held  at  Philadelphia,  to  deliberate  on  the  state  of 
British  America,  and  "  to  take  such  measures  as  they  may  deem 
prudent  to  effect  the  purpose  of  describing  with  certainty  the 
rights  of  Americans,  repairing  the  breach  made  in  those  rights, 
and  for  guarding  them  for  the  future  from  any  such  violations 
done  under  the  sanction  of  public  authority." 

The  delegates  were  accordingly  invested  by  this  meeting  of 
deputies,  with  such  powers  as  might  "  make  any  acts  done  by  them, 
or  consent  given  in  behalf  of  this  province,  obligatory  in  honour 
upon  every  inhabitant  thereof  who  is  not  an  alien  to  his  country's 
good,  and  an  apostate  to  the  liberties  of  America." 

But,  however  diversified  may  have  been  the  instructions  and 
powers  given  to  the  colonial  delegates  chosen  for  this  congress ; 
certainly  a  separation  from  Great  Britain  was  no  part  of  the 
object  then  in  view.  Reconciliation  and  the  restoration  of  har- 
mony under  the  regal  government  was  the  aim  and  the  desire  of 
all,  although  the  means  of  obtaining  such  a  result  were  variously 
estimated  as  involving  more  or  less  of  forcible  resistance. 

Immediately  after  the  assembling  of  congress  two  important 
committees  had  been  appointed  to  whom  in  fact  nearly  all  the 
business  of  the  congress  was  entrusted.  The  one  was  to  "  state 
the  rights  of  the  colonies  in  general,  the  several  instances  in  which 
those  rights  are  violated  or  infringed,  and  the  means  most  proper 
to  be  pursued  for  obtaining  a  restoration  of  them."  The  other 
was  to  "  examine  and  report  the  several  statutes  which  affect  the 
trade  and  manufacture  of  the  colonies." 

To  the  first  of  these  committees  Mr.  Hewes  was  added  very  soon 


282  JOSEPH  HEWES,  THE  "  SIGNER  " 

after  he  took  his  seat,  and  contributed  his  assistance  to  the  prep- 
aration of  their  report. 

The  committee  made  their  report  with  little  dehoy,  and  on  the 
fourteenth  day  of  October,  it  was  adopted,  as  follows: 

"  Whereas,  since  the  close  of  the  last  war,  the  British  parlia- 
ment, claiming  a  power,  of  right,  to  bind  the  people  of  America 
by  statutes  in  all  cases  whatsoever,  hath  in  some  acts  expressly 
imposed  taxes  on  them,  and  in  others,  under  various  pretences, 
but  in  fact  for  the  purpose  of  raising  a  revenue,  hath  imposed 
rates  and  duties  payable  in  these  colonies,  established  a  board  of 
commissioners,  with  unconstitutional  powers,  and  extended  the 
jurisdiction  of  courts  of  admiralty,  not  only  for  collecting  the 
said  duties,  but  for  the  trial  of  causes  merely  arising  within  the 
body  of  a  county. 

"And  whereas,  in  consequence  of  other  statutes,  judges,  who 
before  held  only  estates  at  will  in  their  offices,  have  been  made 
dependent  on  the  crown  alone  for  their  salaries,  and  standing 
armies  kept  in  times  of  peace :  And  whereas  it  has  lately  been  re- 
solved in  parliament,  that  by  force  of  a  statute,  made  in  the 
thirty-fifth  year  of  the  reign  of  king  Henry  the  Eighth,  colonists 
may  be  transported  to  England,  and  tried  there  upon  accusations 
for  treasons  and  misprisons,  or  concealments  of  treasons  commit- 
ted in  the  colonies,  and  by  a  late  statute,  such  trials  have  been 
directed  in  cases  therein  mentioned ; 

"  And  whereas,  in  the  last  session  of  parliament,  three  statutes 
were  made :  one  entitled,  '  An  act  to  discontinue  in  such  manner 
and  for  such  time  as  are  therein  mentioned,  the  landing  and  dis- 
charging, lading,  or  shipping  of  goods,  wares,  and  merchandise, 
at  the  town,  and  within  the  harbour  of  Boston,  in  the  province 
of  Massachusetts  Bay  in  North  America';  another  entitled,  'An 
act  for  the  better  regulating  the  government  of  the  province  of 
Massachusetts  bay  in  New  England':  and  another  entitled,  'An 
act  for  the  impartial  administration  of  justice,  in  the  cases  of 
persons  questioned  for  any  act  dune  by  them  in  the  execution  of 
the  law,  or  for  the  suppression  of  riots  and  tumults,  in  the  prov- 
ince <»f  the  .Massachusetts  Hay  in  New  England':  and  another 
-tat  ute  was  then  mad.',  '  for  making  more  effectual  provision  for 
the  government  «»f  the  province  oi  Quebec,  &c.'     All  which  statutes 

are    impolitic,   unjust,  and   cruel,   as   well   as   unconstitutional,   and 

most  dangerous,  and  destructive  of  American  rights: 


JOSEPH  HEWES,  THE  "  SIGNER  "  283 

And  whereas,  assemblies  have  been  frequently  dissolved,  con- 
trary to  the  rights  of  the  people,  when  they  attempted  to  delib- 
erate on  grievances  ;  and  their  dutiful,  humble,  loyal,  and  reason- 
able petitions  to  the  crown  for  redress,  have  been  repeatedly 
treated  with  contempt,  by  his  majesty's  ministers  of  state: 

The  good  people  of  the  several  colonies  of  New  Hampshire, 
Massachusetts  Bay,  Rhode  Island  and  Providence  Plantations, 
Connecticut,  New  York,  New  Jersey,  Pennsylvania,  Newcastle, 
Kent,  and  Sussex  on  Delaware,  Maryland,  Virginia,  North  Caro- 
lina and  South  Carolina,  justly  alarmed  at  these  arbitrary  pro- 
ceedings of  parliament  and  administration,  have  severally  elected, 
constituted,  and  appointed  deputies  to  meet  and  sit  in  general 
congress,  in  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  in  order  to  obtain  such  es- 
tablishment, as  that  their  religion,  laws,  and  liberties,  may  not  be 
subverted :  Whereupon  the  deputies  so  appointed  being  now  as- 
sembled, in  a  full  and  free  representation  of  these  colonies,  taking 
into  their  most  serious  consideration,  the  best  means  of  attaining 
the  ends  aforesaid,  do  in  the  first  place,  as  Englishmen  their  an- 
cestors in  like  causes  have  usually  done,  for  asserting  and  vindi- 
cating their  rights  and  liberties,  Declare, 

That  the  inhabitants  of  the  English  colonies  in  North  America, 
bv  the  immutable  laws  of  nature,  the  principles  of  the  English 
constitution,  and  the  several  charters  or  compacts,  have  the  fol- 
lowing Rights: 

1.  That  they  are  entitled  to  life,  liberty  and  property;  and 
they  have  never  ceded  to  any  sovereign  power  whatever,  a  right 
to  dispose  of  either  without  their  consent. 

2.  That  our  ancestors  who  first  settled  these  colonies,  were 
at  the  time  of  their  emigration  from  the  mother  country,  entitled 
to  all  the  rights,  liberties  and  immunities  of  free  and  natural  born 
subjects,  within  the  realm  of  England. 

3.  That  by  such  emigration  they  by  no  means  forfeited,  sur- 
rendered or  lost  any  of  those  rights,  but  that  they  were,  and  their 
descendants  now  are,  entitled  to  the  exercise  and  enjoyment  of  all 
such  of  them,  as  their  local  and  other  circumstances  enable  them 
to  exercise  and  enjoy. 

4.  That  the  foundation  of  English  liberty  and  of  all  free  gov- 
ernment, is,  a  right  in  the  people  to  participate  in  their  legislative 
council;  and  as  the  English  colonists  are  not  represented,  and 
from  their  local  and  other  circumstances  cannot  properly  be  rep- 


284  JOSEPH  HEWES,  THE  "  SIGNER  " 

resented  in  the  British  parliament,  they  are  entitled  to  a  free  and 
exclusive  power  of  legislation  in  their  several  provincial  legisla- 
tures, -where  their  right  of  representation  can  alone  be  preserved, 
in  all  cases  of  taxation  and  internal  polity,  subject  only  to  the 
negative  of  their  sovereign,  in  such  manner  as  has  been  heretofore 
used  and  accustomed:  but  from  the  necessity  of  the  case,  and  a 
regard  to  the  mutual  interests  of  both  countries,  we  cheerfully 
consent  to  the  operation  of  such  acts  of  the  British  parliament, 
as  are  bona  fide,  restrained  to  the  regulation  of  our  external  com- 
merce, for  the  purpose  of  securing  the  commercial  advantages  of 
the  whole  empire  to  the  mother  country,  and  the  commercial  ben- 
efits of  its  respective  members ;  excluding  every  idea  of  taxation 
internal  or  external,  for  raising  a  revenue  on  the  subjects  in 
America  without  their  consent. 

5.  That  the  respective  colonies  are  entitled  to  the  common 
law  of  England,  and  more  especially  to  the  great  and  inestimable 
privilege  of  being  tried  by  their  peers  of  the  vicinage,  according 
to  the  course  of  that  law. 

6.  That  they  are  entitled  to  the  benefit  of  such  of  the  English 
statutes,  as  existed  at  the  time  of  their  colonization  ;  and  which 
they  have,  by  experience,  respectively  found  to  be  applicable  to 
their  several  local  and  other  circumstance-. 

7.  That  these,  his  majesty's  colonies,  are  likewise  entitled  to 
all  the  immunities  and  privileges  granted  and  confirmed  to  them 
by  royal  charters,  or  secured  by  their  several  codes  of  provincial 
laws. 

8.  That  they  have  a  right  peaceably  to  assemble,  consider  of 
their  grievances,  and  petition  the  king:  and  that  all  prosecutions, 
prohibitory  proclamations,  and  commitments  for  the  same,  ;ire  il- 
legal. 

9.  That  the  keeping  a  standing  army  in  these  colonies,  in 
times  of  peace,  without  the  consent  of  the  legislature  of  that  col- 
ony in  wln'cli  such  army  is  kept,  is  against  law. 

10.  It  is  indispensably  necessary  to  good  government,  and  ren- 
dered essentia]  by  the  English  constitution,  that  the  constituent 

branches    of    the    legislature    be    independent    of   each    other;    that, 

therefore,  the  exercise  of  legislative  power  in  several  colonies,  by  a 
council  appointed,  during  pleasure,  by  the  crown,  is  unconstitu- 
tional, dangerous,  and  destructive  to  the  freedom  of  American  leg- 
islation. 


JOSEPH  HEWES,  THE  "  SIGNER  "  285 

All  and  each  of  which  the  aforesaid  deputies  in  behalf  of  them- 
selves, and  their  constituents,  declaim,  demand,  and  insist  on,  a3 
their  indubitable  rights  and  liberties;  which  cannot  be  legally 
taken  from  them,  altered  or  abridged  by  any  power  whatever, 
without  their  own  consent,  by  their  representatives  in  their  sev- 
eral provincial  legislatures. 

In  the  course  of  our  inquiry,  we  find  many  infringements  and 
violations  of  the  foregoing  rights,  which,  from  an  ardent  desire 
that  harmony  and  mutual  intercourse  of  affection  and  inter- 
est may  be  restored,  we  pass  over  for  the  present,  and  pro- 
ceed to  state  such  acts  and  measures  as  have  been  adopted  since 
the  last  war,  which  demonstrate  a  system  formed  to  enslave 
America. 

That  the  following  acts  of  parliament  are  infringements  and 
violations  of  the  rights  of  the  colonists;  and  that  the  repeal  of 
them  is  essentially  necessary,  in  order  to  restore  harmony  between 
Great  Britain  and  the  American  colonies,  viz. : 

The  several  acts  of  4  Geo.  III.  ch.  15,  and  ch.  34. —  5  Geo.  III. 
cn.  o5>_(3  Geo.  III.  ch.  52.-7  Geo.  III.  ch.  41,  and  ch.  46.— 
8  Geo.  III.  ch.  22  which  impose  duties  for  the  purpose  of  raising  a 
revenue  in  America,  extend  the  power  of  the  admiralty  court  be- 
yond their  ancient  limits,  deprive  the  American  subject  of  trial 
by  jury,  authorize  the  judge's  certificate  to  indemnify  the  prose- 
cutor from  damages,  that  he  might  otherwise  be  liable  to,  requir- 
ing oppressive  security  from  a  claimant  of  ships  and  goods  seized, 
before  he  shall  be  allowed  to  defend  his  property,  and  are  sub- 
versive of  American  rights. 

Also  Geo.  III.  ch.  24.  intituled,  «  An  act  for  the  better  secur- 
ing his  majesty's  dock-yards,  magazines,  ships,  ammunition,  and 
stores,'  which  declares  a  new  offence  in  America,  and  deprives  the 
American  subject  of  a  constitutional  trial  by  jury  of  the  vicinage, 
by  authorizing  the  trial  of  any  person  charged  with  the  commit- 
ting any  offence  described  in  the  said  act  out  of  the  realm,  to  be 
indicted  and  tried  for  the  same  in  any  shire  or  county  within  the 
realm. 

Also  the  three  acts  passed  in  the  last  session  of  parliament,  for 
stopping  the  port  and  blocking  up  the  Harbour  of  Boston,  for  al- 
tering the  charter  and  government  of  Massachusetts-Bay,  and 
that  which  is  intituled,  '  An  act  for  the  better  administration  of 
justice,  &c.' 


286  JOSEPH  HEWES,  THE  "  SIGNER  " 

Also  the  act  passed  in  the  same  session  for  establishing  the 
Roman  Catholic  religion  in  the  province  of  Quebec,  abolishing  the 
equitable  system  of  English  laws,  and  erecting  a  tyranny  there, 
to  the  great  danger  (from  so  total  a  dissimilarity  of  religion,  law 
and  government)  of  the  neighboring  British  colonies,  by  the  as- 
sistance of  whose  blood  and  treasure  the  said  country  was  con- 
quered from  France. 

Also  the  act  passed  in  the  same  session,  for  the  better  providing 
suitable  quarters  for  officers  and  soldiers  in  his  majesty's  service 
in  North  America. 

Also,  that  the  keeping  a  standing  army  in  several  of  these  col- 
onies, in  time  of  peace,  without  the  consent  of  the  legislature  of 
that  colony  in  which  such  army  is  kept,  is  against  law. 

To  these  grievous  acts  and  measures,  Americans  cannot  submit, 
but  in  hopes  their  fellow  subjects  in  Great  Britain,  will,  on  a  re- 
vision of  them,  restore  us  to  that  state  in  which  both  countries 
found  happiness  and  prosperity,  we  have  for  the  present  only 
resolved  to  pursue  the  following  peaceable  measures  ;  1.  To  enter 
into  a  non-importation,  non-consumption  and  non-exportation 
agreement  or  association  ;  2.  To  prepare  an  address  to  the  peo- 
ple of  Great  Britain,  and  a  memorial  to  the  inhabitants  of  British 
America;  and  3.  To  prepare  a  loyal  address  to  his  majesty, 
agreeable  to  resolutions  already  entered  into." 

The  non-importation  agreement  thus  recommended  and  deter- 
mined to  be  adopted,  was  a  very  remarkable  event  in  the  annals 
of  the  revolution.  It  could  only  have  been  thought  of  by  men 
having  the  most  perfect  confidence  in  the  integrity  and  patriotism 
of  the  people,  without  whose  universal  and  strict  resolution  to 
maintain  it,  such  a  measure  would  be  palpably  unavailing.  A  sys- 
tem of  privation  not  enforced  by  any  law,  nor  guarded  with  any 
penal  sanctions,  hut  resting  entirely  on  the  deep  and  general 
sense  of  wrongs  inflicted,  and  of  tin  necessity  of  a  united  effort 
to  obtain  redrew, —  it  evinced  a  steady  resolution,  a  sober  patriot- 
ism, and  a  generous  sacrifice  of  selfish  views  to  the  common  good, 
unequaled  in  the  history  of  the  world. 

If  any  class  of  people  more  than  the  rest  were  entitled  to  par- 
ticular praise  for  the  patriotic  ardour  which  induced  them  to 
join  in  this  combination,  it  was  unquestionably  the  mercantile  part 

of    the   community,   who   Sacrificed    not    only    many    of   the   comforts 

and  enjoyments  of  life,  hut  gave  up  also  the  very  means  of  their 


JOSEPH  HEWES,  THE  "  SIGNER  "  287 

subsistence,  in  relinquishing  the  importing  trade  to  which  they 
had  been  accustomed  to  devote  their  capital  and  labour. 

Mr.  Hewes  was  a  merchant,  and  a  successful  one.  He  had  been 
for  more  than  twenty  years  engaged  in  the  sale  of  merchandise 
imported  chiefly  from  England  and  the  British  dependencies ;  but 
he  did  not  hesitate  on  this  occasion  to  assist  in  the  preparation  of 
the  plan,  to  vote  for  it,  and  to  affix  his  own  name  to  the  compact. 

The  association  recited,  in  the  first  place,  the  injuries  inflicted 
on  the  colonies  by  the  various  acts  of  the  British  government, 
against  which  the  report  of  the  committee  had  been  directed,  and 
then  declares,  that  to  obtain  redress  for  these  grievances  a  non- 
importation, non-consumption,  and  non-exportation  agreement, 
faithfully  adhered  to,  would  prove  the  most  speedy,  effectual  and 
peaceable  measure,  and  '*  therefore,"  it  proceeds,  "  we  do,  for  our- 
selves, and  the  inhabitants  of  the  several  colonies  whom  we  repre- 
sent, firmly  agree  and  associate  under  the  sacred  ties  of  virtue, 
honour  and  love  of  our  country,  as  follows : 

First.  That  from  and  after  the  first  day  of  December  next, 
we  will  not  import  into  British  America,  from  Great  Britain  or 
Ireland,  any  goods,  wares  or  merchandise  whatsoever,  or  from  any 
other  place,  any  such  goods,  wares  or  merchandise,  as  shall  have 
been  exported  from  Great  Britain  or  Ireland ;  nor  will  we,  after 
that  day,  import  any  East  India  tea  from  any  part  of  the  world ; 
nor  any  molasses,  syrups,  paneles,  coffee,  or  pimento,  from  the 
British  plantations  or  from  Dominica ;  nor  wines  from  Madeira, 
or  the  Western  Islands ;  nor  foreign  indigo. 

Second.  We  will  neither  import,  nor  purchase  any  slave  im- 
ported after  the  first  day  of  December  next ;  after  which  time,  we 
will  wholly  discontinue  the  slave  trade,  and  will  neither  be  con- 
cerned in  it  ourselves,  nor  will  we  hire  our  vessels,  nor  sell  our 
commodities  or  manufactures  to  those  who  are  concerned  in  it. 

Third.  As  a  non-consumption  agreement,  strictly  adhered  to, 
will  be  an  effectual  security  for  the  observation  of  the  non-impor- 
tation, we  as  above,  solemnly  agree  and  associate,  that  from  this 
day,  we  will  not  purchase  or  use  any  tea  imported  on  account  of 
the  East  India  company,  or  any  on  which  a  duty  hath  been  or 
shall  be  paid;  and  from  and  after  the  first  day  of  March  next, 
we  will  not  purchase  or  use  any  East  India  tea  whatever ;  nor  will 
we,  nor  shall  any  person  for  or  under  us,  purchase  or  use  any  of 
those  goods,  wares,  or  merchandise,  we  have  agreed  not  to  import, 


288  JOSEPH  HEWES,  THE  "  SIGNER  " 

which  we  shall  know,  or  have  cause  to  suspect,  were  imported  after 
the  first  day  of  December,  except  such  as  come  under  the  rules 
and  directions  of  the  tenth  article  hereafter  mentioned. 

Fourth.  The  earnest  desire  we  have  not  to  injure  our  fellow- 
subjects  in  Great  Britain,  Ireland,  or  the  West  Indies,  induces 
us  to  suspend  a  non-exportation,  until  the  tenth  day  of  Sept., 
1775 ;  at  which  time,  if  the  said  acts  and  parts  of  acts  of  the 
British  parliament  herein  after  mentioned,  are  not  repealed,  we 
will  not,  directly  or  indirectly,  export  any  merchandise  or  com- 
modity whatsoever  to  Great  Britain,  Ireland,  or  the  West  Indies, 
except  rice  to  Europe. 

Fifth.  Such  as  are  merchants,  and  use  the  British  and  Irish 
trade,  will  give  orders,  as  soon  as  possible,  to  their  factors,  agents 
and  correspondents,  in  Great  Britain  and  Ireland,  not  to  ship  any 
goods  to  them,  on  any  pretence  whatsoever,  as  the}-  cannot  be  re- 
ceived in  America ;  and  if  any  merchant,  residing  in  Great  Britain 
or  Ireland,  shall  directly  or  indirectly  ship  any  goods,  wares  or 
merchandise,  for  America,  in  order  to  break  the  said  non-importa- 
tion agreement,  or  in  any  manner  contravene  the  same,  on  such 
unworthy  conduct  being  well  attested,  it  ought  to  be  made  public; 
and,  on  the  same  being  so  done,  we  will  not  from  thenceforth  have 
any  commercial  connexion  with  such  merchant. 

Sixth.  That  such  as  are  owners  of  vessels  will  give  positive 
orders  to  their  captains,  or  masters,  not  to  receive  on  board  their 
vessels  any  goods  prohibited  by  the  said  non-importation  agree- 
ment, on  pain  of  immediate  dismission  from  their  service. 

Seventh.  We  will  use  our  utmost  endeavors  to  improve  the 
breed  of  sheep  and  increase  their  number  to  the  greatest  extent ; 
and  to  that  end,  we  will  kill  them  as  seldom  as  may  be,  especially 
those  of  the  most  profitable  kind ;  nor  will  we  export  any  to  the 
West  Indies  or  elsewhere;  and  those  of  us,  who  are  or  may  be- 
come overstocked  with,  or  can  conveniently  spare  any  sheep,  will 
dispose  of  them  to  our  neighbors,  especially  to  the  poorer  sort, 
on  moderate  terms. 

Eighth.  We  will  in  our  several  stations  encourage  frugality, 
economy,  and  industry,  and  promote  agriculture,  arts,  and  the 
manufactures  of  this  country,  especially  that  of  wool;  and  will 
discountenance  and  discourage  every  species  <>f  extravagance  and 
dissipation,  especially  all  horse  racing,  and  all  kinds  of  gambling, 
cods   fighting,  exhibitions  of  shows,  plays,  and  other  expensive 


JOSEPH  HEWES,  THE  "  SIGNER  "  289 

diversions  and  entertainments;  and  on  the  death  of  any  relation 
or  friend,  none  of  us,  or  any  of  our  families  will  go  into  any  fur- 
ther mourning  dress  than  a  black  crape  or  ribbon  on  the  arm 
or  hat  for  gentlemen,  and  a  black  ribbon  and  necklace  for  ladies, 
and  we  will  discontinue  the  giving  of  gloves  and  scarfs  at  funer- 
als. 

Ninth.  Such  as  are  venders  of  goods  and  merchandise  will  not 
take  advantage  of  the  scarcity  of  goods  that  may  be  occasioned 
by  this  association,  but  will  sell  the  same  at  the  rates  we  have 
been  respectively  accustomed  to  do,  for  twelve  months  last  past. 
And  if  any  vender  of  goods  or  merchandise  shall  sell  any  such 
goods  on  higher  terms,  or  shall  in  any  manner,  or  by  any  de- 
vice whatsoever,  violate  or  depart  from  this  agreement,  no  per- 
son ought,  nor  will  any  of  us  deal  with  any  such  person,  or  his, 
or  her  factor  or  agent,  at  any  time  therafter,  for  any  commodity 
whatever. 

Tenth.  In  case  any  merchant,  trader,  or  other  persons  shall 
import  any  goods  or  merchandise  after  the  first  day  of  December, 
and  before  the  first  day  of  February  next,  the  same  ought  forth- 
with at  the  election  of  the  owner,  to  be  either  re-shipped  or  de- 
livered up  to  the  committee  of  the  county,  or  town  wherein  they 
shall  be  imported,  to  be  stored  at  the  risk  of  the  importer,  until 
the  non-importation  agreement  shall  cease,  or  be  sold  under  the 
direction  of  the  committee  aforesaid;  and  in  the  last  mentioned 
case,  the  owner  or  owners  of  such  goods  shall  be  reimbursed 
(out  of  the  sales)  the  first  cost  and  charges,  the  profit,  if  any, 
to  be  applied  towards  relieving  and  employing  such  poor  inhabit- 
ants of  the  town  of  Boston,  as  are  immediate  sufferers  by  the 
Boston  port-bill;  and  a  particular  account  of  all  goods  so  re- 
turned stored,  or  sold,  to  be  inserted  in  the  public  papers;  and  if 
any  goods  or  merchandise  shall  be  imported  after  the  said  first 
day  of  February,  the  same  ought  forthwith  to  be  sent  back  again, 
without  breaking  any  of  the  packages  thereof. 

Eleventh.  That  a  committee  be  chosen  in  every  county,  city, 
and  town,  by  those  who  are  qualified  to  vote  for  representatives 
in  the  legislature,  whose  business  it  shall  be  attentively  to  ob- 
serve the  conduct  of  all  persons  touching  this  association  ;  and 
when  it  shall  be  made  to  appear  to  the  satisfaction  of  a  majority 
of  any  such  committee,  that  any  person  within  the  limits  of  their 
appointment  has  violated  this  association,  that  such  majority  do 


290  JOSEPH  HEWES,  THE  "  SIGNER  " 

forthwith  cause  the  truth  of  the  case  to  be  published  in  the  Ga- 
zette; to  the  end,  that  all  such  foes  to  the  rights  of  British 
America  may  be  publicly  known,  and  universally  contemned  as 
the  enemies  of  American  liberty ;  and  thenceforth  we  respectively 
will  break  off  dealings  with  him  or  her. 

Twelfth.  That  the  committee  of  correspondence  in  the  re- 
spective colonies  do  frequently  inspect  the  entries  of  the  custom 
houses,  and  inform  each  other  from  time  to  time  of  the  true  state 
thereof,  and  of  every  other  material  circumstance  that  may  oc- 
cur relative  to  this  association. 

Thirteenth.  That  all  manufactures  of  this  country  be  sold 
at  reasonable  prices,  so  that  no  undue  advantage  be  taken  of  a 
future  scarcity  of  goods. 

Fourteenth.  And  we  do  further  agree  and  resolve,  that  we 
will  have  no  trade,  commerce,  dealings  or  intercourse  whatsoever, 
with  any  colony  or  province,  in  North  America,  which  shall  not 
accede  to,  or  which  shall  hereafter  violate  this  association,  but 
will  hold  them  as  unworthy  of  the  rights  of  freemen,  and  as  in- 
imical to  the  liberties  of  their  country. 

And  we  do  solemnly  bind  ourselves  and  our  constituents,  under 
the  ties  aforesaid,  to  adhere  to  this  association  until  such  parts 
of  the  several  acts  of  parliament  passed  since  the  close  of  the 
last  war,  as  impose  or  continue  duties  on  tea,  wine,  molasses, 
syrups,  paneles,  coffee,  sugar,  pimento,  indigo,  foreign  paper, 
glass,  and  painters'  colors,  imported  into  America,  and  extend 
the  powers  of  the  admiralty  courts  beyond  their  ancient  limits, 
deprive  the  American  subject  of  trial  by  jury,  authorize  the 
judge's  certificate  to  indemnify  the  prosecutor  from  damages, 
that  he  might  otherwise  be  liable  to  from  a  trial  by  his  peers, 
require  oppressive  security  from  a  claimant  of  ships  of  goods 
seized,  before  lie  shall  be  allowed  to  defend  his  property,  are  re- 
peal, .1.  And  until  that  part  of  the  act  of  the  12  G.  3.  ch.  24. 
rnlitled  'An  act  for  the  better  securing  his  majesty's  dock- 
yards, magazines,  ships,  ammunition,  and  stores,'  by  which  any 
persons  charged  with  committing  any  of  the  offences  therein  de- 
scribed, in  America,  may  be  tried  in  any  shire  or  county  within 
the  realm,  is  repealed.  And  until  the  four  acts  passed  the  last 
session  of  parliament,  viz.  that  for  stopping  the  port  and  block- 
ing up  the  harbor  of  Boston.  That  for  altering  the  charter 
and  government  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay.     And  that  which  is 


JOSEPH  HEWES,  THE  "  SIGNER  "  291 

entitled,  'An  act  for  the  better  administration  of  justice,  &c.' 
And  that  '  For  extending  the  limits  of  Quebec,  &c.'  are  repealed. 
And  we  recommend  it  to  the  provincial  conventions,  and  to  the 
committees  in  the  respective  colonies,  to  establish  BUch  farther 
regulations  as  they  may  think  proper,  for  carrying  into  execu- 
tion this  association." 

Congress,  after  adopting  an  address  to  the  people  of  Great 
Britain, —  an  address  to  the  king,  and  one  to  the  people  of 
Canada,  all  distinguished  by  uncommon  elegance  and  force  of 
diction,  and  having  resolved  that  it  was  expedient  to  meet  again 
in  May  of  the  succeeding  year,  adjourned  on  the  twenty-sixth 
of  October,  and  Mr.  Hewes  returned  to  his  home  in  North  Caro- 
lina. 

In  the  ensuing  spring,  a  convention  of  that  colony  was  held  at 
Newbern,  when  Mr.  Hewes  was  elected  a  member  of  the  continental 
congress  about  to  assemble,  and  the  general  assembly  approved 
of  this  choice,  and  at  the  same  time  resolved  to  adhere  strictly 
to  the  non-importation  agreement,  and  to  use  what  influence  they 
possessed  to  induce  the  same  observance  in  every  individual  of  the 
province. 

Mr.  Hewes  attended  accordingly  at  Philadelphia  when  the  new 
congress  assembled  in  May,  and  continued  with  them  until  their 
adjournment,  the  last  day  of  July. 

The  battle  of  Lexington  had  occurred  a  few  weeks  before  the 
meeting  of  congress,  and  the  first  business  that  came  before  them 
was  the  examination  of  the  depositions  of  witnesses,  which  at 
that  period,  or  at  least  on  that  occasion,  supplied  the  place  of 
military  reports,  of  the  killed,  wounded  and  missing,  as  well  as 
of  the  movements  of  the  hostile  forces. 

The  first  resolution  of  the  congress  was,  however,  notwithstand- 
ing the  excitement  naturally  caused  by  the  actual  commencement 
of  war,  to  present  another  loyal  and  dutiful  address  to  the  king ; 
at  the  same  time,  now  first  glancing  at  the  possibility  of  a  separa- 
tion, in  a  recommendation  to  the  provincial  congress  of  New 
York  to  prepare  vigorously  for  defense,  "  as  it  is  very  uncertain 
whether  the  earnest  endeavors  of  the  congress  to  accommodate 
the  unhappy  differences  between  Great  Britain  and  the  colonies 
by  conciliatory  measures,  will  be  successful." 

The  battle  of  Bunker's  Hill,  and  the  appointment  of  a  com- 
mander in  chief  of  the  army  with  a  long  list  of  major  generals 


292  JOSEPH  HEWES,  THE  "  SIGNER  " 

and  brigadiers  in  the  succeeding  month,  placed  the  true  nature 
of  the  contest  more  distinctly  in  the  view  of  the  people  of  America, 
and  of  the  world.  The  Society  of  Friends,  of  which  Mr.  Hewes' 
parents  had  been  members,  as  well  as  himself  in  his  youth,  were 
now  straining  every  nerve  in  an  effort  to  prevent  the  revolution- 
ary and  republican,  and  warlike  doctrines  of  the  times  from  gain- 
ing a  reception  among  the  quakers.  The  society  was  numerous, 
wealthy  and  respectable,  and  their  opposition  was  powerful  and 
active.  In  the  beginning  of  the  year  1775,  they  had  held  a 
general  convention  of  the  "  people  called  quakers  "  residing  in 
Pennsylvania  and  New  Jersey,  and  had  put  forth  a  "  testimony," 
denouncing  the  congress  and  all  its  proceedings.  This,  however, 
did  not  have  any  effect  on  Mr.  Hewes,  or  if  any,  not  the  effect  in- 
tended. He  broke  entirely  from  communion  with  the  quakers, 
and  became  not  only  a  promoter  of  war,  but  a  man  of  gayetv 
and  worldly  habits  —  even  to  the  extent  of  being  a  frequent  visitor 
of  the  ladies,  and  partaking,  even  with  glee  and  animation,  of 
the  pleasures  of  the  dance,  in  which  he  is  said  at  all  times  of  his 
life,  after  escaping  from  the  restraints  of  his  quaker  education, 
to  have  taken  much  delight. 

In  the  recess  of  congress,  between  July  and  September,  he  did 
not  return  to  North  Carolina,  but  made  a  visit  to  his  friends  in 
New  Jersey,  and  was  at  hand  when  the  next  session  was  begun. 

He  was  placed  on  the  committee  of  claims,  and  that  charged  with 
the  fitting  out  of  the  armed  vessels  ordered  to  be  built  or  equipped 
for  congress — the  germ  of  the  United  States'  navy ;  and  thus  he 
became  in  effect,  and  in  the  nature  of  his  duties  and  responsibilities, 
the  first  secretary  of  the  navy. 

In  the  commencement  of  the  next  year,  Mr.  Hewes,  having  at- 
tained great  respect  in  congress  by  his  excellent  qualities  and 
habits  of  close  attention  to  business,  was  chosen  a  member  of  the 
secret  committee,  a  post  of  extreme  difficult}',  and  great  responsi- 
bility, and  requiring  the  closest  application. 

It  is  within  the  recollection  of  some  of  the  surviving  patriots 
of  this  period,  that  Mr.  Hewes  was  remarkable  for  a  devoted- 
nes8  to  the  business  of  this  committee,  as  complete  as  ever  the 
mo>t  industrious  merchant  was  known  to  give  his  computing- 
house. 

After    this    time    he    was    generally    appointed    on    the    most    im- 

portanl  committees,  such  us  that  to  concert  with  General  Washing- 


JOSEPH  HEWES,  THE  "  SIGNER  "  299 

ton  a  plan  of  operations  for  the  ensuing  campaign,  the  one  en- 
trusted with  the  difficult  task  of  digest  ing  a  plan  of  confederation, 
another  charged  with  the  superintendence  of  the  treasury,  one 
raised  for  the  purpose  of  inquiring  into  the  causes  of  the  miscar- 
riages in  Canada,  and  several  others  of  less  moment. 

Mr.  Hewes  was,  during  this  period,  a  most  active  man  of  busi- 
ness; the  dishursemcnts  of  the  naval  committee  were  under  his 
especial  charge,  and  eight  armed  vessels  were  fitted  out  with  the 
funds  placed  at  his  disposal.  He  was  attentive  also  to  the  condi- 
tion of  North  Carolina,  then  direfully  distracted  with  civil  war, 
and  menaced  also  by  the  common  enemy ;  gunpowder  and  other 
munitions  of  war  were  sent  by  him  at  his  own  expense,  but  re- 
imbursed afterwards  by  congress,  to  supply  the  exigencies  of  the 
republican  troops  in  that  part  of  the  country. 

He  had  the  satisfaction  of  being  present  during  all  the  debate 
on  the  question  of  declaring  independence,  and  of  voting  in  favor 
of  the  instant  adoption  of  that  imperishable  manifesto  which  has 
made  the  Fourth  of  July  a  jubilee  for  this  nation.  In  voting  on 
this  side  he  acted  in  accordance  with  a  resolution  passed  by  the 
North  Carolina  convention,  on  the  twenty-second  of  April  preced- 
ing, empowering  the  delegates  from  that  colony  to  "  concur  with 
those  of  the  other  colonics  in  declaring  independency." 

North  Carolina  had  thus  the  merit  of  being  the  first  one  of  the 
colonies  which  openly  declared  in  favor  of  throwing  off  all  con- 
nection with  Great  Britain,  a  spirited  and  manly  determination 
which  entitles  the  leading  men  of  that  state  to  distinguished  praise. 
Mr.  Hewes  by  his  indefatigable  exertions  in  the  equipment  of  the 
naval  armament,  as  well  as  by  the  fearless  constancy  with  which 
he  had  advocated  independence,  had  acquired  to  a  very  great 
degree  the  esteem  and  respect  of  the  people  whom  he  represented. 
In  the  beginning  of  the  year  seventeen  hundred  and  seventy-seven, 
therefore,  he  was  again  chosen  a  delegate,  with  such  powers  as  to 
make  whatever  he  and  his  colleagues  might  do  in  congress  obliga- 
tory on  every  inhabitant  of  the  state. 

Mr.  Hewes,  however,  did  not  accept  this  appointment.  He  left 
to  his  colleagues  the  tour  of  duty  in  congress,  and  devoted  himself 
to  his  private  affairs  and  to  the  benefit  of  his  state  at  home  during 
the  greater  part  of  that  year  and  the  whole  of  the  next,  nor  did 
he  resume  his  seat  until  the  month  of  July,  1779.  He  was  at  this 
time  in  very   ill  health,  his  constitution  had  been  totally  broken 


294  JOSEPH  HEWES,  THE  "  SIGNER  " 

down,  and  he  was  able  to  give  little  more  assistance  to  the  public 
councils  of  the  nation. 

His  end  was  rapidly  approaching:  the  last  vote  given  by  him 
in  congress  was  on  the  twenty-ninth  of  October,  after  which  he 
was  wholly  confined  to  his  chamber  until  the  tenth  of  November, 
when  he  expired,  in  the  fiftieth  year  of  his  age. 

On  the  day  of  his  death,  congress  being  informed  of  the  event, 
and  of  the  intention  of  his  friends  to  inter  his  remains  on  the  fol- 
lowing day,  resolved  that  they  would  attend  the  funeral  with  a 
crape  round  the  left  arm,  and  continue  in  mourning  for  the  space 
of  one  month,  that  a  committee  should  be  appointed  to  superintend 
the  ceremony,  the  Rev.  Mr.  White,  their  chaplain,  should  officiate 
on  the  occasion,  and  that  invitations  should  be  sent  to  the  general 
assembly  and  the  president  and  supreme  executive  council  of  Penn- 
sylvania, the  minister  plenipotentiary  of  France  and  other  persons 
of  distinction. 

The  funeral  ceremonies  were  accordingly  conducted  with  all  the 
pomp  and  display  which  the  simple  manners  and  sobriety  of  tem- 
per then  prevalent  in  Philadelphia  would  admit.  A  large  con- 
course of  people  including  all  the  distinguished  personages  civil 
and  military,  witnessed  the  interment  of  his  remains  in  the  burial 
ground  of  Christ  Church,  and  the  outward  show  of  respect  to  his 
memory  was  not  in  this  instance  forced  or  insincere. 

Mr.  Hewes  possessed  a  prepossessing  figure  and  countenance, 
with  great  amenity  of  manners  and  an  unblemished  reputation  for 
probity  and  honour.  He  left  a  considerable  fortune  but  no  chil- 
dren to  inherit  it. 

His  death  may  be  called  untimely  when  we  reflect  on  the  brighter 
prospects  that  soon  after  opened  on  the  country  to  whose  hap- 
piness he  devoted  himself  with  so  much  zeal,  prospects  in  which 
he  would  have  found  a  cause  of  infinite  gratitude  and  joy;  but  in 
other  respects  his  end  was  mo»e  seasonable  than  that  of"  some  of 
his  compatriots  who  lived  to  endure  old  age,  infirmity  and  want; 
he  was  taken  in  the  meridian  of  liis  usefulness,  but  not.  before  he 
had  performed  enough  of  service  to  this  nation  to  entitle  him  to 
her  enduring  and  grateful  recollection. 


JOSEPH  HEWES,  THE  "  SIGNER  "  295 

Joseph  Hewes 

By  Walter  Sikes,  M.A.,  PH.D., 
(Professor  of  Political  Science,  Wake  Forest  College.) 

"  Particularly  cultivate  the  notice  of  Mr.  Hewes,"  wrote  Henry 
E.  McCulloch  to  his  relative,  young  James  Iredell,  as  he  was  about 
to  leave  his  home  in  England  to  take  up  his  abode  at  Edenton, 
N.  C,  in  Sept.,  1768.  Young  Iredell  came  to  Edenton,  and  wrote 
to  his  father  afterwards  that  "  I  must  say  there  is  a  gentle- 
man in  this  town  who  is  a  very  particular  favorite  of  mine.  His 
name  is  Hewes.  He  is  a  merchant  here,  and  our  member  for  the 
town:  the  patron  and  the  greatest  honor  of  it.  About  six  or 
seven  years  ago  he  was  in  a  few  days  of  being  married  to  one  of 
Mr.  Johnston's  sisters  (elder  than  the  two  young  ladies  now  liv- 
ing), who  died  rather  suddenly;  and  this  unhappy  circumstance 
for  a  long  time  embittered  every  satisfaction  in  life  to  him.  He 
has  continued  ever  since  unmarried,  which  I  believe  he  will  do. 
His  connection  with  Mr.  Johnston's  family  is  just  such  as  if  he  had 
really  been  a  brother-in-law,  a  circumstance  that  mutually  does 
honor  to  them  both."  When  young  Iredell  met  this  man,  who  was 
not  yet  forty,  he  became  charmed  with  his  society  and  his  char- 
acter. Joseph  Hewes  was  born  in  1730.  Though  his  home  was 
not  far  from  Princeton,  he  never  attended  college.  However 
he  received  such  education  as  the  schools  in  his  vicinity  offered. 
His  family  were  Quakers  and  at  an  early  age  he  was  sent  to  a 
counting-house  in  the  Quaker  city  of  Philadelphia.  At  manhood 
he  entered  the  mercantile  and  commercial  business.  Most  of  his 
time  was  spent  in  Philadelphia,  though  he  was  often  drawn  to 
New  York  on  business. 

In  1763  he  decided  to  move  to  Edenton,  where  he  entered  into 
partnership  with  Robert  Smith,  aft  attorney.  This  firm  owned  its 
own  wharf  and  sent  its  ships  down  to  the  sea.  It  is  very  probable 
that  his  sister,  Mrs.  Allen,  came  with  him.  His  nephew,  Nathan- 
iel Allen,  was  certainly  with  him.  This  young  nephew  Hewes 
treated  as  his  own  son  and  very  probably  made  him  his  heir.  This 
young  man  became  the  father  of  Senator  Allen  of  Ohio  and  grand- 
father of  Allen  G.  Thurman. 

Edenton  was  a  town  of  four  hundred  inhabitants  probably 
when  Joseph  Hewes  came  to  live  there.      It  was  a  society  scarcely 


296  JOSEPH  HEWES,  THE  "  SIGNER  " 

surpassed  in  culture  by  any  in  America.  In  the  vicinity  lived 
Colonel  Richard  Buncombe,  Sir  Nat.  Dukinfield,  Colonel  John 
Harvey,  Samuel  Johnston  and  Stephen  Cabarrus.  Hewes  was  at 
once  admitted  into  this  charming  circle. 

Hewes  was  possessed  of  those  charms  that  attract  gentle  folks. 
He  was  very  companionable  and  social.  Very  frequently  in  James 
Iredell's  diary  for  1772-1774  such  entries  are  found  as  "  chatted 
with  Hewes  and  others  on  his  piazza  ";  "  found  Hewes  at  Horni- 
blow's  tavern  "  ;  "  Hewes  and  I  spent  the  evening  at  Mrs.  Blair's  "  ; 
"  Dr.  Cathcart,  Mr.  Johnston  and  I  dined  with  Hewes  " ;  "  went 
to  Hewes'  to  call  on  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cornelius  Harnett  on  their 
return  from  the  north,"  and  "  they  played  cards  all  the  evening  at 
Mr.  Hewes'."  These  and  similar  records  show  that  he  was  a 
delightful  companion  and  was  a  center  of  social  life. 

His  Quaker  training  Hewes  threw  aside  easily.  Some  writers 
say  that  he  quitted  the  Quakers  only  when  they  refused  in  1776 
to  join  heartily  in  the  war  for  independence,  and  that  his  Quaker 
beliefs  easily  opened  the  door  of  prosperity  and  honor  for  him 
among  the  Quakers  of  the  Albemarle  section.  This  can  hardly 
be  true.  In  1770  he  was  present  at  the  services  of  the  Church  of 
England  at  Edenton  and  read  the  responses.  He  certainly  at- 
tended that  church  long  before  the  Revolution.  Also  in  the  same 
year  he  was  "  playing  backgammon  at  Horniblow's  tavern." 
These  things  were  not  done  by  good  Quakers.  Hewes'  associates 
—  social  and  political  —  were  not  Quakers.  He  belonged  to  those 
conservatives  whose  leaders  were  Samuel  Johnston  and  Thomas 
Jones. 

Hewes'  popularity,  wealth  and  influence  caused  him  to  be  chosen 
to  represent  the  town  of  Edenton  in  the  General  Assembly  three 
years  after  his  arrival.  This  position  he  held  from  1766-1776  till 
In-  was  called  to  a  field  of  wider  usefulness.  In  these  Assemblies 
he  was  very  active,  and  at  one  time  he  was  on  ten  committees 
at  least.  This  was  an  interesting  period  in  the  history  of  the 
colony.  It  was  during  1 1 1 i ->  period  that  the  Regulator  troubles 
anise,     the    court     controversy,     the    taxation    problems,    and    the 

other  difficulties  thai  prepared  North  Carolina  for  the  revolution 

t liai  u as  to  In-  very  soon. 

Before  the  meeting  of  Hie  Provincial  Congress  to  appoint  dele- 
gates to  the  Continental  Congress,  Hewes  was  a  member  of  the 
Committee   of  Correspondence.     This   w&a   a  wise  choice.     As  a 


JOSEPH  HEWES,  THE  "SIGNER"  297 

merchant  his  ships  were  known  in  other  ports.  This  brought  him 
into  contact  with  the  greatest  commercial  centers  of  other  colonics. 
In  this  way  he  was  not  unknown  to  the  Adamses  of  Massachusetts. 
Hcwes  was  chosen  to  attend  the  first  Provincial  Congress  at  New- 
Bern,  August,  1774.  At  this  Congress  he  read  many  letters  that 
his  committee  had  received.  Hewes,  together  with  Richard  Cas- 
well and  William  Hooper,  was  appointed  to  attend  the  Continental 
Congress  in  Philadelphia.  This  North  Carolina  Congress  pledged 
itself  to  abide  by  the  acts  of  their  representatives. 

Merchants  are  not  revolutionists.  They  want  a  government 
that  will  assure  them  the  enjoyment  of  their  labors.  Hewes  was 
a  merchant,  but  he  pledged  his  people  to  commercial  non-inter- 
course with  Great  Britain,  though  this  meant  personal  loss  to 
the  firm  of  Hewes  and  Smith.  This  measure  was  goring  his  own 
ox,  but  he  gave  it  his  loyal  support.  Says  he,  in  a  letter  written 
at  the  close  of  the  Congress,  and  before  leaving  Philadelphia :  "  Our 
friends  are  under  apprehension  that  the  administration  will  en- 
deavor to  lay  hold  of  as  many  delegates  as  possible,  and  have  them 
carried  to  England  and  tried  as  rebels ;  this  induced  Congress  to 
enter  into  a  resolve  in  such  case  to  make  a  reprisal.  I  have  no 
fears  on  that  head,  but  should  it  be  my  lot,  no  man  on  earth  could 
be  better  spared.  Were  I  to  suffer  in  the  cause  of  American  lib- 
erty, should  I  not  be  translated  immediately  to  heaven  as  Enoch 
of  old  was  ?  " 

Hewes'  health  was  always  poor.  To  go  to  Philadelphia  was  not 
a  pleasant  journey,  save  that  it  permitted  him  to  see  his  aged 
mother,  who  lived  probably  at  the  old  home  in  New  Jersey.  Says 
Hewes,  in  a  letter:  "I  had  a  very  disagreeable  time  of  it  till  I 
arrived  here,  since  which  I  have  had  but  little  health  or  spirits." 
Hewes,  Caswell  and  Hooper  were  not  the  only  Carolinians  present 
in  Philadelphia  at  this  meeting,  for  Hewes  says  he  dined  with 
Caswell  and  other  Carolinians. 

In  December  Hewes  returned  to  Edenton  and  the  next  April 
found  him  and  James  Iredell  in  their  gigs  on  their  way  to  attend 
the  General  Assembly  at  New  Bern,  and  also  that  second  Provin- 
cial Congress  which  was  to  meet  at  the  same  time  and  place.  Both 
bodies  thanked  their  delegates  for  the  faithful  discharge  of  their 
duties.  The  aged,  yet  spirited,  Harvey  delivered  the  brief  address 
for  the  bodies.  This  Provincial  Congress  re-elected  Hewes,  Cas- 
well and  Hooper. 


298  JOSEPH  HEWES,  THE  "  SIGNER  " 

Hewes  and  Caswell  together  proceeded  at  once  to  Philadelphia, 
where  the  Congress  met  on  May  10.  On  Sunday  evening  they  ar- 
rived in  Petersburg,  where  they  learned  of  the  collision  "  between 
the  Bostonians  and  the  King's  troops."  Their  passage  through 
Virginia  was  attended  with  much  pomp  and  military  parade,  "  such 
as  was  due  to  general  officers."  They  stopped  a  day  in  Baltimore, 
where  "  Colonel  Washington,  accompanied  by  the  rest  of  the  dele- 
gates, reviewed  the  troops." 

Hewes  was  in  Philadelphia,  where,  he  said,  the  enthusiasm  was 
great.  He  was  very  anxious  for  North  Carolina  to  take  an  active 
part  in  affairs.  He  expressed  himself  as  uneasy  about  the  slow- 
ness of  North  Carolina.  Though  Hewes  was  sick  and  hardly  able 
to  write,  he  joined  in  an  address  to  the  people  of  North  Carolina 
and  wrote  letters  to  his  friends  describing  in  detail  the  military 
preparations  of  Congress.  Hewes  was  not  an  eager  war  man. 
Said  he,  in  a  letter  to  Samuel  Johnston  on  July  8,  1775 :  "  I  con- 
sider myself  now  over  head  and  ears  in  what  the  ministry  call 
rebellion.  I  feel  no  compunction  for  the  part  I  have  taken  nor 
for  the  number  of  our  enemies  lately  slain  at  the  battle  of  Bunker's 
Hill.  I  wish  to  be  in  the  camp  before  Boston,  tho'  I  fear  I  shall 
not  be  able  to  get  there  'till  next  campaign."  He  prevailed  upon 
Philadelphia  clergymen  to  write  letters  to  the  "  Presbyterians, 
Lutherans   and   Calvinists  "   in   North   Carolina. 

Hewes  was  a  member  of  the  committee  to  fit  out  vessels  for  the 
beginning  of  the  American  navy.  On  this  committee  there  was  no 
more  valuable  member.  There  were  not  many  merchants  in  Con- 
gress. Hewes'  mercantile  knowledge  served  Congress  well.  This 
is  Hewes'  chief  contribution  to  the  war  of  independence.  He  could 
not  speak  like  Adams  and  Lee,  nor  write  like  Jefferson,  but  he  knew 
where  were  the  sinews  of  war.  'When  not  in  Congress  he  was  em- 
ployed by  it  to  fit  out  vessels.  The  firm  of  Hewes  &  Smith  was  its 
agent  in  North  Carolina.  Some  vessels  Hewes  fitted  out  by  ad- 
vancing the  money  for  the  Congress. 

Hewes  was  hack  in  North  Carolina  in  August,  1775,  and  rcpre- 
sented    Edenton   at    the   third   Provincial   Congress  at  Ilillsboro, 

where    he    was     placed    OH     the    committer    to    secure    arms    for    the 

State,  to  prepare  an  address  tor  the  inhabitants,  and  a  form  of 
government.  Here  he  was  again  elected  to  the  Continental  Con- 
gress  along   with    Caswell    and    Hooper. 

lie   returned    to   Philadelphia    at    once  .and    prevailed   upon   Con- 


JOSEPH  HEWES,  THE  "SIGNER"  299 

gress  to  send  two  ministers  to  the  western  pari  of  North  Carolina. 
Though  he  was  very  sick,  he  urged  the  early  increase  of  the  army 
and  its  equipment.  Hewes  fully  expected  to  go  into  tin-  army; 
in  him  there  was  nothing  of  the  Tory  spirit.  Said  he,  on  Febru- 
ary 11,  1776:  "If  we  mean  to  defend  our  liberties,  our  dearest 
rights  and  privileges  against  the  power  of  Britain  to  the  Ias1  ex- 
tremity, we  ought  to  bring  ourselves  to  such  a  temper  of  mind  as 
to  stand  unmoved  at  the  bursting  of  an  earthquake.  Although 
the  storm  thickens,  I  feel  myself  quite  composed.  I  have  fur- 
nished myself  with  a  good  musket  and  bayonet,  and  when  I  can  no 
longer  be  useful  in  council  I  hope  I  shall  be  willing  to  take  the 
field.  I  think  I  had  rather  fall  than  be  carried  off  by  a  lingering 
illness.  An  obstinate  ague  and  fever,  or  rather  an  intermittent 
fever,  persecutes  me  continually.  I  have  no  way  to  remove  it 
unless  I  retire  from  Congress  and  from  public  business ;  this  I  am 
determined  not  to  do  till  North  Carolina  sends  another  delegate, 
provided  I  am  able  to  crawl  to  the  Congress  chamber." 

Hewes  was  elected  to  represent  Edenton  in  the  fourth  Provincial 
Congress  at  Halifax  in  April,  1776,  but  did  not  leave  Philadelphia. 
It  was  more  important  that  he  should  remain  there.  He  wrote 
that  he  was  anxious  to  know  the  kind  of  constitution  they 
had  adopted,  but  more  anxious  to  know  how  they  were  pre- 
paring to  defend  their  country.  In  the  Continental  Congress  he 
was  on  the  committee  to  prepare  the  articles  of  the  confedera- 
tion also. 

Hewes  spent  the  year  1776  in  Philadelphia.  He  did  not  visit 
North  Carolina  at  all.  Hooper  and  Penn  probably  did.  Hewes 
was  alone  at  the  time  the  great  debate  was  in  progress  on  the  wis- 
dom of  declaring  independence.  Says  he,  in  a  letter  dated  Phila- 
delphia, July  8,  1776:  "What  has  become  of  my  friend  Hooper? 
I  expected  to  have  seen  him  ere  now.  My  friend  Penn  came  time 
enough  to  give  his  vote  for  independence.  I  send  you  the  Decla- 
ration of  Independence  enclosed.  I  had  the  weight  of  North  Caro- 
lina on  my  shoulders  within  a  day  or  two  of  three  months.  The 
service  was  too  severe.  I  have  sat  some  days  from  six  in  the 
morning  till  five  or  sometimes  six  in  the  afternoon,  without  eating 
or  drinking.  Some  of  my  friends  thought  I  should  not  be  able  to 
keep  soul  and  body  together  to  this  time.  Duty,  inclination  and 
self-preservation  call  on  me  now  to  make  a  little  excursion  into  the 
country  to  see  my  mother.      This  is  a  duty  which  I  have  not  al- 


300  JOSEPH  HEWES,  THE  "  SIGNER  " 

lowed  myself  time  to  perform  during  the  almost  nine  months  I 
have  been  here." 

Here  is  a  picture  of  devotion  to  duty  not  surpassed  in  the  an- 
nals of  any  countrv. 

The  months  during  which  he  labored  so  dutifully,  and  alone 
bore  the  burden  of  North  Carolina  on  his  shoulders,  were  the  days 
when  the  great  question  of  independence  was  discussed.  In  this 
discussion  there  was  no  inspiration.  There  was  gathered  together 
a  band  of  brave  men  trying  prayerfully  to  do  the  right.  Clouds 
and  uncertainty  were  thick  about  them.  The  measure  had  been 
discussed  for  months,  but  the  majorities  were  constantly  against 
it.  John  Adams,  in  a  letter  written  March  28,  1813,  says  Mr. 
Hewes  determined  the  vote  for  independence.  "  For  many  days 
the  majority  depended  on  Mr.  Hewes  of  North  Carolina.  While 
a  member  one  day  was  speaking,  and  reading  documents  from  all 
the  colonies,  to  prove  that  public  opinion,  the  general  sense  of  all, 
was  in  favor  of  the  measure,  when  he  came  to  North  Carolina  and 
produced  letters  and  public  proceedings  which  demonstrated  that 
the  majority  in  that  colony  were  in  favor  of  it,  Mr.  Hewes,  who 
had  hitherto  constantly  voted  against  it,  started  suddenly  up- 
right, and  lifting  both  hands  to  heaven  as  if  he  had  been  in  a 
trance,  cried  out :  '  It  is  done !  and  I  will  abide  by  it.'  I  would 
give  more  for  a  perfect  painting  of  the  terror  and  horror  upon 
the  face  of  the  old  majority  at  that  critical  moment  than  for  the 
best  piece  of  Raphael.  The  question,  however,  was  eluded  by  an 
immediate  motion  for  adjournment." 

In  the  fall  Hewes  returned  to  North  Carolina  in  time  to  attend 
the  Provincial  Congress  at  Halifax  in  November,  1776.  His  ad- 
miring friends  in  Edenton  again  chose  him  to  represent  them  as 
the}'  had  been  doing  for  ten  years.  Here  he  took  part  in  the 
making  of  the  State  Constitution,  being  on  the  committee.  How- 
ever, he  was  doubtless  more  interested  in  the  preparation  to  de- 
fend the  independence  for  which  he  had  just  voted.  Hewes  was 
again  active  on  the  important  committees.  This  Provincial  Con- 
gress made  and  adopted  the  first  Constitution  for  North  Carolina. 
What  Hewes  thoughl  of  it  is  not  known,  hut  many  of  his  friends 
iii  Edenton  did  not  like  it.  Samuel  .Johnston  was  open  in  his 
disapproval. 

After   tin'  close   of   the    Provincial    Congress   at    Halifax,   Hewes 

returned  to  Edenton,  with  his  health  injured  by  overwork  in  the 


JOSEPH  HEWES,  THE  "  SIGNER  "  301 

Continental  Congress.  He  bad  expected  to  return  to  Philadelphia 
in  February,  but  tlie  rheumatism  would  not  permit  him.  He  whs 
not  idle.  He  was  in  the  secret  committee  of  Congress  for  pur- 
chasing equipment.  He  and  Morris  were  the  merchant  members 
of  Congress,  and  bad  much  of  tins  work  to  do.  April  found  him 
at  borne  but  expecting  at  any  time  to  start  north. 

The  first  General  Assembly  under  the  new  State  Constitution 
met  at  New  Bern  in  April,  1777.  Hewes,  for  the  first  time  in 
ten  vears,  was  not  chosen  to  represent  Edenton.  John  Green 
was  tbe  member  in  his  place.  This  new  republican  Assembly  con- 
tained many  new  men.  There  bad  been  a  clash  in  the  making  of 
this  new  Constitution.  Samuel  Johnston  had  led  the  conserva- 
tives and  been  defeated,  while  Willie  Jones  had  led  the  radicals  to 
victory.  There  was  bitterness  and  strife.  Johnston,  and  doubt- 
less his  followers,  were  partial  to  Hewes  and  Hooper,  but  they 
cared  little  for  Penn.  When  the  time  came  to  elect  representatives 
to  the  Continental  Congress,  Hooper,  though  no  competitor  ap- 
peared against  him,  lost  a  great  many  votes.  He  obtained  sev- 
enty-six out  of  ninety.  Samuel  Johnston  said :  "  Hewes  was  sup- 
planted of  his  seat  in  Congress  by  the  most  insidious  arts  and 
glaring  falsehoods."  James  Iredell  said  that  the  reason  alleged 
for  his  defeat  was  that  he  had  been  at  home  so  long  and  also  that 
he  was  holding  two  offices  under  one  government,  being  a  member 
of  Congress  and  also  a  member  of  its  most  important  committee. 

After  Hooper's  resignation,  Hewes'  friends  felt  that  he  could 
be  elected  unanimously,  but  thought  also  that  it  would  be  an  in- 
dignity. Only  Penn  was  returned  and  his  majority  was  reduced. 
Whatever  may  have  been  the  cause  of  this  defeat,  it  looks  like  an 
example  of  a  republic's  ingratitude. 

Nevertheless,  this  Assembly  was  willing  to  employ  Hewes,  and 
asked  him  to  fit  out  two  vessels  —  the  Pennsylvania  Farmer  and 
Kmg  Tommy,  but  he  declined  because  he  was  already  the  agent 
of  the  Continental  Congress. 

During  the  remainder  of  1778  he  remained  in  Edenton,  making 
at  least  one  trip  to  Boston  on  business.  In  1778  he  was  still  in- 
terested in  purchases  for  the  conduct  of  the  war.  His  health  was 
in  the  meantime  much  improved.  Hewes  was  probably  returned 
to  the  Assembly  by  his  old  constituents  of  Edenton  in  1778.  Here 
he  was,  as  usual,  a  member  of  many  committees. 

When  this  Assembly  was  called  upon  to  elect  delegates  to  the 


302 


JOSEPH  HEWES,  THE  "  SIGNER  " 


Continental  Congress,  Hewes  was  again  chosen.  James  Iredell 
wrote  his  wife,  who  was  an  ardent  admirer  of  Hewes,  and  looked 
upon  him  as  a  brother,  since  the  death  of  her  sister,  Miss  John- 
ston :  "  Hewes  will  be  down  soon  .  .  .  nothing;  now  detains 
him  but  his  goodness  in  settling  accounts  he  has  no  business  with, 
and  which  no  other  man  is  equal  to." 

On  his  return  to  Philadelphia  in  1779  he  worked  hard,  but  his 
health  was  fast  failing.  He  was  never  strong,  and  the  trying 
times  of  1776  had  taxed  his  strength  to  the  utmost.  He  sent  his 
resignation  to  the  General  Assembly,  which  met  in  October  at 
Halifax,  but  in  November  he  died  in  Philadelphia  at  the  post  of 
duty,  aged  fifty.  James  Iredell  wrote  his  wife :  "  The  loss  of  such 
a  man  will  long  be  severely  felt,  and  his  friends  must  ever  remem- 
ber him  with  the  keenest  sensibility."  Hooper  wrote  to  Iredell : 
"  The  death  of  Hewes  still  preys  upon  my  feelings.  I  know  and 
had  probed  the  secret  recesses  of  his  soul  and  found  it  devoid  of 
guilt  and  replete  with  benignity."  His  funeral  was  attended  by 
Congress,  the  Pennsylvania  Assembly,  the  Minister  of  France,  and 
many  citizens,  while  Congress  resolved  to  wear  crape  for  him. 


Such  was  Joseph  Hewes,  the  merchant  member  of  Congress,  an 
early  Secretary  of  the  Navy,  a  friend  loved  and  trusted,  and  a 
signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence. 

The  following  inscription  may  be  read  on  a  marble  tablet  set 
in  the  south  wall  of  the  brick  store  on  the  northeast  corner  of 
Broad  and  King  streets,  Edenton,  N.  C. : 


JOSEPH 

H  EWES 

ONE       OF       THE       SIGNERS      OF       THE 

DECLARATION    OF    INDEPENDENCE 

OWN  ED          AND 

OCCU  PIED          THIS 

BUSIN  ESS    SITE 

FOR    MANY    YEARS 

JOSEPH  HEWES,  THE  "  SIGNER  "  303 

The  following  letters  written  by  Joseph  Hewes  to  his  friend 
Judge  Iredell  are  reprinted  from  Life  and  Correspondence  of 
James  Iredell,  by  Griffith  I.  McRee. 


Philadelphia,  31st  Oct.,  1774. 

I  had  a  very  disagreeable  time  of  it  till  I  arrived  here,  since 
which,  I  have  had  but  little  health  and  less  spirits. 

The  Congress  broke  up  on  Thursday  last,  their  proceedings  are 
now  in  the  press,  part  of  which  is  published,  and  which  I  now  send 
directed  to  myself  as  postmaster  at  Edenton.  I  have  the  pleasure 
to  inform  you  that  they  are  generally  approved  of  here  by  all 
ranks  of  people;  the  Germans  who  compose  a  large  part  of  the 
inhabitants  of  this  province  are  all  on  our  side;  the  sweets  of  lib- 
erty little  known  in  their  own  country  are  here  enjoyed  by  them 
in  its  utmost  latitude.  Our  friends  are  under  apprehension  that 
administration  will  endeavor  to  lay  hold  of  as  many  delegates  as 
possible,  and  have  them  carried  to  England  and  tried  as  rebels ; 
this  induced  the  Congress  to  enter  into  a  resolve  in  such  cases  to 
make  a  reprisal.  I  have  no  fears  on  that  head,  but  should  it  be 
my  lot,  no  man  on  earth  could  be  better  spared.  Were  I  to  suffer 
in  the  cause  of  American  liberty,  should  I  not  be  translated  im- 
mediately to  heaven  as  Enoch  was  of  old? 

I  consider  myself  extremely  happy  in  the  good  opinion  my 
friends  at  Edenton  have  of  me.  I  wish  I  had  merit  to  entitle  me 
to  it.  They  have  my  grateful  acknowledgment.  I  am  much 
pleased  with  Miss  Nelly's  letter,  and  am  sorry  I  have  trifled  away 
so  much  time  as  not  to  be  able  to  answer  it  by  this  post. 

Dear  sir, 

Your  obedient  friend  and  servant, 

Joseph  Hewes. 


(P.  S.  to  this  letter) 

I  beg  you  will  excuse  haste.     I  now  trespass  on  Congress  hours. 


Philadelphia,  23d  May,  1775. 
Dear  Sir: — I  know  your  anxiety  to  be  informed  what  is  doing 
in  Congress,  and  wish  I  was  at  liberty  to  gratify  it,  but  the  secrecy 
enjoined  the  members  puts  it  out  of  my  power  to  give  you  any 


304  JOSEPH  HEWES,  THE  "  SIGNER  " 

information  worth  your  attention.  You  will  see  by  the  papers 
which  I  send  to  Mr.  Smith,  the  advice  that  is  given  to  the  people 
of  New  York  relative  to  their  city:  to  those  papers  I  must  beg 
leave  to  refer  you  for  news ;  you  will  find  by  them  the  New  Yorkers 
have  taken  an  active  share  in  the  opposition ;  a  tory  dare  not  show 
his  head  amongst  them ;  the  cry  of  liberty  is  irresistible  in  most  of 
the  colonies ;  a  military  spirit  has  seized  all  orders  of  people ;  this 
city  is  full  of  armed  men ;  they  have  now  28  companies  of  foot  and 
two  of  horse ;  each  company  consists  of  68  men  including  officers ; 
they  are  called  out  twice  every  day  to  learn  the  military  discipline, 
and  I  can  assure  you  some  of  the  companies  perform  it  equal  to 
any  regular  troops. 

Capt.  Gillis  makes  so  short  a  stay  here  that  I  fear  I  shall  not 
have  it  in  my  power  to  send  any  shoes  by  him.  I  have  urged  the 
shoemakers  to  get  them  done,  but  they  had  so  many  orders  not 
completed  when  I  complied,  that  I  fear  the  ladies  and  yourself 
must  wait  till  the  next  opportunity  for  them.  I  received  the  shell 
per  Capt.  Gillis,  and  shall  get  it  made  into  a  box  for  Miss  Penny 
as  soon  as  possible.  The  ladies  have  always  my  best  wishes,  make 
my  compliments  acceptable  to  them.  I  have  wrote  to  Mr.  John- 
ston, so  has  Mr.  Hooper ;  if  he  is  not  at  home  when  Gillis  arrives, 
I  desire  you  will  open  our  letters  to  him,  and  read  the  contents 
before  you  send  them. 

I  am,  very  respectfully,  dear  sir, 

Your  obliged  and  very  humble  servant, 

Joseph  Hewes. 

Philadelphia,  8th  July,  1775. 
Dear  Sir: — I  have  sent  by  ("apt.  Hatch's  Sloop  ten  pairs  of 
shoes  for  yourself,  and  six  pairs  for  Mrs.  Iredell  and  Mrs.  Daw- 
son. I  did  intend  to  have  sent  double  the  number  for  the  ladies, 
but  could  not  prevail  with  the  workmen  to  get  them  ready  in  time; 
the  demand  for  women's  shoes  is  so  gnat  that  the  makers  cannot 
complete  half  their  orders:  when  a  tradesman  has  made  a  thou- 
sand promises  and  broke  them  all.  he  has  one  answer  ready  for 
every  charge:  sir,  I  have  been  under  arms  in  the  field.  I  have 
Ben1  to  the  Committee  of  Correspondence  at  Edenton  a  copy  of  a 
letter  from  Genera]  Gage  t<>  Governor  Martin,  also  a  copy  of  a 
letter  from  Governor  Martin  !<•  Henrj  White.  Esq.,  in  New  York; 
t|M.  (;,.„!  was  -'id   to  the  Congress  from  the  Provincial  Convention 


JOSEPH  HEWES,  THE  "  SIGNER  "  305 

of  New  York,  the  latter  from  the  Committee  of  this  city;  by  them 
you  may  see  what  part  our  Governor  intends  to  take  in  the  pres- 
ent unhappy  dispute. 

The  Congress  some  days  ago  took  into  consideration  the  state 
of  the  trade  of  America;  all  the  arguments  that  could  be  made  for 
and  against  shutting  up  the  ports  on  the  20th  of  July  were  duly 
attended  to,  and  after  mature  deliberation  they  determined  to  let 
the  matter  rest  on  the  Association  Agreement  entered  into  last 
Congress,  so  that  the  ports  will  remain  open  till  the  10th  of  Sep- 
tember next,  unless  shut  sooner  by  the  people  themselves  in  their 
separate  committees ;  a  resolution  was  entered  into  against  the  two 
last  restraining  Acts  of  Parliament  which  you  will  see  in  the  news- 
papers. 

The  humble  Petition  and  Remonstrance  from  the  New  York 
Assembly  has  been  treated  by  the  King  and  Parliament  with  the 
same  contempt  and  neglect  as  they  treated  that  from  the  Con- 
gress, last  winter.  It  is  said  the  Ministry  desired  the  Agent  to 
inform  the  Petitioners  that  they  might  apply  to  the  army  and 
navy  at  Boston  for  an  answer;  this  circumstance  has  induced 
many  of  the  tories  in  that  colony  to  renounce  their  principles. 

It  is  certain  that  Administration  have  endeavored  to  prevail 
on  the  Canadians  and  Indians  to  fall  upon  our  frontiers,  and  thai 
they  had  in  contemplation  a  scheme  to  set  our  slaves  free,  and  arm 
them  against  us ;  by  the  fishing  and  restraining  acts  they  meant 
to  destroy  our  trade  and  starve  us ;  they  have  made  mean  conces- 
sions to  all  the  powers  of  Europe  to  prevent  our  getting  a  supply 
of  arms  and  ammunition ;  they  have  sent  a  formidable  fleet  and 
army  to  seize  our  vessels  and  cut  our  throats ;  they  then  charge  us 
with  rebellion,  because  we  will  not  believe  that  they  have  a  right 
to  make  laws  to  bind  us  in  all  cases  whatsoever.  Strange  that  we 
should  be  deemed  rebels  for  an  article  of  faith, — after  all  this, 
they  add  insult  to  injury,  and  tell  us  we  are  all  poltroons  and 
cowards. 

Close  attention  to  business,  bad  health,  and  a  weakness  in  my 
eyes,  all  contribute  to  prevent  me  from  writing  so  much  as  I  other- 
wise should  do.  I  write  in  pain,  and  can  scarcely  see  to  read  what 
I  have  written. 

I  have  sent  to  Mr.  Smith  a  number  of  newspapers,  some  maga- 
zines, sermons,  articles  of  war  for  the  Continental  Army,  and  a 
declaration  of  war  from  the  Representatives  of  the  United  Colonies 


306  JOSEPH  HEWES,  THE  "  SIGNER  " 

of  North  America ;  the}-  are  all  intended  for  the  amusement  of 
my  friends.  My  warmest  good  wishes  and  best  compliments  at- 
tend you  and  the  ladies  of  my  acquaintance;  desire  them  to  pray 
for,  dear  sir, 

Your  most  obt.  humble  servt. 

Joseph  Hewes. 

Philadelphia,  9th  Nov.,  1775. 
Dear  Sir : — When  I  came  here  and  had  conversed  with  the  Mas- 
sachusetts delegates,  I  found  it  a  difficult  matter  to  get  a  letter 
sent  to  the  Commissioners  in  Boston.  I  was  informed  no  letter 
was  suffered  to  go  in  till  its  contents  had  been  examined  by  a 
committee,  and  that  letters  wrote  by  persons  they  thought  dis- 
affected, were  sometimes  stopped,  though  the  contents  were  only 
business  or  compliments.  Under  the  circumstances,  I  thought  it 
prudent  to  open  your  letter,  and  put  it  under  cover  to  Gen.  Wash- 
ington, at  the  same  time  requesting  the  favor  of  him,  after  he  had 
read  its  contents,  to  send  it  into  Boston,  and  to  permit  an  an- 
swer to  return  the  same  way.  I  have  not  yet  received  an  an- 
swer from  him,  but  am  in  hopes  it  will  not  be  long  before  I  have 
that  honor.  I  could  think  of  no  better  way  to  get  you  an  answer 
from  the  Commissioners.  If  I  have  done  wrong  I  must  rely  on 
your  goodness  to  excuse  it.  I  can  say  but  little  on  the  score  of 
politics  —  the  present  appearance  is  much  against  us  and  our 
cause.  We  have  had  no  accounts  from  England  later  than  the 
26th  of  August.  We  are  told  our  Petition  will  be  disregarded; 
that  we  shall  be  declared  rebels,  and  our  estates  confiscated;  we 
are  threatened  with  ships  of  war,  troops,  Russians,  Hanoverians, 
and  Hessians.  God  knows  how  it  will  end.  Some  officers  from 
Gen.  Gage's  army  have  been  detected  in  enlisting  men  in  the 
Province  of  New  York  to  go  to  Boston ;  some  of  these  recruits 
have  been  examined  on  oath,  and  declared  that  each  of  them  was 
promised  two  hundred  acres  of  land,  not  in  the  woods,  but  cleared 
cultivated  laud  with  houses  thereon,  that  they  were  to  be  put  in 
possession  at  the  end  of  the  war,  when  the  rebels  were  subdued, 
which  they  wrw  taughl    to  believe  would  soon  happen.      We  are  in 

dailv  expectation   of   further   intelligence   from   England,  several 

ela    being    expected     here;     the    last     ships    that    have    arrived 
brough.1     I  hr    king's    proclamation.      You    will    see   it    in    the   news- 

papers;  it    is   remarkable  those  ships  brought    \eiy   few  letters  from 


JOSEPH  HEWES,  THE  "  SIGNER  "  307 

private  persons  —  it  would  seem  as  if  the  proclamation  had  de- 
terred our  friends  from  writing  on  the  subject  of  politics.      My 
best  compliments  to  the  ladies,  and  believe  me  to  be,  with  much 
esteem, 
Dear  Sir, 

Your  most  obedient  and  humble  servant, 

Joseph  Hewes. 

Philadelphia,  26th  March,  1776. 
Dear  Sir: — By  the  return  of  our  express,  I  have  been  favored 
with  your  letter  of  the  2d  instant ;  I  am  much  obliged  to  you  for 
it.  The  letter  you  gave  me  for  the  Commissioners,  and  which  I 
enclosed  to  General  Washington,  was  by  him  sent  into  Boston, 
but  no  answer  was  ever  returned.  As  I  imagine  you  will  be  at 
Halifax,  and  will  there  see  my  friend  Hooper,  who  will  be  able 
to  give  you  all  the  news  and  politics,  I  shall  not  trouble  you  with 
anything  in  that  way;  as  to  myself,  I  am  ashamed  to  be  always 
complaining,  yet  I  must  say  I  think  myself  declining  fast ;  such 
close  attention  to  business  every  day  in  Congress  till  three,  four 
and  sometimes  five  o'clock,  and  on  committee  almost  every  evening, 
and  frequently  in  the  morning  before  Congress  meets,  is  too  much 
for  my  constitution  —  however,  my  country  is  entitled  to  my  serv- 
ices, and  I  shall  not  shrink  from  her  cause,  even  though  it  should 
cost  me  my  life.  I  send  you  enclosed  the  locket  you  desired  me 
to  get  made  for  Mrs.  Iredell;  the  jeweller  was  a  long  time  about 
it,  and  has  not  pleased  me  in  the  execution ;  the  letters  are  not 
plain  enough.  In  these  times,  when  every  mechanic  is  employed 
in  learning  how  to  kill  Englishmen,  it  is  impossible  to  get  any 
thing  done  right.  I  send  you,  also  enclosed,  a  piece  of  hair-work 
in  a  bracelet  for  Mrs.  Pollok  —  it  is  done  with  Mrs.  Buncombe's 
hair,  and,  I  think,  pretty  well  executed.  Will  you  do  me  the 
favor  to  deliver  it  to  Mrs.  Pollok,  with  my  most  respectful  compli- 
ments? I  have  a  favor  to  beg  of  Mrs.  Iredell  —  a  lock  of  Miss 
Annie's  hair,  if  such  can  be  had,  and  you  will  oblige  me  by  send- 
ing it  to  me  by  the  first  opportunity;  if  enclosed  in  a  letter  by 
post,  I  believe  it  will  come  safe.  My  compliments  to  Miss  Nelly 
—  I  am  much  indebted  to  her  for  her  letter  by  the  return  express; 
tell  her  I  cannot  write ;  if  she  knew  how  much  of  my  time  was 
taken  up  on  the  public  service  and  with  how  much  pain  I  now  write, 
she  would  excuse  me  for  not  doing  it ;  tell  her  I  am  getting  my  pic- 


308  JOSEPH  HEWES,  THE  "  SIGNER  " 

ture  drawn  in  miniature,  and  as  she  may  never  have  an  opportun- 
ity of  seeing  the  original  again,  I  shall  send  her  the  copy  when 
it  is  finished.10  My  compliments  to  Mrs.  Johnston,  Mrs.  Dawson, 
Mrs.  Blair,  Miss  Peggy  and  all  friends.  Adieu,  and  believe  me 
with  great  truth, 

Dear  Sir, 

Your  most  obedient  and  humble  servant, 

Joseph  Hewes. 
(Letter  of  26th  March,  1776.) 

P.  S.  I  said  I  had  enclosed  the  locket,  but  I  am  so  much  dis- 
pleased with  it  that  I  have  retained  it  in  hopes  of  getting  it  al- 
tered for  the  better;  in  the  mean  time,  if  Mrs.  Iredell  chooses  to 
have  hair  put  in  it,  and  will  send  it  me,  with  orders  how  it  should 
be  wrought  in,  I  will  have  it  done. 

J.  H. 

Philadelphia,  June  28th,  1776. 
Dear  Sir : — I  have  to  thank  you  for  two  letters,  and  believe  me, 
I  do  it  most  heartily;  you  are  almost  the  only  correspondent  I 
have  in  North  Carolina,  but  more  of  this  next  opportunity ;  at 
present  I  would  confine  myself  to  news.  Burgoyne,  with  a  large 
force,  is  arrived  in  Canada.  Gen.  Sullivan  sent  2,000  men  under 
Gen.  Thompson  to  engage  a  party  of  the  king's  troops  that  were 
about  forty  miles  below  head-quarters,  towards  Quebec;  but  un- 
luckily the  evening  before  Thompson  came  up  with  them,  they  had 
been  reinforced  by  Burgoyne  with  several  regiments  just  arrived; 
notwithstanding  the  superior  force,  Thompson  engaged  them,  was 
repulsed  with  the  loss  of  150  mm,  killed  and  taken  prisoners.  In 
tin  retreat,  Thompson  and  five  or  six  officers  were  taken  prisoners 
by  a  party  <>f  Canadians,  who,  though  they  were  supposed  to  be 
OUT  friends,  found  this  a  lucky  time  to  make  their  peace  with  the 
strongest  party.  Our  whole  army  are  retreated  to  the  Isle  a 
Noir  a  littl.-  on  this  side  St.  John's  (1,500  of  them  have  the  small 
pox  ;  out  of  tine,  regiments  not  more  than  fifty  able  to  bear  arms), 
in  hopes  to  keep  possession  of  the  lakes.  A  damnable  plot  has  been 
discovered  in  New  York.  The  hellish  tories  had  concerted  a  plan 
to  murder  Genera]  Washington  and  several  other  generals,  blow 
up  the  magazine  and  Bpike  up  all  the  cannon.     They  waited  only 

The  miniature,  encased  in  gold  and  encircled  with  garnets,  is  now  in  the 
,„,    ,     [on   .,)'   Miss    Helen    Iredell,  the  grand-daughter  of  Miss   Nelly   Blair. 


JOSEPH  HEWES,  THE  "  SIGNER  "  309 

for  the  arrival  of  the  king's  troops,  when  this  plan  was  to  have 
been  executed.  The  general  has  not  yet  got  to  the  bottom  of  this 
affair;  many  persons  are  taken  up  and  imprisoned,  some  persons 
of  note  among  them:  the  mayor  of  the  city,  the  famous  Major 
Rogers,  &c,  &C.11  It  is  said  Gov.  Tryon  is  concerned,  but  he  is 
safe  on  board  a  king's  ship  at  Sandy  Hook.  So  much  for  the  dark 
side.  Things  go  a  little  better  in  another  quarter.  Our  Conti- 
nental vessels  of  war  and  some  privateers  have  taken  lately,  at  dif- 
ferent times  and  places,  six  large  transport  ships  from  Scotland, 
having  in  all  near  600  of  Frasier's  regiment  of  Highlanders  on 
board,  with  their  baggage,  arms,  provisions,  &c.  An  express 
that  came  half  an  hour  ago  informs  that  he  saw  upward  of  200 
of  these  march  out  of  Boston,  in  order  to  be  confined  in  the  jail  in 
the  country.  He  says  they  are  fine  men  —  have  all  new  regiment- 
als, scarlet  faced  with  blue ;  he  came  out,  he  says,  with  them,  and 
heard  many  of  them  curse  most  bitterly  both  king  and  Parliament 
for  deceiving  them.  They  had  been  told  not  a  rebel  would  be 
found  on  the  sea  coast:  that  they  had  all  fled  fifty  or  sixty  miles 
back  in  the  country,  and  that  they  were  sent  here  to  enjoy  lands 
which  the  rebels  had  forsaken.  They  did  not  expert  anything 
else,  and  had  brought  their  wives  in  order  to  set  down  quiet,  &c 
Gov.  Franklyn  is  taken  into  custody,  and  sent  prisoner  to  Con  - 
necticut. 

On  Monday  the  great  question  of  independency  and  total  sep- 
aration from  all  political  intercourse  with  Great  Britain  will  come 
on.  It  will  be  carried,  I  expect,  by  a  great  majority,  and  then, 
I  suppose  we  shall  take  upon  us  a  new  name.  My  compliments  to 
Mr.  Johnston ;  I  received  a  line  from  him  from  Halifax,  by  the  re- 
turn wagons,  also  one  from  Edenton,  by  Williams,  who  is  the 
bearer  of  this.  I  have  not  time  to  write  him  now ;  shall  do  it  by 
post  on  Tuesday;  he  must  consider  this  as  written  to  him  also. 
My  compliments  to  the  ladies. 

I  am,  dear  sir, 

Your  most  obt.  humble  servt., 

Joseph  Hewes. 

Of  Joseph  Hewes,  one  of  the  Signers  of  the  Declaration  of  In- 
dependence, it  is  unnecessary  to  speak;  his  history  is  known  to 
the  Union.  I  need  only  say  that  he  was  affianced  to  Miss  Isabella, 
the  sister  of  Mr.  Sam  Johnston.     The  death  of  that  amiable  lady, 

ii  Vid.  Lossing's  "  Field  Book  of  the  Revolution,"  Vol.  1,  p.  116. 


310  JOSEPH  HEWES,  THE  "  SIGNER  " 

before  the  consummation  of  their  nuptials,  left  him  so  bereaved, 
and  the  recollection  of  her  grace  and  virtue  was  so  vivid,  that  he 
never  married.  He  was  always  regarded  by  the  Johnstons  as  a 
member  of  their  family. — [P.  31.  "  Life  and  Correspondence  of 
James  Iredell."] 

Edextox,  20th  July,  1772. 
I  must  say  there  is  a  gentleman  in  this  town  who  is  a 
very  particular  favorite  of  mine,  as  indeed  he  is  of  everybody,  for 
he  is  one  of  the  best  and  most  agreeable  men  in  the  world.  His 
name  is  Hewes.  He  is  a  merchant  here,  and  our  member  for  the 
town :  the  patron  and  greatest  honor  of  it.  About  six  or  seven 
years  ago,  he  was  within  a  very  few  days  of  being  married  to  one 
of  Mr.  Johnston's  sisters  (elder  than  the  two  young  ladies  now 
living)  who  died  rather  suddenly ;  and  this  unhappy  circumstance 
for  a  long  time  embittered  every  satisfaction  in  life  to  him.  He 
has  continued  ever  since  unmarried,  which  I  believe  he  will  always 
do.  His  connection  with  Mr.  Johnston's  family  is  just  such  as  if 
he  had  been  really  a  brother-in-law,  a  circumstance  that  mutually 
does  honor  to  them  both. 

Ja.  Iredell. 

Thursday,  Nov.  19,  1772. 
Journal: 

.  I  took  a  walk  with  Mr.  Hewes  to  his  wharf,  and  spent 
a  happy  afternoon  with  him  afterwards  at  his  own  house.  This 
gentleman  I  greatly  love  and  respect ;  and  I  feel  much  concern 
that  he  has  imbibed  some  prejudices  which  cannot  stand  the  test 
of  a  fair  inquiry,  and  which,  if  justly  founded,  would  destroy  the 
strongest  ties  of  moral  and  social  virtue,  and  would  leave  uncon- 
querable difficulties  in  the  room  of  those  which  only  seem  such,  for 
want  of  a  due  attention  or  a  competent  knowledge  of  the  subject. 
As  a  man  and  gentleman,  possessed  of  an  excellent  understanding, 
and  blest  with  a  good  heart,  Mr.  Ilewes  is  deserving  the  honor  and 
reaped   universally  shown  him. 


DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HE  WES 
OF  SALISBURY,  MASS. 


DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES,  OF  SALISBURY 

No  evidence  has  jet  been  produced  showing  that  there  was  any 
connection  between  George  Hewes  of  Salisbury,  and  any  other  of 
the  name  in  New  England  during  his  lifetime,  other  than  his  own 
descendants.  There  are  so  many  coincidences,  however,  in  the 
records  and  residences  of  members  of  this  family  and  that  of 
Joshua  Hewes  of  Boston,  that  it  would  not  be  a  matter  of  surprise 
if  it  should  be  found  that  George  Hewes  was  a  nephew  or  near  kins- 
man of  Lt.  Joshua  Hewes. 

FIRST  GENERATION 

I.  1  GEORGE  HEWES  of  Salisbury,  found  there  in  1677,1 
as  a  "  householder,"  and  according  to  Hoyt  (Old  Families  of  Sal- 
isbury and  Amesbury)  he  was  living  in  1682.  He  is  probably 
that  George  Hues  whose  name  follows  that  of  Joshua  Hues  in 
the  non-alphabetically  arranged  tax  list  of  Boston  in  1687, ~  but 
his  name  does  not  occur  in  the  list  for  1688,  nor  in  that  of  1691, 
nor  in  the  list  of  inhabitants  for  1695.3 

He  appears  to  have  had  a  warehouse  and  landing  place  on  the 
Merrimack,  and  according  to  the  Horace  G.  Hewes  Ms.  was  part 
owner  of  the  brig  Salisbury,  from  which  it  is  inferred  he  was  a 
merchant. 

He  enjoyed  the  prefix  of  respect,  "  Mr."  as  may  be  seen  in  the 
record  of  a  vote  16  May,  1682,  when  the  town  of  Salisbury  ac- 
cepted "  with  all  thankfulness  "  a  bell  presented  them  by  "  Mr. 
George  Hewes,"  and  as  a  further  mark  of  appreciation  grant  him 
whatever  rights  the  town  had  in  "  Deare  Island,"  and  requested 
Mr.  Bradbury  to  write  a  note  to  Mr.  Hewes  to  deliver  the  bell  to 
Goodman  Norton  and  others  to  be  brought  to  the  meeting-house. 

i  Petition  of  "householders,"  and  members  of  the  church  in  separate  lists. 
Hewes  does  not  appear  to  have  been  a  church  member.  Archives,  quoted  by 
Hoyt. 

2  Archives    126:286,   printed   in    1st   Rept.   Boston   Record   Commissioners. 

s  The  name  of  Ralph  Hues  appears  on  the  lists  of  1688,  1691. 

311 


312  DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES 

Solomon  Hewes  gave  a  deed  to  the  island,  17  March,  1698,  to  John 
Stevens  (Essex  Deeds,  13:300).  Deer  Island  is  in  the  Merri- 
mack between  Salisbury  and  Newburyport,  and  is  crossed  by  the 
Essex-Merrimack  bridge. 

He  married  Mary  Allen,  daughter  of  William  and  Ann  (Good- 
ale)  Allen  of  Salisbury.  She  was  born  29  July,  1611,  and  is 
named  in  her  father's  will  of  Sept.,  1671  (Essex  Probate),  also  in 
the  will  of  her  brother  Richard  Allen,  proved  in  1678.  A  deed 
recorded  in  1722,  (Essex  Deeds,  38:215)  recites  that  Joseph 
Allen,  Jeremiah  Allen,  and  Mary  Hues,  legatees  of  Richard  Allen, 
their  brother,  who  by  will  gave  them  all  his  estate,  except  a  chest 
he  bequeathed  unto  Samuel  son  of  his  brother  Peter  Eyer,  and 
George  Hues  husband  of  the  said  Mary,  grant  to  Benjamin  Allen 
of  Haverhill,  their  brother,  40  acres  in  Haverhill.  This  deed  was 
given  15  Oct.,  1679.  According  to  it  Richard  Allen's  will  was 
proved  at  Hampton,  8  Oct.,  1678. 

Mary  (Allen)  Hewes  joined  the  church  at  Salisbury,  21  July, 
1687,  two  weeks  prior  to  the  baptism  of  her  two  children.  After 
her  husband's  death,  she  probably  married  Ensign  Thomas  Hart 
of  Ipswich,  one  of  the  Selectmen  of  that  town  who  in  1687  had  de- 
fied the  orders  of  Gov.  Andros  and  his  council,  in  the  matter  of 
the  town  of  Ipswich  refusing  to  appoint  Commissioners  to  make 
a  return  of  estates  in  that  town  for  the  purposes  of  taxation.  He 
was  accused  of  treason  (See  Waters:  "History  of  Ipswich"). 
She  was  living  in  1701,  as  that  year,  10  June,  Solomon  Hewes  of 
Portsmouth,  joiner,  in  a  deed  mentions  a  meadow  "  made  sure  unto 
my  mother  Mrs.  Mary  Hewes,  sometime  of  Salisbury  by  Andrew 
Greely  of  Haverhill."  He  styles  himself  heir  to  his  father  George 
Hewes  of  Salisbury,  showing  that  there  were  no  other  children  of 
George  at  that  time  alive.      See  also  his  deeds  of  1698. 

11  Jan.,  1702/3,  Solomon  "Hughes"  of  Portsmouth,  grants 
to  Ensign  Thomas  Hart,  of  Ipswich,  and  Mary  his  wife,  a  lease 
for  life  of  Mary,  of  land  in  Portsmouth,  in  consideration  of  rc- 
[ea.se  to  said  Solomon  by  Baid  Hart  and  his  wife  of  a  messuage,  or 
tenement  ami  lands,  in  Salisbury,  15  March,  1697-8  (N.  H.  Deeds, 
7:66). 

( 'hildren: 

'>      William,    horn    27    June,    1  ()72 ;    baptized    at    Salisbury,   7 

Aug.,  1687. 


DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES  313 

3+  Solomon',  born  2  Jan.,  1674-5,  baptized  at  Salisbury,  7 
Aug.,  1687;  in  guardianship  papers  of  1693  described  as 
of  Ipswich. 

SECOND    GENERATION 

II.  2  WILLIAM  HEWES  {George),  of  Boston  in  1693, 
when  he  gave  a  bond  with  Phillip  English  of  Salem,  merchant,  in 
£60  as  guardian  of  his  brother  Solomon.  The  bond  is  dated  11 
Sept.,  1693,  and  William  is  described  as  an  anchor-smith.  He 
wrote  a  good  hand,  if  his  signature  is  sufficient  evidence  (Essex 
Probate,  14,355). 

There  was  a  William  Hewes  of  Boston  in  1699  who  had  a  wife, 
Mary,  and  a  child  Ebenezer,  born  7  Feb.,  1699-1700  (Boston 
records).  There  are  no  deeds  recorded  in  Essex  or  Suffolk  rec- 
ords by  or  to  William  of  this  family.  As  Solomon,  in  deed  to 
Joseph  Greely  11  June,  1701,  describes  himself  as  "  heir  to  his 
father,"  in  spite  of  his  being  younger  than  William,  it  would  ap- 
pear that  William  had  deceased  and  left  no  heirs  except  his  brother 
Solomon. 

There  is  no  further  trace  of  this  William  or  Ebenezer  Hewes  on 
Boston  or  Suffolk  records. 

Child: 

4     Ebenezer,   born   7   Feb.,    1699-1700;   probably   died    soon 
after  birth. 

II.  3  SOLOMON  HEWES  {George),  bora  in  Salisbury, 
2  Jan.,  1674-5.  He  was  living  subsequent  to  1756  (Suffolk  files, 
100,  633).  He  married  Martha  Calef,  28  Sept.,  1700  (Boston 
Records ;  his  name  being  spelled  Howes  in  the  entry  of  the  mar- 
riage). The  first  nine  children  are  entered  upon  the  town  records 
of  Portsmouth,  N.  H.  (N.  E.  H.  G.  Reg.  24:358). 

Children : 

5+  George,   son    of  "  Solomon   and  Martha,"  born   13  Aug., 

1701. 
6+  William,   born   2  Dec,  1706. 
7+  Robert,  born  2  Aug.,  1708. 
8+  Daniel,  born  4  July,  1710. 


314*     DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES 

The    above    four    children    were    baptized    in    the    North 
Church,  Portsmouth,  22  June,  1712. 
9+  Sarah,  born  6  July,  1712;  died  prior  to  1797,  leaving  an 
only  child  Sarah  Hawkins  of  Franklin,  Mass. ;  unmarried 
in  1800.      (Providence  Deeds  28:148.) 
10+  Joseph,  bom  22  Dec,  1714. 
11+  Benjamin,  twin  with  Joseph. 

12  Mary,  born  24  Nov.,  1718,  baptized  in  the  North  Church 

9  Dec,  1716;  died  prior  to  1799;  married  23  March, 
1748,    Daniel   Ware    of   Wrentham.     Children:   Daniel 

Ware ;   Mary   Ware,   married    [ ]    Robishaw ;   Je- 

rusha  Ware,  wife  of  [ ]  Norton ;  Olive  Ware,  wife 

of  Jeremiah  Mann  (See  No.  105)  ;  all  of  whom  were  liv- 
ing in  1799. 

13  Elizabeth,  born  28  March,  1718;  died  prior  to  1799;  mar- 

ried 25  May,  1743,  James  Hill  of  Wrentham,  and  had 
Elizabeth  Hill,  wife  of  Noah  Morse  of  Attleboro,  wheel- 
wright,   1799,    and    Huldah    Hill,    widow    of    [ ] 

Perry  of  Rehoboth  in  1799. 

14  Hannah,  born  at  Wrentham  29  July,  1720;  married  (inten- 

tion at  Norton,  14  March,  1743-4)  Isaac  White  of  Nor- 
ton. She  was  of  Mansfield,  a  widow,  in  1799  and  1800. 
Solomon  Hewes  chose  his  brother  William  as  his  guardian  11 
Sept.,  1693,  when  he  was  "  of  Ipswich."  The  year  after  his  mar- 
riage he  was  living  in  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  where  he  had  bought 
land  17  March.,  1697-8,  of  John  Stevens  and  wife  Dorothy 
(N.  H.  Deeds,  9:752.),  and  remained  there1  until  he  settled  in 
that  part  of  Dorchester  called  Dorchester  New  Grant,  later 
Stoughton  and  Wrentham.  He  was  admitted  a  member  of  the 
North  Church,  Portsmouth,  80  May,  1712. 

While  a  resident  of  Portsmouth,  describing  himself  as  a 
"joiner,"  Solomon  Hewes  granted,  in  exchange  for  a  tenement 
at  Strawberry  Hank,  to  John  Stevens  of  Portsmouth,  a  tenement, 
warehouse,  orchard  and  meadow  in  Salisbury,  being  eleven  acres 
running  along  the  Merrimack  river,  and  mar  Gunner's  Rock,  also 
Deer  Island,  44   acres  of  meadow,  and  a  lot,  etc.,  17  March,  1698 

(Esses   Deeds  13:800). 
()n   the   11   June,   1701,  "  In  consideration  of  a  meadow  made 

i  He  served  as  ;■  scout  In  1719  for  two  weeks  under  Capt,  Jnmcs  Davis, 
one  of  CoL  Vaughn's  regimenl   (N.  H.  Rev.  Rolls). 


DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES  315 

sure  unto  my  honored  mother  Mrs.  Mary  Hewes,  sometimes  of 
Salisbury,"  by  Andrew  Greeley  of  Haverhill,  Sr.,  and  cordwainer, 
with  other  pay  paid  to  said  mother,  he  "  as  heir  of  my  honored 
father,  Mr.  George  Hewes,  sometime  of  Salisbury  "  grants  to  Jo- 
seph Greeley  three  acres  upland  in  Haverhill,  formerly  William 
Carr's,  between  houselots  of  Edward  Clark  and  land  of  Samuel 
Shepherd  (Essex  Deeds,  6:17). 

The  last  deed  given  by  him  when  a  resident  of  Portsmouth  was 
1  Sept.,  1719,  in  which  wife  Martha  joined  (11,  123).  On  the  23 
Feb.,  1724,  as  of  Dorchester,  yeoman,  with  wife  Martha  he  sold 
land  in  Portsmouth  (N.  H.  Deeds,  15:74). 

In  1722  the  proprietors  of  Dorchester,  through  a  committee, 
granted  to  Solomon  Hewes  lands  in  the  New  Grant  called  the 
School  farm,  650  acres  (Suffolk  deeds,  36:83).  The  inhabitants 
of  the  extreme  western  part  of  Dorchester  "  South  Presint,"  be- 
ing three  or  four  miles  from  Wrentham  meeting  house  asked  to  be 
set  off  to  Wrentham,  and,  on  the  town  refusing,  petitioned  the 
General  Court,  who  granted  their  petition  27  Nov.,  172-1.  Sol- 
omon Hewes  was  one  of  the  petitioners,  but  the  "  School  Farm  " 
in  his  possession  was  not  set  off  from  Dorchester.  Dorchester 
New  Grant  originally  embraced  the  later  towns  of  Canton,  Sharon, 
Stoughton,  nearly  all  of  Foxboro,  a  large  part  of  Wrentham  and 
nearly  a  quarter  part  of  Dedham  (See  Huntoon's  notes  in  Dedham 
Transcript).  There  is  no  record  of  settlement  of  his  estate,  other 
than  a  deed  of  1742  by  which  he  disposed  of  his  lands  to  "  sundry 
of  his  children,  viz.:  William,  Daniel,  Joseph,  Benjamin,  Mary. 
Elizabeth  and  Hannah,  in  consideration  of  £150  and  love  and 
affection,"  granting  them,  in  equal  proportions,  land  he  bought 
of  Stephen  Boutineau,  administrator  of  Benjamin  Bate  of  Dor- 
chester, about  90  acres,  situated  in  "  Dorchester,  alias  Wrentham, 
alias  Stoughton,"  and  bounded  east  and  south  by  his  own  land, 
also  "  all  my  land  called  the  School  farm  where  I  dwelt  for  and 
during  the  whole  lease  as  it  was  agreed  upon  by  and  between  my 
father-in-law,  Mr.  Robert  Calif,  and  the  selectmen  of  Dorchester, 
they  paying  the  rent,  it  being  two  parcels  of  land  "  laid  out  on 
both  sides  the  road  to  Wading  river,  and  partly  on  the  road  to 
Rehoboth  alias  Seaconk,  650  acres,  bounded  "  at  the  fence  erected 
by  Mr.  Robert  Calif  as  it  now  stands,  ranging  with  the  same 
east  southeast  to  a  tree,"  thence  southwest  to  Taunton  line,  ex- 
cept what  was  granted  Samuel  Brenton  and  Wading  River  House, 


316  DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES 

also,  etc.  Part  of  the  land  ran  to  Plymouth  line.  The  lease 
mentioned  was  dated  25  Jan.,  1709/10.  The  deed  was  dated  1 
Nov.,  1742  (Suffolk  Deeds  64:169). 

Solomon  Hewes  was  one  of  the  partners,  or  shareholders,  in  the 
Land  Bank,  an  institution  chartered  by  the  Colony  after  a  long 
contest  by  the  conservative  clement  against  it.  The  bank  began 
business  and  issued  its  notes  against  assignments  of  real  estate, 
but  was  speedily  put  out  of  business  by  an  Act  of  Parliament 
passed  in  1741  suppressed  this  corporation,  and  the  holders  of  the 
notes  met  with  loss. 

An  attempt  was  made  to  recover  from  the  partners  enough  to 
redeem  the  notes.  Solomon  Hewes  was  sued,  and  in  1751  the 
sheriff  seized  his  estate  for  a  debt  of  £600.  Nothing  could  be 
taken  as  he  had  only  a  leasehold  for  a  long  term  of  years,  and 
had  taken  the  precaution  when  the  fate  of  the  bank  was  perceived 
to  convey  to  his  sons  his  entire  interest.  In  Jan.,  1764,  Sam- 
uel Johnson  of  Boston,  scrivener,  brought  suit  against  William 
Hewes,  yeoman,  and  Daniel  Hewes,  husbandman,  both  of  Wren- 
tham,  to  recover  possession  of  the  school  farm  which  he  claimed 
consisted  of  960  acres  and  which  had  been  leased  to  Robert  Calif 
of  Roxbury,  clothier,  for  308  years  from  25  March,  1750.  John- 
son claimed  under  a  lease  from  Timothy  Stevens,  physician,  for 
fifteen  years  from  1755.  The  evidence  in  the  case  includes,  among 
other  papers,  a  deposition  of  Samuel  Stevens  to  the  effect  that 
Solomon  Hewes  and  his  son  came  from  Wrentham  and  met  John 
Calif  of  Chester,  his  brother-in-law,  for  whom  he  had  sent,  and 
remained  waiting  most  of  the  night  for  the  papers  to  be  drawn 
which  gave  to  his  sons  all  his  interest  in  the  lands.  Stevens  un- 
derstood, but  did  not  see  the  papers,  that  Solomon's  children  were 
to  give  a  bond  to  their  father.  Stevens  seems  also  to  have  been 
a  brother-in-law  of  Calif.  James  Filmore  and  wife  Thankful,  who 
si  cm  to  have  had  some  interest  in  the  matter,  testified  as  to  their 
residence  with  Dr.  Daniel  Hewes  on  the  school  farm  in  1756  or 
1757,  when  the  father  was  living,  and  to  the  effed  that  from  Dan- 
iel or  his  father  they  learned  the  transfer  was  for  the  purpose  of 
evading  Liability  from  the  failure  of  the  hank,  and  that  Solomon 

retained  a  half  interest    in  the  improvement  s,  but   lest    the  creditors 

should  learn  of  this,  Daniel.  \\h<>  held  tin'  agreements,  destroyed 

th,iii.  Dr.  .Joseph  surrendered  his  share  to  his  father;  William 
lived  on  the  portion  reserved  to  the  father,  whose  cattle  were  there, 


DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES  317 

Solomon's  daughter  White  had  done  nothing  for  her  father,  and 
Daniel  and  William  had  trouble,  and  nearly  a  law  suit,  over  tin- 
division  (See  Suffolk  files,  100,  633). 

Boston  Selectmen's  Records  mention  that  in  1736  while  on  a 
voyage  to  the  Eastward,  Hewes  was  approached  by  a  Mr.  Lud- 
gate,  a  passenger,  then  at  law  with  the  town  of  Boston,  who  at- 
tempted to  induce  him  to  get  chosen  to  a  jury  which  was  to  hear 
his  suit.  Hewes  took  an  early  opportunity  to  acquaint  the 
Selectmen  of  Boston  of  the  occurrence. 

Solomon  Hewes  of  Dorchester,  innkeeper,  was  allowed  £6  by  the 
Council  for  entertaining  and  attending  William  Milton,  a  poor 
stranger  taken  sick  at  his  house,  and  funeral  charges,  he  dying 
there  (Council  records). 

28  Feb.,  1744,  Daniel  Hewes  of  Mendon,  Joseph  Hewes  of  At- 
tleboro,  Benjamin  Hewes  of  Norton,  Mary  Hewes  of  Wrentham, 
James  Hill  and  Elizabeth  his  wife,  and  Isaac  White  and  Hannah 
his  wife,  all  of  Norton,  grant  all  their  rights  in  the  Bates  farm 
(80  acres)  in  Stoughton,  bounding  on  land  of  William  Hewes 
and  on  the  School  farms,  to  William  Hewes  of  Stoughton  (Suff. 
Deeds,  69:241). 

24  Oct.,  1747,  James  Hill  and  Elizabeth  his  wife  of  Attleboro, 
for  £200  and  love  and  affection,  grant  to  their  brother  Daniel 
Hewes  of  Wrentham,  physician,  all  their  right  in  the  School  farm 
which  they  had  from  their  father  and  which  is  now  in  possession 
of  Daniel  Hewes  (Ibid.,  77:190).  The  22  Nov.  following,  Ben- 
jamin Hewes  of  Norton  gives  a  similar  deed  (Ibid.,  77:191). 

Martha  the  wife  of  Solomon  Hewes  was  daughter  of  Robert 
Calif  of  Roxbury,  a  clothier,  who  died  13  April,  1719,  leaving  a 
widow  Mary.  Robert  Calif,  a  merchant,  had  in  1700  published 
"  More  Wonders  of  the  Invisible  World,"  the  book  which  placed 
Cotton  Mather  in  such  an  unenviable  light,  and  threw  such  an 
illumination  upon  the  Witchcraft  delusion  at  Salem  in  1692,  that 
Increase  Mather,  then  president  of  Harvard  College,  ordered  a 
copy  burned  in  the  College  yard.  Calif  had  interfered  with 
Mather's  plans  to  reawaken  in  Boston,  the  excitement  which  had 
subsided  at  Salem.  Mather  had  found  in  certain  "  manifesta- 
tions "  produced  through  the  agency  of  Margaret  Rule  and 
others,  of  the  nature  now  common  in  spiritualistic  seances,  evi- 
dences, such  as  appealed  to  his  love  of  the  mysterious,  of  satanic 
influences   in   Boston.      Calif  by   his   opposition  was   instrumental 


318  DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES 

in  discrediting  the  attempts  of  Mather,  won  the  latter's  hatred, 
and  was  arrested  on  his  complaint,  but  nothing  came  of  it. 
Later  Calif  sent  the  manuscript,  which  he  had  prepared  seven,  or 
perhaps  six,  years  before,  to  London  for  publication.  This  action 
on  his  part  required  courage,  and  his  book  gave  great  offense  to 
many  estimable  persons.  Mather  answered  with  "  Some  few  Re- 
marks upon  a  Scandalous  Book."  Calif  died  at  the  age  of  71,1 
and  is  buried  in  the  cemetery  at  the  corner  of  Eustis  and  Wash- 
ington streets.  He  lived  on  the  opposite  corner  of  Eustis  street, 
and  but  a  stone's  throw  north  of  the  homestead  of  Joshua  Hewes, 
but  came  to  Roxbury  after  the  latter's  departure  thence.  It  is 
indeed  an  odd  coincidence  that  Calif,  father  of  the  wife  of  Sol- 
omon Hewes,  no  known  kin  to  Joshua  Hewes,  should  have  re- 
sided almost  upon  the  latter's  original  estate,  and  a  further  coin- 
cidence that  Joshua  Hewes'  gravestone,  just  one  century  after 
his  decease,  should  have  been  found  in  close  proximity  to  the 
home  for  many  years  of  George  and  Robert  Hewes,  sons  of  Sol- 
omon and  Martha  (Calif)  Hewes. 

THIRD    GENERATION 

III.  5  GEORGE  HEWES  (Solomon,  George),  of  Boston, 
tanner  and  glue-maker,  born  in  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  13  Aug., 
1701  ;  died  in  Boston,  3  July,  1749  Ia  aged  49  (Granary  epitaph). 
He  married  14  Nov.,  1728  (Boston  and  Roxbury  records)  Abi- 
gail, Sever,  daughter  of  Shubael  and  Abigail  (Twelve  2)  Sever 
of  Roxbury,  born  19  Oct.,  1711  (N.  E.  Hist.  Gen.  Register, 
26:306). 

Children,  from  Boston  records: 

15     Samuel,   born   12  July,   1730.     Samuel  Hewes,  fisherman, 

buried  4  Nov.,   1765,  aged   36   (King's  Chapel  records). 

16+  Shubael,  born  17  Oct.,  1732;  baptized  Old  South,  22  Oct. 

i  Mi.  daughter  Mary  married,  1712,  Dr.  Samuel  Stevens  of  Hoxl.ury.  whose 
daughter  Mary  was  mother  of  Dr.  Joseph  Warren,  General  in  the  Conti- 
nental army,  who  fell  at  Bunker   Hill. 

iB«Granary  Epitaphs"  give  us  the  death  of  a  George  Hewes,  «>  May.  L770, 
B„d  88  The  Lis1  of  arrivals  ai  Boston,  published  in  Record  Commission- 
erV  reporl  29,  Minus  H„-  arrival  In  Boston,  IS  Feb.,  1769,  of  Mr.  George 
Hewes,  a  butcher,  and  his  son,  from  Halifax,  In  the  sloop  Bp&§dwM. 

2The  Twelve  family  Is  found  In  Cambridge,  England,  at  the  time  orthe 
migration  to  New  England.  An  Edward  Twelve  was  .named  to  Judith 
Wyles,   M   Sept,   1618,  a1   St   Botolphs,  Cambridge. 


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DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES  319 

17+  Solomon,  born  4  Dec,  1734;  baptized  Old  South,  8  Dec. 

18  Abigail,  born  19  July,  1737 ;  baptized  Old  South  24  July ; 

died  aged  13  years,  11  Oct.,  1748  (g.  s.  Granary). 

19  Martha,  born  27  June,  1739;  died  aged  4  years,  11  June, 

1743   (g.  s.  Granary). 
20+  George  Robert  Twelve,  born  25  Aug.,  1742,  baptized  26 
Sept.  at  Old  South;  died  at  Richfield  Springs,  N.   Y..    t 
Nov.,  1840. 

21  Daniel,  born   [ ],   1744;  over  14  years  of  age,  11 

Feb.,  1757,  when  he  chose  Robert  Hewes,  farmer,  his 
guardian  (Suffolk  Probate).  He  was  baptized  at  the 
Old  South  16  Dec,  1744,  and  died  in  Purchase  street, 
Boston,  aged  77  years,  9  July,  1821,  of  jaundice  (Bos- 
ton records),  leaving  a  will  dated  5  July  and  proved  16 
July,  1821.  He  was  a  mason,  and  was  one  of  the  guards 
appointed  to  guard  the  tea  ships,  to  prevent  the  landing 
of  tea,  at  the  meeting  held  29  Nov.,  1773.  (Mass.  Hist. 
Col.  I,  20  :13.)  During  the  Revolution  he  lived  in  Wren- 
tham.  His  wife  Thankful  died  7  Sept.,  1820,  act.  68, 
of  consumption. 

22  Ebenezer,  born  26,  baptized  30,  Nov.,  1746;  died  10  Oct., 

1748  aet.  1  year  11  mos. 

23  Joseph,  died  15  June,  1748  (g.  s.  Granary). 

George  Hewes  of  Boston,  tanner,  bought,  14  April,  1729,  of 
Henry  Deering  of  Boston,  merchant,  and  Elizabeth  his  wife,  for 
£600  bills  of  credit,  an  undivided  third  part  of  a  messuage,  gar- 
den and  tanyard  bought  by  Deering,  Mathew  Adams  and  Nathan- 
iel Gardner  in  equal  shares  from  Joseph  Bridgham  and  others  in 
1729,  bounded  as  found  by  a  jury  in  1715  in  making  division  of 
the  Bridgham  estate,  and  in  part  bounded  northerly  150  feet 
*'  on  toward  Water  street,"  southerly  land  late  of  James 
Bridgham,  deceased,  and  on  land  late  of  John  Bridgham,  de- 
ceased, and  easterly  on  land  late  of  Henry  Bridgham,  deceased 
(Suffolk  Deeds,  46:113).  On  22  Nov.,  1731,  George  Hewes  and 
Abigail,  his  wife,  sell  one-half  of  their  interest  in  the  above  de- 
scribed property  to  Robert  Hewes,  tanner,  for  £322,  and  the  same 
day  took  back  a  mortgage  on  the  land  so  sold  which  was  dis- 
charged 18  Dec,  1733.  On  the  20  December  following,  George 
and  Robert  united  in  mortgagine:  their  whole  interest  to  Nathan- 
iel   Cunningham   for  421    ounces   of  silver,  which  mortgage  was 


320  DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES 

discharged  the  following  year  (Ibid.,  48:54*).  Cunningham  was 
a  merchant,  and  he  entered  into  a  partnership  with  the  brothers 
Hewes,  16  Jan.,  1734,  for  a  term  of  seven  years,  giving  a  bond 
in  £10,000  to  furnish  £2,000  capital  for  the  purchase  of  hides 
and  skins,  which  sum  was  to  be  repaid  to  him.  -The  brothers 
were  to  carry  on  the  business,  provide  tanhouse,  tanyard,  mills, 
millhouses,  warehouse,  etc. ;  to  provide  slaughter  houses  for  the 
use  of  the  butchers,  and  servants  to  clean  them.  The  profits 
were  to  be  divided  into  two  parts.  Part  of  the  hides  were  to  be 
made  into  "  bend  leather  "  as  an  experiment,  the  rest  tanned  in 
the  common  vats.  Cunningham  was  dissatisfied  with  the  results 
of  the  partnership  and  in  1739  brought  suit  and  obtained  judg- 
ment against  his  partners,  and  in  one  of  these  suits  Solomon 
Hewes  of  Wrentham  figured  as  a  defendant  with  the  others,  for 
£396.  Execution  was  taken  out  15  Aug.,  1741.  In  August, 
1750,  Robert  Hewes,  as  surviving  partner  of  George  Hewes,  de- 
ceased, obtained  a  small  judgment  against  Cunningham.  The 
case  was  very  bitterly  fought,  reaching  in  time  the  highest  court. 
Cunningham  seems  to  have  demanded  a  division  of  the  profits  be- 
fore the  stock  could  be  properly  manufactured  and  sold,  and  to 
have  stood  upon  his  technical  rights,  forcing  the  abandonment  of 
the  business.  The  Hewes  brothers  then  turned  their  attention 
to  conducting  such  business  as  they  could,  making  use  of  their 
plant  for  the  conduct  of  manufacturing  candles  and  glue,  and 
butchering  cattle.  The  papers  in  the  case  of  Cunningham  versus 
Hewes  are  numerous  and  interesting,  throwing  light  upon  busi- 
ness methods  of  that  day.  (See  Suffolk  files,  Nos.  38,587; 
55,085;  97,144;  67,677.  etc.,  also  records  of  the  Superior  Court 
of  Judicature  for  17:59,  and  Mass.  Archives.) 

When  Boston  was  settled,  an  inlet  of  the  harbor  came  up  to  the 
presenl  post  office  building.  In  1700  there  was  a  wharf  north  of 
the  Bridgham  lot,  which  was  used  as  a  lanyard  from  early  times. 
Deacon  Henry  Bridgham,  tanner,  was  in  possession  in  1655.  His 
land  ran  from  Water  to  Milk  street,  the  present  Congress  street 
passing  over  it.  On  pari  of  lliis  estate  stood  the  famous  Julien 
house.     Not  only  the  Hewes  brothers  plied  their  trade  here,'  but, 

•  While  excavating  f<>r  tin-  foundation  <>t'  the  Lawrence  block  which  stood 
in  wh.-ii  is  now  I'ust  Office  Square,  aboul  opposite  tin-  New  England  Mutual 

Life     hnildirifr.     old     tan     TatS     were      found      in     which     hides     still      remained. 

Other  evidences  proved  thai  a  wheelwright's  Bhop  had  also  once  stood  there. 
Sir  .1.  \v.  |{.  in  Bo$ton  Trarucript,  Queries,  Note  !>s:{. 


DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  IIEWES  321 

so  did  Joseph  Calif,  their  cousin,  who  died  in  1763  (Boston  Rec- 
ord Com.,  2,  101). 

George  Hewes  lived  in  a  house  on  the  northeast  corner  of  Con- 
gress and  Water  streets  as  late  as  1742,  at  the  sign  of  the  Bull's 
Head  (family  papers).  In  1737  he  was  living  in  a  house  in 
Union  street,  belonging  to  Daniel  Johonnot  (Selectmen's  rec- 
ords). He  had  erected  some  buildings  prior  to  1735  on  his  land 
in  Water  street,  but  these  were  evidently  used  in  connection  with 
his  business. 

He  was  chosen  measurer  of  boards  and  timber  and  viewer  of 
shingles  in  1724,  and  in  1727  held  the  position  of  hogreeve,  which 
even  then  was  assigned  to  the  newly  or  about  to  be  married  young 
men. 

In  1740  he  is  found,  in  connection  with  Robert  Hewes  and  Sol- 
omon Hewes  of  Wrentham,  among  the  partners  in  the  Land  Bank 
(N.  E.  Register  50:197). 

Administration  on  his  estate  was  granted  to  Robert  Hewes, 
glue  maker,  5  Sept.,  1766,  who  gave  as  sureties  Shubael  Hewes 
and  Solomon  Hewes  (Suffolk  Probate,  65:356). 

III.  6  WILLIAM  HEWES  (Solomon,  George),  of  Wren- 
tham, born  in  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  2  Dec,  1706;  died  probably 
prior  to  1790,  as  his  name  does  not  appear  in  the  census  returns 
of  that  year.  He  married  16  Feb.,  1736,  Mary  Ware  of  Wren- 
tham, who  was  living  in  1784  (Suffolk  Deeds  174:196). 

William  Hewes  and  Mary  his  wife,  of  Stoughton,  in  1750, 
joined  with  other  heirs  of  Dr.  Benjamin  Ware  of  Wrentham  m 
conveying  land   (Ibid.,  85:116). 

In  January,  1764,  Samuel  Johnson  of  Boston,  scrivener, 
brought  suit  against  William  and  Daniel  Hewes  of  Wrentham,  al- 
leging that  they  had  forcibly  seized  960  acres  of  land  there,  with 
the  building  thereon,  which  he  claimed  by  lease  for  fifteen  years 
from  Timothy  Stevens,  physician,  from  1755.  In  his  complaint, 
Johnson  sets  forth  that  Solomon  Hewes  occupied  the  land  leased 
by  the  Selectmen  of  Dorchester  to  Robert  Calef,  clothier,  for  308 
years,  commencing  25  March,  1740,  and  that  he  had  mortgaged  the 
property  to  the  Land  Bank  for  £600.  It  appears  that  the  sheriff 
seized  the  property  on  execution  in  1751  (Suffolk  files  100,633). 

On  the  15  Oct.,  1778,  William  Hewes  of  Foxboro,  yeoman,  gave 
to   his  grandchildren,  Sarah  and  Jesse  Everett,  Jr.,  children   of 


322  DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES 

his  daughter  Sarah  Everett,  deceased,  and  to  daughter  Abigail, 
wife  of  Daniel  Parker  of  Mansfield  two-thirds  of  250  acres,  re- 
serving liberty  for  John  Hewes,  Jr.,  to  take  lumber  to  repair  his 
buildings.  The  deed  is  witnessed  by  Joseph  Hewes  (Norfolk 
Deeds,  7:245). 

Children,  all  but  the  youngest  from  Wrentham  records: 

24  William,  born  9  Dec,  1739;  baptized  18  Oct.,  1747. 

25  Sarah,  born  19  Jan.,  1741 ;  married    [ ]   Everett, 

and  had  children :  Sarah  Everett  and  Jesse  Everett. 

26  Mary,  born  20  July,  1743. 

27  Martha,   born   5  Aug.,  1745;  probably  deceased  prior  to 

1799. 

28  Abigail,  born  5  July,  1749;  married  at  Mansfield,  22  Dec, 

1777,  Daniel  Parker,  of  Norton,  physician.  In  1784 
she  joined  with  Mary  Hewes,  widow,  and  Joseph  Hewes, 
Jr.,  in  selling  land  (Suffolk  Deeds,  174:196).  She  lived 
in  Norton  in  1799. 

29+  Joseph,  born  3  July,  1751 ;  living  in  1790. 

30+  James,  [ ]  of  Richmond,  N.  H.,  in  1799.     A  James 

Hewes  of  Wrentham  served  six  months  in  the  com- 
pany of  Capt.  Haskins,  Col.  Jacobs'  regiment,  at  Tiver- 
ton,'R.  I.,  enlisting  2  July,  1778  (Mass.  Rev.  Rolls). 

HI.  7  ROBERT  HEWES  (Solomon,  George),  of  Boston, 
tanner  and  glue-maker,  born  in  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  2  Aug.,  1708; 
died  20  Feb.,  1770,  aged  60  (Granary  Epitaphs).  This  date 
should  undoubtedly  be  1776,  as  administration  on  his  estate  was 
granted  to  Deborah  Hewes,  widow,  7  March,  1777,  who  gave 
surety  with  Shubael  Hewes,  tallow  chandler,  and  John  Haskins, 
gentleman.  In  the  letter  of  administration  Robert  is  styled  soap- 
boiler.  Inventory  of  his  estate  showed  he  owned  a  small  dwelling 
house,  which  with  the  land  was  valued  at  £738,  a  work  house  with 
land  valued  at  £200,  another  small  building  with  land  at  £90. 
Hi.  total  «-tat,  amounted  to  £1,858-14-00.  In  the  inventory  he 
is  called  flue-maker.  He  married  28  Dec.,  1719.  or  according 
to  the  Horace  G.  Hewes  Ms.  18  Feb.,  17  b9,  Ann  Frey  (Boston 
records),  who  died  19  July,  1761,  aged  86,  (Granary  Epi- 
taphs), and  lie  had  administration  on  her  estate  1771,  when 
he  is  Btyled   tallow  chandler,  giving  surety  with  Shubael   Hewes 


DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES  323 

and  Edward  Barker  (Suffolk  Probate).  She  was  buried  from 
King's  Chapel,  22  July,  1761,  aged  35.  He  married  second,  13 
Dec.,  1770,  Deborah  Waite,  who  married  again  30  Oct.,  1777, 
Caleb  Ray  (Boston  records).  Her  dower  was  set  off  to  her  in 
1778,  from  which  it  appears  that  the  dwelling  house  was  in  New- 
bury Street  and  had  a  shop  in  front,  which,  with  two  rooms  and 
a  kitchen  back  of  it,  was  set  off  with  half  the  garden  to  the 
widow  for  her  life  (Suffolk  Probate,  78-634 ).4 

Robert  Hewes  was  in  the  tanning  business  with  his  brother,  as 
told  under  George,  and  in  1739  desired  leave  to  set  a  stall  up  in 
Water  Street  to  sell  meat  (Selectmen's  records).  In  1766  he  was 
perhaps  the  Robert  who  was  of  Hughs,  Tilhr  &  Co.,  who  had  a 
stand  near  the  South  Market  (Town  records),  and  he  is  more 
than  once  mentioned  in  connection  with  the  market.  In  1772  he 
had  a  slaughter  house  in  Pleasant  Street.  In  1760  and  1761 
he  was  sealer  of  leather.  On  the  24  April,  1775,  he  surrendered, 
in  common  with  the  other  Boston  inhabitants,  his  arms  to  the 
Selectmen. 

Children,  not  on  town  record: 

31  Robert,  born  1751 ;  buried  20  July,  1830,  aged  79  (Hollis 
St.  Church  records)  ;  died  "  of  old  age  "  in  Boston  19 
July  (Boston  records),  1830.  "Dr.  Robert  Hewes 
aged  79,  long  known  as  a  celebrated  bone  setter  and 
fencing  master"  (Columbian  Centinel  of  31  July).  He 
was  buried  in  Tomb  18,  in  the  Common  Buryground.  In 
early  life  he  followed  his  father's  business,  that  of  tallow 
chandlery,  and  as  late  as  1796  the  name  of  Robert  Hewes, 
soap-boiler,  glue  and  rosin  maker,  works  in  Pleasant 
Street;  house  92  Newbury  Street,  is  found  in  the  Boston 
Directory;  and  in  1804  as  fencing  master.  In  1825  he 
advertised  as  a  "  surgeon  bone  setter,  corner  of  Essex ; 
Poland  Starch  maker,  372  Washington  Street,  teacher 
of  sword  exercises,  Boylston  Market."  In  1829  the  sin- 
gle word  "  gentleman  "  appears  after  his  name.  He  was 
an  eccentric  and  extraordinary  man,  said  by  his  cousin 
Samuel  Hewes  in  1860  to  have  been  short,  a  bit  rotund, 
of  light    complexion,   and   very   active.     He    owned   and 

4  Apparently  lie  was  following  the  trade  of  a  "  Japanner  "  in  1726,  when  he 
was  sued  for  debt   (Suffolk  Court  Common  Pleas). 


324-  DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES 

with  Peter  Barnard  occupied  a  three-story  wooden  dwell- 
ing with  3,744  sq.  feet  land,  corner  of  Essex  and  New- 
bury (Washington)  Streets,  bounding  south  on  Essex 
Street,  west  on  Newbury.  Adjoining  was  a  brick  shop 
and  a  barn  (U.  S.  Direct  tax  of  1790).  He  conceived 
the  idea  of  making  glass  and  erected  works  at  Temple, 
N.  H.,  which  were  destroyed  in  1780.  His  neighbors 
assisted  him  to  rebuild,  but  again  he  suffered  from  the 
same  cause,  and  the  following  February  he  asked  aid  of 
the  Selectmen  to  rebuild.  Nevertheless  he  refused  an  of- 
fer of  a  loan  from  the  town,  but  sought  authority  for  a 
lottery  for  which  an  act  was  passed  by  the  New  Hamp- 
shire legislature  30  March,  1781,  authorizing  the  raising 
of  £2,000  to  encourage  the  manufacture  of  glass.  His 
petition  to  the  Assembly  dated  27  Jan.,  1781,  recites 
that  "  At  great  expense  "  he  has  "  got  the  manufactory 
so  nigh  to  perfection  and  being  unable  to  proceed  further 
without  public  encouragement."  This,  however,  was  not 
successful  and  nothing  more  was  done.  It  is  said  his 
workmen  were  Hessians  and  Waldeckers  who  had  de- 
serted from  the  British  army.  (See  Blood;  "  History  of 
Temple,"  who,  however,  is  mistaken  in  thinking  these  the 
first  glass  works  in  New  England,  as  glass  had  been  man- 
ufactured in  Salem  as  early  as  1647.)  After  returning 
to  Boston  he  petitioned  the  General  Court  of  Massachu- 
setts for  a  lottery  in  aid  of  the  erection  of  a  glass  manu- 
factory in  Pleasant  Street,  and  for  a  patent  as  the  dis- 
coverer of  his  process  (Archives,  187:292,  293}).  The 
"  Sons  of  Liberty  "  observed  the  anniversary  of  the  en- 
forced resignation  of  the  distributor  of  the  stamps  pro- 
vided by  the  hated  Stamp  Act,  and  at  Dorchester  14 
Aug.,  1769,  among  those  present  were  Robert  Hewes  and 
Jabez  Hatch    (Mass.  Hist.  Proc.  I,  Vol.   11,  144).      He 

married0   Mi.kia.m    [ ],  who   died   31    May,   1821, 

and  was  buried  1  June,  1821,  aged  70  (Hollis  St.  Church 
records).  He  left  a  will,'-'  in  which  he  styles  himself 
"  Robert  Hewes  of  Boston,  bonesetter,"  and  to  which  he 
affixed  the  following  curious  preamble: 

o  He  was  din  en  hogreevc  in  1790. 

a  Probated  SO  Aug.,  18S0,    Suffolk  Probate,  198-3:198. 


DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES  325 

"  Boston,  December  27,  1816.  Whereas,  it  being  the 
undoubted  Right  of  men  of  Property  to  make  their  Will 
and  if  they  have  no  children  of  their  owne  but  numerous 
other  relations,  it  then  Becomes  their  duty  to  (sic)  to 
Leave  their  property  to  them  that  most  deserves  or  most 
needes  it  —  therefore  it  is  my  Will  to  Leave  my  Prop- 
erty (after  my  wife's  and  my  own  Decease  and  my  just 
Depts  are  paid)  to  the  Grandchildren  of  my  well  Be- 
loved cousin  Joseph  Hewes  of  Foxborough,  said  grand- 
children to  be  hereinafter  mentioned  and  the  portion  as- 
signed to  each,  and  whereas  it  being  Customary  for  peo- 
ple when  they  make  their  Will,  to  Declare  their  Theo- 
logical or  Religious  oppinion  —  I  am  what  is  now  Called 
an  Unitarian  a  Worshipper  of  the  King  Eternal,  Immor- 
tal, Invisible  the  only  wise  God,  and  that  at  our  Decese 
the  Soul  returns  to  its  father  God  that  Gave  it,  as  the 
Body  returns  to  its  mother  Earth  it  came  from,  for  there 
is  nothing  Lost  in  Nature. 

As  Pope  says: 

Safe  in  the  hand  of  one  all  Dispensing  Power 

in  the  Mortal  as  in  the  Natal  hour 
Here  then  we  rest  the  universal  Cause, 
Acts  not  by  partial,  but  by  General  Laws 

in  all  the  madness  of  superfluous  health 

the  train  of  pride,  the  Impudence  of  Wealth. 
Let  this  Great  truth  be  present  night  and  day 

but  most  be  present  when  we  preach  or  pray 

or  make  a  Will. 
Look  round  our  World;  Behold  the  chain  of  Love 

Combining  all  Below  and  all  above; 
See  plastick  Nature  working  to  this  end 

the  single  atoms  each  other  tend 
Attract,  attracted  to  the  next  in  place 

formed  and  impelled  its  Neighbor  to  embrace. 
See  Matter  next  with  Various  life  endowed 

press  to  one  Center  Still,  the  General  Good, 
See  Dying  Vegetables  Life  Sustain, 
See  Life  Dissolving,  vegetate  again 

All  forms  that  perish  other  forms  supply 
By  turns  we  catch  the  Vital  Breath  and  Die 

Like  Bubbles  on  the  sea  of  Matter  Borne 
They  use,  they  Break  and  to  that  Sea  Return. 
Nothing  is  foreign,  parts  relate  to  whole; 

One  all  Extending,  all  preserving  Soul. 
—  or  thus  — 
All  are  but  parts  of  one  stupendous  whole 
Whose  body  nature  is  and  God  the  Soul. 


326  DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES 

Now  I  procede  to  make  my  Will  as  follows :  —  There- 
fore Know  all  men  that  I,  Robt.  Hewes  of  Boston,  Bone- 
setter.  I  give  to  my  Beloved  wife  Meriam  if  I  should 
die  first,  etc." 

He  provided  for  the  division  of  his  estate  as  follows : 
To  Robert  Hewes,  Jr.,  "  son  of  my  cousin  Joseph  Hewes 
of  Foxboro  "  four-tenths ;  to  children  of  Sally,  wife  of 
Gilbert  Clark  of  Medway,  a  daughter  of  Joseph  Hewes 
of  Foxboro,  three-tenths ;  and  to  children  of  Sally  Clark, 
daughter  of  Truelove  Clark  and  a  granddaughter  of  Jo- 
seph Hewes  of  Foxboro,  one-tenth ;  to  the  children  of  Jo- 
seph Hewes,  Jr.,  son  of  Joseph  Hewes  of  Foxboro,  two- 
tenths. 

By  second  wife,  Deborah: 

32  Isaac,  who  died  1775,  and  was  buried  on  the  5  Sept.,  "  aet. 
2  years,"  described  as  son  of  Robert  and  Deborah  on 
records  of  Kings  Chapel. 

III.  8  DR.  DANIEL  HEWS  (Solomon,  George),  of  Attle- 
boro,  Mass.,  born  in  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  4  July,  1710;  probably 

died    prior    to     1790;    married     Abigail     [ ]      He    had 

part  of  the  School  Farm.  In  1752  he  mortgaged  part  of  his 
land  in  Attleboro  to  Doctor  Joseph  Hewes  of  Providence  (Bris- 
tol Deeds,  39,  126),  who  the  same  year  reconveyed  it  to  him. 

Children: 

33+  Susanna,  born  23  July,  1748  (Wrentham  Vital  Records)  ; 

married  Thomas  Hinckley  of  Boston. 
34     Abigail,  born  15  Nov.,  1752  (Attleboro  Town  records). 
35+  Daniel,  born  1755;  died  1846. 

III.  10  DR.  JOSEPH  HEWES  (Solomon,  George),  born  in 
Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  22  Dec,  1714;  died  in  Providence,  R.  I.,  in 
1796,  administration  being  granted  on  his  estate  15  Nov.  Dr. 
Joseph  Hewes  practiced  in  Wrentham,  Mass.,  prior  to  his  re- 
moval to  Providence,  which  was  not  later  than  7  1753,  when  he 
purchased    10   acres   of   land    there.      He   was   successful,   and   ac- 

7  In  1743  lio  was  of  Attleboro.    A  deed  given  by  him  is  witnessed  by  Mar- 
tini I  hues   (Bristol   Deeds,  30l4). 


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DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES  327 

quired  a  good  estate.  At  his  death  his  personal  estate  inven- 
toried $20,889,  very  largely  in  notes  of  hand.  He  also  pos- 
sessed a  considerable  estate  in  lands,  including  a  mansion  house 
in  Hewes  street  which  is  still  standing.  Although  most  of  his 
real  estate  was  in  the  town  of  Providence,  he  owned  land  in 
Mendon,  Bellingham,  Milford  and  elsewhere.  The  registry  of 
Deeds  of  Providence  and  of  Bristol  County,  Mass.,  show  that  he 
was  a  considerable  dealer  in  real  estate. 

In  1763,  Jonathan  Arnold  advertised  that  he  had  opened  an 
apothecary  shop  in  the  new  house  built  by  Dr.  Joseph  Hewes  in 
the  North  end  of  the  town  (Narragansett  Register  5;  348). 
This  is  the  Arnold-Whipple  house  so  called.  In  the  inventory  of 
his  estate,  the  "  shop  "  in  the  mansion  house  is  mentioned. 

He  was  a  patriot,  and  in  February,  1776,  was  named  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Committee  of  Safety  appointed  to  procure  funds  as 
per  a  Resolution  of  the  Continental  Congress  20  Jan.,  1776 
(Proc.  Gen.  Assembly  R.  I.  in  Col.  Rec.  7:453). 

In  the  Census  of  1790  he  is  named,  the  only  one  of  the  name  in 
Rhode  Island,  except  Spicer  Hewes  of  Barrington,  and  his  house- 
hold was  enumerated  as  consisting  of  two  males  over  sixteen  years 
of  age,  and  one  female.  His  nephew  Joseph  Hewes,  Jr.,  also  a 
physician,  son  of  his  twin  brother  Benjamin,  had  died  in  1785. 
Probably  the  younger  man  studied  under  his  uncle. 

It  is  not  known  if  Joseph  Hewes  ever  married,  but  at  his  death 
his  estate  passed  to  his  heirs  at  law,  his  surviving  brothers  and 
sisters,  and  children  of  his  deceased  brothers  and  sisters,  as  shown 
by  a  deed  recorded  with  Worcester  Deeds,  136:544,  and  several 
deeds  recorded  in  Providence,  R.  I.  These  show  the  heirs  to 
have  been : 

Robert  Hewes  of  Boston,  gentleman,  who  had  wife  Miriam,  hav- 
ing a  ninth  interest ; 
Benjamin  Hewes  of  Swanzey,  N.  H.,  and  of  Foxboro,  Mass.,  gen- 
tleman, with  wife  Elizabeth,  having  a  ninth  interest; 
Hannah  White,  widow,  of  Mansfield,  having  a  ninth  interest ; 
Sarah  Hawkins  of  Franklin,  Mass.,  single  woman,  having  a  ninth 

interest ; 
Joseph  Hewes  of  Foxboro,  gentleman,  with  wife  Sarah,  having  an 

eighteenth  interest ; 
James  Hewes  of  Richmond,  N.  H.,  gentleman,  with  wife  Mary, 
having  an  eighteenth  interest ; 


328  DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES 

Shubael  Hewes  of  Boston,  gentleman,  with  wife  Martha,  having 
a  thirty-sixth  interest; 

Daniel  Hewes   of  Boston,  mason,  with  wife  Thankful,  having  a 
thirty-sixth  interest ; 

Solomon  Hewes  of  Boston,  fisherman,  with  wife  Sarah,  having  a 
thirty-sixth  interest ; 

George  Robert  Twelve  Hewes  of  Wrentham,  yeoman,  with  wife 
Sarah,  having  a  thirty-sixth  interest; 

Daniel  Hewes  of  Springfield,  N.  Y.,  late  of  Tolland,  Conn.,  with 
wife  Sarah,  having  an  eighteenth  interest; 

Daniel  Ware  of  Wrentham,  with  wife  Survine,  having  a  thirty- 
sixth  interest ; 

Jeremiah  Mann  of  Wrentham,  yeoman,  with  wife  Olive,  having  a 
thirty-sixth  interest ; 

Noah  Morse  of  Attleboro,  wheelwright,  with  wife  Betty,  having 
an  eighteenth  interest ; 

Daniel  Parker  of  Norton,  physician,  with  wife  Abigail,  having 
an  eighteenth  interest ; 

Huldah  Perry  of  Rehoboth,  widow,  having  an  eighteenth  interest , 

Jerusha  Norton  of  Wrentham,  having  a  thirty-sixth  interest; 

Mary  Robishaw  of  Wrentham,  widow,  having  a  thirty-sixth  in- 
terest. 
These   deeds   enable  us   to  place  the  various   grandchildren  of 

Solomon   Hewes,   and   solve   what   would   otherwise  be   a  difficult 

problem. 

Ill  11  BENJAMIN  HEWES  (Solomon,  George),  born  in 
Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  22  Dec,  1714;  died  subsequent  to  1800. 

He    married    1    Jan.,    1740-1,    Sarah,    daughter   of   Benjamin 

Silly8   of  Norton,   and  widow  of   [ ]    Hill    (Norton   and 

Attleboro  records).  He  married,  second,  as  of  Attleboro,  Eliza- 
beth Hill  of  Attleboro,  9  Nov.,  1758  (Bristol  county  records). 

lie  was  of  Attleboro  in  1754  and  probably  lived  in  Foxboro 
prior  to  liis  removal  to  Swanzey,  N.  H.,  where  he  was  in  1790, 
when  the  Census  enumeration  found  lie  had  in  his  family  six  fe- 
males.    He    was    of    Swanzey,    with    wife    Elizabeth,    in    1799 

s  Bristol  Deeds  :53:336,  Benjamin  Hcvvcs  nnd  wife  Sarah  2  Nov.,  174-8,  both 
of  Norton,  sell  TO  ;icr<'s  there,  adjoining  land  set  out  to  Joseph  Hart  and 
wife  Hannah  out  of  estate  of  their  father  Benjamin  Sealey  (who  left  widow 
Sarah)  together  with  one-half  of  the  thirds  set  off  to  the  widow,  and  one- 
third  of  tin-  buildings,  etc. 


DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES  329 

(Worcester  Deeds,  136:544),  but  in  1800  was  of  Foxboro,  Mass. 
(Providence  Deeds,  28:148.) 

His  son  Joseph  died  in  Providence  in  1785,  when  administration 
on  his  estate  was  granted  to  John  Hewes  of  Foxboro.  9  Sept., 
1786,  Benjamin  Hewes  of  Swanzey,  N.  H.,  gentleman,  heir  at 
law  of  Joseph  Hewes,  the  younger,  his  son,  late  of  Providence, 
deeded  to  his  son  John  Hewes  of  Foxboro,  one  of  the  adminis- 
trators of  the  estate  of  the  said  Joseph  Hewes,  all  his  right,  title 
and  interest  in  the  said  estate  (Providence  Deeds,  22:580). 

There  was  a  Benjamin  Hewes  in  the  company  of  Capt.  Jona- 
than Whitcomb  of  Col.  James  Reid's  regiment,  whose  enlistment 
on  roll  of  1  Aug.,  1775,  is  given  as  3  May.  He  was  still  in  serv- 
ice at  Bunker  Hill  in  September  (N.  H.  Rev.  Rolls  1).  As  neither 
his  son  Benjamin  or  Benjamin  Hewes  of  Medfield  mention  this 
service,  it  is  probably  the  record  of  Benjamin  Hewes  (No.  11), 
who,  like  many  other  men  above  the  age  of  compulsory  service, 
volunteered  after  the  battle  of  Lexington. 

Children,  by  first  wife,  born  in  Norton  (from  Norton  and  Attle- 
boro  records) : 

36  Benjamin,9  born  27  April,  1742 ;  died  in  infancy. 

37  Anna,9  born  10  May,  1746. 

38  Hannah,10  born  10  Jan.,  17—. 

39  Joseph,10   born    Nov.,    17 — ;    administration   on   his   estate 

was  granted  5  Sept.,  1785,  to  John  Hewes  of  Foxboro. 
Mass.  (Providence  Probate  records.)  He  had  practiced 
as  an  associate  of  his  uncle,  the  elder  Joseph  Hewes  of 
Providence. 

40  John,10   born   22   Oct.,   17—,  baptized9  8   June,   1760   at 

Norton. 

By  second  wife: 

41  Benjamin,"  born  20  Aug.,  1759,  baptized  9  8  June,  1760 

at  Norton. 

42  William,  born  22  March,  1761. 

43  Elijah,  born  15  March,  1763. 

44  George,  born  28  June,  1765. 

9  From  Norton  Vital  Records. 

io  From  Attleboro  records,  "The  children  of  Benjamin  and  Sary  (Silly) 
Huse.     The  above  Sary  Silly  was  the  daughter  of  Benjamin  Silly  of  Norton. 

ii  From  "History  of  Swanzey,"  N.  H.,  by  Benj.  Read,  probably  from 
Swanzey  record  of  births,  whence  all  the  later  dates. 


330  DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES 

45  Mary,  born  29  Jan.,  1768. 

46  Martha,    born   8   March,    1772;    married    19   Jan.,    1794, 

John  Montague  Field  of  Sullivan. 

FOURTH    GENERATION 

IV.  16  SHUBAEL  HEWES  {George,  Solomon,  George),  of 
Boston,  born  there  17  Oct.,  1732;  died  "of  old  age"  22  Oct., 
1813,  aged  81  (Boston  records)  ;  buried  26  Oct.  (Kings  Chapel)  ; 
married  20  June,  1762,  Martha  Frye,  who  was  born  in  1741, 
and  died  26  Aug.,  1814,  aged  74  years,  buried  29  Aug.  (Kings 
Chapel). 

Children,  born  in  Boston: 

47  Anne  Frye,  born  [ ]   1763;  died  12  Oct.,  1820,  bu- 

ried 15  Oct.,  aged  58  (King's  Chapel). 

48  Martha,    born    [ ]    1765 ;    died    unmarried,    "  Kept 

house  for  her  brother  Samuel." 

49  Samuel,   born   4  May,   1767;  died  in  Roxbury,  21   Oct., 

1860,  aged  93  years,  unmarried.  He  lived  in  the  Shu- 
bael  Hewes  house  in  Washington  street,  Boston,  until 
1816  when  he  removed  to  Roxbury,  renting  the  old  house 
and  stores.  He  was  captain  of  the  Boston  Fusileers. 
After  his  removal  to  Roxbury  he  held  the  offices  of  fire- 
ward,  selectman  and  deputy  to  the  General  Court.  He 
was  a  dry  goods  merchant  and  acquired  considerable 
property  in  addition  to  the  appreciation  in  value  of  the 
old  homestead  lot  in  Washington  street,  which  he  inher- 
ited but  never  improved.  His  estate  was  bequeathed  by 
will  dated  20  June,  1856,  which  commences  "  Cast  me  not 
off  when  I  am  old,  nor  forsake  me  when  I  am  grey 
headed,  I  Samuel  Hewes,  a  native  of  Boston  where  I  re- 
sided a  merchant  by  profession  until  4  July,  1816,  and 
since  that  time  a  resident  of  Roxbury,*'  chiefly  to  nephews 
Joseph  Hewes  Hunneman  and  Samuel  Hewes  Hunneman 
and  their  children,  with  legacies  to  brother  Robert  Hewes 
of  Piqua,  Ohio,  sister  Lucretia  Clapp  and  her  children, 
and  to  various  oilier  relatives.  The  will  was  contested 
by  some  of  the  heirs  bul  was  sustained.  Samuel  Hewes 
owned   a   considerable  part   of  the  lot  next  north  of  the 


DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES  331 

original  Joshua  Hewes  homestead,  and  perhaps  a  portion 
of  the  southeastern  part  of  that  lot  between  Zeigler  and 
Dudley  streets. 

50  Patty,  died  February,  1791    (Mass.  Magazine;  Columbian 

CentineV). 

51  Abigail,  born  28  Oct.,  1769;  died  26  Feb.,  1853  (Roxbury 

records).  The  following  entry  appears  in  Roxbury  rec- 
ords :  "  Abigail  Hewes  4th  daughter  of  Shubael  and 
Martha  Hewes,  born  in  Boston,  Oct.  28,  1769,  in  Marl- 
boro street,  opposite  Milk  street,  in  the  same  room  where 
her  mother's  ten  children  were  born,  on  the  birthday  of 
her  father  and  grandfather  Seaver  and  baptized  in  the 
Stone  Church  by  Rev.  Dr.  Caner.  This  birth  is  re- 
corded by  request  of  her  brother  Samuel  Hewes." 

52+  Richard  Brooke,  born  14  April,  1772 ;  died  6  Sept.,  1844. 

53  Lucretia,  born  1  April,  1775;  died  April,  1857;  married 
William  T.  Clapp.  Children:  Lydia  Carver  Clapp ; 
Lucretia  Clapp ;  Joseph  Hewes  Clapp  of  Augusta,  Me. ; 
20  April,  1794,  Abigail  Clapp,  who  married  Joseph  A. 
Arnold  of  Virginia,  coppersmith ;  Charlotte  Clapp,  who 
married  Andrew  Davis  Haskell  and  lived  in  New  Hamp- 
shire ;  William  John  Clapp,  eldest  son,  of  parts  unknown 
in  1856,  but  who  then  had  a  family. 

54+  Hannah,  born  19  Aug.,  1777;  died  24  March,  1849;  mar- 
ried William  Cooper  Huxxemax. 

55+  Robert,  baptized  5  March,  1780  (First  Church). 

56  Charlotte   Seaver,   baptized   14   March,   1784;  buried   6 

April,  1809,  aged  25  years  (King's  Chapel). 

57  Joseph,  baptized  5  Aug.,  1787   (First  Church)  ;  died  un- 

married, 1808. 
Shubael  Hewes  was  connected  with  the  Loyalist  or  Tory  party 
and  was  appointed  "  Chief  Butcher  "  for  the  British  Army,  but 
remained  in  Boston  when  the  British  departed,  and  regained  the 
confidence  of  the  people,  although  the  Council  for  Massachusetts 
ordered  his  arrest  in  April,  1776.  In  the  same  year  he  was  ap- 
pointed by  the  town  of  Boston  to  obtain  provisions  for  the  town. 
The  next  year  mention  is  made  of  his  slaughter  house,  and  the 
following  year  he  appears  as  one  of  the  holders  of  stalls  in  Fan- 
ueil  Hall  market.  In  1781,  having  been  elected  constable,  he  was 
excused.     He  served  as  constable  later,  and  from  1790  to  1796. 


332  DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES 

The  latter  year  he  lived  in  the  house  numbered  25  Marlboro  street, 
the  same  house  occupied  by  Samuel  Hewes,  shopkeeper  (Boston 
Directory). 

In  1773  and  prior  to  that,  he  was  one  of  the  best  known  "  mas- 
ters "  of  the  fire  engines,  when  the  fire  companies  were  great  ri- 
vals. His  engine  was  No.  5.  He  retired  from  business,  prob- 
ably not  long  after  the  Revolution,  and  in  1799  is  styled  "  gen- 
tleman." 

Prior  to  1824  that  part  of  Washington  Street  between  Sum- 
mer and  School  streets  was  called  Marlboro  Street,  and  his  house 
was  about  at  the  head  of  Milk  Street.  Drake  is  in  error  in  stat- 
ing that  a  slaughter  house  was  connected  with  the  dwelling. 

27  July,  1763,  Nathaniel  Appleton,  merchant,  and  wife  Rachel, 
sold  to  Shubael  Hewes,  tallow  chandler,  for  £500,  a  dwelling  house 
and  land  bounded  south  by  Province  House  land  121  feet,  west 
on  land  lately  set  off  to  John  Henderson  in  the  division  of  his  late 
father's  estate  36  feet,  north  on  Passage  way  11  feet  wide  127 
feet,  east  on  Marlboro  Street  36  feet.      (Deeds,  100:  105.) 

IV.  17  SOLOMON  HEWES  (George,  Solomon,  George),  of 
Boston,  "  fisherman,"  born  4  Dec,  1734 ;  died  15  Oct.,  1806  (J.  C. 
Doane).  He  married  28  Aug.,  1766,  Sarah  Masters  (Boston 
records)  who  died  Feb.,  1772  (Mass.  Gazette).  He  married  sec- 
ond, 1  July,  1773,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  Hunt  of  Bos- 
ton, merchant.  He  married,  third,  9  April,  1789,  Sarah  Hunt, 
sister  of  his  former  wife.  They  were  grandchildren  of  Jacob 
Wendell  of  Boston  (Letter  of  J.  C.  Doane  of  Cohasset).  She 
died  in  Cohasset  7  May,  1824,  aged  79  years. 

Solomon  Hewes  occupied  a  respectable  position  in  Boston. 
The  description  "  fisherman  "  probably  conveyed  a  broader  mean- 
ing than  it  would  to-day.  He  at  one  time  kept  a  fish  market  (Se- 
lectmen's Records).  During  the  Revolution  he  was  identified  with 
the  patriot  cause,  and  fled  from  Boston  with  many  others  before 
the  siege  lines  were  firmly  drawn.  He  went  to  Stoughton.  Eze- 
kiel  Price,  who  had  been  clerk  of  courts  *in  Suffolk  county,  men- 
tions, in  his  diary,  the  arrival  of  Hewes  and  his  wife  from  Boston, 
and  dining  witli  them,  21  June,  1775.  Solomon  Hewes  told  Price, 
"  he  came  out  of  Boston  last  Saturday  morning  after  the  engage- 
ment   began." 

Solomon   Hewes   lived   in   Oliver's   Lane   in   1796   (Boston  Direc- 


DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES  333 

tory).  He  was  admitted  to  the  New  South  church  29  May,  1774. 
In  1790  his  family  consisted  of  self,  two  males  under  16,  six 
women,  and  one  other  "  free  person." 

Children: 

58  Sarah,  born  20  May,  1774;  baptized  at  the  New  South,  29 

May ;  married  Andrew  Sanborn,  and  removed  to  Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio,  in  1822.  Mrs.  Roach  is  a  granddaughter. 
.  Sarah  is  mentioned  in  the  will  of  her  uncle  Daniel  Hewes 
as  the  wife  of  Andrew  Sanborn.  Mrs.  Cotton,  however,  in 
her  family  record  states  she  died  unmarried  and  that  her 
sister  married,  for  her  second  husband,  J.  Andrew  San- 
born. 

59  Elizabeth,   twin  of  Sarah.      She  is  variously  reported  as 

having  died,  unmarried,  in  Cincinnati,  and  as  having 
married  twice.  She  appears  to  have  died  in  1853,  aged 
79  (Letter  J.  C.  Doane).  Mrs.  Cotton's  record  is  as 
follows:  married  first,  1797,  John  Alexander  Ethe- 
ridge,  and  had  one  son,  John  Alexander  Etheridge,  who 
was  born  25  Feb.,  1798,  and  married  Alsa  Caroline  North 
of  London,  England.  Elizabeth  (Hewes)  Etheridge 
(59)  married,  second,  10  Feb.,  1801,  J.  Andrew  San- 
born, and  had  children ;  Solomon  Hewes  Sanborn,  bora 
24  Jan.,  1802,  married  but  had  no  children;  Nathaniel 
Noyes  Sanborn,  born  4  Jan.,  1804,  married,  but  had  no 
children.  Mrs.  Milner,  a  daughter  of  No.  140,  remem- 
bers Sarah  and  Elizabeth,  two  very  small  women,  visit- 
ing her  father  in  the  "  fifties." 
60+  Daniel,  born  7  Feb.,  1776;  baptized  Oct.,  1776,  at  the 
New  South. 

61  John    Hunt,   baptized    10   May,    1778;   married   Abigail 

Newell.  He  did  not  leave  children.  He  was  a  steam- 
boat captain  on  the  Mississippi,  and  is  said  to  have  been 
in  command  of  the  first  steamboat  which  sailed  to  New 
Orleans.  Mr.  Doane  traveled  with  him  and  much  en- 
joyed his  reminiscences  of  his  life  on  the  river. 

62  Rebecca,   baptized   12   Nov.,   1780;   married,   about   1800, 

Capt.  John  Adamson,  son  of  Capt.  Robert  Adamson,  an 
Englishman.  They  settled  in  Cincinnati.  Children: 
Jane  Gates  Adamson,  married  Lewis  C.  Manson  of  Mo- 


334,     DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES 

bile,  Ala. ;  Mary  Adamson,  married  Hooper  Warren  and 
settled  in  Illinois;  Robert  Adamson,  died  at  sea,  aged  21, 
unmarried;  Emma  R.  Adamson,  married  1  July, 
1830,  William  Davis  Gallagher,  of  Cincinnati,  poet  and 
editor,  and  had,  among  others,  Jennie  M.  Gallagher,  who 
married  20  Dec,  1855,  Charles  Buck  Cotton  of  Louis- 
ville, Ky.,  a  lawyer,  who  died  189-1 ;  Cordelia  Francis 
Adamson  married  Benjamin  Knight.  (Information  of 
Mrs.  Cotton.) 

63     Oliver  Wendal,  baptized  at  New  South,  29  June,  1783. 

61     Susanna  Wendal,  baptized  at  New  South,  29  April,  1792 ; 

died     [ ]     1879.     She    married     [ ]     1809, 

James  Cutler  Doane  of  Cohasset,  whose  son,  J.  C. 
Doane  1  of  the  same  place,  supplied  material  to  Mr.  H. 
G.  Hewes. 

IV.  20  George  Robert  Twelve  Hewes  (George,  Solomon, 
George),  bora  in  Boston,  25  Aug.,  1712;  died  at  Richfield  Springs, 
4  Nov.,  1810.  He  married  in  Boston,  17  Jan.,  1768,  Sallie 
Sumner,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Mercy  Sumner. 
Children;  2  -fifteen  in  all: 
65+  Sally  Hughes,  married  William  Morrison.  Her  daugh- 
ter Betsey  married  [ ]  Bailey  and  in  1791  lived  in 

Jordanville,  Herkimer  County,  N.  Y.,  and  had  a  Bible 
formerly  belonging  to  George  R.  T.  Hewes.  Of  the 
grandchildren  of  Sally  (66),  one  married  James  M. 
Hewes,  and  another  married  Daniel  Strieker  (letter  of 
James  M.  Hewes,  1891),  but  G.  M.  Bailey  of  Snowden, 
N.  Y.,  writes  that  the  family  Bible  contains  no  records 
showing  his  descent  from  Sally. 
66+  Solomon,  born  in  Boston,  1  May,  1771. 
67+  Elizabeth  Hughes  born  in  Boston,  3  Feb.,  1773 ;  mar- 
ried Preserved  Whipple. 

68  Daniel. 

69  Mary   Sumner,  baptized  30  March,   1777,   at  the   Second 

(  liuicli,  Boston. 

i  Mr.  Doane  states  he  was  11  years  old  when  his  grandmother  died,  and 
he  has  often  beard  her  discuss  relationships.  According  to  his  remembrance 
there  was  an  .Hint  Rebecca,  Supposed  t<>  have  been  a  sister  of  Solomon,  who 
married  Nathaniel  Noyes,  an  apothecary  in  Dock  Square. 

»"George  Hewes"  of  Wrentham  in  Census  of  1790,  had  self,  three  males 
under    1  fi,   and    two   in   his    I'aniil  v  . 


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DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES  335 

70+  Shubael,  born  12  March,  1781. 
71+  Robert,  born  in  Wrentham,  25  June,  1784. 
72 
73 
74 

75     Eleven,  aged  76  in  1871  when  he  applied  for  pension. 
76 
77 
78 

79+  George   Robert   Twelve   Fifteen,   born   28   May,   1791 
(Wrentham  Vital  Records). 

George  R.  T.  Hewes  prior  to  his  marriage,  took  up  residence 
in  Roxbury  for  a  brief  period  (Town  Rec.  II.  196).  He  had 
been  apprenticed  to  learn  the  trade  of  a  shoemaker,  and  with  the 
exception  of  several  fishing  voyages  made  during  his  youth, 
worked  at  that  trade  in  Boston  until  his  removal  to  Wrentham  in 
1775. 

In  1835  there  was  published  in  New  York  a  small  volume  en- 
titled "  Traits  of  the  Tea  Party :  being  a  Memoir  of  George  R. 
T.  Hewes,  one  of  the  last  of  its  survivors ;  with  a  history  of  that 
transaction ;  reminiscences  of  the  Massacre,  and  the  Siege,  and 
other  stories  of  Old  Times.     By  a  Bostonian." 

The  author  of  this  Memoir  had  obtained  many  of  his  incidents 
from  George  R.  T.  Hewes  himself,  from  members  of  his  family, 
and  certain  old  men,  his  contemporaries.  Most  of  the  state- 
ments therein  concerning  Hewes  can  be  confirmed  in  whole 
or  part,  although  many  of  the  anecdotes  related  are  subject 
to  suspicion.  From  this  volume  we  learn  that  George  R.  T. 
Hewes  was  named  for  a  great  uncle  of  his  mother,  and  that  he 
was  constantly  in  trouble  as  a  boy ;  that  an  early  attempt  to  ship 
as  a  sailor  was  frustrated  by  his  brothers ;  and  that  his  short 
stature  prevented  his  being  accepted  as  a  recruit  at  the  time 
volunteers  were  called  for  in  the  old  French  war.  Furthermore, 
it  is  there  stated  that  he  was  the  father  of  fifteen  children.  Noth- 
ing is  said  of  his  having  taken  part  in  the  War  of  1812,  and  the 
statement  to  this  effect,  endorsed  on  his  pension  application,  is 
probably  not  correct. 

Official  records  show  that  he  enlisted  25  Sept.,  1777,  and  served 
until  the  30th  Oct.,  1777,  in  a  secret  expedition  to  Rhode  Island, 
in  a  company  commanded  by  Capt.  Cowell,  Hawes'  regiment ;  also 


336  DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES 

from  17  August  to  9  September,  1778,  in  Rhode  Island  in  Capt. 
Willmarth's  company,  Carpenter's  regiment ;  also  from  28  July 
to  31  Oct.,  1780,  in  Capt.  Richardson's  company,  Col.  Mitchell's 
regiment  in  the  Continental  army;  also  from  23  July  to  8  Nov., 
1781,  in  the  Massachusetts  line.  He  was  a  member  of  the  famous 
Tea  Party,  and  after  hostilities  broke  out  served  not  only  in  the 
army  but  in  the  navy.  During  the  war  his  family  lived  in  Wren- 
tham,  from  which  place  they  removed  after  1799  to  New  York 
State. 


Lines  written  on  the  back  of  the  frame  around  the  portrait  of  George 
Robert  Twelve  Hewes,  which  now  hangs  in  the  Old  State  House, 
Boston: 

I 

As  near  beauteous  Boston  lying 

On  a  gently  swelling  flood 
Without  Jack  or  pennant  flying, 

Three  ill-fated  tea  ships  rode. 

II 

Just  as  glorious  Sol  was  setting 

On  the  wharf  a  numerous  crew, 
"  Sons  of  Freedom,"  fear  forgetting, 

Suddenly  appeared  in  view. 

Ill 

Armed  with  hammer,  ax  and  chisel — 

Weapons  new  for  warlike  deed — 
Towards  the  herbage-freighted  vessels 

They  approached  with  dreadful  speed. 

IV 

Quick  as  thought  the  ships  were  boarded 
Hatches  burst  and  chests  displayed. 

Axes,  hammers,  help  afforded  ; 

What  a  glorious  crash  they  made ! 

V 

Captains,  you  may  hoist  your  streamers, 
Spread  your  sails  and  plow  the  wave, 

Tell  your  masters  they  were  dreamers 

When  they  thought  to  cheat  the  brave. 


DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES  337 

The  following  sketch  of  George  R.  T.  Hewes  was  written  by 
Mr.  Horace  Greeley  Hewes : 

The  appended  declaration  of  George  Robert  Twelves  Hewes,  made  at 
the  time  of  his  application  for  a  pension,  leaves  but  little,  if  anything, 
more  to  be  recorded  in  connection  with  his  nautical  and  military  services 
in  behalf  of  his  country.  His  enlistments  and  re-enlistments,  as  de- 
mands for  men  were  made,  tell  their  own  story.  He  was  born  in  Boston 
on  what  is  now  known  as  Water  Street,  at  the  sign  of  the  "  Bull's 
Head,"  where  his  father  and  brother  Robert  carried  on  the  tanning  and 
chandlery  business.  The  site  of  his  birthplace  is  now  occupied  by  the 
banking  house  of  Hornblower  and  Weeks,  and  it  is  interesting  to  note, 
in  passing,  that  it  was  upon  this  same  site  that  William  Lloyd  Garrison 
commenced  the  publication  of  his  paper,  The  Liberator,  devoted  to  the 
cause  of  freedom  for  the  slave. 

When  the  unrest  of  the  citizens  of  Boston  began  to  crystallize  into 
resistance  to  the  oppression  of  the  mother  country,  we  find  young 
Hewes  taking  part  in  many  of  the  minor  acts  of  hostility  to  the  author- 
ity of  the  crown.  The  first  instance  of  really  historic  importance  with 
which  we  find  him  in  any  way  connected,  was  the  so-called  "  Boston 
Massacre,"  though  it  is  not  recorded  that  he  took  any  active  part 
therein.  Probably,  like  many  others,  he  was  drawn  to  the  scene  out  of 
curiosity,  though  naturally  Ins  sympathy  was  not  with  the  soldiery.  It 
was  a  lucky  chance  that  he  was  not  among  those  slain,  for  he  was  in  the 
line  of  fire,  and  caught  Caldwell  as  he  dropped  fatally  wounded.  Mr. 
Hewes  barely  mentions  in  his  declaration  that  he  assisted  in  throwing 
the  tea  into  Boston  harbor,  yet  it  was  his  connection  with  that  thrilling 
episode  which  lends  to  his  life  its  most  absorbing  interest.  Much  has 
been  written  from  many  angles  of  view  regarding  the  "  Tea  Party," 
and  the  temptation  is  strong  to  further  add  to  the  already  voluminous 
mass  of  literature  concerning  it,  but  as  this  is  a  sketch  of  the  life  of 
Mr.  Hewes,  and  not  a  history  of  the  "  Tea  Party,"  the  writer  will  only 
refer  to  that  organization  as  seems  necessary  from  Mr.  Hewes'  asso- 
ciation with  it.  The  word  organization  is  used,  and  advisedly,  for  such 
it  undoubtedly  was,  for  a  specific  purpose  under  certain  contingencies, 
and  not  a  rabble  gathered  together  on  the  spur  of  momentary  excite- 
ment. While  we  do  not  know  the  names  of  all  these  persons  who  were 
members,  we  do  know  some  of  them,  many  in  fact,  and  they  are  those 
of  reputable  citizens  of  Boston,  who  would  not  have  lent  their  approval 
to  a  cause  that  under  the  conditions  then  existing  did  not  seem  justifi- 
able. It  has  been  claimed  (and  denied)  that  John  Hancock  was  one  of 
the  number.  Whether  he  was  or  not  the  writer  does  not  attempt  to 
prove.  Yet  there  seems  to  be  considerable  evidence  to  show  that  he 
was.  Mr.  Hewes,  who  probably  knew  him,  says  that  he  was,  and  that 
he  identified  him  by  his  clothing  which  was  not  wholly  concealed  by 


338  DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HE  WES 

the  Indian  disguise,  as  he  raised  his  arm  in  the  act  of  breaking  open  a 
chest  of  tea.  Prof.  John  Fiske  of  Harvard  University,  the  historian, 
refers  to  this  incident  in  addresses  given  on  several  occasions,  ap- 
parently crediting  the  correctness  of  Mr.  Hewes'  statement.  One  thing 
seems  to  be  quite  clearly  established,  and  that  is  that  Hancock  knew  of 
the  contemplated  action  of  the  band,  for  in  the  diary  of  a  confessed 
participant  in  the  affair,  the  following  statement  appears. 

Major  Thompson  Maxwell,  in  a  letter  giving  an  account  of  himself 
to  Gen'l  James  Miller  of  Salem,  Mass.,  says : 

"  In  1773,  I  went  with  my  team  to  Boston.  I  loaded  at  John  Han- 
cock's warehouse,  and  was  about  to  leave  town,  when  Mr.  Hancock  re- 
quested me  to  drive  my  team  up  into  his  yard,  and  ordered  his  servants 
to  take  care  of  it,  and  requested  me  to  be  on  Long  Wharf  at  2  o'clock 
P.  M.,  and  informed  me  what  was  to  be  done.  I  went  accordingly, 
joined  a  band  under  one  Capt.  Hewes;  we  mounted  the  ships,  and  made 
tea  in  a  trice.  This  done,  I  took  my  team  and  went  home  as  an  honest 
man  should."      (N.  E.  Hist,  and  Gen'l  Reg.,  vol.  22,  p.  57.) 

During  the  latter  part  of  the  life  of  Mr.  Hewes  he  was  credited  with 
being  about  ten  years  older  than  the  baptismal  record  of  the  Old  South 
Church  shows  him  to  have  been.  Just  how  this  error  gained  currency 
it  is  impossible  to  learn,  but  so  persistently  was  it  reiterated  that  even 
Mr.  Hewes  came  to  believe  in  its  correctness,  probably  partly  from  a 
feeling  of  pride  in  his  advanced  years,  a  not  infrequent  characteristic 
of  very  aged  persons,  and  partly  from  loss  of  memory  coexistent  with 
gradually  lessening  physical  power.  It  is  to  be  regretted  that  this 
mistake  should  have  been  perpetuated  in  his  declaration,  and  also  upon 
the  stone  marking  his  last  resting  place,  where  it  is  given  as  109  years, 
whereas  it  should  have  been  98  years  and  a  few  months.  Mr.  Hewes 
died  at  Richfield  Springs,  New  York,  his  home  during  the  latter  part 
of  his  life.  It  is  rather  singular  that  having  enjoyed  for  almost  one 
hundred  years  more  than  average  health,  his  death  should  have  been 
indirectly  caused  by  an  accident.  As  he  was  about  entering  a  carriage 
which  was  to  convey  him  to  a  nearby  Fourth  of  July  celebration,  where 
he  was  to  have  been  the  hero  of  the  day,  the  horses  became  frightened 
and  started  suddenly,  throwing  the  old  gentleman  violently  to  the 
ground.  His  friends  raised  him  tenderly  and  carried  him  into  the 
house,  from  which  he  never  again  departed  alive.  The  shock  to  one 
so  aged,  notwithstanding  the  splendid  vitality  which  had  sustained  him 
for  so  many  years,  could  not  be  rallied  from,  and  he  passed  away  on  the 
fifth  of  the  following  November,  1810.  He  was  buried  in  the  village 
cemetery  of  Richfield,  where,  beside  the  remains  of  his  wife,  who  had 
preceded  him,  his  body  rested  until  Memorial  day,  1896,  when  it  was 
disinterred  and  transferred  to  the  lot  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Repub- 
lic in  Lakeview  Cemetery,  under  escort  of  the  local  G.  A.  R.  Post.     The 


DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES  339 

original  of  the  accompanying  portrait  was  painted  in  1832  by  Joseph 
G.  Cole,  a  Boston  portrait  painter  of  note.  It  is  owned  by  the  Bos- 
tonian  Society  and  hangs  in  the  upper  corridor  of  the  Old  State  House, 
the  home  of  the  society,  which  also  has  the  distinguished  honor  of  being 
the  legal  custodian  of  this  grand  old  building,  so  replete  with  stirring 
and  patriotic  associations.  Mr.  Hewes  was  visiting  friends  and  rela- 
tives in  Boston  at  the  time,  and  was  also  a  guest  of  honor  at  the  city 
Fourth  of  July  celebration  that  year,  as  well  as  at  many  semi-public 
and  private  gatherings  held  to  give  people  an  opportunity  of  meeting 
him. 

Illustrative  of  his  wonderful  energy  at  this  period,  the  writer 
was  told  by  a  near  relative  at  whose  house  he  visited,  that  he  was  "  on 
the  go  "  about  all  of  the  time,  and  that  on  one  occasion,  thinking  that 
ex-Pres.  John  Quincy  Adams  might  aid  him  in  obtaining  a  pension 
for  his  services  to  his  country,  he  walked  out  to,  and  back  from,  the 
residence  of  that  gentleman  in  Braintree  (now  Quincy),  a  distance  of 
ten  miles. 

A  letter  written  in  1836  by  a  descendant,  Geo.  M.  Whipple,  to  his 
mother,  giving  among  other  items  of  news,  an  account  of  a  visit  to  the 
old  gentleman,  is  quite  entertaining  and  by  it  we  learn  that  Mr.  Hewes 
was  very  active  physically,  and  mentally  keen,  notwithstanding  his  ex- 
treme age.  He  says :  "  I  arrived  at  Mohawk  Flats  Sept.  9th,  and  got 
a  carriage  for  Richfield.  I  found  Grandfather  Hewes  pretty  well,  and 
very  jovial.  He  sang  for  me  many  old  songs  and  told  over  all  the 
incidents  of  the  '  scraj:>e  '  in  Boston  Harbor.  His  memory  is  uncom- 
monly good  for  one  of  his  age.  He  jumped  about  so  when  I  made 
myself  known  to  him  he  liked  to  have  lost  his  drumsticks.  He  can  still 
read  his  Bible  without  glasses."  (He  was  85  years  old  at  that  time.) 
.  .  .  .  "  Grandfather  has  given  me  a  present  for  you.  It  was 
made  him  by  a  Miss  Hunnewell  of  Boston  for  helping  to  throw  the 
British  tea  overboard." 

The  present  referred  to  was  probably  a  snuff  box  which  was 
presented  to  him  by  a  number  of  ladies  through  Miss  Hunnewell. 

Pension  Declaration 

On  this  16th  day  of  October  A.  D.,  1832,  personally  appeared  in 
the  open  court  before  the  judges  of  the  court  of  common  pleas  in  and 
for  the  county  of  Otsego  now  sitting,  George  R.  T.  Hewes,  a  resident 
of  the  town  of  Richfield  in  the  county  of  Otsego  and  state  of  New 
York,  aged  97  years  on  the  5th  day  of  September,  now  last  passed,  who 
being  first  duly  sworn  according  to  law  dothe  on  his  oath  make  the  fol- 
lowing declaration  in  order  to  obtain  the  benefit  of  the  Act  of  Congress 
passed  June  7th,  1832,  that  he  entered  the  service  of  the  United  States 
under  the  following  officers  and  served  as  herein  stated.     That  about 


340  DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES 

two  years  after  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill  he  enlisted  as  a  volunteer  on 
board  of  a  privateer  vessel  called  the  Diamond,  of  Providence,  Rhode 
Island,  commanded  by  Capt.  Thomas  Stacy  of  Rhode  Island,  Geo. 
Babcock,  first  lieutenant,  and  a  man  by  the  name  of  Murphy  was  sec- 
ond Lieutenant;  that  he  enlisted  at  Providence  aforesaid  and  went  into 
the  service  on  board  of  the  Diamond  at  that  place  some  time  in  the 
month  of  April  and  remained  on  board  about  two  weeks  after  enlisting 
before  sailing  from  Providence  aforesaid.  That  the  Diamond  then 
sailed  and  made  a  cruise  to  the  Banks  of  Newfoundland  and  there 
captured  the  British  ship  called  the  Live  Oak,  commanded  by  Captain 
Gardner.  This  ship  was  sent  into  Providence  in  charge  of  George 
Babcock,  prizemaster,  where  she  was  safely  landed.  The  Live  Oak 
was  laden  with  sweet  oil  and  tar  at  the  time  of  her  capture  as  afore- 
said. Also  the  Diamond  on  this  same  cruise  captured  on  the  Banks 
of  Newfoundland  another  British  vessel  called  the  Mary  and  Joseph, 
commanded  by  Capt.  Patrick  Walch,  laden  with  fish  and  bound  for 
Gibraltar.  The  Mary  and  Joseph  was  sent  in  to  Providence  under 
Lieut.  Murphy  of  the  Diamond,  as  prizemaster.  And  also  the  Diamond 
in  this  cruise  captured  the  British  brig  commanded  by  Captain  Wallace 
of  the  British  Navy,  bound  for  London,  and  sailed  from  Jamaica,  laden 
with  rum  and  sugar.  The  name  of  the  brig  he  cannot  recollect,  and 
the  said  George  R.  T.  Hewes  returned  to  Providence  on  board  of  this 
prize  and  the  Diamond  returned  at  the  same  time;  and  he  further 
states  that  he  was  in  the  service  as  a  privateer  under  Captain  Stacy  for 
the  full  period  of  three  months  and  on  arriving  at  Providence  he  was 
discharged  from  the  service  and  returned  home  to  his  family,  then  resid- 
ing at  Wrentham,  in  the  State  of  Massachusetts ;  and  he  further  states 
that  at  some  time  during  the  same  year  about  two  months  after  being 
discharged  from  the  service  under  Capt.  Stacy  as  before  stated,  he  vol- 
unteered into  a  company  of  militia  commanded  by  Captain  Caleb  Rich- 
ardson of  Attleboro,  Mass.,  and  Lieut.  Horn  and  marched  from  Attle- 
boro  in  said  company  to  Slade's  Ferry  and  at  that  place  joined  a  regi- 
ment commanded  by  Col.  Drury  of  Worcester,  Mass.,  and  was  sta- 
tioned at  Slade's  Ferry  and  remained  there  in  the  service  of  said  com- 
pany and  regiment  for  the  period  of  three  months  and  was  then  dis- 
charged and  returned  home  to  his  family  at  Wrentham  aforesaid ;  and 
he  further  states  that  he  again  volunteered  into  a  company  of  militia 
the  same  year  of  the  battle  of  New  Port  in  the  year  1778  and  was 
commanded  by  Captain  Caleb  Richardson  before  mentioned  and  Ovid 
Vannim,  lieutenant,  and  was  in  the  battle  on  New  Port  Island,  re- 
treated  from  the  place  with  the  American  army  and  crossed  at  How- 
land's  Ferry.  He  marched  to  Providence  and  was  in  the  service  at 
tliis  time  for  a  period  ni'  three  months  and  was  discharged  at  a  place 
called  Off  Dikes  New  Town,  It.  I.     He  also  recollected  seeing  General 


DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES     34-1 

Sullivan  at  New  Port  while  stationed  there  before  the  battle,  and  he 
belonged  at  this  time  to  the  regiment  commanded  by  Col.  Benj.  Hawes 
of  Wrentham  aforesaid;  and  he  further  states  that  on  the  14th  day  of 
February,  and,  he  thinks,  the  next  winter  (of)  the  battle  of  New  Port 
Island  he  went  on  board  of  the  ship  of  war  Defence  at  Boston  and 
commanded  by  Captain  Smedley  and  Lieut.  Angel  of  New  Port,  Mr. 
Sullivan,  sailing  master,  and  Mr.  John  Wasson  clerk  of  the  ship,  that 
he  sailed  from  Boston  on  the  25th  day  of  March  according  to  his 
present  recollection  and  the  ship  proceeded  on  the  cruise  to  the  West 
Indies  and  on  the  cruise  took  two  British  ships  bound  for  London  from 
Jamaica,  laden  principally  with  munitions  of  war,  and  said  prizes  were 
sent  into  Boston,  one  of  them  in  charge  of  Lieut.  Angel  and  the  other 
in  charge  of  Lieut.  Pease,  and  he  further  states  that  the  Defence 
on  the  same  cruise  captured  two  privateer  sloops  fitted  out  at  Augustine 
and  went  in  with  them  in  charge  to  South  Carolina,  where  they  were 
sold,  and  then  proceeded  on  the  ship  Defence  from  So.  Carolina  on 
the  cruise  to  Boston,  falling  in  with  a  top-sail  schooner  loaded  with 
gentlemen  and  ladies  on  their  passage  from  America  to  Augustine  and 
were  said  to  be  Tories  fleeing  from  the  country;  after  overtaking  the 
said  schooner  the  officers  of  the  American  ship  Defence  held  a  council 
and  determined  that  on  the  surrender  of  all  the  money  on  board  the 
schooner  to  the  officers  of  the  Defence  the  schooner  with  her  cargo  of 
Tories  might  be  released  and  proceed  to  Augustine,  that  the  terms  of 
the  release  of  the  schooner  were  complied  with  and  after  throwing  over- 
board the  guns  on  board  of  the  schooner,  she  was  released  and  he  then 
proceeded  on  the  Defence  to  Boston  and  arrived  or  landed  at  that  place 
the  latter  part  of  September  or  first  of  October  and  was  then  permitted 
by  his  captain  to  return  home  to  his  family  at  Wrentham.  Was  in  the 
service  at  tins  time  from  the  14th  of  Feb.  to  the  10th  of  October  next 
after,  making  seven  months  and  a  half;  and  he  further  states  that  the 
same  year  that  Cornwallis  was  taken  he  enlisted  at  Attleboro  in  Massa- 
chusetts into  a  company  of  militia  commanded  by  Captain  Barney  of 
Kekonte,  Lieut.  Everett  of  Attleboro  in  Col.  Drury's  regiment,  marched 
from  Attleboro  to  West  Point  in  the  state  of  New  York  and  was  there 
stationed;  that  he  enlisted  into  said  company  for  the  period  of  three 
months'  service  and  at  this  time  he  knew  General  McDougal  was  in 
command  at  West  Point;  and  he  further  states  that  he  was  born  in 
Boston  in  the  year  1735  and  was  residing  at  that  place  when  the  Revo- 
lution commenced  and  was  one  of  the  Patriotic  men  of  that  place  who 
threw  the  tea  overboard ;  that  he  resided  at  Wrentham  and  Attlebury 
since  the  Revolution  until  he  removed  into  the  town  of  Richfield  in  the 
county  of  Otsego  in  the  State  of  New  York  about  16  years  since,  where 
he  has  ever  since  and  now  resides ;  that  he  never  received  any  written 
discharge  from  the  service;  that  he  has  no  documentary  evidence;  that 


342  DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES 

he  knows  of  no  person  whose  testimony  he  can  procure  who  can  testify 
to  his  service,  except  the  evidence  of  Obed  Robinson,  whose  affidavit  is 
hereunto  annexed;  that  he  is  known  to  Mathewson  Eddy  and  Moses 
Wheeler  of  his  present  neighborhood,  and  he  hereby  relinquishes  every 
claim  whatever  to  a  pension  or  annuity  except  the  present  and 
declares  that  his  name  is  not  on  the  Pension  Rolls  of  the  agency 
of  any  state,  sworn  to  and  subscribed  the  day  of  the  year  afore- 
said  in   open   court. 

J.   O.    Morris    (or  More), 

First  Judge  of  Otsego  Co. 

(Signature) 

George   R.  T.   Hewes. 


We,  Mathewson  Eddy  and  Moses  Wheeler,  both  residents  in  the 
town  of  Richfield  in  the  county  of  Otsego  and  in  the  State  of 
New  York,  hereby  certify  that  we  are  well  acquainted  with  George 
R.  T.  Hewes,  who  has  subscribed  and  sworn  to  the  above  declaration, 
that  we  believe  him  to  be  97  years  of  age,  that  he  is  reputed  and  be- 
lieved to  be  in  the  neighborhood  where  he  resides  to  have  been  a 
soldier  of  the  Revolution,  and  that  we  concurr  in  the  above,  and  also 
that  he  is  a  man  of  good  moral  character  and  entitled  to  full  credit. 

Sworn  to  and  subscribed  the  day 
and     year     aforesaid     before    me.  Mathewson  Eddy, 

James  C.  Walworth,  |        Moses  Wheeler. 

Judge  of  Otsego  Common  Pleas.     \ 


And  the  said  court  do  hereby  declare  their  opinion  after  the  investi- 
gation of  the  matter  and  after  meeting  the  (requirements)  prescribed 
by  the  War  Department  that  the  above  named  applicant  was  a  revolu- 
tionary soldier  and  served  as  he  states,  that  the  court  further  certify 
that  it  appears  to  them  that  Mathewson  Eddy  and  Moses  Wheeler,  who 
have  signed  the  present  certificate  are  residents  of  the  town  of  Rich- 
field in  the  said  county  of  Otsego  in  the  neighborhood  of  said  applicant 
and  that  they  are  creditable  persons  and  that  their  statements  are  en- 
titled to  credit. 

J.  O.  Mores, 
Skth  Chase, 
S.  Page. 


DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES  343 

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Otsego  County,  j 

I,  Horace  Lathrop,  clerk  of  the  court  of  Common  Pleas  in  and  for 

the   said   county,   do   hereby   certify   that   the   foregoing   contains   the 

original  proceedings  in  the  matter  of  the  application  of  George  R.  T. 

Hewes  for  a  pension.      In  testimony  whereof  I  have  hereunto  set  my 

hand  and  seal  of  the  office  this  18th  day  of  October,  1832. 

Horace  Lathrop,  Clerk. 

The  applicant,  Mr.  Hewes,  is  now  in  his  99th  year  and  a  more 
meritorious  application  for  a  pension  has  not  nor  cannot  be  presented 
to  the  government.  The  patriotism  and  love  of  liberty  has  forever 
urged  this  old  man  to  step  forward  for  the  defense  of  his  country.  He 
was  a  soldier  of  the  late  war  as  well  as  of  the  Revolutionary.  I  hope 
his  pension  may  be  granted  as  he  sorely  needs  the  same  for  a  com- 
fortable support. 

J.  Crippen,  Agent. 

IV.  29  JOSEPH  HEWES  "2nd"  (William,  Solomon, 
George),  of  Foxborough,  born  in  Wrentham,  3  July,  1751;  died 
after  1799;  married  at  Norton  30  Nov.,  1769,  Sarah  Hodges. 
His  wife  does  not  join  in  deed  of  1784,  but  does  in  one  of  1788. 
In  census  of  1790,  his  family  consisted  of  four  males,  two  of  whom 
were  under  16,  and  six  females.3 

In  1802  he  was  a  member  of  the  Society  for  the  Detection  of 
Horsethieves,  etc.,  in  Wrentham,  Walpole,  Attleborough,  Med- 
field,  Foxborough,  Mansfield,  etc.  In  deeds  he  is  styled  "  gentle- 
man." 

Children:  4 

80     Truelove,  born  14  Feb.,  1770  (Wrentham  Vital  Records). 

3  The  following  items  may  relate  to  members  of  this   family: 

Joseph  Warren  Hewes  and  Polly  Hodges,  intention  of  marriage  at  Medway, 
23  Dec..  1809. 

Chloe  Hewes  of  Mansfield  and  Daniel  Pratt  married  7  Sept.,  1780. 

Hannah   Hewes  of  Mansfield  and  Joshua   Stearns  married   10   Sept.,  1778. 

Sarah  Huse  of  Swansey  and  Joshua  Chaee  of  Swansey  married  16  Nov., 
1769.     (Bristol  County  Marriages.) 

Mary  Hewes  and  Abel  Jillson  married  21  Jan.,  1809. 

Elijah  Hewes,  resident  in  Attleboro,  and  Betsey  Tingley  of  Attleboro 
married  1  Nov.,  1792. 

William  (Haws  or  Hews?)  of  Wrentham,  and  Eunice  Daggett  of  Attle- 
boro married  1767  or  1768.     (Attleboro  Records) 

George  W.  Hewes  and  Almira  Stone  of  Douglas,  intention  at  Oxford,  8 
March,  1845. 

Barzilla  B.  Hewes  of  Northbridge  and  Abigail  Cady,  intention  at  Oxford, 
19  Aug.,  1811. 


SU  DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES 

81  William,  born  11  July,  1772  (Wrentham  Vital  Records). 

There  was  a  William  Hewes  of  Mansfield,  gentleman,  who 
bought  land  there  in  1815  (Bristol  Deeds,  98:126),  and 
in  1828  Fanny  M.  Hewes,  single  woman,  and  Sally  Ames, 
late  Gilmore,  wife  of  Hustis  Ames  of  Eaton,  took  title  to 
land  in  Mansfield  from  Laban  Wheaton  (Bristol  Deeds, 
125:72). 

82  Robert,  named  in  the  will  of  his  cousin  Robert  Hewes,  1816. 

83  Sally,  wife  of  Gilbert  Clark  of  Medway  in  1816,  when  she 

and  "  her  children  "  are  named  in  the  will  of  her  cousin 
Robert  Hewes.  A  bequest  was  also  left  to  the  "  children 
of  Sally,  daughter  of  Truelove  Clark,  and  granddaughter 
of  Joseph  Hewes  of  Foxboro." 

84  Joseph  Hewes  ;  a  bequest  was  left  to  his  children  by  Robert 

Hewes,  1816. 

IV.  30  JAMES  HEWES  (William,  Solomon,  George),  of 
Richmond,  N.  H.,  gentleman,  in  1799,  when  with  wife  Mary  he 
joins  with  other  heirs  of  Dr.  Joseph  Hewes  in  sale  of  land.  He  is 
said  to  have  gone  from  Gloucester,  R.  I.,  to  Richmond,  and  to  have 
married  25  Aug.,  1785,  Mary  Taft,  daughter  of  Nathan  Taft 
of  Uxbridge.  Records  are  silent  concerning  this  family  after 
1810  (History  of  Richmond)  ;  but  in  1818,  Mary,  then  a  widow 
and  living  in  Plymouth,  Chenango  county,  N.  Y.,  in  a  power  of 
attorney  to  Nathan  Aldrich  of  the  same  place,  declares  herself  as 
the  eldest  daughter  of  Nathan  Taft  of  Uxbridge,  and  that  her 
husband,  James  Hewes,  died  20  Dec,  1817  (Worcester  Deeds, 
213:235). 

In  the  census  of  1790,  James  Hewes  of  Richmond  is  described 
as  being  the  head  of  a  family  consisting  of  two  males  over  sixteen 
years  and  three  females. 

Children:  "' 

85  A  son. 

86  A  son. 

*The  editor  has  been  unable  to  get  in  touch  with  descendants  of  Joseph 
Hewes. 

o  The  following  entries  on  Sutton  records  may  relate  to  this  family: 

Sarah  Taft  Hewes  married  (intention  15  March,  lH.'U)  Morris  I.ee  of 
Oxford. 

Betse?    HEWES   and    Morris    Park    married    14  Jan.,   1796. 


DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES  345 

87  A  daughter. 

88  A  daughter. 

IV.  33  SUSANNA  HEWES  (Daniel,  Solomon,  George), 
born  in  Wrentham,  23  July,  1748;  married  Thomas  Hinckley  of 
Wellfleet,  later  of  Boston,  a  shipmaster. 

Family  traditions  variously  assert  that  he  died  while  a  prisoner 
of  war  from  eating  peas  boiled  in  a  copper  kettle,  and  that  he  died 
during  the  Revolution,  after  escaping  from  a  British  prison  ship 
by  swimming  ashore. 

Children : 

89  Thomas  Hewes  Hinckley,  born  1768;  married  Elizabeth 

Bass  of  Boston. 

90  Hannah   Hinckley,   born    1    April,    1770;   married   Capt. 

Foster  Cruft  of  Boston. 

91  Susanna  Hewes  Hinckley,  born  July,  1772,  married  Dan- 

iel Messenger  of  Boston.  Their  daughter  Susanna 
Messenger  was  baptized  at  the  New  South,  27  Oct.,  1794. 

92  Robert  Hinckley,  born  1774;  married  Esther  Messen- 

ger, a  sister  of  Daniel  above,  and  daughter  of  Daniel  and 
Mary  Messenger  of  Wrentham.  He  was  father  of  the 
artist  Thomas  Hewes  Hinckley.  Portraits  of  several  of 
this  family  were  in  possession  of  Mary  Hewes  Hinckley  of 
Milton,  Mass.,  in  1896. 

IV.  35  DANIEL  HEWES  (Daniel,  Solomon,  George),  born 
in  Wrentham,  Mass.,  1755;  died  in  Springfield,  N.  Y.,  22  Feb., 
1846;  married  30  Dec,  1778,  Sarah  Cushman,6  who  died  in 
Springfield  13  Jan.,  1836. 

This  family  is  not  enumerated  in  the  census  of  1790.  He  was 
of  Tolland,  Conn.,  in  1799,  when  he  and  wife  Sarah  joined  in  deed 
with  other  heirs  of  Dr.  Joseph  Hewes. 

Children,  four  eldest  born  in  Attleboro : 

93  Abigail,  born  18  Nov.,  1779. 

94+  Ira,  born   14  Jan.,   1782.      (Born  1  Jan.   according  to  F. 
W.  Hewes  of  Orange,  N.  J.) 

95  Sarah,  born  15  June,  1783. 

96  Orpha,  twin  of  Ruth. 

8  According  to  F.  W.  Hewes  he  married  Abigail  Cushman. 


316  DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES 

97  Ruth,  born  7  May,  1785. 

98  Hannah,  born  27  March,  1787. 
99+  Daniel  H.,  born  1  Sept.,  1788. 

100  Susanna,  born  30  March,  1791. 

101  Joseph,  born  16  Feb.,  1793. 

102  Otis,  born  10  Sept.,  1795. 

103  Herbert,  born  30  Aug.  1798. 

104  Jacob,  bom  11  Aug.,  1801. 

Daniel  Hewes  of  Springfield,  N.  Y.,  made  application  for  a 
pension  26  June,  1833.  He  stated  he  was  born  in  Wrentham  in 
1755,  and  lived  in  Attleboro,  and  that  after  the  war  he  moved  to 
Tolland,  Conn.,  and  thence  to  Springfield,  where  he  had  lived  the 
last  thirty-four  years. 

He  enlisted  in  Jan.,  1776,  for  one  year,  in  the  company  com- 
manded by  Capt.  Oliver  Pond,  but  soon  after  the  Declaration  of 
Independence  was  transferred  to  the  company  of  Capt.  Phineas 
Ford,  Col.  Brewer's  regiment,  and  was  set  to  work  with  Ford's 
company  making  wagons  in  what  was  called  the  King's  Store  at 
Powles  Hook  Ferry.  Was  marched  on  to  Long  Island  at  the  time 
Sterling  was  taken.  He  was  taken  sick  at  King's  Bridge  but  went 
on  with  the  company  to  White  Plains,  thence  to  Peekskill,  and 
at  the  end  of  the  year  was  discharged.  Ford  commanded  a  com- 
pany of  "  artificers,"  which  was  never  paraded  with  the  regiment. 
Never  saw  his  colonel  but  once,  and  that  was  in  New  York  City. 
In  a  former  application,  made  the  preceding  year,  he  gave  his  age 
as  77  years,  and  his  first  enlistment  as  about  1  May,  1775,  in 
Capt.  C.  Richardson's  company,  Col.  Walker's  regiment  of  Massa- 
chusetts State  troops.  He  enlisted  from  Attleboro,  for  eight 
months,  and  was  stationed  a  month  or  more  at  Preston  Point,  Dor- 
chester, and  also  at  Roxburv.  His  lieutenant  was  Enoch  Robert- 
son, and  he  thought  the  ensign  was  Solomon  Stanley.  He  again 
<  n listed  1  Jan.,  1776,  in  company  of  Capt.  Pond,  Col.  Reed's  regi- 
ment, and  until  March  remained  at  Roxbury,  thence  marched  with 
the  regiment  to  New  York  and  was  there  transferred  to  Ford's 
company  of  artificers.  He  was  not  in  the  battle  of  Flatbush.  His 
company  retreated  from  New  York  over  Kingsbridge  the  day  be- 
fore the  main  army  retreated.  The  rest  of  his  service  under  this 
enlistment  was  at  White  Plains  and  Peekskill.  Sergeant  Pike  of 
Ford's  company  was  from  Attleboro. 

He  again  enlisted  as  one  of  the  new   levees  from  Attleboro.      He 


DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES  347 

was  then  a  man  of  family,  and  in  July,  1780,  "  the  militia  being 
called  out,  volunteers  were  beat  up  for  once  round  and  no  one 
turned  out."  The  officers  came  to  Hewes  and  said  that  he  had 
been  in  the  service,  and  if  he  turned  out  others  would  follow.  He 
did  so  and  the  required  number  were  had.  They  enlisted  for  six 
months.  They  proceeded  to  Springfield,  where  they  were  mus- 
tered, and  marched  to  the  Highlands  where  they  were  drilled  ten 
days.  Hewes  was  assigned  to  Capt.  Crocker's  company  then  in 
charge  of  Lt.  Daniel  Lee,  in  Col.  Grayton's  (Greaton's)  regi- 
ment, and  was  part  of  the  time  in  New  York  and  part  of  the  time 
in  New  Jersey.  He  was  present  at  the  execution  of  Andre,  but 
was  in  no  battles  or  skirmishes.  In  December  he  was  discharged 
at  West  Point.     John  Meacham  was  adjutant  of  the  regiment. 

Between  his  enlistments  in  the  army  he  served  at  sea.  In  or 
about  February,  1777,  he  enlisted  in  Providence  for  a  four-months' 
cruise  under  Capt.  Lemuel  Bishop,  commanding  the  sloop  Sally. 
Bad  weather  delayed  their  sailing.  They  sailed  from  Providence 
to  Bedford,  there  provisioned  and  proceeded  to  Martha's  Vine- 
yard, and  started  on  their  cruise  on  the  1  March.  Sailed  to  the 
West  Indies  and  refitted  at  Martinique.  They  captured  a  Brit- 
ish merchantman  with  a  cargo  of  298  pipes  of  wine  and  sent  her 
into  Boston,  but  had  no  further  success.  They  were  chased  by 
the  enemy  and  got  back  to  New  Bedford  in  June. 

Thomas  Tiffany  of  Harford,  Susquehanna  County,  Pa.,  deposed 
that  he  enlisted  in  Oct.,  1775,  in  Richardson's  company,  and 
Hewes  was  in  the  same  company  when  he  joined.  Both  were  of 
Attleboro.      Sworn  to  before  Hosea  Tiffany,  Jr.,  J.  P.,  1832. 

Jacob  Read  of  Attleboro  deposed  that  he  was  at  Tiverton  with 
Hewes  in  a  company  commanded  by  Stephen  Richardson,  of  which 
Enoch  Robinson  was  lieutenant,  and  Hewes  served  one  month  in 
Oct.,  1777  in  the  secret  expedition  of  Gen.  Spenser  (at  that  time). 
Joseph  Cushman  was  also  in  the  expedition  to  Tiverton  with 
Hewes. 

Joel  Reed  of  Attleboro  was  with  Hewes  in  Caleb  Richardson's 
company  at  Roxbury,  and  Hewes  "  also  served  with  me  under 
Capt.  Jabez  Ellis  of  the  minute  men  so  called  ten  days  after  the 
Lexington  battle  and  were  stationed  at  Roxbury  in  the  year 
1775,"  and  he  also  saw  other  service  with  Hewes.  (Invalid  Pen- 
sion, 13,  359). 

Massachusetts  Revolutionary  Rolls  show  that  Daniel  Hewes  was 


348  DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES 

one  of  the  company  of  minute  men  which  marched  under  Capt. 
Jabez  Ellis  on  the  alarm  of  the  19  April,  1775,  that  he  enlisted  in 
Caleb  Richardson's  company  and  was  at  Roxbury  in  Oct., 
1775,  having  enlisted  in  May,  1775;  and  that  he  served  in  the 
company  of  S.  Richardson  under  command  of  Gen.  G.  Williams 
on  a  secret  expedition  to  Rhode  Island,  from  25  Sept.  to  30  Oct., 
1777 ;  and  that  he  enlisted  9  July,  1780  for  six  months,  aged  25 
years,  5  ft.,  8  inches  in  height,  and  of  dark  complexion,  and  was 
discharged  12  Dec,  1780,  having  served  in  Capt.  Crocker's  and 
Capt.  Flower's  companies  in  Greaton's  regiment  at  Camp  Toto- 
way  and  at  West  Point. 

IV.  40  JOHN  HEWES  of  Foxboro,  Mass.,  (Benjamin, 
Solomon,  George),  bora  in  Norton,  Mass.,  22  Oct.,  17 —  (prob- 
ably about  1750). 

He  was  probably  that  John  Hewes  who  was  a  member  of  Capt. 
S.  Fisher's  company  in  the  4th,  Wheelock's,  regiment,  which 
marched  to  Warwick,  R.  I.,  on  the  alarm  of  8  Dec,  1776,  and 
one  of  those  drafted  from  that  regiment  to  form  a  company  under 
command  of  Capt.  Lovell,  which  "  tarried  at  Providence."  Serv- 
ice credited  was  22  da}\s.  Also  in  Fisher's  company,  which  served 
in  Rhode  Island  12  days  on  the  alarm  of  21  April,  1777,  and 
again,  in  same  company,  marched  in  a  regiment  commanded  by 
Col.  Titcomb,  and  served  two  months  in  Rhode  Island  from  3  May, 
1777.  Also  served  from  25  Sept.  to  30  Oct.,  1777,  in  Capt.  S. 
Covell's  company,  Col.  Benjamin  Hawes'  regiment  (Mass.  Rev. 
Rolls). 

Children: 

105      (?)   John7  "Junior,"  to  whom  John  Hewes    (40)   deeded 
land  in  Foxboro  in  1825  (Norfolk  Deeds,  77:245). 

In  1820  John  Hewes,  Jr.,  and  Sabra,  his  wife,  Sophia, 
David  F.,  Laura  Hewes  and  Olivia  wife  of  Lewis  Shep- 
ard,  all  of  Foxboro,  sell  54  acres  in  Wrentham,  given 
them  by  their  uncle  Jeremiah  Mann  of  Wrentham,  de- 
ceased (Norfolk  Deeds,  60:101).  John  Hewes  was  a  wit- 
ness. 

1  Warren  W.  Hewes,  of  Foxboro,  machinist,  died  intestate  and  Rufus  M. 
Hewes  of  Foxboro  was  appointed  administrator  17  Oct.,  18S5.  See  also  his 
deed  to  David  N.  Hewes  of  lii*  righl  in  estate  <>f  54  acres  deeded  by  the 
Prince  heirs  to  Warren  W.  Hewes  (Norfolk  Deeds,  111:261). 


DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES  349 

106 
107 
108 
109 

IV.  41  BENJAMIN  HEWES  (Benjamin,  Solomon,  John), 
of  Richmond,  N.  H.,  and  Campton,  Canada  East,  born  in  Attle- 
boro,  Mass.,  20  Aug.,  1759 ;  died  prior  to  27  March,  1850,  when 
his  widow  Jemima  applied  for  pension  she  then  being  aged. 

He  married  in  Swanzey,  N.  H.,  10  Oct.,  1781,  Jemima  Cook 
of  Swanzey,  daughter  of  Caleb  Cook,  born  10  Oct.,  1765  (History 
of  Swanzey,  N.  H.). 

Children: 8 

110  Anna,  born  in  Swanzey,  Sept.,  1783. 

111  Sally,  born  in  Swanzey,  29  Jan.,  1785 ;  died  13  April,  1785. 

112  Patty,  born  in  Swanzey,  1786. 

113  Sally,  born  in  Swanzey,  1  Nov.,  1787. 

114  Polly,  born  in  Swanzey,  13  July,  1789. 

115  Providence,  born  in  Swanzey,  12  June,  1791. 

116  Lyman,  born  in  Swanzey,  4  Feb.,  1793. 

117  Laura,  born  in  Richmond,  7  Jan.,  1795. 
118-f  Derrick,  born  in  Richmond,  25  Sept.,  1796. 

The  family  lived  in  Richmond  in  1795  and  1796  (History  of 
Richmond). 

Benjamin  Hewes  made  application  for  pension  on  13  Oct., 
1841,  then  being  aged  82  years.  He  declared  he  was  born  in 
Attleboro,  Mass.,  and  when  quite  young  removed  to  Providence, 
R.  I.,  thence  to  Swanzey,  N.  H.,  and  thence  to  Wrentham,  Mass., 
and  there  enlisted  in  company  of  Capt.  Cushing  (in  Craft's  regi- 
ment of  artillery),  of  which  deponent  thought  Knox  was  colonel; 
served  six  months  in  Boston,  during  the  winter  of  1776-7.  (Mass. 
Rev.  Rolls  show  that  he  enlisted  in  Dec,  1776,  and  was  discharged 
8  May,  1777.  As  he  had  enlisted  for  a  year  he  hired  Elias  Guile 
as  a  substitute.) 

In  June  or  July,  1777,  he  volunteered  under  Col.  Ashley  of 
Winchester,  under  the  immediate  command  of  Lt.  Wilson,  and 
started  to  march  to  Ticonderoga.  When  in  Vermont  they  re- 
ceived word  they  were  not  wanted.  Just  before  arriving  home, 
8  From  History  of  Swanzey,  and  of  Richmond. 


350  DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES 

an  express  called  them  back  to  Ticonderoga,  but  they  were  halted 
at  Rutland  and  detained  to  guard  stores  until  the  Continental 
troops  arrived,  when  they  returned  to  Coffin's  tavern  in  Caven- 
dish, and  thence  home,  having  served  two  months. 

Some  time  in  the  forepart  of  the  following  winter  he  again 
volunteered,  and  was  of  the  guard  to  the  captured  army  of  Bur- 
goyne  at  Winter  Hill,  this  last  service  being  as  a  substitute  for 
Mr.  Everett.  In  two  weeks  a  man  took  his  place  and  he  returned 
to  Wrentham.  Also  volunteered  at  time  of  battle  of  Benning- 
ton, but  did  not  arrive  in  time  to  participate  in  the  battle.  This 
service  was  only  of  a  few  days'  duration.  After  this  he  served 
several  short  terms,  but  gave  no  particulars.  He  removed  to 
Compton  from  Swanzey,  N.  H.      (U.  S.  Pension :  Widow,  17,995.) 

IV.  42  WILLIAM  HEWES  (Benjamin,  Solomon,  George), 
born  22  March,  1761,  probably  in  Foxboro ;  married  18  Feb., 
1782,  Abigail  Woodcock,  daughter  of  Jonathan  Woodcock,  bap- 
tized 11  Feb.,  1759  (History  of  Swanzey,  N.  H.).  He  was  of 
Milton,  Vt.,  in  1832. 

Children: 9 

119  Samuel,  born  2  Aug.,  1782 ;  died  12  May,  1785. 

120  Mary,  born  1  June,  1784. 

121  Fanny,  born  1  Sept.,  1786. 

122  Thusa,  twin  with  Fanny;  died  5  Oct.,  1786. 

123  Samuel,  born  22  April,  1788. 

124  Luman,  born  11  July,  1790. 

125  Arethusa,  baptized  16  Sept.,  1792. 

126  Esther,  baptized  14  June,  1794. 

127  Benjamin,  baptized  4  Sept.,  1797. 

128  Wim.iam,  born  1800;  died  25  Oct.,  1857;  married  3  Oct., 

1825,  Axmiea   Curtis,  daughter  of  Calvin  Curtis,  born 
17  Sept.,  1803. 

IV.  44  GEORGE  HEWES  (Benjamin,  Solomon,  George), 
born  28  June,  17(55,  probably  in  Swanzey;  married  31  Jan.,  1793, 
Saeah  Wilson,  adopted  child  of*  Benjamin  Wilson.  Of  Swanzey, 
N.  H.,  in  1790,  when  the  census  ('numerates  his  family  as  consist- 
ing  of  two  males  over  sixteen,  ;unl    two   females. 

o  From   History  of  Swanzey. 


DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES  351 

Children: 

129  A  son. 

130  A  daughter. 

FIFTH    GENERATION 

V.  52  RICHARD  BROOKE  HEWES  (Shubael,  George, 
Solomon,  George),  of  Boston,  born  14  April,  1772;  died  6  Sept., 
1844. 

He  married,  first,  24  May,  1799,  in  Boston,  Mart  Bulkeley; 
married,  second,  Mrs.  Mary  Lamson  Boyer,  who  died  27  Dec, 
1879.  She  was  the  widow  of  Daniel  Boyer,  a  master-mariner,  by 
whom  she  had  one  child  who  died  in  infancy. 

Richard  Brooke  Hewes  in  early  life  was  in  the  hardware  busi- 
ness ;  later  he  held  a  position  in  the  Custom  House,  and  later  still 
was  secretary  to  the  Governor  of  Massachusetts.  When  George 
Robert  Twelve  Hewes  was  entertained  in  Boston,  he  was  the  guest 
of  his  cousin,  who,  however,  was  never  an  admirer  of  the  "  mob  " 
which  destroyed  the  tea. 

Children,  by  -first  wife: 

131+  Mary  Ann  Bulkeley,  born  April,  1800,  baptized  11  May, 
1800  (Second  Church  records)  ;  died  8  May,  1867;  mar- 
ried Robert  C.  Bacon. 

132  Joanna,    born    19    April,    1801,    baptized    17    May,    1801 

(Ibid.);  died  Aug.,  1891,  s.  p.;  married  late  in  life 
Daniel  Mudge,  of  Lynn. 

133  John  Bulkeley,  born  15  May,  1802,  baptized  7  June,  1802 

(Ibid.)  ;  died  unmarried  Oct.  1,  1862.  He  was  a  hard- 
ware merchant  in  Boston,  and  a  man  of  strong  intellect. 

134  Eleazer  Johnson,  born  27  May,  1803,  baptized  12  June, 

1803  (Ibid.)  ;  married  Eliza  Hannah  of  Boston.  He 
died  s.  p.,  8  Oct.,  1856.  Dealer  in  nautical  instruments 
in  Boston. 

135  Shubael,  born  8  Aug.,  1804 ;  died  unmarried  15  July,  1839, 

aged  34,  of  consumption  (Boston  records).  "Always  in 
delicate  health." 

V.  54  HANNAH  HEWES  (Shubael,  George,  Solomon, 
George),  born  in  Boston  19  Aug.,  1777;  died  24  March,  1849; 
married  17   Sept.,  1797,  Willl\m   Cooper  Hunneman  of  Rox- 


352  DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES 

bury,  born  10  July,  1769,  died  May,  1856,  son  of  Nicholas  and 
Elizabeth  (Cooper)  Hunneman. 

Children: 

136  William   Cooper  Hunneman,  born  22  July,   1798;  died 

27  Oct.,  1801. 

137  Samuel  Hewes  Hunneman,  born  12  Feb.,  1800 ;  died  Jan., 

1869. 

138  William   Cooper  Hunneman,  born   18  Dec,   1801 ;  died 

17  April,  1846. 

139  Elizabeth  Cooper  Hunneman,  born  22  Jan.,  1804;  died 

Nov.,  1857. 

140  Hannah  Hewes  Hunneman,  born  8  Jan.,  1807;  died  27 

or  28  Nov.,  1880;  married  William  Whitney  Seaver  of 
Roxbury. 

141  Ann  Fry  Hewes  Hunneman,  born  15  Nov.,  1808;  died 

June,  1836. 

142  Sarah  Cooper  Hunneman,  born  29  Nov.,  1810;  died  10 

Dec,  1831. 

143  Joseph  Hewes  Hunneman,  born  21  Nov.,  1812;  died  14 

Dec,  1887. 
143a  Mary   Cooper    Hunneman,    born   19   July,   1815;   died   9 

Aug.,  1898 ;  married  William  Bacon,  Jr.,  of  Roxbury. 
143b  Abigail  Hewes  Hunneman,  born  30  Sept.,  1817;  died  20 

Dec,  1836. 
143c  John  James  Hunneman,  born  5  Aug.,  1820;  died  1  July, 

1901. 

V.  55  ROBERT  HEWES  (Shubael,  George,  Solomon, 
George),  born  in  Boston,  baptized  5  March,  1780;  died  in  Ohio 
in  winter  of  1861-62.  He  removed  to  Piqua,  Ohio,  1813.  In 
I860  he  was  a  guest  of  his  nephew,  John  B.  Hewes,  in  Boston, 
at  which  time  he  was  a  contributor  to  Mendurns  Boston  Investi- 
gator, but  it  is  said  it  was  not  until  after  the  death  of  his  wife 
that  he  adopted  the  extreme  views  he  held  in  the  later  years  of 
his  life.  He  was  an  intellectual  man  and  a  good  speaker.  He 
was  a  hardware  merchant. 

Child  : 

1  [  !■     Joseph,  who  married,  and  had  four  children,  one  <>f  whom, 
Joseph,  visited  Boston  in  1860. 


DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES  353 

V.  60  DANIEL  HEWES  (Solomon,  George,  Solomon, 
George)  of  Boston,  born  7  Feb.,  1776.  He  is  said  to  have  been 
four  times  married.1  He  married  second,  24  Oct.,  1799,  Eunice 
Gardner  (New  South  Church  records).  In  1807,  he,  describing 
himself  as  of  Boston,  merchant,  mortgaged  land  in  Lunenburg. 
His  wife,  Eunice,  released  dower  (Wore.  Deeds,  166:269).  In 
1822  moved  to  Louisville,  Ky. 

Children;  as  given  in  letter  of  Mrs.  Cotton: 

145  Joseph  Fielder,  born  26  July,  1800. 

146  Sarah  Tilden,  born  10  Oct.,  baptized  18  Oct.,  1801  (New 

South  records). 

147  Elizabeth   Hunt,   born   8   Oct.,   baptized   30   Oct.,   1803 

(Ibid.). 

148  Rebecca  Adamson,  born  19  Sept.,  1805. 

149+  Daniel,  bora  24  Aug.,  baptized  6  Sept.,  1807  (Ibid.)  ;  mar- 
ried 2  July,  1832,  Mary  Ann  Spence. 

150  John  Hunt,  born  5  July,  baptized  16  July,  1809  (Ibid.). 

151  Henry  Gardner,  born  2  Feb.,  1812;  died  27  Feb.,  1814 

(Boston  records). 

152  Harriet,  born  24  Sept.,  1814. 

V.  66  SOLOMON  HEWES  (George  R.  T.,  George,  Sol- 
omon, George),  born  in  Boston,  1  May,  1771 ;  died  there  30  June, 
1835;  married  in  Franklin,  Mass.,  14  Oct.,  1794,  Sarah  Ham- 
mond of  Wrentham,  bora  in  Needham,  12  March,  1774 ;  died  in 
Augusta,  Me.,  6  Oct.,  1834  (Family  records).  Boston  records 
give  Solomon's  death  as  29  June,  1834,  aged  66,  from  disease  of 
the  heart. 

As  a  child  of  eight  years,  Solomon  Hewes  stood  on  Copp's  Hill 
and  gazed  at  the  burning  of  Charlestown,  June  17,  1775. 
Twenty  years  later  he  was  farming  in  Franklin,  where,  in  the 
eastern  portion  he  owned  a  small  farm.  In  1805  he  sold  his  farm 
of  28  acres  in  Franklin  and  removed  with  his  family  to  Union, 
Me.  (Norfolk  Deeds  23:28.)  He  was  a  cordwainer. 
Children,  from  family  records: 

153  Virgil,  born  10  Aug.,  1796 ;  (born  21  Aug.,  1795,  Franklin 

records)  ;  died  April,  1797. 
i  Daniel   Hewes,   Jr.,   and   Sukey   Greenwood  were   married   in   Boston,   25 
June,  1797. 


S64  DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES 

154+  Virgil  Hammond,  born  14  June,  1798. 
155     Sukey  Sumner,  born  21  Feb.,  1801. 

156+  John  Milton,  born  in  Franklin  5  Jul}*,  1803;  died  in  Rox- 
bury  17  Nov.,  1883. 

157  James  Hervey,  born  11  Aug.,  1805;  died  Oct.,  1816. 

158  Henry  Martin,  born  11  Dec,  1811;  died  27  April,  1848. 

A  printer  in  Boston. 

159  Jabez  Fisher,  born  14  June,  1814;  died  at  Medford,  s.  p. 

He  married  Susan  Andrews.  He  was  the  well-known 
baker  in  the  North  End  of  Boston.  After  settling  in 
Medford  he  took  a  prominent  part  in  affairs  there.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Common  Council  1864,  1865.  He 
was  also  a  prominent  Mason  and  Odd  Fellow. 

V.  67  ELIZABETH  HEWES  (George  R.  T.,  George,  Solo- 
mon, George),  born  in  Boston,  Mass.,  3  Feb.,  1773;  died  in  Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio,  23  July,  1837 ;  married  19  March,  1795  (by  Rev. 
John  Wilder  at  Attleboro)  Preserved  Whipple  Jr.,  born  27 
March,  1770,  son  of  Preserved  and  Olive  (Ballou)  Whipple  of 
Cumberland,  R.  I. 

Children  : 

159a  Elizabeth,  born  31  Aug.,  1795;  married  David  Stophlet. 

159b  Sumner,  born  30  July,  1797;  died  1830;  married  Harriet 
Webber. 

159c  Sarah  Hewes,  born  6  Dec,  1801 ;  died  29  Oct.,  1832;  mar- 
ried Horace  Wells  of  Cincinnati. 

159d  Mary,  born  2  Feb.,  1800;  died  10  June,  1826;  married 
Frederick  Sanxay. 

159e  Francis  J.,  born  26  Jan.,  1804;  died  at  New  Orleans,  11 
Jan.,  1847. 

159f  Olive  Ballou,  born  21  July,  1806;  died  25  Dec,  1839. 

159g  George  M.,  born  4  Dec,  1810;  died  31  Dec,  1867. 

159h  Julia,  died  1889. 

159i    Emily,  born  8  Dec,  1817 ;  died  3  Oct.,  1819. 

159j  Amelia,  twin  with  Emily;  died  8  Aug.,  1818. 

Preserved  Whipple,  Jr.,  and  his  wife  resided  first  at  Cumber- 
land, their  bouse  being  located  on  the  line  dividing  Cumberland 
and   Attleboro.      They   removed   to   Richmond,    N.    II.,   and    later 


DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES  355 

for  a  number  of  years  resided  in  New  York  state,  first  at  Rich- 
field Springs  and  then  at  Genesee.  They  finally  removed  to  Cin- 
cinnati where  Elizabeth  Hewes  Whipple  died  in  1837.  Her  hus- 
band's death  is  not  recorded,  although  it  is  believed  to  have  oc- 
curred about  the  year  1840  when  he  left  Cincinnati  to  visit  his 
married  daughter  but  failed  to  arrive  there,  and  was  not  heard 
of  afterwards,  it  being  supposed  that  he  met  with  foul  play.  Mr. 
Horace  Wells  Sellers  of  Philadelphia  is  a  descendant. 

V.  70  SHUBAEL  S.  HEWES  {George  R.  T.,  George,  Sol- 
omon, George),  born  12  March,  1781;  died  27  June,  1850;  mar- 
ried 7  July,  1805,  Mary  Bowdish.  This  family  removed  to  the 
State  of  New  York. 

Children,  family  records  of  J  as.  M.  Hewes: 

160  Mary  Eliza,  born  24  April,  1806;  died  19  March,  1889; 

married  [ ]  Sandborn.  Children:  Calista  Sand- 
born,    married    John    Brown    and    had    Emilius    Brown 

and   Mary   Brown ;  Eliza   Sandborn,   married    [ ] 

Eddy;  Abija  Sandborn,  married  Juliett  Jewell  and  had 
Alice  Jewell,  Arthur  Jewell  and  Sadie  Jewell ;  Volney 
Sandborn  and  Jane  Sandborn,  unmarried. 

161  Olive  Maria,  born  23  May,  1808 ;  died  12  Jan.,  1888 ;  mar- 

ried Hiram  McDonald.  Children:  Ann  McDonald,  un- 
married; Maria  McDonald,  married  John  Scott  and  had 
Frank  Scott,  Cecil  Scott,  Stella  Scott ;  Louisa  McDonald, 
married  Horace  Parks,  and  had  Donald  Parks,  Anna 
Parks;  Columbus  McDonald,  married  and  had  Olive  Mc- 
Donald, Martha  McDonald,  and  Benjamin  McDonald. 

162  Caroline  Sumner,  born  17  Sept.,  1810;  died  in  infancy. 

163  Caroline,  born  9  March,  1812;  died  24  Sept.,  1888;  mar- 

ried John  C.  Rowlee.  Children:  Shubael  Rowlee,  who 
married  Emily  Listin,  and  had  John  Rowlee,  Jane  Row- 
lee, Carrie  Rowlee,  and  Anna  Rowlee ;  Virgil  Rowlee,  who 
married  Julia  Coe  and  had  Earnest  Rowlee  and  Earl 
Rowlee. 

164+  Shubael  Emelius,  born  31  July,  1814;  died  11  Nov.,  1898. 

165+  George  Robert,  born  22  Nov.,  1816. 

166  Louisa  Jane,  born  23  Aug.,  1819;  died  5  March,  1901; 
married  Daniel  Van  Buren.     Children:  Mary  E.  Van 


356  DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES 

Buren,  born  8  Feb.,  1842,  died  1  Jan.,  1856 ;  Louisa  E. 
Van  Buren,  born  28  Feb.,  1841,  married  Edmund  Os- 
bom,  and  had  Mabel  E.  Osborn,  born  26  July,  1873, 
and  Helen  G.  Osborn,  born  21  Sept.,  1876 ;  Martha  Ger- 
trude Van  Buren,  born  18  April,  1819,  married  Wm.  J. 
Pentelow  of  Corona,  Cal.  (president  of  the  Board  of 
Trade)  ;  Helen  Cornelia  Van  Buren,  born  1  Dec,  1851, 
died  1  Jan.,  1852. 

167  Charlotte  Celestia,  born  28  Nov.,  1823;  died  7  April, 

1896;  married  Thomas  Judson.  Children:  Solon  Jud- 
son ;  Lizzie  Judson,  who  married  C  Franklin  Foster  and 
had  Judson  Foster,  Georgetta  Foster,  Charlotte  Foster ; 
Mary  Judson  who  married  Frank  A.  Darrow  and  had 
Ernest  Darrow. 

168  Martha  Ann  Abigail,  born  28  July,  1827;  died  28  May, 

1886;  married  Frank  Gould.  Children:  Anna  Gould, 
who  married  George  Porter;  Carrie  Gould  who  married 
James  Overacker ;  Frank  Gould,  who  married  Minnie 
Wolff. 

V.  71  ROBERT  (George  R.  T.,  George,  Solomon,  George) 
born  in  Wrentham,  Mass.,  25  Jan.,  1784;  died  13  March,  1864; 
married  20  Jan.,  1811,  Ann  Hawkes,  daughter  of  Daniel  Hawkes 
of  Richfield  Springs,  N.  Y.,  born  7  Nov.,  1785,  died  24  July,  1850. 

Children: 

169  Warren,  born  26  Feb.,  1813;  died  19  June,  1842. 

170+  Robert  Perham,  born  10  Jan.,  1815 ;  died  in  autumn  of 
1894. 

171  Rhoda  Ann,  born  16  Dec,  1816;  died  25  Oct.,  1872;  mar- 
ried 4  July,  1837,  James  M.  Hunt,  died  27  Oct.,  1883. 
Children:  J.  Franklin  Hunt,  born  12  May,  1838;  An- 
toinette Hunt,  born  13  May,  1841,  married  23  Feb., 
1876,  John  H.  Prendergast  and  had  James  Haborn 
Prendergast,  born  2  Jan.,  1878. 

172+  David  Hawks,2  born  15  Nov.,  1819. 

V.     75     ELEVEN  HUGHES  (George  Robert  Twelve,  George, 
Solomon,  George),  of  Charlestown,  Clark  Co.,  Ind.,  born  1796; 
-  N'amcd   for  his  ^randfallicr  David   Hawks. 


DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES     357 

died  about  1877;  married  Barbara  McNay  in  Hamson  County, 
Ky.,  1818.  Pie  served  in  Capt.  Boswell's  Kentucky  militia  and 
made  application  for  pension  14  April,  1871.  He  was  then  aged 
76  years.  According  to  his  declaration  he  served  under  Gen. 
Clay,  enlisting  at  Cynthiana,  Ky.,  29  March,  1813.  He  was 
taken  prisoner  5  May,  1813,  at  "  Dudley's  Defeat."  After  being 
detained  a  prisoner  five  or  six  days,  he  was  returned  to  the  block 
house  and  suffered  to  go  home.  He  was  paid  for  six  months' 
service,  being  discharged  28  Sept.,  1813.  In  Jan.,  1880,  the 
pension  had  not  been  claimed  for  three  years  (Pension  file  6816). 

V.     79     GEORGE  ROBERT  TWELVE  FIFTEEN  HEWES 

{George,  R.  T.,  George,  Solomon,  George),  born  28  May,  1791; 

died  [ ],  1878;  married  24  April,  1814,  Saybrook,  Conn., 

Mary  Watrus,  born  9  July,  1795 ;  died  13  Sept.,  1889. 
Children  : 

173  Sally. 

174  George  C.  C. 

175  Charles  J. 

176  Lydia  M. 

177  Samuel. 

178  Sumner  J. 

179+  James  M.,  born  1838,  of  Hastings,  Mich.,  1894,  who  sup- 
plied this  record. 

180  Henry  W. 

181  Albert  P. 

182  Mary  A. 

183  Martha  C. 

184  Lucy  J. 

George  R.  T.  F.  Hewes  accompanied  his  father  to  Boston  at 
the  time  of  the  Tea  Party  celebration  in  1836.  In  1874  he  made 
application  for  a  pension  for  service  during  the  War  of  1812. 
He  was  then  of  Springport,  Mich.,  aged  83  years.  In  his  dec- 
laration he  states  he  married  Martha  Watrous  at  Saybrook,  Conn., 
24  April,  1814,  and  that  she  was  then  living.  He  served  sixty 
days  in  a  company  commanded  by  Capt.  Clark,  Col.  Belling's 
regiment,  called  out  to  garrison  Ft.  Saybrook  in  the  summer  of 
1813,  and  was  discharged  at  the  close  of  the  war  in  1815.  He 
was  enrolled  as  a  minute  man  and  drafted  for  guard  duty  four 
times   at  Ft.   Saybrook,  twenty  days   each  time,  and  was  called 


358  DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES 

out  frequently  on  alarms.  He  was  in  the  skirmish  at  burning  of 
shipping  at  Pettypogne.  He  Avas  a  resident  of  Saybrook  and 
received  no  compensation.  Application  dated  2  June  was  re- 
jected 20  June,  1874. 

V.  94.  IRA  (Daniel,  Daniel,  Solomon,  George),  of  Spring- 
field, N.  Y.,  born  1  Jan.,  1782. 

Children: 

185  Ralph,  born  1  Nov.,  1806.3 

186  Charles,  born  7  May,  1808. 

187  Ira,  born  29  April,  i810.     His  son,  F.  W.  Hewes  of  East 

Orange,  N.  J.  (310  Dodd  St.),  was  born  in  1828  and 
after  he  was  sixteen  years  of  age  lived  in  Michigan  un- 
til 1887,  when  he  went  to  New  York.  He  was  connected 
with  the  publishing  business  and  with  the  S.  S.  Mc- 
Clure  Co. 

V.  99  DANIEL  H.  HEWES4  {Daniel,  Daniel,  Solomon, 
George),  born  1  Sept.,  1788;  died  in  Springfield,  N.  Y.,  married 
Sept.,  1810,  Martha  Main,  who  died  in  Springfield,  N.  Y.,  4 
Oct.,  1844. 

Children: 

188  David  Alvaro,  born  24  Dec,  1810. 

189  Hiram,  born  6  July,  1812. 

190  Levant,  born  27  June,  1814. 

191  Joseph  Albert,  born  13  March,  1816. 
192+  Asa  M.,  born  14  May,  1818. 

193  Clarinda,  born  25  April,  1820 ;  married,  first,   [ ] 

Humphrey  ;  married   second,    [ ]    Boaudman. 

194  Horace,  born  17  Sept.,  1822. 

195  Squire  D.,  bom  26  Sept.,  1824:  in  1896  lived  at  Spring- 

field Center,  N.  Y. ;  married  Sarah  A.  Ten  Evck,  born 
in    Warren,    10    Aug.,    1829,   daughter   of   William   and 

s  Of  this  family  are  Mrs.  Fanny  Hewes  Rnsbach  of  Herkimer,  N.  Y., 
and  Mrs.  Dan  (Hewes)  Hardy,  of  East  Springfield,  N.  Y.,  in  1900.  Dorr 
Hewes  removed  from  Springfield.  X.  Y.,  to  15  Custiss  St.,  Gloversville,  N.  Y., 
in   1900. 

■I  Daniel  Hewes  of  (?  Springfield)  N.  v..  lefl  a  will  dated  ?.i  Feb.,  1876. 
Robert  Hewes  Of  Springfield,  X.  Y.,  is  <»n  Deeds  index,  1810,  and  Candus 
Hewes  died  intestate  18G9.     (Otsego  Co.,  N.  Y.,  records.) 


DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES  359 

Sally    (Thayer)    Ten  Eyck.     Children:  Ann  R.,  born  2 
May,  1854;  Squire  Don,  born  1  July,  1857. 

196  Martha    M.,    born    6    Sept.,    1826;    married    [ ] 

Snyder. 

197  Andrew  Jackson,  born  2  Sept.,  1828. 

198  Marietta,  born  30  Nov.,  1830;  married  [ ]  Harris. 

199  Bernice,  born  30  Jan.,  1833  ;  married  [ ]  Hardy. 

200  Eunice,  born  12  Oct.,  1835. 

V.  118  DERRICK  HEWES  (Benjamin,  Benjamin,  Solo- 
mon,  George),  born  in  Richmond,  N.  H.,  25  Sept.,  1796;  mar- 
ried 30  Jan.,  1820,  Jemima  Mann,  daughter  of  Gideon  Mann, 
Jr.,  they  removed  from  Richmond  in  1838  (History  of  Rich- 
mond). 

Children: 5 

201  George  O. 

202  John  0.,  born  30  April,  1830. 

V.  123  SAMUEL  HEWES  (William,  Benjamin,  Solomon, 
George),  born  22  April,  1788,  in  Swanzey,  N.  H. ;  married  sec- 
ond, Sarah  Norwood. 

Children:6 

203  Celia,  married  Calvin  Curtis. 
204-     Matilda,  born   13  April,  1821. 

205  Sarah  Sophia,  born  16  Aug.,  1822. 

206  Lorenzo  Norwood,  born  13  April,  1827. 

207  Medora,  born  11  May,  1839. 

SIXTH    GENERATION 

VI.  131  MARY  ANN  BULKELEY  HEWES  (Richard  B., 
Shubael,  George,  Solomon,  George),  born  in  Boston  April,  1800; 
died  8  May,  1867 ;  married  1837,  Robert  C.  Bacon. 

Child: 

208-f  Adelaide   Joanna  Bacon,   born   25   Jan.,   1838;  married 
George  Darius  Sargent. 

s  From  History  of  Richmond. 
6  From  History  of  Swanzey. 


360  DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES 

VI.  149  DANIEL  HEWES  (Daniel,  Solomon,  George,  Sol- 
omon, George),  born  24  Aug.,  1807;  married  2  July,  1832,  Mary 
Ann   Spexce. 

Ch  ildren : 

209  Harriet,  born  [ ],  1839;  died  s.  p.,  unmarried. 

210  William  Kexdrick,  born  4  June,  1841 ;  died  s.  p.  unmar- 

ried. 

211  Hexry    Evaxs,    married    14    Sept.,    1882,    Margaret    W. 

Geiger.     No  children. 
212+  Edward  Sturgeox. 

213  Daxiel,  born  21  May,  1848 :  died  s.  p.,  unmarried. 

214  Fannie  E.,  born   1  April.  1851;  married  20  Sept.,  18T6, 

George  Campbell  McMichael.  Children:  Henry  E. 
MeMichael,  born  11  Oct.,  1877;  Eunice  G.  McMichael, 
born  13  Jan.,  1879.  Mary  H.  McMichael,  born  13 
Sept.,  1881.  George  R.  McMichael,  born  29  Feb.,  1884. 
Gretchen  McMichael,  born  28  Aug.,  1887. 

VI.  154  VIRGIL  HAMMOND  HEWES  (Solomon,  George 
R.  T.,  George,  Solomon,  George),  born  in  Franklin,  Mass.,  14 
June,  1798;  died  at  Hyde  Park,  Mass.,  14  April,  1876,  buried  at 
Augusta,  Me. ;  married  Aug.,  1823,  Thankful  Hardixg  of 
Weelfleet,  Mass.,  born  1805;  died  [ ],  1836,  of  consump- 
tion.    Married,    second,    at    Gardiner,    Me.,    June,    1839,    Eliza 

McLaxe,  widow,  born  in  Plymouth,  [ ]  ;  died  in  Sullivan, 

N.  H.,  14  March,  1879. 

Virgil  Hewes  lost  the  use  of  a  leg  by  exposure  in  the  water 
when  ten  years  old,  and  in  1832  had  the  useless  limb  amputated. 
In  1815  he  began  learning  the  tailors'  trade  in  Boston,  and  in 
1819  went  to  Alabama,  setting  up  business  in  Catawba,  but  re- 
turned to  New  England  in  1823,  and  in  the  September  following 
his  marriage  established  himself  at  Waldoboro,  Me.  In  1828  he 
removed  to  Augusta  and  at  different  times  was  a  partner  of  Wil- 
liam Hunt  and  William  H.  Chisam.  In  1841  he  again  removed 
to  Boston,  and  in  1854  settled  in  Cambridge. 

(  h  ildren:  * 

215  Viiuur.    MlLTON,    born    July,    1823;    died    in    California    6 

.March,  1861  :  married  Amur.  1 1  ask  ELL  of  Waldoboro.  Mr. 
*  There  were  also  two  children  who  died  in  Infancy. 


DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES  361 

216  Mary  Thompson,   born  Waldoboro,  Me.,  29  Dec,   1825; 

died  in  Newton,  17  Dec.,  1901. 

217  Harriet  Allen,  born  at  Waldoboro,  27  Dec.,  1827 ;  died  at 

Newton,  16  March,  1909;  married  6  Feb.,  1851,  Samuel 
Foster  Damon,  who  died  24  April,  1872,  aged  44  years 
2  months.* 

218  Nathaniel  Harding,  born  at  Augusta,  Me.,  died  at  sea. 

219  Henry  Clay,  born  in  Augusta,  Me.;  died  in  Boston. 

By  second  wife: 

220  George  Robert,  born  in  Augusta,  1840;  died  1841,  aged  6 

months. 

221  Isabella,  born  August,  1842;  died  22  Apr.,  1847,  aged  4 

years,  9  months,  of  scarlet  fever  (Boston  records). 
222+  Horace  Greeley,  born  in  Boston,  17  Nov.,  1849. 

VI.  156  JOHN  MILTON  HEWES  {Solomon,  George  R. 
T.,  George  Solomon,  George),  born  Franklin,  Mass.,  5  July,  1803 ; 
died  Roxbury,  17  Nov.,  1883;  married  18  Feb.,  1827,  Susan  Ann 
Shedd,  daughter  of  Samuel  A.  and  Lucretia  (Wheeler)  Shedd, 
born  15  Oct.,  1804,  died  Roxbury  27  Oct.,  1883.  He  was  a 
printer  in  Cornhill,  Boston. 

Children;  born  in  Boston  or  Roxbury: 

223  Milton  Folsom,  born  18  Nov.,  1827,  of  Roxbury,  who  fur- 

nishes  this   family   record. 

224  Lucretia  Wheeler,   born    21    Oct.,   1829;   died    ; 

married  15  Oct.,  1855,  Horace  Wentworth  of  Newton, 
from  whom  she  secured  divorce.  Children:  Edward  S. 
Wentworth,  born  4  Nov.,  1856;  Lydia  Gillespie  Went- 
worth, bom  17  Oct.,  1858;  Edith  Hammond  Wentworth, 
born  15  Dec,  1862;  Alice  Wentworth,  born  8  Nov.,  1866. 

225  Sarah  Hammond,  born  11  Feb.,  1882 ;  married  6  Oct.,  1850, 

William  Augustus  Hosmer.  Children:  Sophronia  H. 
Hosmer,  born  12  March,  1852;  Harriet  Beecher  Hosmer, 
d.  y. 

226  William  Wirt,  born  20  Aug.,  1834;  died  10  Oct.,  1834. 

227  Susan  Maria,  born  26  Nov.,  1835;  married,  Roxbury,  29 

Oct.,    1863,    George    Edward    Richardson.     Children: 

*Thev  had,  besides  two  children  who  died  early:  James  E.,  died  14  June, 
1872,  aet.  -20.  Mary  Louise,  died  4  Feb.,  1910,  aet.  46.  Annie  H.,  died  15 
Sept.,  1910,  aet.  59.'  Joseph  N.  of  Boston. 


362  DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES 

Alice  Gregg  Richardson,  born  18  Sept.,  1865;  Edward 
Gray  Richardson,  born  7  Feb.,  1871. 

228  Mary  Gillespie,  born  4  April,  1838;  married  Roxbury  3 

Nov.,  1864,  Ira  Allen  Nay.  Children:  Frank  W.  Nay, 
born  30  Apr.,  1866 ;  George  M.  Nay,  born  24  Feb.,  1868  ; 
Ira  Allen  Nay,  born  1  March,  1873. 

229  Thomas   Ford   Caldicott,   born   22   Oct.,    1840;   died   11 

Nov.,  1840,  buried  in  Boston. 

230  Charlotte  Lawrence,  born  10  Oct.,  1841 ;  died  22  April, 

1842. 

231  Ermina,  born  10  June,  died  12  July,  1843. 

232  Clara  Lawrence,   born   8  Dec,    1844;   married   24   Dec, 

1872,  John  Calvin  Cook.  Child:  Sherwin  L.  Cook, 
born  30  April,  1874. 

VI.  158  HENRY  MARTIN  HEWES  (Solomon,  George  R. 
T.,  George,  Solomon,  George),  born  Union,  Me.,  11  Dec,  1811; 
died  27  April,  1848,  buried  in  Wiscasset  (Boston  records)  ;  mar- 
ried 20  May,  1834,  Sarah  Damon,  born  Wiscasset,  Me.,  18  Nov., 
1812,  died  at  Reading,  Mass.,  17  Feb.,  1896.  He  was  a  printer 
in  Boston.  Administration  on  his  estate  was  granted  to  the  widow 
12  June,  1848  (Suffolk  probate  220:266). 

Children: 

233  Sarah  Hammond,  born  Wiscasset,  Me.,  23  Jan.,  1835 ;  died 

Boston,  11  March,  1859. 

234  Joshua  Damon,  born  Richmond,  Va.,  30  Jan.,  1840;  died 

Jersey  City,  31  Aug.,  1878;  married  9  Nov.,  1870, 
Jennie  Chichester.  Children:  Augustus  Lynch,  born 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y. ;  Harrison  Damon,  born  Brooklyn  ;  Jennie 
Damon,  born  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

235  Henry  Martin,  born  Wiscasset,  Me.,  3  June,  1843;  mar- 

ried 26  July,  1881,  Alice  B.  Temple,  bom  Reading,  died 
at  Medford,  2  May,  1888.  Children:  Henry  Martin, 
born  Medford,  9  Oct.,  1882;  died  7  April,  188*4;  George 
Robert,  born  Medford,  26  Dec,  1883;  died  August  5, 
1884. 

VI.  172  DAVID  HAWKES  HEWES  (Robert,  George  R. 
T.,  George,  Solomon,  George),  born  probably  in  Richfield  Springs, 


DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES  363 

N.   Y.,   15   Nov.,   1819;   died    ;  married   30  Jan.,   1845, 

Abbie  Irwin,  daughter  of  Jared  and  Lillias  Prendergast  Irwin, 
born  in  Mayfield,  N.  Y.,  3  Nov.,  1821,  died  4  July,  1898,  at 
Chautauqua,  after  an  illness  of  five  years.  She  was  born  where  the 
Chautauqua  Assembly  grounds  are  now  situated. 

David  H.  Hewes  has  an  oil  portrait  of  George  R.  T.  Hewes, 
painted  on  a  board  2  feet,  6  inches  by  2  feet,  1  inch,  by  Charles 
K.  Palmer,  at  Richfield  Springs  in  Jan.,  1836.  He  also  has  the 
cuff  buttons  presented  to  him  by  the  ladies  of  Boston  in  1836. 

Children: 

236  Jared,  born  23  July,  1818 ;  of  Harmony,  N.  Y.,  in  1898 ; 

married  27  Dec,  1871,  Lorilla  Wier.  Children:  Clara 
A.,  born  23  April,  1873,  of  Stedman,  N.  Y. ;  Walter  AY., 
born  23  Sept.,  1875,  of  Stedman,  N.  Y. 

237  Robert,    born    13   March,    1850;    married    2    June,    1875, 

Emily  Cornell  of  Mayville  in  1898. 

238  Ann,  born  23  Oct.,  1852;  married  16  Dec,  1874,  Dwight 

E.  Morris  of  Mayville  in  1898. 

239  George,  born  19  Sept.,  1854 ;  married  22  Nov.,  1888,  Ella 

H.  Stanley. 

VI.     179     JAMES  M.  HEWES   (G.  R.  T.  Fifteen,  George 

R.  T.,  George,  Solomon,  George),  born    1838.     He  was 

living  in  Hastings,  Mich.,  in  1894.  He  married  19  Mar.,  1850, 
Harriet  A.  Fancher,  born  1831,  a  granddaughter  of  Sally,  a 
daughter  of  George  R.  T.  Hewes. 

Children : 

240  Martha. 

241  George. 

242  Daughter,    "  who   married    and   has   two    children,   Harry, 

aged   12,  and  Margaret,  3  or  4  months"    (from  letter 
probably    written    in    1897). 

VI.  164  SHUBAEL  EMILIUS  HEWES  (Shubael,  George 
R.  T.,  George,  Solomon,  George),  born  31  July,  1814;  died  11 
Nov.,  1898  ;  married  Henrietta  White. 

Children  : 

243  Lella.  Belle. 


364  DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES 

244  Fremont. 

VI.  165  GEORGE  ROBERT  HEWES  (Shubael,  George 
R.  T.,  George,  Solomon,  George),  born  22  Nov.,  1816;  married 
Ann  Peacock. 

Child: 

245  Raphael,  died  1873. 

VI.  170  ROBERT  PERHAM  HEWES  {Robert,  George  R. 
T.,  George,  Solomon,  George),  born  in  Richfield  Springs,  N.  Y., 
10  Jan.,  1815;  died  in  1894;  married  March,  1841,  Olive  H. 
Porter  of  Chautauqua,  N.  Y. 

Children: 

246  Mary  J.  P.,  born  1843. 

247  Cassius  M.  G.,  born  1846. 

248  John  W.,  born  1849 ;  married  1891  Jessie  Decker,  who  died 

1893.  He  married,  second,  Lulu  Wellman  in  1895,  and 
and  has  one  child,  Robert  Wellman. 

249  Franklin  F.,  born  1851. 

250  R.   V.   Adelbert,  born   1852;  married,   1896,  Manuletta 

Marsh  and  has  one  child,  Clara. 

251  T.  Sidney,  born  1854. 

252  Edward  B.,  born  1858;  married  Fluvilla  Belle  Tucker. 

Children:  George,  Mary,  Edward,  Raymond. 

253  Minnie  T.,  born  1864. 

VI.  192  ASA  MAIN  HEWES  {Daniel  H.,  Daniel,  Daniel, 
Solomon,  George),  born  14  May,  1818;  died  7  June,  1892,  in 
Warren,  N.  Y. ;  married  19  Jan.,  1839,  Louisa  Duell,  of  Hugue- 
not descent,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Phoebe  (Potter)  Duell,  born 
31  May,  1820;  died  March,  1909,  at  Richfield  Spa,  N.  Y.  They 
settled  in  Michigan,  but  later  removed  to  Herkimer  County,  N.  Y., 
where  they  purchased  a  farm. 

Children,  born  in  Michigan  : 

254  Charlks,   born   28  April,   1842;  married   17   Sept.,  1862, 

Frances  Pierce,  a  descendant  of  Capt.  Pierce,  who  com- 
manded a  company  of  New  Hampshire  troops  at  the  bat- 
tle of  Saratoga,  and  daughter  of  Schuyler  and  Sarah  J. 


DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES  365 

(Prior)  Pierce.  Mr.  Hewes  is  a  molder,  and  now  lives  in 
Schenectady,  N.  Y.  He  served  two  years  in  the  Union 
army.  Children:  Martha  Genevieve,  born  28  Aug., 
1864;  married  5  June,  1889,  Arthur  T.  Sheldon.  Lily 
Birney,  born  17  March,  1868;  married  28  Dec,  1885, 
Orlando  E.  Burt;  married  second  10  June,  1912,  Harvey 
Rankin  of  Herkimer,  N.  Y.  Myra  Pierce,  born  23  Oct., 
1872;  married  30  Oct.,  1893,  James  McChesney  of 
Schenectady.  Fannie  Phila,  born  17  Sept.,  1874;  died 
10  Dec,  1879.  Frank  Sidney,  bora  4  Aug.,  1879;  died 
Nov.,  1911. 

255  Rosetta,    born    18   Feb.,    1844;    married    Newborn    Arm- 

strong of  Warren,  N.  Y.,  a  farmer  and  veteran  of  the 
Civil  War. 

Children: 

Clarence  Armstrong. 
Albert  Armstrong. 
Harris  Armstrong. 
Clifford  Armstrong. 
Frank  Armstrong. 

256  Phylinda,  born  22  Aug.,  1852;  married  Vining  Harris  of 

Springfield,  N.  Y.       Child:  Victor  Harris. 

257  Nora,   born    16   July,    1857 ;   married   Frank    Snyder   of 

Springfield,  N.  Y. 

Children : 

Zela  Snyder. 
Mabel  Snyder. 

258  Igene,   born    23   Jan.,    I860;    married   Perry   Kelley   of 

Springfield  Centre,  N.  Y. 

Children  : 

John  Kelley,  deceased. 
Charles  Kelley. 
Harry  Kelley. 
Abbie  Kelley. 
Etta  Kelley. 
Gladys  Kelley. 
Ruth  Kelley. 


366  DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES 

258a  Ralph,  born  9  Oct.,  1862;  married  Eva  Lawyer.  Child: 
Silas.     They  live  at  Richfield  Spa,  N.  Y. 

VI.  206  LORENZO  NORWOOD  HEWES  (Samuel,  Wil- 
liam, Benjamin,  Solomon,  George),  born  13  April,  1827;  married 
19  Nov.,  1849,  Phebe  S.  Richardson,  daughter  of  Wyman  Rich- 
ardson, born  19  April,  1826. 

Children:  1 

260     Janette  L.,  born  11  Dec,  1850. 
261+  Franklin  N.,  born  30  July,  1852. 

262  Flora,  twin  with  Franklin;  married  9  Jan.,  1872,  George 

D.  Hutchins  and  lives  in  Northfield,  Mass. 

263  Lilla  E.,  born  18  April,  1855 ;  died  17  Feb.,  1857. 

26-i  Frederick  H.,  born  7  June,  1857.  Lived  in  Brooklyn,  N. 
Y.,  and  Swanzey,  N.  H.,  where  he  died  21  June,  1910,  of 
pernicious  anemia.  He  was  a  machinist  and  toolmaker. 
A  widow  and  son,  Lorenzo  C.  Hewes,  survived  him. 

265+  Walter  R.,  born  3  Feb.,  1859. 

266  Charles  O.,  born  17  March,  1870. 

SEVENTH  GENERATION 

VII.  208  ADELAIDE  JOANNA  BACON  (Mary  A.  B., 
Richard  B.,  Shubael,  George,  Solomon,  George),  of  Boston;  born 
25  Jan.,  1838;  married  12  Dec,  1855,  George  Darius  Sargent 
of  Boston,  who  was  born  at  South  Hampton,  N.  H.,  June,  1832, 
son  of  Tappan  and  Maria  (Eaton)  Sargent  of  North  Hampton, 
and  died  2  March,  1890,  in  Boston. 

Children: 

267  Arthur  Hewes  Sargent,  born  26  Dec,  1856,  of  Boston 

and  Hamilton ;  married  6  June,  1888,  Emilie  H.  White, 
daughter  of  Ralph  Huntington  and  Ellen  (Tucker) 
White.  Children:  Edith  Adelaide  Sargent,  born  15 
.May,  1889;  Arthur  Hewes  Sargent,  born  1  Aug.,  1890; 
Joanna  Sargent,  born  26  Sept.,  1892;  died  18  Jan.,  1896; 
Emilie  Sargent,  horn  :2!)  Now,  1896;  Margaret  Sargent, 
horn  21  Dec,  1899. 
i  From   History  of  Su.mzry,   \.  H. 


DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES  367 

268  Mary  Adelaide  Sargent,  born  15  July,  1863;  married  7 

Nov.,  1883,  Clarence  Henry  Poor  of  Boston,  treas- 
urer of  Standard  Brazing  Co.,  and  broker  in  real  estate, 
son  of  Chas.  G.  and  Harriet  (Collins)  Poor.  Children: 
Clarence  Henry  Poor,  born  11  Oct.,  1881;  Virginia  Sar- 
gent Poor,  born  1  Feb.,  1889;  Adelaide  Sargent  Poor, 
born  Mar.  8,  1897;  Mary  Bulkeley  Poor,  born  13  Nov., 
1898. 

269  George  Wixthrop  Sargent,  born  5  July,  1866;  married 

Jan.  14,  1901,  Anna  Henrietta  Scheither,  daughter 
of  Louis  Scheither,  of  N.  Y.  He  is  rector  of  St.  Paul's 
in  Natick,  Mass.  Children:  Adelaide  Joanna  Sargent, 
born  19  Oct.,  1901;  Mary  Winthrop  Sargent,  born  18 
Dec,  1903 ;  Virginia  Anna  Sargent,  born  28  Feb.,  1908. 

VII.  212  EDWARD  STURGEON  HEWES  (Daniel  Dan- 
iel, Solomon,  George,  Solomon,  George),  married  4  Feb.,  1871, 
Mary  Allen  Butler. 

Children: 

270  Anna  Irene,  born  18  April,  1878. 

271  Fannie,  born  19  Jan.,  1881. 

272  Edith  May,  born  6  May,  1884. 

VII.  222  HORACE  GREELEY  HEWES  (Virgil  H.,  Solo- 
mon, George  R.  T.,  George,  Solomon,  George),  born  in  Boston 
17  Nov.,  1849,  lives  in  Braintree,  Mass.  He  married  in  Portland, 
Me.,  23  Sept.,  1874,  Helen  Ilsley  Jones,  adopted  daughter  of 
Henry  A.  Jones,  of  Portland,  born  5  March,  1849,  died  in  Brain- 
tree,  14  Feb.,  1898.  Mrs.  Hewes  was  descended  from  Miles  Stan- 
dish,  Kenelm  Winslow,  and  John  Alden,  as  well  as  other  early  set- 
tlers of  Plymouth.  She  was  daughter  of  Hosea  Chase  and  Julia 
Helen  Davis  his  wife,  who  died  aged  19,  leaving  an  infant  daugh- 
ter Helen  Ilsley. 

Mr.  Hewes  is  an  artist,  having  a  studio  at  Braintree.  Late  in 
the  eighties  he  began  collecting  information  concerning  the  de- 
scendants of  George  Hewes  of  Salisbury,  and  for  ten  years  devoted 
much  time  and  labor  to  the  task.     His  materials  have  been  freely 


368  DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES 

drawn  upon  in  preparing  this  account  of  the  descendants  of 
George  Hewes,  and  the  genealogy  of  the  descendants  of  George 
Robert  Twelve  Hewes  is  mostly  from  his  notes. 

Children: 

273     Helen  Eliza,  born  at  Boston,  8  July,  1875. 

274+  Laurence  Ilsley,  born  in  Dover,  N.  H.,  28  Sept.,  1876. 

275  Henry  Jones,  born  in  Portland,  Me.,  26  Nov.,  1879. 

VII.  261  FRANKLIN  N.  HEWES  {Lorenzo  W.,  Samuel, 
William,  Benjamin,  Solomon,  George),  born  in  Swanzey,  N.  H., 
30  July,  1852;  married  14  April,  1875,  Hattie  E.  Farris. 

Children : 

276  Ray  F. 

277  Elsie  R. 

VII.  265  WALTER  R.  HEWES  (Lorenzo  N.,  Samuel, 
William,  Benjamin,  Solomon,  George),  born  in  Swanzey,  N.  H.,  3 
Feb.,  1859;  married  3  April,  1879,  Emma  J.  Eastman,  daughter 
of  George  W.  Eastman. 

Children:  1 

278  Henry  N. 

279  Bessie  B.,  of  Fitchburg. 

EIGHTH  GENERATION 

VIII.  274  LAURENCE  ILSLEY  HEWES  (Horace  G., 
Virgil  S.,  Solomon,  George  R.  T.,  George,  Solomon,  George),  born 
in  Dover,  N.  H.,  28  Sept.,  1876,  married  1901,  Agnes  Danforth, 
born  in  Syria,  daughter  of  Galen  Bancroft  and  Emily  (Raynolds- 
Calhoun)  Danforth.  Her  grandfather,  Simeon  Howard  Cal- 
houn, was  cousin  of  John  C.  Calhoun. 

C  'It  ildren : 

280  Laurence  Ilsley,  born  in  Kingston,  R.  I.,  17  April,  1902. 

281  Mary  Calhoun,  born  in  Providence,  16  Nov.,  1903. 

282  Jonx,  born  in  Providence,  11)  Feb.,  1905. 

283  David  Danforth,  born  ai    Hampden,  Conn.,  7  May,  1908. 

i  Prom    History    of    Swanzey,    X.    II. 


DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES  369 

Laurence  I.  Hewes  was  graduated  from  Dartmouth  College  in 
1898.  The  preceding  year  he  had  been  resident  engineer  at  South 
Hadley  for  the  Massachusetts  Highway  Commission.  In  1898 
and  1899  he  was  assistant  engineer  of  the  Georgetown,  Rowley 
and  Ipswich  Railway.  The  following  year  he  was  resident  en- 
gineer on  the  Boylston  Street  Improvements  in  Brookline.  He 
was  elected  a  member  of  the  American  Mathematical  Society  in 
1900,  and  the  following  year  was  created  a  Doctor  of  Philosophy 
by  Yale  and  appointed  Professor  of  Mathematics  at  Rhode  Island 
State  College,  where  he  remained  until  1905,  part  of  the  time, 
1903-1905,  being  Professor  of  Highway  Engineering.  From 
1905  to  1909  he  was  instructor  of  mathematics  at  Yale.  In  1909 
he  removed  to  the  state  of  Washington,  where  he  purchased  a 
ranch.  The  following  year  he  located  the  Harbin  highway  from 
Goodnoe  Hills  to  the  Columbia  River  for  Klickitat  County.  He 
was  appointed  Professor  of  Civil  Engineering  and  acting  Dean 
of  the  Engineering  School  of  Whitman  College,  in  1911,  having 
previously  filled  the  position  of  Assistant-professor  of  Math- 
ematics. 

In  1911  he  was  appointed  Assistant-professor  of  Mathematics 
at  Dartmouth  College,  which  he  resigned  to  accept  the  post  of 
Senior  Highway  Engineer  of  the  Office  of  Public  Roads  in  the  U. 
S.  Dept.  of  Agriculture.  He  is  now  Chief  of  Bureau  of  Mainte- 
nance and  Economics.  He  has  contributed  to  the  Bulletin  of  the 
American  Mathematical  Society,  to  the  Transactions  of  the  Amer- 
ican Institute  of  Mining  Engineers,  and  to  Annals  of  Mathema- 
tics, as  well  as  to  official  publications,  and  is  now  engaged  in  the 
preparation,  with  H.  L.  Seward  of  Yale  University,  of  a  work 
on  the  "  Graphical  Representation  of  Mathematical  Formulas." 

MISCELLANEOUS 

REV.  GEORGE  HEWES  of  Foxboro,  Mass.,  a  Methodist  min- 
ister, married  September,  1844,  Julia  Ann  F.  Aldrich,  born  4 
Jan.,  1819.  Their  intention  of  marriage  was  recorded  at  Oxford, 
1  Sept.,  1844. 


Children. 


Sabia  A.,  born  1845 ;  married  1  Jan.,  1869,  William  B. 
Fay  of  Monson,  Mass. 


370  DESCENDANTS  OF  GEORGE  HEWES 

John  J.,  born   1847;  of  Worcester;  married  Elizabeth 

Harper. 
Mary  P.,  born  1848;  died  1860. 

(History  of  Oxford,  Mass.) 
John  and  Sarah  Hewes  of  Foxboro,  Mass.,  had  a  daughter 
Rosannah,  born  14  July,  1848  (Rehoboth  Records). 


DESCENDANTS  OF 

ABEL  HUSE  OF 
NEWBURY,  MASS 


DESCENDANTS  OF  ABEL  HUSE  OF  NEWBURY,  MASS.1 

I.  1  ABEL  HUSE  of  Newbury  was  admitted  a  freeman  of 
the  Massachusetts  Bay  Company  18  May,  1642.  He  was  a  juror 
in  1646,  and  on  the  Grand  Jury  in  1658  (Ipswich  Series  County 
Court  Records).  In  1678  he  took  the  oath  of  allegiance.  He 
was  born  about  1603,  for  he  deposed  in  Sept.,  1664,  that  he  was 
aged  64  (Vol.  2,  page  45,  Essex  County  Court  Records).  He 
died  29  March,  1690,  aged  88.  His  first  wife,  who  was  not  the 
mother  of  those  children  who  survived  him,  was  Eleanor,  and  she 
died  27  March,  1662-3  (County  Court  returns  from  Newbury). 
He  married,  second,  25  May,  1663,  at  Newbury,  Mary  Sears 
(Newbury  records).  She  was  widow  of  Thomas  Sears,  and  had 
been  earlier  than  her  marriage  to  Sears  called  "  Mary  Hilton  alias 
Downer."  She  survived  her  husband,  and  was  sole  executrix  of 
his  will. 

The  will  of  Abel  Huse,  dated  7  March,  1689-90,  proved  30 
Sept.,  1690,  is  found  in  Vol.  49,  p.  99,  of  Essex  Court  files. 

The  farm  occupied  by  Abel  Huse,  now  crossed  by  the  Boston  and 
Maine  Railroad,  was  sold  by  his  sons,  who  removed  to  the  western 
part  of  the  town. 

Children,  from  Nezvbury  records: 

2  Ruth,  born  25  Feb.,  1663-4;  married  27  August,  1683, 
John   Brown    (Newbury  records). 

3+  Abel,  born  19  Feb.,  1664-5. 

4+  Thomas,  born  9  Aug.  1666. 

5+  William,  born  12  Oct.,  1667.  Thomas  and  William  Huse 
were  among  the  soldiers  in  the  Canada  expedition  of 
1690,  to  whom  or  their  heirs,  Salisbury,  N.  H.,  was 
granted  in  1739  (N.  H.  Town  Charters,  24). 

6  Sarah,  born  8  Dec,  1668. 

7  John,  born  20  June,  1670.     He  enlisted  in  the  army  sent 

against  Canada  in  1690,   and  died  in  the  service.     The 

i  These  "  materials "  are  gathered  entirely  from  the  records,  and  the  ar- 
rangement is  given  subject  to  correction  in  some  particulars.  Where  there 
is  doubt  of  any  connection,  that  doubt  is  expressed.  Mr.  Isaac  Huse  of 
Manchester,  N.  H.,  printed,  in  1907,  "A  Sketch  of  Abel  Huse,  the  first  of 

371 


372  DESCENDANTS  OF  ABEL  HUSE 

following  entry  is  found  on  the  copy  of  Newbury  records, 
ascribed  to  an  ancient  record,  "  John  Huse,  a  Canadian 
soldier,  died  3  Dec,  1690,  aged  20  years,  5  months." 

8  Amy,  born  8  or  14  September,  1673;  died  18  May,  1675. 

9  Ebenezar,  a  daughter,  born  10  August,  1675. 

SECOND  GENERATION 

II.  3  ABEL  HUSE,  Jr.  (Abel),  of  Newbury,  born  there  19 
Feb.,  1664-5 ;  died  11  May,  1757  2  (of  Abel  and  Mary  "  aged  94 
3'ears  "  (Newbury  records)  ;  married  Judith  Emery  daughter  of 
John,  Jr.,  and  Mary  (Webster)  Emery  (Essex  Probate).  "Ju- 
dith Huse"  died  24  April,  1753  (Newbury  records).  She  was 
born  5  Feb.,  1673.  Abel  Huse,  Jr.,  lived  on  the  Bradford  road 
and  was  probably  a  tanner  (Essex  Deeds,  90:141). 

Administration  on  his  estate  was  granted  to  Abel  Huse  of  Ip- 
swich, a  son,  23  March,  1757.  The  sons  had  received  gifts  of 
land  during  their  father's  life  from  him  (Essex  Deeds).  Samuel 
had  the  farm  in  Methuen,  173  acres,  as  his  share.  The  heirs  to 
the  estate  were  Abel,  Stephen,  and  Samuel  Huse,  sons,  heirs  of 
John,  a  son,  deceased,  and  daughters  Sarah,  wife  of  Caleb  Kimball, 
Judith,  wife  of  John  Holman.  Mary,  wife  of  Enoch  Davis.  Sarah 
wife  of  Stephen  Huse,  is  also  mentioned.  The  homestead  consisted 
of  40  acres.  The  grandson  Enoch  had  lived  with  his  grandfather 
for  a  year  and  a  half  before  his  death  (Essex  Probate  files). 

Children,  from  Newbury  records: 

10+  John,  born  31  Oct.,  1694;  married  Sarah  Toppan. 
11+  Abel,  born  18  Nov.,  1696;  of  Ipswich,  cooper. 
12+  Stephen,  born  16  Nov.,  1702,  of  Methuen. 
13+  Samuel,  born  30  March,  1705. 

14  Judith,  born  13  Feb.,  1708;  married  23  May,  1728,  John 

Holman  (Newbury  records). 

15  Sarah,  born   29  Jan.,   1711-12   (Newbury  records);  mar- 

ried 17  April,  1735,  Caleb  Kimball. 

II.  4  THOMAS  HUSE  (Abel),  of  Newbury,  born  there  9 
Aug.,    1666;   died    7    Nov.,   1734    (Newbury   records);    married 

the    name    in    America    and    ancestor    of   all    the    Huses    in    this    Country,"   a 
pamphlet  nt"  twenty  pages,  tin-  forerunner  of  a  genealogy  of  the  Huse  family. 
2  Died  ii  March,  1758,  aged  93  (Emery  Genealogy). 


DESCENDANTS  OF  ABEL  HUSE  373 

Hannah  Webster,  daughter  of  Israel  Webster  of  Newbury, 
born  2  July,  1672  (Hoyt's  "Old  Families  of  Salisbury").  She 
died  12  Apr.,  1737  (Newbury  records).  Her  will  as  of  "  widow 
of  Thomas  Huce  of  Newbury,"  was  dated  5  Feb.,  1736-7,  proved 
23  May,  1737,  and  was  witnessed  by  Abel  Huse,  Jr.  She  gives  to 
daughters,  Mary  Holt,  Hannah  Hayes,  Ruth  Burnap,  and  son 
Ebenezer. 

Thomas  Huse  was  a  mason,  and  left  a  will  dated  15  Nov.,  1732, 
proved  2  Dec,  1734,  at  which  time  all  of  his  children  were  living. 

Children,  from  Newbury  records: 

17     Mary,  born  23  March,  1691 ;  married  10  July,  1716,  Oliver 

Holt  of  Andover  (Newbury  records). 
18+  Israel,  born  23  Oct.,  1693. 
19+  Ebenezer,  born  15  Jan.,  1695-6. 
20+  James,  born  29  June,  1698. 

21  Hannah,   born   5   Nov.,    1700 ;   married    [ ]    Hayes. 

Hannah  Huse  and  Peter  Hay  married  17  Nov.,  1717,  at 
Reading.  This  was  Capt.  Peter  Hay  of  Stoneham.  (See 
Wyman's  "  Charlestown  Estates.") 

22  Ruth,  born  14  Feb.,  1702-3;  married  1  Dec,  1726,  Sam- 

uel Burnap  of  Reading  (Newbury  records). 

23  Thomas,  born  14  July,  1705. 

24  Elizabeth,  born  13  March,  1710 ;  died  3  Nov.,  1734. 
25+  Joseph,  born  3  Oct.,  1712. 

26+  Nathan,  born  21  Oct.,  1716,  of  Amesbury. 

II.  5  WILLIAM  HUSE  {Abel),  of  Newbury,  born  there  12 
Oct.,  1667 ;  died  6  May,  1754,  aged  86-7-0  (Newbury  records)  ; 
married  in  Boston  17  Aug.,  1699,  Ann  Russell. 

William  Huse  of  Newbury,  housewright,  gave  to  his  son  William, 
of  Newbury,  weaver,  all  his  lands  in  Newbury,  17  Dec,  1748 
(Essex  Deeds,  101:63). 

Children,  from  Newbury  records: 

27  Ann,  born  22  May,  1700. 

28  William,  born  30  Oct.,  1701 ;  died  (?)  13  May,  1754.     Wil- 

liam Huse,  Jr.,3  and  Mary  Brown  were  married  17  Feb., 

3  Administration  on  the  estate  of  William  Huse  of  Newbury  was  granted 
to  widow  Mary,  22  March,  1756.     Besides  lands  in  Newbury  valued  at  £597, 


374  DESCENDANTS  OF  ABEL  HUSE 

1731-2  (Newbury  records).  William  of  William,  Jr., 
and  Sarah,  born  5  April,  17-16.  Mary  of  William,  Jr., 
and  Mary,  born  20  Aug.,  1718  (Newbury  records). 
"  William  of  William,  Jr.,"  died  3  May,  1754,  aged  82 
years  6  mo.  Probably  error  for  52  years,  6  months,  and 
the  word  "junior"  inserted  incorrectly  (Newbury  rec- 
ords (copy)  at  Newburyport). 
29     Keziah,  born  7  March,  1711. 

THIRD  GENERATION 

HI.  10  JOHN  HUSE  (Abel,  Abel),  born  1691,  died  in  1736; 
married  25  Oct.,  1716  Sarah  Toppan  daughter  of  Jacob  Top- 
pan  (Essex  Deeds,  88:276),  who  died  4  May,  1730  (Newbury 
records).  He  married,  second,  12  Oct.,  1730,  Sarah  Hopkix- 
son  4  (Bradford  Vital  Records),  who  married  again,  prior  to  30 
May,  1737,  [ ]  Bryant. 

John  Huse  had  deed  from  his  father,  Abel  Huse,  of  part  of  the 
homestead  19  Feb.,  1723-1  (Essex  Deeds,  47:17).  In  a  deed  of 
1742,  Parker  Morse  sells  lands  inherited  by  his  wife  from  her 
father  John  Huse,  which  had  been  given  to  the  said  John  by  his 
father  Abel  Huse,  then  living  in  Newbury  (Essex  Deeds,  85:65). 

The  will  of  John  Huse,  of  Newbury,  yeoman,  dated  4  Jan.,  1736, 
was  probated  30  Aug.,  1736.  In  it  he  names  daughter  Martha 
Jenkins,  minor  children,  Mary,  Abigail,  Sarah,  Hannah,  and  in- 
fant son  John  by  second  wife.  Brother  Abel  Huse,  Jr.  His 
stock  "  of  cattle,  sheep,  and  negroes  and  horses  "  together  with 
his  real  estate,  were  left  to  the  infant  son  John,  and  in  case  of 
his  death  to  his  sisters.  In  Sept.,  1736,  Sarah  and  Hannah  chose 
their  uncle  Richard  Kent  and  Abigail  and  Mary  their  uncle  Abra- 
ham Toppan  as  guardian. 

For  a  deposition  of  John  Huse  regarding  Saltonstall's  Mills  on 
the  Merrimack  in  1732,  see  Suffolk  files,  32,400,  also  32,529,  and 
32,732. 

he  possessed    an    estate   in   Brentwood,   N.    H.     There  was   an   idiot  daughter 
Mary,   under  fourteen  in   1 7/ifi. 

William  Huse,  Jr.,  and  Benjamin  Rawlins,  lahorers,  sold  two-sevenths  of 
the  lot  of  land  nut  to  the  i" i j_r lit  of  Nicholas  Rawlins  in  Newhury,  1136 
(Essex  Deeds,  79 £57). 

Miiiiv     Hi  si:    of    Newbury,    yeoman,    and    Saiiaii    his    wife    sell    to    Kbenezer 

Kimball  of   Bradford,  all   their  interest,  right,  etc.,  in  the  dower  set  off  to 

their    mother,    Martha    Kimball,    from    the    estate   of    Caleb    Hopkinson,    late   of 

Bradford,  j<)  Nm„  LTSS  (Essex  deeds  67:234). 


DESCENDANTS  OF  ABEL  HUSE  375 

Children  {Newbury  records) : 

30  Martha,  born  14  July,  1717;  married  William  Jenkins, 

of  Newbury,  goldsmith  (Essex  Deeds,  76:92). 

31  Sarah,  born  20  Dec,  1818 ;  married  22  March,  1736,  Nich- 

olas  Johnson   of   Newbury,   wagon-maker   and  peruke- 
maker  (Essex  Deeds,  80:164). 

32  Hannah,  born  31  Jan.,  1719;  married  14  March,  1736-7, 

Parker    Morse     and    removed     to    Woodstock     Conn., 
(Essex  Deeds,  88:276).     He  was  a  physician. 

33  Mary,5  born  26  Dec,  1721. 

34  Abigail,   born   15   Feb.,   1723-4;   married  20  April,   1742 

Moses  Hale  (Newbury  records,  also  Essex  Deeds,  110  :9). 

Child  by  second  wife: 

35  John,  born  about  1733. 

III.  11  ABEL  HUSE  {Abel,  Abel),  cooper,  born  in  New- 
burr,  18  Nov.,  1696;  died,  probably  in  Ipswich,  intestate  and  in- 
solvent. Administration  to  his  son  Enoch  Huse,  28  May,  1770. 
He  married  29  April,  1729,  Elizabeth  Little  (Newbury  rec- 
ords). He  married,  second,  Hannah  Farley,  widow  of  Michael 
Farley  of  Ipswich  (Essex  Deeds,  90:162). 

Children: 

3&f  Elihu(?). 

36a  Elizabeth,  born  14  July,  1730  (Newbury  records). 

37+  Enoch,  born  12  Oct.,  1732,  of  Ipswich,  farmer. 

37a  Elizabeth,  born  29  April,  1739   (Newbury  records). 

III.  12  STEPHEN  HUSE  {Abel,  Abel),  born  in  Newbury 
16  Nov.,  1702,  and  died  1  July,  1783,  aged  81  (g.s.  at  Methuen). 
He  practiced  medicine  in  Methuen  but  in  1771  was  of  Haverhill. 
His  will  dated  13  Aug.,  1771,  proved  1  Sept.,  1783,  gave  to  sons 
John  and  Nathaniel  lands  in  Methuen,  on  which  John  then  lived. 
He  also  names  wife  Susannah  and  daughters  Eleanor,  Susannah 
and  Mirriam.  He  married  30  July,  1729,  Judith  Emery,  who 
died  5  Sept.,  1730  (Newbury  records).  In  1729  she  joined  with 
her  husband  in  selling  a  messuage  in  Newbury,  bounded  by  lands  of 

s  Mary  Huse  and  Daniel  March  married  6  April,  1742. 

Mary  Huse  and  Samuel  Toppan  married  6  July,  1749   (Newbury  records). 


376  DESCENDANTS  OF  ABEL  HUSE 

William  and  Thomas  Huse  (Essex  Deeds,  58:146),  and  James 
Huse  sold  this  in  1739.  He  married,  second,  Susannah  Clement 
who  died  20  July,  1809,  aged  91  years  (Methuen  Vital  Records). 
Stephen  Huse  G  bought  of  his  father  100  acres,  part  of  the  lat- 
ter's  farm  at  Spickett's  Neck  on  Spickett's  river,  6  April,  1730. 
The  deed  was  witnessed  by  Stephen  Emery  (Essex  Deeds,  63:8). 
In  1757  Doctors  Stephen  and  John  Huse  were  on  the  alarm  list 
of  the  militia  company  in  Haverhill. 

Children  (From  Haverhill  and  Methuen  records): 

39     Eleanor,  born  in  Methuen,  21  Nov.,  1737 ;  living  1771. 
40+  John,  born  7   Aug.,   1739;  his   father  bequeathed  to  him 
his  "  latin  books  and  certain  Physical  Authors." 

41  Mirriam,  born  29  Aug.,  1741. 

42  Stephen,  born  25  June,  1743. 

43  Mirriam  born  30  Oct.,  1744;  living  in  1771. 

44  Stephen,  born  8  Nov.,  1746. 

45  Nathaniel,  born  26  May  1749. 

46  Hannah,  born  27  Dec,  1751. 

47  Hannah,  born  18  Nov.,  1756. 

III.  13  SAMUEL  HUSE  (Abel,  Abel),  of  Methuen,  born  in 
Newbury,  30  March,  1705 ;  died  26  March,  1783  (Methuen  Vital 
Records).  He  married  14  July,  1726,  Mary  Myrick,  who  died 
9  Aug.,  1757,  aged  56  years  (Ibid.). 

Children  (From  Methuen  Vital  records)  : 

48+  Abel,  born  14  Aug.,  1727. 

49  Mary,    born     10    Aug.,    1729;    perhaps    married    Aaron 

Chamberlain  of  Dracut,  intention  21  Nov.,  1746. 

50  Judea  or  Judith,  born  8  Jan.,  1731-2;  probably  married 

27  Dec,  1753,  John  Pettingell. 

51  Lidia,  born  28  Dec,  1733,  probably  married  1  Nov.,  1753 

Joseph  Morse,  Jr. 

52  Abigail,  died  7  Sept.,  1736. 

53  Abigail,  born  26  Aug.,  1736. 
54+  Samuel,  born  7  March,  1740-1. 
55+  Moses,  born  4  Dec,  1743. 

«A  Stephen  Hum-  appears  on  Methuen  Vital  Records  as  dying  17  July, 
1782,  apparently  a  duplicate  of  death  record,  1  July,  in  the  same  publication. 


DESCENDANTS  OF  ABEL  HUSE  377 

56     Anne,  born   18  Jan.,   1738-9 ;  probably  married  15  Feb., 
1759,  John  Griffes. 

III.  18  ISRAEL  HUSE  (Thomas,  Abel),  of  Newbury,  and 
of  Kingston,  N.  H.,  bricklayer,  born  in  Newbury,  23  Oct.,  1693, 
married  Aug.,  1716,  at  Newbury,  Ruth  Bodwell  of  Haver- 
hill, daughter  of  Henry  and  Bethia  (Emery)  Bodwell  of  Methuen, 
born  in  Andover,  2  Dec,  1699  (Essex  Antiquarian). 

Thomas  Huse  of  Newbury,  bricklayer,  to  his  son  Israel  Huse  17 
March,  1718-19   (Essex  Deeds,  41:72). 

Israel  Huse  with  wife  Ruth  of  Newbury,  sells  to  brother  James 
Huse,  joiner,  also  of  Newbury,  a  dwelling  house  on  the  Bradford 
road,  adjoining  land  of  Ebenezer  Huse,  23  March,  1725-6.  The 
preceding  year  in  a  deed  to  Ebenezer  Huse,  his  father  Thomas 
Huse  is  mentioned   (Essex  Deeds,  56:91,  174). 

Child,  7  of  "  Israel  and  Ruth."     (From  Newbury  records)  : 

56  Israel,  born  5  March,  1719. 

III.  19  EBENEZER  HUSE  (Thomas,  Abel),  born  in  New- 
bury, 16  Jan.,  1695-6;  died  31  July,  1792,  aged  97  years  (New- 
bury records).  He  married  at  Newbury,  1  Nov.,  1737,  Elizabeth 
Hale,  who  died  15  July,  1768  (Ibid.).  He  left  a  will  dated  2  Feb., 
1785,  proved  29  Oct.,  1792,  which  mentions  children  of  deceased 
son  John,  son  Thomas,  all  his  real  estate,  son  Enoch  and  daughter 
Hannah  Huse. 

Children: 8 

57  Elizabeth,  died  12  July,  1738. 

58  Eliphalet,  died  28  Feb.,  1739. 

59  Eliphalet,  born  7  Aug.,  1741 ;  died  10  July,  1742. 

60  Thomas,  born  2  March,  1743.9 

i  Jonathan  Huse  and  wife  Judith  of  Sandown,  N.  H..  10  Dec,  1773,  sell 
their  interest  in  Hook's  Ferry,  Amesbury,  coming  to  them  from  their  grand- 
mother Judith  Hook,  deceased  (Essex  Deeds,  137:13). 

8  Of  these  children  the  third  on  the  list  is  entered  as  of  Ebenezer  and 
Sarah,  the  others  younger  than  he  as  of  Ebenezer  and  Elizabeth.  From 
family  statement  and  from  certain  other  indications  it  would  seem  as  if 
Joseph  Huse  of  Weare  was  a  son  of  Ebenezer,  in  spite  of  failure  of  his  pre- 
sumptive father  to  name  him  in  his  will.  The  matter  needs  further  investi- 
gation before  final  acceptance. 

9  Deacon  Thomas  Huse  had  wife  Sarah,  who  died  in  Newbury,  23  April, 
1777.  He  married,  second,  5  Aug.,  1779,  Rebecca  Hill,  who  died  18  June, 
1807   (Newbury  records). 


378  DESCENDANTS  OF  ABEL  HUSE 

61+  John,  born  7  Oct.,  1746;  in  the  army  in  1762. 

62  Hannah,  born  18  April,  1718. 

63  Nathan,  born  29  March,  1750;  died  s.  p. 

64  Amos,  born  13  May,  1752;  died  s.  p. 
65+  Enoch,  born  5  Sept.,  1753. 

66     Sarah,  born  27  Nov.,  1751;  died  s.  p. 
67+  Joseph,  of  Weare,  not  named  in  father's  will. 

III.  20  JAMES  HUSE  (Thomas,  Abel),  born  in  Newbury, 
29  June,  1698.     He  married  Elizabeth. 

James  Hughes  of  Kingston,  N.  H.,  died  1753,  leaving  a  widow 
Elizabeth.  In  the  lists  of  Baptists  living  in  Plaistow,  N.  H., 
perhaps  between  1760  and  1770,  appears  the  name  of  James 
Huse,  and  in  1710  there  were  in  Kingston,  Israel,  Israel,  Jr.,  and 
James  Huse,  of  whom  Israel  and  James  were  among  those  whose 
estates  were  set  off  to  Hanpstead  in  1716  (N.  H.  Town  Papers). 
A  James  Huse  was  of  Hompstead  in  1785,  and  James  Hews  and 
James  Hews,  Jr.,  were  among  the  petitioners  for  a  township  which 
later  became  Putney,  Vt.  Samuel  Hewes,  Sr.,  and  Samuel  Hewes, 
Jr.,  were  also  grantees  of  Putney. 

Children,  from  Newbury  records: 

68  Martha,  born  11  Sept.,  1729;  died  27  March,  1736. 

69  Samuel,  born  16  Dec,  1730.10 

io  Samttel  Huse  made  application  for  a  pension,  declaring  that  he  was 
then  of  Kingston,  and  at  the  time  of  his  enlistment  was  of  Plaistow,  where 
he  enlisted  in  October,  1775,  under  Capt.  Dow  of  Salem,  N.  H.,  of  which 
company  Abijah  Wheeler  was  lieutenant,  and  was  stationed  one  month  at 
a  house  near  Bell's  tavern  on  Great  Island.  Also  that  he  enlisted  in  No- 
vember, 1775,  and  was  stationed  at  Portsmouth,  thence  marched  to  Cam- 
bridge and  was  there  attached  to  the  £d  regiment,  and  was  discharged  in 
February,  1776.  He  re-enlisted  1  June,  1776,  in  a  company  commanded  by 
Capt.  Quimby  of  Hawke,  N.  H.,  Col.  Wingate's  regiment,  and  marched  to 
Ticonderoga.  At  the  end  of  the  five  months  for  which  the  company  had 
enlisted,  Gen.  Gates  asked  them  to  re-enlist  and  Huse  remained  for  fifteen 
days.  In  May  or  June,  1778,  he  again  enlisted,  and  met  the  company  at  the 
meeting  house  in  Plaistow,  thence  marched  through  Haverhill,  crossing  the 
Merrimack  in  boats,  thence  through  Bradford,  Andover,  Woburn,  Newton, 
Dedham  to  Providence  and  was  attached  to  the  regiment  commanded  by  Col. 
Peabody,  and  was  assigned  to  drive  one  of  the  baggage  wagons.  Twenty- 
eight  days  before  the  battle  of  Rhode  Island  he  went  onto  the  island,  cross- 
ing at  Howlen's  Ferry.  When  they  left  the  island  it  was  by  Bristol  Ferry. 
The  army  retired  to  Providence,  where  he  was  stationed  until  discharged  in 
December. 

Jacob  Webster  of  Kingston  deposed  thai  Huse  was  in  his  company,  and 
served  three  months  at  Portsmouth  and  Cambridge  in  1775,  and  also  served 
In  Quimby's  company  of  which  Webster  was  lieutenant,  at  Ticonderoga  in 
1776   (Invalid  Pension,  18,016). 


DESCENDANTS  OF  ABEL  HUSE  379 

70  Elizabeth,  born  27  Oct.,  1732;  died  5  April,  1736. 

71  Thomas,  born  21  Oct.,  1734;  died  5  April,  1736. 

72  Martha,  born  1  April,  1737. 
73+  James,  died  7  April,  1736. 

74  James,  born  1745. u 

III.  25  JOSEPH  HUSE  (Thomas,  Abel),  of  Newbury,  born 
there  3  Oct.,  1712;  died  1745.  Administration  was  granted  on 
his  estate  to  his  widow  Molly,  who  gave  surety  with  Ebenezer 
Huse,  husbandman,  and  Peter  Rogers,  both  of  Newbury.  The 
estate  consisted  of  14  acres,  house,  barn  and  blacksmith  shop  on 
the  Bradford  road,  and  16  acres  elsewhere,  all  valued  at  £140, 
together  with  personal  estate  of  like  amount.  Pistol,  saddle  and 
breastplate  are  inventoried.  The  son  Joseph  was  to  have  the 
real  estate  and  was  to  pay  to  his  brothers  Carr  and  Samuel,  and 
to  his  sister  Molly  Huse  their  shares.  Administration  de  bonis 
non  was  granted  2  July,  1750,  to  Charles  Chase,  who  in  1761 
received  a  receipt  from  his  grandson  Joseph  Huse. 

Joseph  Huse  married  9  Oct.,  1737,  Molly  Chase  (Newbury 
records).  All  three  of  their  sons  served  in  the  campaign  against 
Canada  during  the  last  French  War. 

Children  (From  Newbury  records) : 

75  Joseph,  born  1  Feb.,  1738. 

New  Hampshire  Revolutionary  Rolls  show  the  enlistment  of  Samuel  Huse 
in  Dow's  company,  and  service  at  Great  Island.  Roll  dated  5  Nov.,  1775. 
Also  his  service  in  Quimby's  company  in  July,  1776.  Also  as  enlisted  10 
April,  1778,  in  company  commanded  by  Capt.  Giles,  Col.  Peabody's  regiment, 
stationed  at  Rhode  Island,  and  discharged  4  Jan.,  1779.  He  is  described 
as  of  Plaistow. 

ii  James  Huse,  aged  30,  was  a  private  in  company  commanded  by  Capt. 
Gilman  in  Col.  Poor's  regiment,  12  June,  1775.  He  was  a  husbandman,  and 
came  from  Plaistow  (N.  H.  Rev.  Rolls,  IV).  He  enlisted  25  May,  1775, 
and  marched  with  the  regiment  to  Cambridge,  18  June,  and  was  in  the  same 
command  1  Aug.,  1775.  The  following  records  are  found  in  New  Hamp- 
shire Revolutionary  Rolls: 

James  Huse  enlisted  in  July,  1776,  in  Capt.  Quimby's  company,  Col.  Win- 
gate's  regiment,  raised  for  attack  on  Canada.  Samuel  Huse  was  in  the 
same  company,  which  seems  to  have  been  raised  in  and  about  Kingston,  as 
Jacob  Webster  was  lieutenant. 

James  Huse  was  enlisted  from  Capt.  Brown's  militia  company  to  be  one 
of  the  guards  at  Portsmouth.     He  served  two  months  from  Sept.,  1779. 

James  Huse  of  Sandown,  enlisted  12  July,  1780,  to  serve  six  months  in 
one  of  the  New  Hampshire  line  regiments.  His  service  expired  6  Dec,  1780. 
His  age  was  given  as  35  years. 

James  Huse  of  Hampstead  enlisted  26  July,  1781,  and  served  until  Janu- 
ary, 1782,  in  the  N.  H.  line  regiment  commanded  by  Lt.  Col.  D.  Reynolds. 


380  DESCENDANTS  OF  ABEL  HUSE 

76+  Carr,  born  29  June,  1740. 

77     Molly,  born  4  July,  1742;  probably  married  5  April,  1764 
Charles  Pressy  of  Sandown,  N.  H.  (Newbury  records). 
78+  Samuel,  born  21  Feb.,  1743. 

III.  26  DR.  NATHAN  HUSE  (Thomas,  Abel),  of  Ames- 
bury,  born  in  Newbury,  21  Oct.,  1716;  died  23  April,  1809,  aged 
93  years.  He  married  5  Dec,  1738,  Rachel  Sargent 
(Amesbury  second  parish  records),  daughter  of  Joseph  Sargent 
of  Amesbury  (Essex  Deeds,  84:43)  and  Elizabeth  Carr  his  wife. 
She  was  born  22  Feb.,  1721,  and  died  7  Sept.,  1792.  She  was 
admitted  to  the  church  18  July,  1762. 

Dr.  Nathan  Huse  was  a  "  nephew  of  Abel  Huse."  He  was  a 
well  known  physician  in  Amesbury,  living  in  the  West  Parish. 

Children,  from  records  Second  Parish  of  Amesbury:12 

79  Sargent,  born  22  Aug.,  1739.     He  was  a  lieutenant  in  com- 

pany commanded  by  Capt.  Nathan  Brown,  Col.  Jacob 
Gale's  regiment,  ordered  to  Rhode  Island,  where  he  served 
from  5  to  28  Aug.,  1778  (N.  H.  Rev.  Rolls,  Vol.  II). 

80  Elizabeth,  born  25  Feb.,  1741. 

81  Nathan,  baptized  21  April,  1745. 

82  Rachel,  baptized  22  March,  1746-7. 

83+  Joseph,  born  2  March,  baptized  9  April,  1749. 

84  Ebenezer,  born  25  Dec,  1750,  baptized  10  Feb.,  1751. 13 

85  John,  baptized  15  July,  1753. 

86  Rachel,  born  6  May,  baptized  29  June,  1755. 

87  Sarah,  born  9  Feb.,  baptized  17  April,  1757. 
88+  John,  born  31  Oct.,  1758. 

89  Ebenezer,  born  [ ]  baptized  14  Nov.,  1762;  prob- 
ably married  14  June,  1789,  Lydia  Davis. 

90+  William,  born  22  Aug.,  baptized  5  Oct.,  1760. 

91  Nathan,  born  8  Aug.,  1769.  Administration  on  the  es- 
tate of  Nathan  Huse  of  Amesbury,  yeoman,  was  granted 
at  request  of  the  widow  Alice  to  her  son  Stephen  Huse. 
He  died  22  Dec,  1824.      He  held  an  undivided  interest  in 

12  Marriages  from  the  same  record:  Hannah  Huse  and  Jonathan  Moulton, 
19  N«»v.,  ]7h<>.    John   Hum  and  Mehitable  Bagley,  SO  June,  17<):{. 

is  An  Ebenezer  Hum-  of  Amesbury  enlisted  •»  Aug.,  and  served  until  27 
Nov.,  ITS |,  in  company  commanded  by  Capt.  Robinson,  Col.  Turner's  regi- 
ment   (.Mass.    Rev.    Rolls). 


DESCENDANTS  OF  ABEL  HUSE  381 

30  acres  with  Stephen  Huse.  Perhaps  there  was  a  son 
Nathan,  also.  Nathan  Huse  and  Alice  Sargent  were 
married  20  July,  1797. 

IV.  36  ELIHU  HUSE  (Abel  (?),  Abel,  Abel),  of  Ipswich, 
later  of  Boston,  and  finally  of  Islesboro,  Me.,  where  he  died  14? 
Jan.,  1808,  aged  81  years.     He  was  born  therefore  about  1727. 

Children,  by  zcife  Elizabeth,  from  Boston  records:  14 

92  Lucinda,  born  in  Ipswich,  20  May,  1759. 

93  Amelia,  born  11  Sept.,  1761. 

94  Cyrus,  born  25  June,  1763. 

95  Clarissa,  born  25  June,  1763. 

96  Matilda,  born  23  Feb.,  1765. 

97  Julius,  born  29  July,  1767. 
98+  Paoli,  born  14  Jan.,  1769. 

IV.  37  ENOCH  HUSE  {Abel,  Abel,  Abel),  born  12  Oct., 
1732;  married  Rebecca  Dennison,  daughter  of  John  Dennison 
of  Ipswich  (Essex  Deeds,  129:283).  He  married,  second,  1770, 
Esther  (Ibid.,  157:31).  In  1770  he  was  of  Ipswich,  a  weaver 
and  husbandman,  and  administrator  of  his  father's  estate.  In 
1771  he  bought  land  in  Harvard,  and  was  living  there  in  1813. 

Children,  shown  by  Worcester  deeds  and  probate,  possibly  others: 

99     Enoch,  born  [ ]  ;  died  1813.     Administration  on  his 

estate   was    granted   to   his    widow   Lucy.     Will    allowed 
6  July,  1813.     All  his  lands  to  wife  Lucy  for  life,  with 
reversion  to  his  lawful  heirs.     His  father  was  then  living. 
100+  John  Dennison,  of  Harvard,  1788. 

IV.  40  DR.  JOHN  HUSE  (Stephen,  Abel,  Abel),  of  Me- 
thuen,  born  7  Aug.,  1739;  died  25  Sept.,  1802,  aged  63  years 
(Methuen  Vital  Records).  His  will,  dated  18  Sept.,  proved  5 
Oct.,  1802,  provides  that  wife  Anna  should  have  her  dower,  and 
all  household  goods  and  with  three  youngest  daughters  the  pew 
in  the  First  Parish  Meeting  House.  The  remaining  two-thirds 
of  his  real  estate  to  his  children,  share  and  share  alike,  except 
that  the  daughters  were  to  receive  but  one-third  as  much  as  the 

i*  For  mention  of  this  family  see  Farrow:  History  of  Islesboro,  Me. 


382  DESCENDANTS  OF  ABEL  HUSE 

sons.  Son  Stephen  was  to  have  $100  for  his  birthright.  His 
aged  and  honorable  mother  was  to  receive  support  out  of  the  es- 
tate. Doctor  Huse  was  also  deacon  in  the  church  at  Methuen. 
He  married  15  March,  176-1,  at  Haverhill,  Anne  Webster  of 
Haverhill   (Methuen  Vital  Records). 

A  John  Huse  of  Methuen  was  clerk  of  the  company  commanded 
by  Major  S.  Bodwell,  which  marched  on  the  alarm  of  April  19, 
1775,  and  served  four  days  and  a  half;  also  a  John  Huse  was 
first  lieutenant  in  the  company  commanded  by  John  Bodwell,  Col. 
Samuel  Johnson's  regiment  (1th  Essex  militia),  having  been  com- 
missioned 3  April,  1776.  As  lieutenant  he  served  40  days  in 
Capt.  David  Whittier's  company,  Major  Benjamin  Gage's  regi- 
ment, which  marched  to  join  the  Northern  army  by  order  of  the 
General  Court,  22  Sept.,  1777.     Roll  dated  2  Oct.,  1777. 

Children  of  John  and  Nanne  or  Anna  (From  Methuen  Vital  Rec- 
ords).    Those  given  as  of  xcife  Anna  are  marked  "with  an  *. 

101+  Stephen,*  born  12  Dec,  1761;  died  1803. 

102  Jonathan,  born  23  Feb.,  1767. 

103  Ruth,  born  9  May,  1769. 

101  John,  born  7  Jan.,  1772;  died  s.  p.  18  Nov.,  1831,  aged 
60  years.  Administration  3  Jan.,  1832,  to  William  Huse 
of  Methuen.  Widow  Hannah  survived.  John  Huse  and 
Betsy  Lovell  of  Salem,  N.  H.,  intend  marriage  23 
Dec,  1805.  Betsy  wife  of  John  Huse,  died  19  May, 
1822,  aged  41  or  44.  John  Huse  and  Hannah  John- 
son married  13  May,  1823   (Methuen  Vital  Records). 

105  Joseph,  born  21  Feb.,  1774. 

106  Susanna,  born  9  Oct.,  1775;  died  19  Sept.,  1786. 

107  William,*  bora  27  Dec,  1777. 

108  Nancy,*  born  19  Jan.,   1780. 

109  Nathanikl,   born   15  Jan.,   1782. 

110  Nabby   Webster,*   born   3   Jan.,   1784;   married   16   Dec, 

1805,  Dr.  Silas  Browne  of  Kittcry. 

111  Sally,*  born  19  March,  1786.      Ensign  Benjamin  Osgood 

was   appointed   guardian   of  Abigail,  aged   19,  and  Sally 
aged  17,  daughters  of  Dr.  John  Huse,  2  May,  1803. 

IV.  48  ABEL  HUSE  (Samuel  ( ?),  Abel,  Abel),  of  Methuen, 
born   14   Aug.,   1727;   married   22   June,   1749,  Mary  Whittier 


DESCENDANTS  OF  ABEL  HUSE  383 

(Methuen  Vital  Records),  who  died  23  Nov.,  1771,  aged  42  years. 
Abel  Huse  and  Lydia  Emerson  of  Haverhill  intend  marriage 
31  Oct.,  1772  (Methuen  Vital  Records). 

Children,  born  in  Methuen: 

112  Ruth,   born   1    Nov.,    1750;   married    (?)    4  March,   1773, 

Moses  Merrick. 

113  Nathaniel,  born  22  July,  1752;  died  28  July,  1752. 

114  Mary,  born  5  Sept.,  1753;  died  6  Oct.,  1753. 

115  Persis,  born  7  July,   1755;  married   (?)    14   July,   1774, 

James   Sprague  of  Pelham. 
116+  Isaac,  born.  16  Sept.,  1757. 

117  Thomas,  born  1  Feb.,  1761 ;  died  14  Sept.,  1763. 

118  Molly,  born  25  Jan.,  1763. 

119  Josiah,  born  16  May,  1766. 

IV.  54  SAMUEL  HUSE,  JR.  (Samuel  (?),  Abel,  Abel), 
born  in  Methuen,  7  March,  1740-1 ;  died  there  3  Feb.,  1814,  aged 
73  years  (Methuen  Vital  Records).  He  married  1  Sept.,  1763, 
Elizabeth  Asten  (Ibid.).  He  left  a  will  dated  6  May,  1803, 
proved  8  Feb.,  1814,  which  names  wife  Elizabeth,  daughter  Eliza- 
beth Asten,  son  Daniel,  daughter  Dorcas  Baker,  son  Aaron,  daugh- 
ters Sally  and  Hannah  Huse,  and  son  Samuel. 

Children  (From  Methuen  Vital  Record) : 

120  Elizabeth,  born  5  June,  1764. 

121  Samuel,  born  4  Sept.,  1765;  died  24  Aug.,  1778. 

122  Daniel,  born  4  April,  1767;  died  23  March,  1849,  aged 

82  years.     Daniel  Huse  and  Elizabeth  Stevens  intend 
marriage,  25  Nov.,  1790. 

123  Dorcas,  born  6,  bapt.  9  Oct.,  1768;  married  Barker. 

124  Hannah,  born  30  June,  1772;  died  1  Sept.,  1773. 

125  Aaron,  born  13  Nov.,  1773. 

126  Salla,  bora,  [ ]  ;  died  7  Sept.,  1773. 

127  Abel,  born  [ ]  ;  died  5  Sept.,  1775. 

128  Sala,  born  24  June,  1776;  d.  y. 

129  Abel,  born  2  Nov.,  1776;  died  10  Aug.,  1778. 

130  Salla,  born  21  March,  1778 ;  died  26  July,  1843. 
131+  Samuel,  born  6  April,  1780. 

132     Hannah,  born  8  Oct.,  1782. 


384  DESCENDANTS  OF  ABEL  HUSE 

IV.  55  MOSES  HUSE  (Samuel,  Abel,  Abel),  born  in  Meth- 
uen,  4  Dec,  1743;  married  in  Sutton,  Mass.,  20  April,  1769, 
Elizabeth  Barton.  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Moses  Huse,  died  in 
Grafton,  Mass.,  18  Aug.,  1785.  The  census  of  1790  does  not 
mention  any  of  this   family  living  in  Grafton. 

Moses  Huse,  laborer,  of  Grafton,  sold  to  Samuel  Prentice  eight 
acres  in  Grafton  with  a  small  dwelling  house  thereon,  on  the  north 
side  of  the  road  from  Sutton  to  Boston  (Worcester  Deeds, 
126 :284).      He  had  bought  land  opposite  Wheeler's  Pond  in  1784. 

Moses  Huse  of  Grafton  enlisted  for  three  years  and  served 
from  31  March,  1777,  to  31  March,  1780,  in  the  company  com- 
manded by  Capt.  J.  Blanchard,  Col.  Wesson's  (9th)  regiment 
Massachusetts  line  in  the  Continental  army   (Mass  Rev.  Rolls). 

He  had  previously  lived  in  Methuen.  There  has  been  some 
difficulty  in  determining  whether  the  facts  above  given  refer  to 
Moses  of  Methuen  or  partly  to  him  and  Moses  of  Medfield. 

Children: 

134  Alfred,  of  Moses  and  Elizabeth,  born  in  Methuen,  17  Jan., 

1770. 
134a  Bezeleel,  born  in  Grafton,  25  April,  1785. 

IV.  61  JOHN  HUSE  (Ebenezer  (?),  Thomas,  Abel),  of 
Newbury,  if  son  of  Ebenezer  born  7  Oct.,  1746;  married  19  May, 
1768,  Dorothy  Whittemore  (Newbury  records). 

Children  (From  Nexcbury  records) : 

135  John,  born  28  Nov.,  1768. 

136  Robert,  born  21  Sept.,  1771. 

137  Ebenezer,  born  20  Dec,  1773.15 

138  Dorothy,  born  31  Aug.,  1775.     Dorothy  Huse  and  John 

Sargent  intend  marriage  12  Oct.,  1804   (Methuen  rec- 
ords). 

IV.  65  ENOCH  HUSE  (Ebenezer,  Thomas,  Abel),  of  Bos- 
ton, merchant,  born  in  Newbury  5  Sept.,  1753;  died  in  Boston  19 

is  Administration  on  estate  of  Ebenezer  Huso  of  Salisbury,  mariner,  was 
granted  to  Samuel  Newman,  Esq.,  I  Aug.,  1880,  who  gave  as  surety  John 
Muse  of  NYwliiiryport,  cabinet  maker.  Ebenezer  left  a  widow,  Mehitable, 
and  a  brother,  probably  the  John   Huse  above  mentioned,  who  were  his  heirs. 


DESCENDANTS  OF  ABEL  HUSE  385 

July,  1817,  "  aged  64,"  (g.  s.  Copps  Hill)  of  dropsy  (Boston 
death  records).  He  married  12  Nov.,  1783,  Sarah  Hill  (New 
North  Church  register),  who  died  31  Aug.,  1798,  and  was  buried 
on  the  Common.  At  her  death  she  was  aged  46  years  (Inde- 
pendent Chronicle  Sept.,  1798). 

He  married,  second,  Sarah  Hancock  who  died  of  fever,  24 
July,  1819,  aged  49  (Boston  records). 

Ebenezer  Hancock,  Esq.,  Enoch  Huse,  merchant  and  Sarah 
his  wife,  and  John  Hancock,  merchant,  all  of  Boston,  sell  to 
Amaziah  French  and  others  of  Southwick,  lots  57,  58,  59,  60,  61, 
62,  in  that  town  formerly  belonging  to  Gov.  Hancock,  deceased, 
28  Feb.,  1807  (Hampden  Deeds,  47:552). 

Enoch  Huse  of  Newburyport  was  a  member  of  the  crew  of  the 
armed  ship  America,  commanded  by  Capt.  John  Somes.  In  the 
descriptive  list,  9  June,  1780,  of  the  crew  he  is  described  as  26 
years  old  and  six  feet  tall  16  (Mass.  Rev.  Rolls). 

In  1789  he  lived  in  Wins  Court,  Cornhill,  and  did  business  in 
State  Street  (Boston  Directory).  His  will  dated  28  Oct.,  1808, 
was  proved  28  July,  1816.  To  wife  Sarah  the  property  she 
brought  him  at  her  marriage.  Children:  Sally,  Rebecca,  Betsy 
Hale,  Lucy  Hill.  Nephew  Obadiah  Huse  of  Boston,  merchant 
(Suffolk  Probate  115:439). 

Children : 

139  Hannah,  died  16  Aug.,  1796,  aged  2  years  (gravestone). 

140  Sally. 
140a  Rebecca. 

is  The  following  records  of  Revolutionary  service  appear  under  Enoch 
Huse:  Enoch  Huse  of  Newburyport  was  a  member  of  the  troop  of  horse 
commanded  by  Lt.  John  Brickett,  which  marched  to  Cambridge  the  day 
after  the  alarm  of  19  April,  1775.     Huse  was  retained  as  a  post  rider. 

The  following  records  of  service  are  from  Massachusetts  Revolutionary 
Rolls. 

Enoch  Huse  was  a  corporal  in  the  company  commanded  by  Capt.  J.  Poor, 
and  gave  receipt  dated  March  18,  1777,  at  Newbury.  He  served  six  weeks. 
Perhaps  he  was  the  same  man  who  served  as  sergeant  in  company  commanded 
by  Capt.  Ilsley  in  Cogswell's  regiment,  enlisted  30  Sept.,  discharged  16  Nov., 
1776.  Travel  200  miles  allowed.  Perhaps  also  the  same  man  who  appears  as 
2nd  lieutenant  in  company  commanded  by  Capt.  C.  Kimball  in  Col.  Gerrish's 
regiment,  detached  from  the  militia  to  guard  Burgoyne's  army  at  Winter  Hill, 
13  Nov.,  1777,  to  3  Feb.,  1778. 

Enoch  Huse  gave  a  receipt  to  the  selectmen  of  Newbury  25  Jan.,  1779,  he 
having  served  one  and  one-half  months  under  Major  William  Rogers  in  Rhode 
Island. 

Enoch  Huse  of  the  4th  Massachusetts  regiment  was  sick  in  hospital  at  New 
Windsor  in  February,  1783. 


386  DESCENDANTS  OF  ABEL  HUSE 

141  Betsy  Hale. 

142  Lucy  Hill. 


IV.  67  JOSEPH  HUSE  (Ebenezer  (?),  Thomas,  Abel),  of 
Weare,  N.  H.,  born  in  Newbury;  died  1806;  will  dated  28  Feb., 
proved  3  June,  1806  (Suffolk  Probate,  188,  part  2,  53).  Names 
sons  Obadiah,  Moody,  and  Ebenezer,  the  last  to  remain  on  the 
farm  until  of  age.  Wife  Hannah.  Son  Enoch  has  had  his  por- 
tion. Thomas  Huse  a  witness.  He  married  5  Feb.,  1775,  Han- 
nah Huse  (Newbury  records).  He  settled  in  Weare  in  1772 
and  was  an  extensive  farmer  there  (Little:  History  of  Weare). 

Children  (as  given  by  Little) : 

143  Joseph,  died  1795,  aged  20  years. 

144  Enoch,  married  Sarah  Webster,  and  settled  in  Maine. 

145  Thomas,  died  1803  aged  23. 

146  Obadiah,    of   Boston,    merchant;    married    1821,   Hannah 

Green.      He  is  named  in  will  of  uncle  Enoch  Huse  and  was 
one  of  the  executors. 
147+  Moody,  born  20  Jan.,  1784. 

148  Ebenezer,    born,    minor    in    1806;   married   Mary   Paige, 

widow  of  Enoch  Paige,  and  removed  to  Vermont. 

IV.  75  COL.  JOSEPH  HUSE  (Joseph  (?),  Thomas,  Abel), 
of  Newburyport,  Esq.,  married  2  Dec,  1762,  Abigail  Johnson 
(Newbury  records).  He  married,  second,  5  March,  1776,  Sarah 
Moody,  who  died  3  March,  1799  (Newburyport  records). 

Administration  on  his  estate  5  Sept.,  1811,  to  William  Huse, 
mariner.  The  heirs  were  John,  William  and  Ebenezer  Huse,  and 
Abigail,  wife  of  Henry  Poor. 

Capt.  Joseph  Huse  served  in  the  French  and  Indian  War.  He 
was  elected  by  the  town  of  Newburyport  one  of  the  Committee  of 
Safety  and  Correspondence,  2  Sept.,  1774. 

Children  (From  Newbury  records): 

149  Joseph,  born  in  Newburyport,  12  Sept.,  1763. 
150+  William,  born  28  Nov.,  1765. 

151     Moses,  born  30  Oct.,  1767;  died  in  lifetime  of  his  father, 
3  May,  1798   (Newburyport  records). 


DESCENDANTS  OF  ABEL  HUSE  387 

152  Caleb,  born  29  June,  1770.     Administration  on  estate  of 

Caleb  Huse  of  Newburyport,  tobacconist,  granted  6 
Sept.,  1831.  He  had  been  in  partnership  with  Enoch 
Huse.  Left  widow  Mary  and  two  minor  children,  Ellen 
M.,  aged  5,  and  Sarah  C,  aged  3,  who  became  wards  of 
John  Huse. 

153  Ebenezer,  born  9  May,  1774. 

154  Sarah,  born  20  April,  1775. 

155  Jacob,  born  12  July,   1778. 

156  Abigail,  Johnson,  married  Henry  Poor  of  Newbury,  house- 

wright.  Children:  Sally  Poor,  Joseph  H.  Poor,  and 
Henry  Poor. 

157  Benjamin,  born  28  Nov.,  1778  (?). 

158  John,  born  9  Sept.,  1783.     In  1827,  Eliza  Huse,  aged  17, 

and  Benjamin  Huse,  aged  15,  children  of  John  Huse  of 
Newburyport,  cabinet  maker,  chose  Elizabeth  Gerrish 
Huse  of  Newbur}rport,  widow,  their  guardian. 

IV.  76  CARR  HUSE  {Joseph,  Thomas,  Abel),  of  New 
Chester  (now  Hill),  N.  H.,  born  in  Newbury,  29  June,  1740;  died 
at  New  Chester,  10  April,  1833;  married  July,  1771,  Sarah 
Wells,  who  died  8  July,  1773,  aged  33  years,  3  months,  and  24 
days. 

He  married,  second,  1775,  Joanna  Buswell,  who  died  21  June, 
1823,  aged  77. 

Children,  5  by  first  marriage,  Jf.  by  second  marriage: 

159  John,  born  [ ]  1784;  died  26  Feb.,  1859;  was  twice 

married  and  had  six  children.     His  son  Carr,  born  1814, 
married  10  Feb.,  1842,  Arvilla  K.  Harper,  who  died  in 
1843,  and  he  married  that  same  year  Charlotte  W.  East- 
man.     Carr  died  26  July,  1869,  having  had  five  children, 
of  whom  George  M.  the  present  owner  of  the  homestead 
has  a  son  Carr. 
Carr   Huse   was   in   the   army   in    1758-1760,   the   latter   year 
serving  as  corporal.     In  the  Revolution  served  as  a  sergeant  in 
the    company    commanded    by    Capt.    John    Willoughby,    which 
marched  to  join  the  Northern  Army  under  Gen.   Gates.     They 
were  attached  to  Col.  Chase's  regiment,  and  served  from  25  Sept. 
to  28  Oct.,  1777.     This  same  year  Carr  Chase  hired  a  substitute 


388  DESCENDANTS  OF  ABEL  HUSE 

to  perform  military  service  if  he  should  be  required  to  do  so.  He 
was  Selectman  in  1779  and  in  1781  and  Justice  of  the  Peace 
in  1789. 

There  is  a  sketch  of  Carr  Huse  in  the  History  of  Bristol, 
N.  H.,  by  Musgrove,  in  which  it  is  erroneously  stated  that  he  was 
born  in  England  and  "  landed  in  Newbury  port  in  1761."  He 
spent  the  summers  1767-1769  in  clearing  a  farm  at  New  Chester, 
and  in  July,  1771,  had  lived  in  a  house  near  the  village  of  Hill 
for  a  year  and  four  months.  He  was  Selectman  of  New  Chester 
in  1773  and  for  eighteen  years  thereafter  and  having  also  been 
chosen  town  clerk  in  1774  he  continued  in  that  office  for  thirty- 
three  years.  The  homestead  is  now  owned  by  George  M.  Huse, 
a  descendant. 

IV.  78  LT.  SAMUEL  HUSE  (Joseph  (?),  Thomas,  Abel), 
of  Newburyport,  joiner,  Samuel  son  of  Joseph  and  Mary  Huse 
died  22  Oct.,  1820,  aged  76  (Newbury  Records). 

Administration  on  estate  of  Samuel  Huse  of  Newburyport,  gen- 
tleman, who  died  Oct.,  1820,  was  granted  Nov.,  1820,  to  Jacob 
Gerrish,  Esq.  The  heirs  were  Mary  C.  Burroughs,  Elizabeth 
Ladd,  Sarah  Somerby,  Joseph  Huse. 

Samuel  Huse  was  granted  a  pension  in  1818  for  service  in 
12th  Massachusetts  regiment.  Enlisted  1  Jan.,  1776,  as  2nd 
lieutenant  in  company  of  Capt.  Jacob  Gerrish,  Col.  Moses  Little 
and  served  1  year  and  6  weeks  from  1  Jan.,  1776.  His  commis- 
sion signed  by  Gov.  John  Hancock,  as  second  lieutenant,  dated 
1  Jan.,  1776,  is  on  file  in  Invalid  case  32,872,  Pension  Bureau. 

He  married  Sarah  Cross,  daughter  of  Ralph  Cross,  of  New- 
buryport, shipwright  (Essex  Deeds,  157:192).  She  died  prior 
to  1820. 

Samuel  Huse  served  in  the  army  in  1760  and  1762. 

Children  17  of  "  Samuel  and  Sarah"  from  Newbury  records  and 
Xcicburyport  records : 

169+  Samuel,  born  15  Sept.,  1766  (Newburyport  records). 

170  William,  born  30  Nov.,  1768  (Newburyport  records)  of 
Newburyport,  housewright.  Administration  on  his  es- 
tate, 7  Sept.,  1809.     Children:  Ann  Choate  aged  5  years, 

it  A  Samuel  Huse  and  wife  Mary  had  daughter  Sally,  horn  14  Sept.,  1793 
(Newburyport  records). 


DESCENDANTS  OF  ABEL  HUSE  389 

1809.  (Her  father  had  been  appointed  her  guardian  the 
preceding  year.) 

171  Sarah,  born  8  Aug.,  1769  (Newbury  records). 

172  Enoch,  born  26  Nov.,  1772  (Newburyport  records). 

173  James,  born  19  Sept.,  1779  (Newburyport  records). 

174  Joseph,  born  8  Oct.,  1791   (Newbury  records). 

IV.  83  JOSEPH  HUSE  (Nathan,  Thomas,  Abel),  born  in 
Amesbury,  Mass.,  2  March,  1749;  died  10  July,  1827;  married, 
first,  Abiah. 

He  married,  second,  Mrs.  Pease,  daughter  of  Daniel  Morri- 
son. She  died  12  Dec,  1821.  He  settled  in  Sanbornton,  N.  H., 
1782,  after  the  war,  in,  which  he  served  as  a  private  ("  Gleanings 
and  Personal  Memoirs,  etc.,  Boston  and  Eastern  Massachusetts," 
edited  by  W.  R.  Cutter). 

Child: 

175  John,  born  in   Sanbornton,  N.   H. ;  removed  to  Littleton, 

N.  H. ;  married  4  Oct.,  1796,  Mary  Carter.  Children: 
Simon,  of  Coventry,  Vt. ;  Joseph,  "  went  West  " ;  Daniel 
of  Enfield,  N.  H. 

IV.  88  JOHN  HUSE  (Nathan,  Thomas,  Abel),  born  31 
Oct.,  1758  in  Amesbury;  died  15  Sept.,  1832;  married  Molly 
Bean,  born  3  Aug.,  1764;  died  25  July,  1833. 

John  Huse  settled  with  his  brothers  William  and  Joseph  in 
Sanbornton,  N.  H.,  after  1782.  (See  "  Genealogical  and  Fam- 
ily History  of  N.  H.,"  edited  by  Ezra  S.  Stearns.) 

Children  : 

176  Abigail,  born  19  June,  1783 ;  married  Joshua  Brown.     Of 

Knox,  Me. 

177  Elizabeth,  born  2  Oct.,  1785;  married  Elisha  Johnson. 

178  Rachel,  born  3  Aug.,  1787 ;  married  Elisha  Johnson. 

179  Molly,  twin  with  Rachel,  married  Joseph  Cummings. 

180  Stephen,  born  25  June,  1790. 

181  John,  born  25  March,  1800. 

182  Sally,   born  8  May,  1802;  married  Bradbury  Morrison. 

183  William,  born  1806;  died  27  Sept,  1870;  married  14  July, 

1835,  Sarah  M.  Verbeck  who  died  1861.     Children,  born 


390  DESCENDANTS  OF  ABEL  HUSE 

in  Enfield:  Frank  V.,  Everett  B.,  died  1907,  prominent  in 
the  G.  A.  R. ;  William  G. 

He  made  application  for  a  pension  28  Aug.,  1832,  declaring 
he  was  born  in  Amesbury  in  Oct.,  1758,  had  lived  in  Epping,  and 
for  fifty  years  in  Sanbornton.  In  August,  1776,  he  enlisted  in 
the  company  commanded  by  Capt.  Dodge  in  Col.  Francis'  regi- 
ment, from  Amesbury,  and  marched  to  Dorchester,  where  he  was 
stationed  until  term  expired  in  December,  1776.  (His  name  ap- 
pears on  the  company  roll  of  November,  1776.) 

He  again  enlisted  after  the  surrender  of  Burgoyne,  Oct., 
1777,  for  three  months,  in  company  commanded  by  Capt.  Tit- 
comb,  Col.  Peabody's  regiment,  and  marched  to  Winter  Hill  where 
he  was  stationed  until  discharged.  (Enlisted  10  Nov.,  1777,  and 
served  until  after  3  Feb., —  probably  16  Feb., —  Titcomb's  com- 
pany in  Col.  Gerrish's  regiment  of  guards.) 

He  again  enlisted  for  three  months  under  Capt.  Jewell  (Jew- 
ett?),  in  regiment  of  Col.  John  Huse,  last  of  June  or  first  of 
July,  1780.  Marched  from  Amesbury  to  Springfield,  thence  to 
West  Point,  and  was  there  during  the  discovery  of  Arnold's  trea- 
son.    Discharged  at  end  of  term  of  enlistment.18 

In  June,  1781,  enlisted  on  the  ship  Grand  Monarch  for  three 
months,  and  served  four  months.  The  Grand  Monarch  was  a  ship 
of  18  guns  and  was  commanded  by  Capt.  John  Lee  of  Newburv- 
port.  Parker  was  her  lieutenant.  She  sailed  from  Newbury- 
port,  almost  to  the  English  channel,  took  one  prize,  a  small  brig, 
which  was  retaken,  but  which  on  the  return  voyage  was  again 
captured  by  the  Grand  Monarch  and  brought  into  port.  The 
Grand  Monarch  carried  105  men,  including  officers,  and  arrived 
home  in  November.  None  of  her  crew  were  hurt  except  one  man 
whose  legs  were  broken  in  a  scuffle  with  one  of  the  crew,  but 
"  not  in  anger." 

Robert  Hunkins,  aged  73,  of  Sanbornton,  testified  that  Huse 
enlisted  same  time  he  did  in  Francis'  regiment.  Hunkins  was  in 
Capt.  John  Peabody's  company.  Certain  inquiries  touching 
rights  of  heirs  in  their  father's  pension,  made  in  August,  1835,  in- 
dicates that  Huse  had  then  deceased.      (Invalid  Pension,  10,892.) 

is  This  service  is  described  in  Massachusetts  Revolutionary  Rolls  as  enlisted 
6  July,  1780,  and  discharged  10  Oct.,  1780.  ('apt.  Titcomb's  company  in  Col. 
N.  Wades'  regiment  raised  to  re-enforce  the  Continental  army.  Credited 
with  £60  mikB  travel  home.  Joseph  Huse  was  lieutenant  colonel  of  Wades' 
regiment,    which   served    in    New   York. 


DESCENDANTS  OF  ABEL  HUSE  391 

90  WILLIAM  HUSE  (Nathan,  Thomas,  Abel),  born  in 
Amesbury,  22  Aug.,  1760;  died  in  Waterbury,  Vt.,  28  Nov.,  1839 
(Pension  record)  ;  married  in  Epping,  18  July,  1780,  Rachel 
Brier,  who  obtained  a  pension  1846,  when  she  was  87  years  of  age. 

They  settled  in  Sanbornton  after  the  War,  thence  moved  to 
Orange,  Vermont,  returning,  however,  to  Sanbornton,  but  eventu- 
ally settling  in  Waterbury. 

William  Huse  applied  for  a  pension  in  1832,  when  he  was  of 
Strafford,  N.  H.,  and  aged  72  years.  At  time  of  enlistment  he 
was  living  in  Epping,  and  moved  to  Sanbornton  in  1781.  He 
enlisted  1  Jan.,  1778,  for  one  year,  in  company  of  Capt.  Samuel 
Dearborn,  Col.  Stephen  Peabody's  regiment,  and  marched  to 
Providence,  and  in  the  last  of  July  in  that  year  was  ordered  to 
the  Island  and  during  the  campaign  served  about  the  bay  under 
Sullivan.  He  was  discharged  at  the  end  of  his  term  of  enlistment. 
In  Oct.,  1779,  he  enlisted  in  Amesbury  for  three  months  and 
marched  to  Great  Barrington,  and  thence  to  Albany  and  down 
the  Hudson.  He  served  as  corporal.  (Widow  Pension  record, 
23,365.) 

Revolutionary  Rolls  of  New  Hampshire  show  that  he  enlisted 
15  April,  1778,  and  served  until  4  Jan.,  1779,  in  the  Continental 
service  at  Rhode  Island,  in  Dearborn's  company  and  Peabody's 
regiment,  and  Massachusetts  Revolutionary  Rolls  show  that  he 
enlisted  in  Jenkins'  company,  Col.  Gerrish's  regiment,  at  Claver- 
ack,  N.  Y.,  and  served  with  the  rank  of  corporal. 

Rev.  Abraham  Bodwell,  of  Sanbornton,  aged  71  in  1832,  testi- 
fied to  Huse's  reputable  character. 

Children: 


184 

Rachee. 

185 

Joseph,  born  in  Sanbornton,  2  March,  1783;  died  in  Wa 

terbury,  Vt.,  24  Jan.,  1856,  leaving  several  children. 

186 

Nathan. 

187 

Hannah. 

188 

Theophilus  N. 

189 

Mercy. 

190 

Willim. 

191 

Sarah. 

192 

Ebenezer. 

193 

Mary. 

392  DESCENDANTS  OF  ABEL  HUSE 

194  Abigail. 

V.  98  PAOLI  HUSE  or  HEWES  (Elihu,  Abel(?),  Abel), 
born  in  Boston,  14  Jan.,  1769;  died  in  Belfast,  Me.,  19  June, 
1818,  aged  80  (Bangor  Historical  Magazine,  11:120).  He  mar- 
ried 10  Dec,  1787,  P Amelia  Cottrel,  daughter  of  Sylvester  Cot- 
trel,  of  Islesboro.  In  1791  he  was  constable,  and  in  1812  estab- 
lished salt  works  on  what  is  known  as  Hewes  Point.  Later  he 
removed  to  Belfast. 

Children,  as  given  by  Farrow:  19 

195  Paoli,  married  23  June,  1823,  Mercy  Barber  of  Deer  Isle. 

196  William,    married    (int.    27    Oct.)    1821,    Lucy    Coombs, 

daughter  of  Fields  Coombs,  born  12  April,  1803.  Wil- 
liam was  drowned  in  Belfast  Harbor,  1  Oct.,  1828,  and 
his  widow  married  20  Nov.,  1829,  Capt.  William  Wey- 
man  of  Belfast  and  Nova  Scotia.  She,  however,  died  in 
Islesboro.  Children:  William,  born  7  Dec,  1823;  died 
in  Baltimore.  Elbridge,  drowned  at  sea ;  married  Syl- 
vina  Thomas. 

197  Thomas. 

198  Joseph. 

199  Peggy,  married  12  Nov.,  1812,  John  Brown. 

200  Elbridge,  married  June,  1850.      His  children  were:  George 

W.,  born  25  Aug.,  1851.  Eleanor  E.,  born  17  April, 
1851. 

V.  100  JOHN  DENNISON  HUSE  (Enoch,  Abel(?),  Abel, 
Abel),  of  Harvard,  born  1759;  died  6  Aug.,  1810,  aged  81.  Will 
12  Nov.,  1839,  proved  Oct.,  1840;  names  children  as  below. 

Married  Dec,  1795,  Rebecca  Parker,  daughter  of  Eleazer 
and  Dinah  Parker,  of  Groton,  who  died  aged  101  years, 
2  months  and  12  days.  She  attended  to  all  ordinary  affairs  un- 
til nearly  a  hundred  years  old  (Nurse:  "History  of  Harvard"). 
She  claimed  to  be  seven  years  older  than  her  actual  age,  which 
was  carefully  investigated  by  Mr.  Nurse.  In  1870  administra- 
tion on  tin    estate  of  Rebecca  Huse  late  of  Harvard  was  granted 

iBThis  record  is  found  in  Vol.  -\  Bangor  Historical  Magazine,  and  in  Far- 
row's History  of  Islesboro  —  who,  however,  do  not  mention  a  former  Boston 
residence. 


DESCENDANTS  OF  ABEL  HUSE  393 

to  Asa  Daby.  Inventory  $379.  Those  interested  as  heirs  were 
Eli  D.  Collins,  Mary  E.  Collins,  Charles  H.  Huse,  Rebecca  Ross, 
George  Ross,  Al  Brown,  Maria  Brown,  Enoch  Huse,  Stephen  D. 
Huse  (Worcester  Probate). 

Children,  as  found  by  father's  will: 

201  Rebecca,   born    [ ]  ;   living  1869 ;   married  George 

Ross. 

202  Enoch,  living  1869. 

203  John,  born  14  Nov.,  1797;  living  1869. 

204  Dennison,  born  6  April,  1796;  had  children;  in  1849,  he 

was  appointed  guardian  for  his  children,  Roxana  Maria, 
and  Mary  Elizabeth,  both  over  14,  and  Charles  Warren 
Huse  over  14.  In  1851,  the  father  having  deceased, 
Stillman  Houghton  was  appointed  guardian  in  his  stead 
(Worcester  Probate).  He  married  Mary  Houghton. 
Their  son  Stephen  D.,  born  in  Harvard,  2  July,  1823, 
married  Almira,  daughter  of  Jeremiah  Hubbard,  who 
died  22  Aug.,  1881,  aged  51.  Stephen  D.  Huse  was  a 
currier,  and  served  in  the  Union  army.  He  died  12  Jan., 
1902,  aged  78-6-10.  Child:  Lizzie  M,  born  1  Feb.,  1849 ; 
married  John  Colby  and  died  11  Jan.,  1894  (Musgrove: 
"  History  of  Bristol,  N.  H  ")• 

205  Charlotte,  born  16  Oct.,  1799 ;  married  Daniel  M.  Rob- 


bins. 


V.  101  STEPHEN  HUSE  (John,  Stephen,  Abel,  Abel)  of 
Methuen,  born  there  12  Dec,  1764 ;  died  1803.  Administration 
to  widow  Dorothy.  He  married  (intention  8  Dec,  1792)  Dolly 
Rideout  of  Wilton,  N.  H.  (Methuen  Vital  records),  who  re- 
married, in  1804,  John  Sargent. 

He  had  the  settlement  of  his  father's  estate,  and  his  adminis- 
tratrix paid  over  to  Nathaniel  Huse  what  was  due  him,  and  also 
the  balance  due  on  the  estate  of  Deacon  John  Huse. 

Children  (from  Methuen  Vital  Records)  : 

206  Sukey,  born  14  Jan.,  1797.  Jonathan  Morrill  was  ap- 
pointed in  1805  guardian  of  Susanna,  aged  8,  and  Ste- 
phen, aged  6,  children  of  Stephen  Huse. 


394  DESCENDANTS  OF  ABEL  HUSE 

207  Stephen,  born  30  April,  1799. 

208  William,  born  1  Feb.,  1801 ;  died  13  Oct.,  1802. 

116  ISAAC  HUSE  (Abel(?),  Samuel  Abel,  Abel),  born  in 
Methuen,  Mass.,  16  Sept.,  1757. 

Massachusetts  Revolutionary  Rolls  show  that  he  served  5^  days 
in  Capt.  James  Mallon's  company  on  the  alarm  of  19  April,  1775, 
and  also  40  days  with  the  Northern  army  from  2  Oct.,  1777,  in 
Capt.  David  Whittier's  company,  Major  B.  Gage's  regiment; 
also  that  he  enlisted  2  June,  1778,  for  nine  months  in  the  Conti- 
nental army,  arriving  at  Fishkill  18  June,  and  was  assigned  to 
Col.  Rufus  Putnam's  regiment.  He  is  described  as  20  years  of 
age,  5  ft.,  10  in.  tall,  and  of  Methuen. 

Isaac  Huse  was  pensioned  in  1833.  His  declaration  on  file 
states  that  he  was  born  in  Methuen  in  1759,  and  that  he  enlisted 
in  Dec,  1775,  under  Lt.  Chandler  of  Andover,  and  in  Jan- 
uary joined  the  army  at  Cambridge.  He  was  attached  to  the 
16th  regiment  "  Bay  Line,"  commanded  by  Col.  Sargent  and  Lt.- 
Col.  Michael  Jackson,  being  in  Capt.  James  Heath's  company. 
With  twenty  others,  he  was  detached  from  his  command  and  sta- 
tioned at  Cambridge  making  cartridges  and  running  balls.  This 
lasted  during  the  winter  and  until  the  British  evacuated  Boston, 
when  he  was  ordered  to  rejoin  his  regiment  and  inarched  into 
Boston,  where  the  regiment  remained  a  few  days,  and  was  then 
ordered  to  Castle  Island.  After  a  few  weeks  the  command  was 
ordered  into  barracks  at  Bunker  Hill  and  remained  there  until 
the  first  of  June,  when  the  regiment  was  ordered  to  New  York 
and  was  stationed  on  the  island  near  "  Hurl  Gate,"  where  they 
remained  until  the  British  occupied  the  city,  13  Sept.,  1776. 
That  day  they  marched  to  Harlem  Heights,  and  the  next  day  had 
skirmishing  and  retired  over  King's  Bridge  to  Valentine's  Hill, 
and  soon  after  Huse  was  detached  under  Sergeant  Noyes  to  the 
Laboratory,  where  he  remained  two  or  three  weeks,  when  the  com- 
mand marched  to  White  Plains  and  Huse  was  placed  in  charge 
of  stores  at  Week's  Liberty  Pole  during  the  battle.  The  com- 
mand retired  to  North  Castle  and  remained  there  a  short  time  in 
company  with  ("apt.  Corey,  superintendent  of  stores,  and  was 
then  ordered  to  move,  with  all  the  Laboratory  stores,  to  Fishkill, 
where  they  guarded  stores  until  14  Jan.,  1777,  and  were  there 
discharged  by  Capt.  Corey,  two  hundred  miles  from  home. 


DESCENDANTS  OF  ABEL  HUSE  395 

In  Aug.,  1777,  he  engaged  in  a  company  of  volunteers  under 
Capt.  David  Whittier,  of  which  Elijah  Sargent  was  ensign  and 
Stephen  Webster  lieutenant,  and  marched  to  Bennington  where 
they  arrived  soon  after  the  battle.  The  company  proceeded  to 
Saratoga  and  joined  Gates'  army.  They  were  ordered  to  Fort 
Edward,  but  remained  there  only  a  few  days  when  they  were  called 
back  to  Saratoga  and  remained  there  until  Burgoyne  surren- 
dered. Helped  guard  the  British  army  to  Stillwater;  thence 
marched  to  Cambridge,  and  after  a  service  of  three  months  was 
discharged.  In  1778  upon  call  for  men  to  fill  vacancies  in  the 
Bay  line,  he  volunteered  and  joined  the  army  at  West  Point, 
being  assigned  to  Col.  Rufus  Putnam's  regiment  and  Capt.  Good- 
ell's  company.  Remained  at  West  Point  until  after  the  battle 
of  Monmouth,  and  was  then  ordered  to  White  Plains,  and  soon 
after  Huse  was  transferred  to  Col.  Weston's  regiment,  and  soon 
after  again  transferred  to  Col.  Henly's  regiment  and  placed 
under  "  my  old  captain,  James  Keith,"  and  moved  to  Phillips- 
burg,  seven  miles  in  advance  of  the  main  army.  After  five  months 
of  this  service  was  dismissed  from  the  Infantry  service  and  re- 
turned to  "  our  regiment "  at  Fishkill  barracks  and  remained 
there,  with  Weston's  regiment,  until  17  March,  1779,  when  he 
was  discharged.     He  returned  home  at  his  own  expense. 

On  the  27  April  following  his  discharge  from  the  army,  he 
moved  with  his  parents  from  Methuen  to  Derr}Tfield,  N.  H.,  and 
had  resided  there  ever  since. 

David  How  of  Haverhill  deposed  in  1832,  aged  75  years,  that 
he  enlisted  1  Jan.,  1776,  in  James  Keith's  company,  Col.  Paul 
Dudley  Sargent's  regiment,  Continental  line,  and  was  at  Cam- 
bridge and  vicinity  until  13  August,  when  we  marched  through 
Norwich  and  New  London  to  Horn's  Hook,  N.  Y.  They  went 
from  Norwich  by  water.  How  was  in  New  York  until  the  fall  of 
1776,  when  he  marched  to  Trenton  and  was  discharged  there  1 
Jan.,  1777.  Also  that  he  enlisted  in  Sept.,  1777,  as  sergeant  in 
Whittier's  company  to  guard  Burgoyne's  troops  and  served  two 
and  a  half  months,  and  that  Isaac  Huse,  of  Methuen,  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  same  company,  and  afterward  moved  to  Derryfield 
(now  Manchester,  N.  H.). 

David  Patten  deposed  that  he  was  a  member  of  Keith's  com- 
pany in  1778  and  1779,  and  that  Isaac  Huse  was  also  a  member 
of  that  company.      (Invalid  Pension,  10,900.) 


396  DESCENDANTS  OF  ABEL  HUSE 

V.  131  SAMUEL  HUSE  (Samuel,  Samuel,  Abel,  Abel),  of 
Methuen,  born  6  April,  1780;  died  21  Dec,  1835;  married  15 
Oct.,  1805,  Olive  Marston  (Methuen  Vital  Records),  who  was 
living  in  1837,  a  widow.     He  is  styled  "junior." 

Children,  (From  Methuen  Vital  Records)  : 

209  Marston,  born  15  Aug.,  1806;  married  July,  1837,  Mary 

Ann  Fowler. 

210  Aldex,  born  2  June,  1808;  died  21  July,  1822. 

211  Josl\h,  born  2  Nov.,  1810. 

212  Samuel,  born  2  Jan.,  1816. 

213  Clarissa  Marstox,  born  8  Jan.,  1818.     In  1836  she  was 

the  only  child  of  her  father  living  in  Massachusetts. 
21-i     James  Edric,  born  12  Jan.,  1824,  living  1837. 

V.  147  MOODY  HUSE  (Joseph,  Ebenezer,  Thomas  Abel), 
born  in  Weare,  N.  H.,  20  Jan.,  1784;  married  in  1810,  Shua 
Philbrick. 

Children,  from  Little's  "  History  of  Weare  ": 

215  Hannah,  born  11  July,  1811;  died  30  Aug.,  1839. 

216  Olive  P.,  born  3  Sept.,  1812;  married  David  Moore. 

217  Sumner,  born  8  Nov.,  1813;  died  27  June,  1838. 

218  Mary,  born  21   Sept.,  1815;  married  Lewis  Bartlett. 

219  Moody,  born  8  Oct.,   1817;  died  23  May,   1869;  married 

Nancy  V.  Eatox,  who  died  Oct.,  1856;  married,  second, 
Adeline  Eatox,  who  died  11  April,  1880.  Child: 
Nancy  V.,  born  1856,  married  George  W.  Follansbee. 

220  Eleanor,   born   28  Feb.,   1819;  died  unmarried,   1851. 

221  Orlando,  born  22  April,  1819;  married  Rhoda  A.  Blanch- 

ard  of  Manchester. 

222  Harvey,  born  11  Sept.,  1823;  married  Delia  C.  Lamprey  of 

Concord,  N.  H. 

223  Richard  P.,  born  21  May,  1825;  married  Mary  K.  Stev- 

i.xs  of  Manchester. 

V.  150  WILLIAM  HUSE  (Joseph,  Joseph,  Thomas,  Abel), 
of  Newburyport,  master-mariner,  born  28  Nov.,  1766;  adminis- 
tration <>n  his  estate  granted  '51  Dec,  1816)  to  son  William  Huse, 
tobacconist,  at  request  of  widow  Mary.  He  married  23  Nov., 
1790,  LYDIA  Cross  (Newburyport  records),  daughter  of  Ralph 
Cross.     (Esses    Deed-,.    157:192.)      He   married,   second,  Mary. 


DESCENDANTS  OF  ABEL  HUSE  397 

Children,   (From  Newbury  port  Records)  : 

224  Joseph,  Jr.,  died  10  Aug.,  1793. 

225  William,  3d.,  born  14  Aug.,  1791 ;  died  4  Aug.,  1794. 

226  William,  born  1  March,  1795 ;  administration  on  estate  of 

William  Huse  of  Newburyport,  merchant,  27  Sept.,  1825. 
Widow  Mary.     No  child  of  age. 

227  Thomas  Cross,  born  28  May,  1797;  living  1816. 

228  Caleb,  born  24  June,  1799 ;  died  1  Oct.,  1800. 

229  Caleb,  born  15  June,  1801. 

230  Lydia  Cross,  aged  13  in  1818,  when  her  mother,  Mary,  was 

appointed  her  guardian. 
Perhaps  others  later. 

169     SAMUEL  HUSE  (Samuel (?),  Joseph,  Thomas,  Abel),  of 
Newburyport;  married  Sally  Toppan. 

Children,   (From  Newburyport  Records)  : 

231  Sally  Toppax. 

232  Enoch,  born  23  July,  1795. 

233  Mary,  born  2  April,  1797. 

234  Samuel,  born  15  Sept.,  1798. 

JOHN  HUSE  (unplaced)  of  Haverhill.     Will  20  Nov.,  1838. 
He  married  Elizabeth  Tenny,  who  survived  her  husband. 

Children,  all  living  1838  (births  from  Haverhill  Vital  Records)  : 

1  Samuel  I.,  born  2  Oct.,  1796. 

2  Elizabeth  Tenney,  born  1  April,  1798. 

3  John,  born  8  May,  1800. 

4  Sophia,  born  26  Jan.,  1802;  married  [ ]   Johnson. 

5  Elizabeth   Smith,  born   14  Aug.,   1806;  married   [ ] 

Caldwell. 

6  Sarah,  born  3  May,  1811;  married  [ ]   Palmer. 

7  Mary  Moody,  born  2  Jan.,  1815  ;  married  [ ]  George. 

STEPHEN    HUSE    of   Haverhill    and   Methuen    (unplaced); 
married    (intention  28  May,   1826)    Charlotte  Parker  of  An- 
dover   (Methuen  Vital  Records).     He  was  a  physician. 
Children,  (From  Methuen  Vital  Records)  : 

Charlotte  Augusta,  born  15  April,  1827. 


898  DESCENDANTS  OF  ABEL  HUSE 

Stephen  Warwick,  born  20  Feb.,  1829. 

Helen  Eliza,  born  1  Nov.,  1831 ;  died  14  July,  1833. 

Willum  Kirk,  born  8  Aug.,  1833. 

George  Orville,  born  2  June,  1835. 

Joseph  Langdon,  born  27  Jan.,  1839;  died  10  Sept.,  1810. 

AARON  HUSE  (unplaced)  ;  married  Anna,  Nanny  or  Nancy. 
Children   (From  Newbury  Records)  : 

Nancy  Pearson,  born  22  Sept.,  1806. 

Aaron,  born  22  Sept.,  1808 ;  died  2  May,  1809. 

Aaron,  of  Aaron  and  Anna,  died  22  May,  1817,  aged  10 

years.      (Query  if  age  at  death  can  be  right.) 
Daniel,  born  of  Aaron  and  Nanny,  died  2-1  Sept.,  1831, 
aged  4<  years. 

JOHN  HUSE  (unplaced),  died  at  Windham,  N.  H.,  10  Oct., 
1819.  He  was  married  at  Chester,  1769,  by  Rev.  Mr.  Fagg, 
to  Mehitable  Bussel,  who  in  1837  was  86  years  of  age. 

Mehitable,  widow  of  John  Hughes,  was  pensioned  in  1838. 
She  made  application  for  a  pension  in  1837  when  she  was  aged 
86  years,  stating  that  her  husband  had  served  as  private,  orderly 
sergeant,  ensign  and  lieutenant ;  as  private  at  Winter  Hill  in  sum- 
mer of  1775,  and  had  fought  at  Bunker  Hill,  and  as  sergeant  in 
Runnell's  company  at  Peekskill  in  1776  three  months  or  more, 
and  as  ensign  in  the  same  company,  and  after  the  death  of  Lt. 
David  McClary  as  lieutenant ;  and  that  she  was  married  at  Ches- 
ter in  1769,  and  had  had  five  children  born  before  the  Revolution. 
Her  husband  died  at  Windham,  10  Oct.,  1819. 

Allen  Anderson,  aged  80,  deposed  he  was  at  the  battle  of  Ben- 
nington with  Hughes.  Robert  Morrison,  aged  83,  gave  the  same 
testimony  (Pension  Claim,  Widow,  14,962). 

New  Hampshire  Revolutionary  Rolls  show  that  John  Huse 
was  a  member  of  Runnell's  company,  Tash's  regiment,  in  New 
York  in  Sept.,  1776,  and  that  he  was  ensign  same  company,  Col. 
Moses  Nichols'  regiment ;  enlisted  20  July,  1777,  promoted  lieu- 
tenant 16  Aug.,  1777.  Roll  dated  26  Sept.,  1777.  This  regi- 
ment marched  to  reenforcc  Spark's  brigade. 
Children,  five  born  prior  to  Revolution: 

Anna,  third  child  (deposition  of  Abigail  Mitchel  in  pension 
case). 


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NOTES   ON   THE    OCCURRENCE   PRIOR   TO    1800  OF   THE 

NAME  HEWES,  HUSE,  HUGHES  IN  THE 

UNITED  STATES 

Borne    by   Persons    Presumably   Not   Allied   with   the   Families 
Described  in  the  Preceding  Pages;  Including  In- 
formation Obtained  from  Pension  Records. 

MASSACHUSETTS. 

As  we  have  seen,  the  chief  persons  of  the  name  settled  in  or 
about  Boston  spelled  their  name  Hewes,  Hues  or  Huse,  and  were  of 
three  well  defined  groups.  Mostly  those  persons  whose  genealogy  is 
given  in  this  chapter  are  described  on  the  records  and  so  described 
themselves,  where  we  find  them  spelling  their  own  name,  as  Hughes. 
This  fact  may  not  have  significance  regarding  origin;  it  is  a  point, 
however,  not  to  be  overlooked.  At  the  present  time,  and  especially 
since  the  Irish  migration  set  in,  most  of  the  persons  arriving  in  New 
England  bearing  this  name,  spell  it  Hughes  or  Hughs. 

Reference  to  deeds  and  settlements  of  estates  in  the  various  land  and 
probate  registries,  and  to  town  records,  court  records,  and  other 
sources  of  information  of  date  later  than  1750,  and  in  some  instances 
earlier,  will  undoubtedly  reveal  additional  data  concerning  these  mis- 
cellaneous family  groups.  It  was  not  the  intention  of  the  compiler  of 
this  work  to  trace  the  occurrence  of  the  name  in  New  England  after 
the  middle  of  the  eighteenth  century,  except  so  far  as  necessary  in 
completing  the  record  of  the  descendants  of  Lieut.  Joshua  Hewes 
through  the  line  of  John  Hewes  of  Lynnfield. 

The  earliest  mention  of  the  name  Hewes  in  connection  with  New 
England  is  found  in  the  mention  of  a  "  Mr.  Hewes,"  master  of  a  fish- 
ing vessel  in  1625,  whose  visit  to  New  England  is  thus  described  by 
Rev.  William  Hubbard  in  his  History  of  New  England,  written 
in  1680: 

"  In  one  of  the  fishing  voyages  about  the  year  1625,  under  the 
charge  and  command  of  one  Mr.  Hewes,  employed  by  some  of  the 
West  Country  merchants,  there  arose  a  sharp  contest  between  the  said 
Hewes  and  the  people  of  New  Plymouth,  about  a  fishing  stage,  built 
the  year  before,  about  Cape  Ann  by  Plymouth  men,  but  was  now,  in 
the  absence  of  the  builders,  made  use  of  by  Mr.  Hewes,  his  company, 

399 


400  OTHER  FAMILIES  —  MASSACHUSETTS 

which  the  other  under  the  conduct  of  Capt.  Standish,  very  eagerly 
and  peremptorily  demanded:  for  the  company  of  New  Plymouth, 
having  themselves  obtained  an  useless  patent  for  Cape  Anne,  about 
the  year  1623,  sent  some  of  the  ships  which  their  adventurers  em- 
ployed to  transport  passengers  over  to  them,  to  make  fish  there,  for 
which  end  they  had  built  a  stage  there,  in  the  year  1624.  The  dispute 
grew  to  be  very  hot,  and  high  words  passed  between  them,  which  might 
have  ended  in  blows,  if  not  in  blood  and  slaughter,  had  not  the  pru- 
dence and  consideration  of  Mr.  Roger  Conant,  at  that  time  there 
present,  and  Mr.  Peirse  his  interposition,  that  lay  just  by  with  his 
ship,  timely  prevented.  For  Mr.  Hewes  had  barricaded  his  company 
with  hogsheads  on  the  stagehead,  while  the  demandants  stood  upon 
the  land,  and  might  easily  have  been  cut  off;  but  the  ship's  crew  by 
advice  promising  them  to  help  them  build  another,  the  difference  was 
thereby  ended.  Capt.  Standish  had  been  bred  a  soldier  in  the  Low 
Countries  .  .  .  a  little  chimney  is  soon  fired;  so  was  the  Plymouth 
captain,  a  man  of  very  little  stature,  yet  of  a  very  hot  and  angry 
temper." 

Gov.  Bradford  in  his  "  History  of  Plymouth  Plantation "  writes 
of  this  incident:  "  Some  of  Ly fords  and  Oldhams  friends,  and  their 
adherents,  set  out  a  ship  on  fishing,  on  their  owne  accounte,  and 
getting  ye  start  of  ye  ships  that  came  to  the  plantation,  they  tooke 
away  their  stage,  &  other  necessary  provisions  they  had  made  for 
fishing  at  Cap-Anne  ye  year  before,  at  their  great  charge,  and  would 
not  restore  ye  same,  excepte  they  would  fight  for  it  .  .  .  but  they 
made  so  pore  a  bussines  of  their  fishing,  (neither  could  these  men  make 
them  any  returns  for  ye  supply  sente,)  so  as,  after  this  year,  they 
never  looked  more  after."  Bradford  here  refers  to  the  abandoning  of 
the  few  settlers  at  Cape  Ann  by  their  principals  at  home. 

This  would  lead  us  to  infer  that  "  Mr.  Hewes  "  was  engaged  by 
the  old  Dorchester  company.  He  probably  had  no  further  connection 
with  New  England. 

Essex  County 

At  Salem  the  first  of  the  name  was  ARTHUR  HEWES,  of  whom 
more  will  be  found  under  Maine.  His  residence  in  Salem  was  brief, 
during  the  Indian  troubles  beginning  in  1675. 

JOHN  HUGHES,  who  probably  was  a  young  man  living  in  a  Saleml 
Village  family,  appears  during  the  Witchcraft  excitement  in  1692. 
His  testimony  shows  he  had  a  highly  strung  imagination,  and  that  he 
was  thoroughly  scared  on  the  occasion  of  his  experience.1  He  disap- 
pears from  view  without  further  record. 

i  John  Hughes  5  March,  lfi!)l-2,  signed  a  deposition  made  by  William 
Allen   to   tlie   following  effect:  that  on    1    March   at  night  he   heard  a  strange 


•    OTHER  FAMILIES  —  MASSACHUSETTS  401 

JOHN  HUGHES  of  Salem  was  married  31  July,  1773,  to 
Mehetable  Henderson.  No  children  appear  to  them  on  the  town 
records.  In  November,  1797,  the  Supreme  Court  at  Essex  term,  con- 
sidered the  case  of  John  Hewes  and  wife  appellants  vs.  William 
Luscomb.  Mehetable,  the  wife  of  John  Hewes,  was  apparently  suing 
for  the  setting  off  of  a  dower,  and  the  validity  of  a  deed  was  in  ques- 
tion. Probably  he  was  the  Revolutionary  soldier.  John  Hews,  called 
of  Salem,  a  member  of  Hart's  company,  Sargent's  regiment,  enlisted  27 
May,  1775,  and  in  October  was  a  member  of  Wiley's  company  same  reg- 
iment (28th)  and  on  the  rolls  of  the  same  company  13  Dec,  1775. 
(Mass.  Rev.  Rolls.)  John,  son  of  John  Hughs,  was  bapt.  16  Oct.,  1774. 
John  Huse,  married  25  June,  1838,  Mrs.  Eliza  Pepper  (Salem  Town 
Records). 

CHRISTOPHER  HEWS,  of  Salem,  quarter-master  on  ship 
Rhodes,  Capt.  N.  Buffington,  14  Aug.,  1780,  40  years  old,  5  feet,  6 
inches  tall,  light  complexion,  and  a  resident  of  Salem  (Mass.  Rev. 
Rolls).  In  1781  Christopher  Hewes  was  assessed  a  total  tax  of 
.£1-41-10,  in  Salem. 

JOHN  HUGHES,  enlisted  for  the  credit  of  Beverly  7  Sept.,  1781, 
for  three  years  (Mass.  Rev.  Rolls). 

At  Marblehead  a  SARAH  HUGHS  was  married  24  Nov.,  1715,  to 
Moses  Phillips.  There  is  no  indication  to  what  family  she  belonged. 
JAMES  HEWS  married  10  July,  1768,  Susanna  Nicholson  (Vital 
Records).  As  in  the  census  of  1790  Susanna  Hughes  was  enumerated 
as  the  head  of  her  family,  which  consisted  of  one  other  female  besides 
herself,  it  is  probable  that  James  left  no  issue  male.  Probably  he  was 
a  fisherman  or  mariner. 

noise  not  usually  heard  and  so  continued  for  many  times  so  that  he  was 
affrighted,  and  coming  nearer  to  it  he  there  saw  a  strange  and  unusual 
beast  lying  on  the  ground,  so  that  going  up  to  it  the  said  beast  vanished 
away,  and  in  the  said  place  started  up  two  or  three  women  but  swiftly 
vanished  away  out  of  our  sight,  which  women  we  took  to  be  Sarah  Good, 
Sarah  Osburne,  and  Tittabe.  The  time  was  about  an  hour  within  night,  and 
I,  John  Hughes,  saith  ye  same  being  in  company  with  said  Allen. 

John  Hughes  further  saith,  that  on  2d  March,  coming  from  Goodman 
Sibley's  about  8  at  night,  saw  a  great  white  dog,  and  when  Hughes  came  up 
it  would  not  stir,  but  after  he  passed  followed  him  four  or  five  poles,  and  so 
disappeared.  The  same  night  being  in  bed  in  a  closed  room,  with  the  door 
so  that  no  cat  or  dog  could  enter,  saw  a  great  light  in  the  chamber,  and 
rising  in  bed,  saw  a  large  grey  cat  at  the  bed  foot  (Witchcraft  Papers, 
Salem  Court  House). 

This  testimony  was  part  of  that  which  brought  Sarah  Osburne  to  the 
gallows.  Like  the  mysterious  dog  and  strange  beast,  John  vanished  away 
too,  for  no  trace  is  found  of  him  later.  He  was  probably  some  lad,  fright- 
ened by  fireside  tales,  whose  imagination  did  the  rest. 


402  OTHER  FAMILIES  —  MASSACHUSETTS 

At  Newbury  was  the  Huse  family,  the  first  few  generations  of 
which  are  given  elsewhere,  and  who  seem  to  have  had  no  difficulty  in 
adhering  to  the  chosen  spelling  of  their  name.  This  is  the  family  so 
well  known  throughout  northern  Essex.  Representatives  are  found 
early  in  1700  in  the  middle  and  central  parts  of  the  state  and  in 
southern  New  Hampshire. 

EDWARD  HUSE  was  certified  by  James  Stevens  to  be  in  full 
communion  with  the  church  at  Gloucester,  May,  1690,  and  was  ad- 
mitted freeman  of  Massachusetts  16  May  (Archives,  35:350).  Per- 
haps he  had  been  of  Plymouth,  son  of  Thomas.  There  is  no  further 
record  of  him  at  Gloucester;  but  Mary  Piper  at  the  December,  1699, 
term  of  the  Essex  Court  of  Sessions  claimed  that  a  certain  Edward 
Hewes  was  the  father  of  her  child.  PAUL  HUGHES,  "  sojourner  "  at 
Gloucester,  married  there  30  Nov.,  1749,  Sarah  Foster  of  that  place, 
and  had  a  son  James,  born  1754.  Administration  was  granted  on  the 
estate  of  Paul  Hughes,  26  April,' 1774.  The  administratrix  repre- 
sented the  estate  as  insolvent  (Essex  Probate).  JOHN  HEWS,  or  as 
frequently  spelled  Huse,  settled  in  Gloucester  soon  after  1700.  Ac- 
cording to  his  own  statement  he  was  born  in  1685  in  Wales,  and  at 
the  age  of  seventeen  was  drafted  to  serve  on  a  ship  of  war,  and  thus 
became  a  sailor  in  the  expedition  of  Sir  George  Rooke  against  Cadiz, 
and  in  the  capture  of  the  Spanish  galleons  at  Vigo.  Some  time  after 
this  he  was  transported  to  Virginia  for  crime;  after  his  time  expired 
sailed  on  a  trading  schooner  bound  for  Gloucester.  He  served  in  the 
expedition  against  Louisburg  in  1745,  and  in  that  of  1758,  at  the 
latter  date  73  years  of  age.  He  died  August,  1793,  in  Gloucester  at 
the  extraordinary  age  of  108.  He  was  a  very  profane  man,  but 
longed  for  death.  He  was  accustomed  to  say  God  had  forgotten  him, 
so  he  attempted  suicide  in  or  about  1 790,  but  the  toughness  of  the  skin 
of  his  neck  turned  the  edge  of  the  razor.  He  finally  resorted  to 
starvation  and  in  30  days  was  dead.  So  runs  the  story,  believe  so 
much  of  it  as  we  will. 

He  married  10  Oct.,  1735,  Hannah  Bray,  who  died  before  22  Feb., 
1763,  when  her  coffin  was  paid  for  by  the  town.  She  was  the  daughter 
of  Nathaniel  Bray,  and  was  born  20  April,  1693  (Essex  Antiq.).  He 
married  (2)  10  Oct.,  1763,  Eunice  Allen,  aged  36,  and  by  her  he  had 
a  son,  John,  who  Was  a  Revolutionary  soldier,  and  a  mariner,  and  who 
died  in  the  poor-house  IS  May,  1849.  Eunice  died  14  Dec,  1806, 
aged  80.  The  son  John  was  baptized  1  Sept.,  176.').  and  was  84  at 
death,  not  95  years  as  recorded.  Probably  his  father  was  by  no  means 
as  aged  as  the  record  represents,  and   his  tale  of  his   early  life  may 


OTHER  FAMILIES  —  MASSACHUSETTS  403 

have  been   a   sailor's   yarn.      (See   Babson's    "  History  of   Gloucester, 
and  Additions  2,"  p.  109.) 

WILLIAM  HE  WES  or  HEWGES,  who  was  probably  of  the  early 
Baptists,  against  whom  a  law  was  enacted  in  November,  1614,  was  early 
at  Lynn.  William  sold  cattle  at  New  Meadows  (Topsfield)  at  the  farm 
where  the  said  William  now  lives,  13  August,  1643,  to  Richard  Barker 
of  Chuichichock  (Andover),  among  the  witnesses  was  John  Hughes 
(Essex  Court  Files,  6:15),  and  in  1645  he  was  sued  by  Wm. 
Paine.2  As  William  Huse  he  sued  and  obtained  judgment  of  £5 
against  John  Cogswell  of  Ipswich  in  1647  (Ipswich  Court  Records). 
Perhaps  he  had  been  in  Ipswich  before  settling  in  Lynn.  In  July, 
1644,  William  Hewes  and  John  Hewes,  his  son,  were  presented  at  the 
Salem  Quarterly  Court  "  for  deriding  such  as  sing  in  the  congrega- 
tion, tearming  them  fooles,  also  William  Hewes  for  saying  Mr. 
Whiting  preaches  confusedly;  also  John  Hewes  for  charging  Mr. 
Cobbitt  with  falseness  in  his  doctrine."  William  claimed  he  was  mis- 
quoted, and  that  the  witness  was  of  known  unreliability.  They  were 
each  fined  fifty  shillings,  and  ordered  to  make  a  public  confession  at 
Lynn  at  a  public  meeting,  "  which  according  to  it  the  Cort  will  con- 
sider of  their  fines."  The  use  of  the  old  fashioned  H,  which  much 
resembles  an  L,  in  the  writing  of  that  time  has  caused  suspicion  that 
some  references  to  the  name  Hewes  may  have  been  from  time  to  time 
printed  under  Lewis.  So  evident  was  this,  that  in  the  Plymouth 
Colony  Records,  printed  by  the  state,  a  reference  in  the  index 
refers  the  searchers  to  Lewis.  No  one  acquainted  with  the  writing  of 
that  day  would  be  led  to  read  Hewes  as  Lewis.  On  the  2  mo.,  1648, 
he  was  again  in  trouble,  this  time  for  not  contributing  toward  the 
maintenance  of  the  ministry  (Essex  Court  Files).  His  wife  was 
Parnell,  who  was  fined  for  selling  strong  waters  without  a  license, 
and  had  her  fine  remitted  15  October,  1650,  and  the  next  day  was 
pardoned  for  her  offense,  "  whereby  one  was  distempered  "  (Records 
of  the  General  Court  and  Assistants). 

In  an  account  filed  against  Mr.  Robert  Gibbs  in  January,  1667, 
by  one,  not  named,  who  had  acted  as  his  attorney  from  July,  1659,  the 
first  entry  is  for  "  letters  of  administration  about  John  Andrews  and 
(William  ?  )  Hewes  estate.  Inventory  recorded  and  affidavits  7  shil- 
lings." The  reading  is  obscure,  but  it  is  thought  the  name  in  brackets 
is  William,  and  the  name  following  Hewes.  If  so,  as  Gibbs  was  much 
concerned  in  trade,  it  is  probable  that  Hewes  had  died  prior  to  1659. 

2  See  Essex  Antiquarian,  Vol.  5,  p.  91,  88,  and  28. 


404  OTHER  FAMILIES  —  MASSACHUSETTS 

But  if  administration  was  taken  out,  no  record  has  been  found.  In  the 
same  account  is  an  item  concerning  Lt.  Joshua  Hues,  but  of  much 
later  date  (Suffolk  Files,  835). 

No  further  notice  is  found  of  this  family,  possibly  they  had 
removed  out  of  the  jurisdiction,  perhaps  to  Long  Island. 

SAMUEL  T.  HUSE,  of  Lynn;  intention  of  marriage  16  Nov., 
1823,  at  Lynn,  to  Anna  L.  No  yes. 

Children,  from  Lynn  Vital  Records: 

William  Henry,  died  21  Aug.,  1825. 

Ann  Eliza,  born  1  Aug.,  1825. 

Samuel  Augustus,  born  28  July,  1827. 

William  Henry,  born  5  Nov.,  1829;  died  2  Aug.,  1830. 

Mary  Frances,  born  22  Nov.,   1831. 

Infant  child,  buried  10  Oct.,  1839. 

MARY  ANN  HEWES  and  Miles  Blanchard  were  married  at 
Lynn,  22  Nov.,  1837  (Lynn  Vital  Records). 

Middlesex  County 

GEORGE  HUSE  was  married  to  Lydia  Bennett  3-5th  Month, 
1679  (County  Records,  "Concord" — also  see  Lancaster  Records 
printed  by  Nourse).  He  is  probably  that  Gorge  Hughs  who  died  at 
Sudbury,  20  Feb.,  1711-12  (Sudbury  Vital  Records).  See  also  under 
George  Hewes,  who  served  in  the  Falls  Fight  under  Turner  18  May, 
1676,  who  however  is  said  to  have  been  of  Springfield.  According  to 
a  petition  from  Lancaster  to  the  governor,  for  protection  against  the 
Indians,  presented  Oct.,  1704,  the  Indians  had  beset  that  town  on  the 
31  July,  and  many  inhabitants  had  lost  cattle,  among  others  George 
Heewes,  who  lost  two  oxen  and  two  cows   (Archives,  113:363). 

ROBERT  HUGHES  was  taxed  in  Stow,  for  one  person,  1  shilling 
8  pence.  See  return  dated  28  August,  1688  (Register,  32:81).  Mid- 
dlesex probate  and  deeds,  and  the  early  Court  records  throw  no  light 
upon  the  above. 

For  Mary  Hewes,  spinster,  and  widow,  of  Charlestown  in  1697,  see 
under  Suffolk  County,  as  her  husband  was  of  Boston. 

For  John  Hughes  of  Groton,  see  under  John  Hughes  of  Plaistow, 
N.  H. 


OTHER  FAMILIES  —  MASSACHUSETTS  405 

JOHN  HEWES,  of  Lexington,  first  appears  in  Watertown,  where 
he  married  9  March,  1676-7,  Ruth  Sawtell,  sister  to  John  "  Satle  " 
of  Cambridge  (Midd.  Deeds,  15:575).  Bond,  in  History  of  Water- 
town,  states  that  he  was  a  proprietor  there  in  1642,  evidently  an  error, 
as  the  printed  records  fail  to  mention  him.  John  Hewes  or  Hues,  as 
his  name  more  frequently  appears,  was  a  weaver.  On  6  Feb.,  1679-80, 
he  bought  15  acres  in  Cambridge,  which  he  sold  to  John  Sterns,  15 
April,  1686.  It  then  had  a  house  upon  it.  He  received  from  Sterns 
a  tract  of  land  embracing  25  acres,  which  appears  to  be  the  same  land 
conveyed  by  Hewes  9  April,  1713,  to  William  Reed,  gentleman,  when 
it  had  upon  it  two  dwellings,  the  consideration  being  ,£171  New 
England  money  (Deeds,  7:364;  10:620;  16:403).  In  the  meantime  he 
had  purchased  part  of  Oakes'  farm  in  Billerica,  which  he  sold  in  two 
lots  (Deeds,  18:475;  22:306).  On  the  30  April,  1719,  he  bought  of 
Cambridge  110  acres,  part  of  the  Church  farm,  and  this  he  immediately 
deeded,  from  love  and  affection,  to  his  daughter  Elizabeth,  19  Nov., 
1719  (Deeds,  21:403).  The  wife  Ruth  was  living  in  1713,  but  had 
apparently  deceased  before  the  gift  of  the  farm  to  Elizabeth.  Since 
1686  he  certainly  had  lived  in  what  is  now  Lexington.  He  made  his 
will  31  Jan.,  1721,  which  was  proved  by  the  daughter  Elizabeth  29 
Jan.,  1721-2.  By  it  he  bequeathed  to  his  son  Jonathan  20  shillings,  he 
having  had  his  portion,  and  the  rest  of  his  estate  to  his  daughter 
Elizabeth  Hews,  whom  he  makes  executrix  (Midd.  Probate,  16:351). 
The  testator  died  15  Dec.,  1721   (Lexington  Vital  Records). 

Children : 

John,  born  15  Feb.,  1677-8;  d.  y. 

Jonathan,  of  whom  below. 

Samuel,  born  27  Oct.,  1679;  died  April,  1680. 

Elizabeth,  born  27  Jan.,  1680-1 ;  bapt.,  with  Jonathan,  at 
Cambridge  Farms,  10  Sept.,  1699;  of  Lexington  1722,  un- 
married. "  Eliner  Hewes,"  single  woman,  belonging  to 
Lexington,  who  came  thence  into  Boston,  13  days  before, 
was  warned  to  depart  from  Boston,  14  Jan.,  1717-8  (Se- 
lectmen's Records). 

JONATHAN  HEWES  (John),  of  Lexington,  married  at  Water- 
town,  25  March,  1709  (Town  Records),  Elizabeth  Underwood,  "both 
of  Cambridge."     The  Lexington  records  contain  the  entry  of  death  of 

[ ]eth    Hews,    12    Jan.,    1720.     Probably   she   was   the  wife   of 

Jonathan. 


406  OTHER  FAMILIES  —  MASSACHUSETTS 

Children : 

Jonathan,  bapt.  20  June,  1710. 
Elizabeth,  bapt.  23  Sept.,  1711. 

Edmond,    born    16,    bapt.    21    Sept.,    1712     (Lexington    Vital 
Records). 

JOHN  HEWES  was  published  18  July,  1737,  to  Jean  Tallbut,3 
■who  was  born  16  March,  1716-17,  in  Boston,  daughter  of  Roger  and 
Hannah  Talbot,  of  Boston. 

On  the  16  Sept.,  1743,  John  and  Jane  Hughes  mortgaged  premises 
near  the  Mill  Pond,  recently  purchased  of  Samuel  Bass,  to  James 
Smith,  who,  after  the  death  of  her  husband  attached  the  property  of 
Jane  Hughes  widow,  23  Dec,  1745,  and  sold  the  premises.  (Suffolk 
Deeds,  72:  198.) 

Children,  baptized  at  King's  Chapel: 

Ann,  baptized  2  Feb.,  1738. 

Hannah,  baptized  15  Oct.,  1740.     A  Hannah  Hewes  married 

Samuel  Robbins,  4  Oct.,  1759,  in  Boston. 
Abraham,  baptized  21  Oct.,  1741. 

ABRAHAM  HEWS  (John),  of  Weston,  born  "  20  Nov.,  1741," 
died  7  May,  1818  (Geneal.  Memoirs  Midd.,  I,  242), 4  was 
called  son  of  John  Hews,  late  of  Boston,  deceased,  26  Feb., 
1759,  when  James  Coolidge  of  Watertown  was  appointed  his 
guardian.  Abraham  Hews  was  then  aged  18  years  (Middlesex  Pro- 
bate, 37;  318).  He  married  in  Watertown,  10  Jan.,  1766,  Lucy 
Jennison,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Abigail  (Holden)  Jennison,  and  in 
1768  settled  in  Waltham  (Middlesex  Sessions-Warnings).  He  was 
sergeant  in  Capt.  Lamson's  company,  which  responded  to  the  alarm  of 
19  April,  1775,  and  was  credited  with  three  days'  service  (Mass.  Rev. 
Rolls).  In  1783  he  is  called  a  potter.  Abraham  Hews  of  Weston, 
yeoman,  made  his  will  14  Feb.,  1818,  proved  23  June  following.  To 
his  wife  all  his  estate  for  her  life.  Sons  Charles  and  John  have  had 
their  portions.  Son  Abraham,  executor,  who  was  to  pay  legacies  of 
$90  each  to  his  sisters,  viz:  Lucy,  wife  of  Aaron  Whittmore;  Sally 
Hews,  Anna  Hews,  Betsy,  wife  of  John  Taylor;  Mary,  wife  of  John 
Farwell;  Sukey  Hews,  Nabby,  wife  of  Solomon  Hancock;  residue  was 
to  be  divided  after  the  mother's  death,  among  the  children,  except 

3  Boston  Marriage  Intentions,  3:  179,  quoted  by  Mrs.  Underbill  in  "Gene- 
alogy of  Edward  Small,"  p.  1510,  in  an  account  of  this  family. 

4  This  publication  gives  an  account  of  the  descendants  of  Abraham,  but 
without  evidence,  and  against  such  evidence  as  we  have,  assumes  that  Abra- 
ham was  a  descendant  of  John  Hewes  of  Scituate,  through  John  Hewes  of 
Lexington. 


OTHER  FAMILIES  —  MASSACHUSETTS  407 

Charles,  John,  and  Nabby  (Midd.  Probate,  130;  418).  In  the  Census 
of  1790,  there  were  two  males  over  and  three  males  under  16,  and  five 
females  in  his  family.     His  widow  died  5  Oct.,  1830,  aged  84  years. 

Children : 

Abraham,  born  30  May,  1766. 

Lucy,  born  3  July,  1768;  married  22  Nov.,  1789,  Isaac  San- 
derson, according  to  Bond,  who  also  gives  Sanderson  a  second 
wife  in  1801;  but  according  to  the  father's  will  Lucy  was 
living  1818  as  wife  of  Aaron  Whittemore. 

Sarah,  born  6  Aug.,  1770. 

Anna,  born  28  March,  1772. 

Elizabeth,  born  1  Feb.,  1774;  married  John  Taylor. 

Mary,  born  8  March,  1776;  married  John  Farwell. 

Sukey,  born  1784;  died  unmarried  9  Jan.,,  1857,  aet.  73  years. 

Nabby;  married  Solomon  Hancock. 

Charles,  bapt.  13  Sept.,  1778,  aet.  3  weeks;  married  Alice 
Harrington. 

John,5  born  30  July,  1786;  died  in  Cambridge  17  Mar.,  1870; 
married  31  Jan.,  1811,  Catherine  Cochran,  daughter  of 
Samuel  Wellington  of  Watham,  and  had  Catherine,  born  17 
Dec,  1812,  who  married  Chas.  W.  Moore;  Emily,  who  mar- 
ried Joshua  Atkins;  Augustus  Henry,  a  jeweller  in  Boston, 
died  1904;  Ellen  Maria  of  Cambridge;  also  Smith  Welling- 
ton, aged  9  months,  son  of  John  Hewes,  died  in  Boston  29 
Nov.,  1834,  and  was  buried  in  Waltham  (Boston  Records). 
Franklin,  son  of  John  Hewes,  died  at  Boston  29  Nov.,  1836, 
aged  5  years,  4  months;  buried  at  Waltham. 

ABRAHAM  HEWS  (Abraham),  of  Weston,  born  30  May,  1766, 
died  15  July,  1854,  in  Weston;  published  30  May,  1794,  to  Martha 
Griffin  of  East  Sudbury.     She  died  1  Jan.,  1857,  aet.  about  82  years. 

Children : 

Samuel,  born  9  Jan.,  1795;  married,  1817,  Martha  Pierce. 

Children : 

George,  born  10  July,  1827- 
Samuel  C,  born  Aug.,  1830;  died  1833. 
Henry  A.,  born  20  Jan.,  1838. 
Abraham,  born  13  Feb.,  1797:  of  Boston,  merchant;  married  27 
Nov.,    1822,    Mary    Symms    of    Newton.     Mary    Shipley 

s  Probably  lived  in  Boston.  A  male  child  of  John  Hews  died  there,  2 
March,  18.24,  aged  14  days.  John,  son  of  John  Hews,  was  drowned  16  April, 
1822,  aged  three  years,  buried  in  Waltham   (Boston  records). 


408  OTHER  FAMILIES  —  MASSACHUSETTS 

Hewes,   daughter   of   Abraham   Hewes,   Jr.,  died    aged   2 
years,  2  months,  25  May,  1832  (Boston  records). 
Marshall,  born  24  Feb.,  1799;  had  wife,  Miranda. 

Children : 

Mary  Frances,  born  28  Jan.;  died  2  Oct.,  1827. 

Marshall,  born  5  Nov.,  1828. 
Martha,  born  13  Jan.,  1801. 
Mary,  born  8  Nov.,  1802. 
Sophronia,  born  1  June,  1804. 
George,  born  6  Jan.,  1806 
Celinda,  born  24  May,  1807- 
Horatio,  born  9  Jan.,  1810. 

Abigail  Mirick,  born  13  March,  1813;  died  2  Feb.,  1814. 
Horace,  born  15  Dec,  1815. 
Susanna,  born  1  March,  1818. 

JAMES  HEWS  died  28  July,  1788,  in  his  twenty-fourth  year 
(gravestone  at  Reading). 

RICHARD  HUGHES  marched  with  Capt.  Ford's  company  from 
Chelmsford  to  Ticonderoga,  25  July,  1776,  and  was  discharged  at 
Albany  1  Jan.,  1777-  Either  he  or  another  unplaced  Richard 
engaged  for  Swanzey  and  was  assigned  to  Col.  William  Lee's  regiment 
and  was  in  the  service  at  some  period  between  January  and  March, 
1778   (Mass.  Rev.  Rolls). 

THOMAS  HEWS,  ancestry  unknown,  died  in  Dunstable,  and  ad- 
ministration of  his  estate  was  granted  to  his  widow  Abigail,  who  de- 
clined to  serve,  29  Sept.,  1829  (Middlesex  Probate,  112:110). 

THOMAS  HE  WES  of  Medford,  merchant,  in  1800  sold  land  in 
Worcester  county  (Deeds,  140:  29).  This  he  had  taken  under  fore- 
closure in  1799,  when  he  was  styled  of  Boston  (Ibid.,  135:  475). 

Suffolk  County 

SAMUEL  HE  WES  of  Boston,  mariner,  in  1737  sold  lands  in  Nar- 
ragansett  township  No.  5.     See  also  under  Suffolk  county. 

JAMES  HEWES,  or  Hughes,  of  Boston  and  Gloucester,  aged  44  in 
1680,  born  therefore  about  1636,  is  probably  that  James  Hewes  who 
was  buried  at  Boston  8  August,  1718  (Sexton's  bill).     His  wife  was 


OTHER  FAMILIES  —  MASSACHUSETTS  409 

Elizabeth,  as  we  learn  from  the  record  of  births  of  their  children  on 
both  Boston  and  Gloucester  records.  They  lived  in  Boston  in  1669, 
then  in  Gloucester,  and  again  in  Boston.  He  is  perhaps  that  James 
Hewes  or  Hughes  who  was  doing  garrison  duty  at  Marlboro  in  Feb- 
ruary, 1675-6,  and  served  under  Major  Savage  from  February  to  May, 
1676.  He  was  credited  24  June,  1676,  with  £2-2-0  for  his  wages 
(Bodge;  King  Philip's  War).  In  1690  in  September,  and  undoubt- 
edly in  August,  he  was  in  service  in  Canada  from  Boston  (Boston 
treasurer's  accounts).  On  the  31  Oct.,  1679,  James  Hughes  of  Bos- 
ton, a  prisoner  for  debt,  petitions  for  relief  (Archives,  39:  64-6). 
Suffolk  files,  1824,  is  a  petition  from  John  Mann  in  behalf  of  James 
Hughes,  who  was  delivered  to  him  to  become  a  servant,  on  an  execu- 
tion according  to  law,  and  said  Hughes  had  testified  he  was  not  worth 
<£5.  Since  that  time,  Thomas  Hill,  by  a  later  execution,  had  secured 
Hughes  in  prison,  to  the  damage  of  the  petitioner  by  want  of  the 
improvement  of  the  said  Hughes,  and  the  latter's  family  was  in  con- 
sequence reduced  to  a  very  mean  and  poor  condition  and  likely  to  be 
chargeable  to  the  town.  Hill  refused  to  pay  the  prison  fees,  hence 
Mann  asked  that  Hughes  be  set  at  liberty,  in  order  that  he  might  work, 
pay  his  just  debts,  and  support  his  family.  Dated  Boston,  24  Feb., 
1679  (1679-80).  He  was  released,  and  28  Jan.,  1680-1,  he  deposed  in 
the  suit  of  Roger  Rose  vs.  Timothy  Yeales  (Suffolk  Files,  1953)  that  he 
was  aged  44  years,  and  that  Rose  had  besought  him  to  build  a  house, 
to  which  he  had  replied  that  the  season  was  not  fit,  "  but  if  hee  would 
let  it  to  me  by  the  great,  I  would  do  it,  which  we  did  agree  upon." 
The  agreement  between  Rose  and  James  "  Hews "  is  of  record. 
Hews  was  to  build  a  house  24  feet  by  18  feet,  and  12  feet  stud,  one 
floor  of  joist,  and  to  raise  it  and  be  done  before  middle  of  April  next, 
receiving  therefor  £3-15-0.     The  contract  was  dated  13  Jan.,  1680. 

The  account  book  of  the  town  treasurer  has  several  entries  of  small 
amounts  paid  to  James  Hughes,  Goody  Hughes,  and  wife  of  James 
Hughes  in  1690;  that  dated  12  Sept.,  being  "paid"  James  Hughes' 
wife  for  her  husband  at  Canada  11  shillings.  In  January  his  children 
were  sick  of  a  fever,  and  he  received  town  aid.  On  the  20  Nov., 
James  Hughes,  Jr.,  was  paid  6  shillings.  In  1713  the  wife  of  James 
Hewes  agreed  to  care  for  Hannah  Phillips,  a  town  charge,  who  is  de- 
scribed as  "formerly  Leager,  aet.  69"  (Selectman's  records).  From 
this  record  we  learn  the  vicissitudes  of  one  of  the  humbler  inhabitants 
of  a  colonial  town.     Like  many  poor  men,  he  raised  a  large  family. 

Children;  from  Gloucester,  Salem,  and  Boston  records: 

James,  born  in  Boston,  7  Feb.,  1668-9.     He  is  probably  the 
James  Hewes  of  Roxbury,  who  married  at  Boston,  1 2  Dec, 


410  OTHER  FAMILIES  —  MASSACHUSETTS 

1692,  Bethia,  daughter  of  Thomas  Sweetman  of  Cam- 
bridge, where  she  was  baptized  7  July,  1661  (Cambridge 
Church  Records).  Their  son  James  was  born  August, 
1694.  The  marriage  intention  of  Bethia  Hughs  of  Bos- 
ton and  Richard  Jenkins  of  Great  Britain,  published  30 
July,  1713,  was  forbid  by  Nathaniel  Dew  (Boston  mar- 
riage records).  Probably  she  was  the  widow  of  James 
Hughs,  Jr. 

Elizabeth,  born  at  Gloucester,  28;  7  mo.,  1670. 

Jonathan,  born  at  Gloucester,  25-8  mo.,  1672;  died  1689 
(Gloucester). 

John,  born  at  Boston,  25  Aug.,  1674;  of  whom  below. 

Rachel,  born  at  Boston,  1  Nov.,  1677;  probably  the  Rachel 
who  died  at  Gloucester  in  1689. 

Isaac,  born  20  June,  1680;  bapt.  at  First  Church,  Boston,  1680, 
as  son  of  James. 

Rebecca,  born  14  Oct.,  1682. 

Jacob,  born  23  Feb.,  1683-4. 

Sarah,  born  16  July,  1686.  A  Sarah  Hughes  was  baptized  at 
First  Church  8  July,  1688. 

Joseph,  born  7  Jan.,   1688-9. 

JOHN  HUGHES,  of  Boston,  housewright  (Common  Pleas,  1702), 
was  probably  son  of  James  above.  He  was  admitted  to  the  First 
Church  26  Jan.,  1700-1.  He  married  15  Sept.,  1698,  Deliverance 
Pollard  (Boston  records),  who  was  admitted  to  the  First  Church  27 
March,  1709.  John  Hughes,  housewright,  bought  of  Damaris  Three- 
needle,  widow,  executrix  of  Bartholomew  Threeneedle,  land  near  the 
Mill  Pond  and  Bowling  Green,  12  Dec,  1704  (Suffolk  Deeds,  22:77), 
which  he  mortgaged,  his  wife  Deliverance  joining,  to  Jane,  widow  of 
Arthur  Kind,  18  March,  1705-6  {Ibid.,  24,  81).  On  the  19  March, 
1704-5,  he  received  permission  to  erect  a  timber  dwelling-house  42 
feet  by  18  feet,  17  feet  stud,  on  a  vacant  piece  of  pasture  on  the 
southeast  side  of  the  Bowling  Green,  one  end  to  the  street  (Council 
Records). 

Deliverance  Hughes  was  approved  of  by  the  Selectmen,  as  an  inn- 
keeper, to  sell  strong  drink,  8  July,  1723  (Selectmen's  Records). 

A  gravestone  in  the  Granary  Burying  Ground,  records  that  "  Here 
lies  ye  body  of  John  Hews,  aged  about  35  years,  died  31  Oct.,  1711." 

Children  of  John  and  Deliverance,  from  Boston  Records: 

Elizabeth,  born  19  March,  1701;  bapt.  First  Church,  21  Dec, 
1702. 


OTHER  FAMILIES  —  MASSACHUSETTS  411 

John,  born  9  March,  1703;  bapt.   12  March,  1703-4. 
Hannah,  born  18  July,  1706;  bapt.  21  July,  1706. 
"A  child  of  Deliverance  Hewes,  buried   11   Dec,   1712    (Sexton's 
bill). 

JAMES  HEWES  of  Boston,  mariner,  owned  land  near  the  Mill 
Pond  prior  to  and  in  1733,  which  he  mortgaged  28  August,  1729,  for 
,£350  to  Daniel  Johonnot,  distiller,  and  which  bounded  southeast  on 
Union  Street.  Wife  Deborah  released  dower  (Suffolk  Deeds,  43: 
264)/.  A  suit  was  brought  in  1733  by  Johonnot  to  recover  the 
premises,  described  as  facing  southeast  on  Drink  Alley,  and  consisting 
of  house,  shop,  etc.  (Court  Common  Pleas).  James  and  his  wife 
Deborah  unite  in  mortgaging  to  several  creditors,  to  whom  he  owes 
<£385,  his  land  and  housing  near  the  Mill  Pond,  bounding  southwest  on 
Union  Street,  3  July,  1733  (Ibid.,  47:231).  The  wife  Deborah,  who 
was  Deborah  Neale,  and  whom  he  married  5  Oct.,  1721  (Boston 
Records),  died  aged  25  years,  30  July,  1733  (Boston  Dleaths). 
James  Hewes,  a  pensioner  of  the  church,  aged  76,  was  buried  from 
King's  Chapel,  8  Dec,  1758  (Church  Records).  Whether  the  pen- 
sioner was  a  mariner,  there  is  no  evidence  to  determine,  but  the  own- 
ership of  land  near  the  Mill  Pond  suggests  that  the  husband  of  Deb- 
orah may  have  been  a  descendant  of  John,  the  housewright.  James 
and  Deborah  had  no  children  of  record. 

JAMES  HEWES  of  Boston;  married,  6  May,  1767,  Ann  Williams 
(New  North  Church  Records). 

Children: 

James,  bapt.  14  Jan.,  1769  (Christ  Church). 
Ann,  bapt.  22  July,  1770  (New  North  Church). 

JAMES  HUGHES,  by  wife  Susanna,  had  daughter  Lucy;  bapt.  7 
Oct.,  1784  (Christ  Church). 

On  6  June,  1775,  there  was  an  exchange  of  prisoners  between  the 
Continental  and  British  armies  at  Boston.  The  British  surrendered 
among  others  James  Hewes  of  Boston.  See  Essex  Gazette  of 
June,  1775,  quoted  by  Livingstone  in  "Israel  Putnam,"  p.  207.  A 
James  Hughes  was  a  matross,  enlisted  for  Boston,  and  marched  to  join 
the  Continental  Army  1  July,  1780.  He  was  57  years  of  age,  5  ft., 
4  in.  in  height,  and  was  credited  to  Ward  I.  He  was  discharged  5 
Dec,  1780  (Mass.  Rev.  Rolls). 

JOHN  HEWES,  late  of  Charlestown,  of  Boston,  mariner,  1720,  is 


412  OTHER  FAMILIES  —  MASSACHUSETTS 

mentioned  in  Wyman's  Charlestown  Estates.  Mary  Smith  of  Charles- 
town  married  a  Hewes  prior  to  1697,  when  she  deeds  to  Daniel  Smith 
part  of  a  house  in  Wapping  Street.  She  is  described  as  "  spinster  " 
in  1702-3,  indicating  she  was  then  a  widow,  dependent  on  herself. 
In  1707,  as  "widow,"  joins  with  other  Smith  heirs.  She  was  main- 
tained by  the  town  in  1734,  and  died  about  1742  (Wyman).  Whether 
she  had  any  connection  with  the  John  Hews  with  which  the  paragraph 
opens  is  problematical. 

JOHN  HEWES  of  Boston,  by  wife  Mary,  had  Charles,  born  26 
Feb.,  1685,  concerning  whom  there  is  no  further  trace.  In  Massachu- 
setts Archives  69:82,  is  an  account  of  "Work  done  for  the  soldiers 
by  order  of  Capt.  Poole  and  Commissary  Coleman  of  Hatfield,  Dec.  10, 
1675,  by  Jacob  Gardner."  Among  the  items,  are  "John  Hues,  a  pair 
of  shoes,  8  shillings."  Among  the  First  Church  baptisms,  occur  Mary 
and  Ann,  of  "  sister  Mary  Hewes,"  baptized  20-6mo.,  1671. 

JOHN  HUGHES,  by  wife  Mary,  had  the  following  children,  all 
baptized  at  Christ  Church,  Boston : 
Mary,  bapt.  19  Nov.,  1727. 
Elizabeth,  bapt.  25  Jan.,  1729. 
Ann,  bapt.  29  Feb.,  1731. 
Perhaps  this  same  John  is  the  John  Hewes  who  married  25  Aug., 
1737,  Elizabeth  Harris  (Boston  Records). 

JOHN  HUGHES  of  Boston,  also  described  as  Hews,  butcher  and 
victualler,  sustained  several  suits  by  Springfield  and  Northampton 
parties  for  debt  in  1741-2. 

JOHN  HUGHS  of  Dedham,  yeoman,  is  a  party  to  a  case  in  1757, 
in  Hampshire  Court  Common  Pleas  (Vols.  4  and  5).  He  seems  to  have 
gotten  into  debt,  and  failed  to  meet  the  judgments  secured  against 
him.  There  are  many  cases  in  which  he  appears  either  as  plaintiff 
or  defendant  in  Suffolk  Court  of  Common  Pleas  from  1738  to  1743. 

JOHN  HUGHES  married  Rosanna  Baker  14  April,  1768  (New 
North  Church  Records). 

Children : 

Rosannah  Hughes,  bapt.  22  Oct.,  1769  (2nd  Church  Records), 
John,  "of  John  Hughes,"  bapt.  30  June,  1771    (2nd  Church 
Records). 


OTHER  FAMILIES  —  MASSACHUSETTS  413 

JOHN  HUGHES  of  Boston,  cordwainer,  died  in  1783,  leaving  a 
widow  and  three  small  children.  Administration  was  granted  to  Levi 
Hearsey  of  Boston,  cordwainer,  who  presented  an  inventory  consisting 
chiefly  of  household  furniture,  and  on  14  Dec,  1784,  he  filed  a  receipt 
of  £6-13-7  salvage  from  "  out  of  the  vessel  which  ran  on  shore."  Pos- 
sibly the  family  were  new  arrivals  in  1783  (Suffolk  Probate,  Vols.  83 
and  92). 

JESSE  HUGHES  enlisted  31  Dec,  1776,  for  three  years,  and 
served  as  matross  in  Capt.  Pierce's  company,  Crane's  regiment  of 
artillery.  In  Sept.,  1778,  his  company  was  at  Providence,  but  he  was 
sick  in  Virginia.  He  rejoined  his  command  in  or  before  December. 
In  February  he  was  carried  on  the  rolls  as  a  wagoner,  and  is  on  the 
company  roll  as  late  as  March,  1779  (Mass.  Rev.  Rolls).  See  under 
John  Hughes  of  Plaistow,  N.  H. 

JOHN  HUGHES  enlisted  in  the  same  command  20  Dec,  1776,  and 
was  sergeant  in  Stoddard's  company  8  May  to  8  July,  1777-  He  was 
a  matross  in  Pierce's  company  in  Sept.,  1778,  when  he  was  reported 
sick  in  Virginia,  as  also  in  March,  1779  (Mass.  Rev.  Rolls). 

Another  John  Hughes  was  one  of  the  recruits  raised  in  Suffolk 
county  in  Feb.,  1779,  and  assigned  to  Knapp's  company,  Sheppard's 
regiment  (Mass.  Rev.  Rolls). 

JOHN  HEWES  engaged  for  Boston  24  March,  1781,  for  the  Con- 
tinental service  (Mass.  Rev.  Rolls). 

JOHN  HUGHES  from  New  Ross,  County  Wexford,  Ireland,  died 
in  Boston  prior  to  1760  (Probate,  60:452).  The  minister  and  church 
wardens  of  parish  of  St.  Mary,  New  Ross,  certify,  15  April,  1763, 
that  Benjamin  Hughes  of  Ballylane,  farmer,  is  a  brother  to  James 
Hughes,  late  of  Boston,  that  they  were  sons  of  John,  and  that  the 
family  was  well  known  in  that  neighborhood  (Suff.  Deeds,  108:153). 

Little  is  known  of  John  Hughes.  When  his  son  James  made  his 
will  in  1749,  the  father  was  living  at  his  house,  and  evidently  inca- 
pable of  providing  for  himself,  for  some  provision  was  made  for  his 
care,  and  in  the  account  of  the  executors  of  the  will  of  James,  the  fol- 
lowing items  appear: 

Paid  John  Scottow  for  coffin  for  deceased  father <£l-  4-  0 

Paid  keeper  of  the  almshouse  for  his  board 2-13-4 

Paid  for  gloves  at  his  funeral 15-11$ 

Paid  Nathaniel  Band  for  carrying  corpse  and  tolling  bell.  .        18-0 


414  OTHER  FAMILIES  —  MASSACHUSETTS 

The  executors'  account  showing  <£l04  expended  for  the  maintenance 
of  the  said  John  Hughes,  was  allowed. 

Children : 

Benjamin,  a  farmer,  living  in  Ballylane,  County  Wexford,  Ire- 
land, who  is  mentioned  in  his  brother  James'  will  and  who 
eventually  sold  the  property  in  Distill  House  Square,  by 
William  Dawes,  attorney,  to  Francis  Wells  of  Boston 
(Suff.  Deeds,  109:56,  110:22,  also  108:153),  25  March, 
1766. 

Henry,  who  lived  in  County  Wexford,  Ireland,  in  1749,  named 
in  his  brother  James'  will,  and  who  was  father  of  Joseph 
Hughes  of  Boston.  On  the  5  April,  1754,  Joseph  Hughes, 
a  minor,  upwards  of  20  years,  son  of  Henry  Hughes,  late 
of  Ross,  County  Wexford,  chooses  as  his  guardian,  Daniel 
Sigourney  of  Boston  (Probate,  49:227).  He  was  appren- 
ticed prior  to  1749  at  his  own  choice  to  learn  the  trade  of  a 
housewright,  and  was  to  inherit  one-half  of  his  uncle's 
estate.  Execution  was  levied  on  his  estate,  the  Distill 
Square  property,  by  his  uncle  Benjamin  (108:53). 

James  of  Boston,  distiller,  disallowed  1730  as  a  retailer  in  Mid- 
dle Street,  married  in  Boston,  19  August,  1731,  Jane  or 
Jennet  Douglas,  sister  of  James  Douglas  of  Boston  (Bos- 
ton Records).  He  purchased  property  in  Union  Street,  prior 
to  1730,  and  later  (1741)  was  established  with  Samuel 
Sloan  in  the  distilling  business,  with  plant  in  Distill  House 
Square.  In  1733  he  bought  land  in  Londonderry,  N.  H. 
(N.  H.  Deeds,  21:129),  and  in  the  deed  of  conveyance  is 
described  as  brewer,  but  in  1735  he  makes  his  third  pur- 
chase there,6  and  is  described  as  "  husbandman,  of  Lon- 
donderry." On  the  23  Dec,  1735,  he  and  wife  Jennet, 
both  of  Londonderry,  sell  land  there,  and  in  1745,  as  of 
Boston,  distiller,  with  wife  Jennet,  sells  other  land  there  to 
Patrick  Douglas  of  Londonderry  (N.  H.  Deeds,  32;  324). 
The  will  of  James  Hughes  of  Boston,  distiller,  is  dated 
13  Oct.,  1749,  and  was  proved  28  Aug.,  1751.  After  be- 
quest to  "  ancient  father  John  Hughes  "  then  of  his  house- 
hold, he  gives  to  wife  Jennet  one-half  his  estate,  and  to 
nephew,  Joseph  Hughes,  "  whom  I  have  put  apprentice  by 
his  own  choice  to  a  housewright  in  Boston,"  the  other  half, 
the  said  Joseph  paying  his   uncle,   Benjamin   Hughes,  of 

o  From    Patrick    Douglas    of    Londonderry,    whose    wife    Mary   assigns   her 
dower. 


OTHER  FAMILIES  —  MASSACHUSETTS  415 

New  Ross,  County  Wexford,  Ireland,  £60,  one  year  after 
he  comes  of  age,  and  to  give  my  father  a  decent  funeral. 
In  case  of  decease  of  said  Joseph,  under  age,  then  his  share 
is  left  to  the  testator's  two  brothers,  Henry  and  Benjamin 
Hughes,  "  now  in  Ireland."  If  his  brother-in-law,  James 
Douglas,  wishes  to  hire  the  half  of  the  distill  houses  given 
to  Joseph,  during  the  latter's  minority,  he  is  to  have  prefer- 
ence. Robert  Duncan,  merchant,  Daniel  Sigourney  and 
Samuel  Sloan,  distillers,  are  appointed  executors  (SufF. 
Probate,  45:306).  The  inventory  of  his  estate  disclosed 
£1498-1-1,  the  chief  items  being  mansion  house,  £266;  still 
house  and  land,  £632;  negro,  £30;  4291  gallons  molasses 
at  1  shilling,  5  pence,  £304;  750  gallons  rum  at  one  shil- 
ling, eight  pence,  £62-10.  House  furnishings,  £185.  The 
widow  Jennet  died  prior  to  15  April,  1752,  when  an  inven- 
tory of  her  estate  was  presented  (Ibid.,  46:189),  and  Arch- 
ibald Douglas  was  one  of  her  heirs.  In  the  final  account 
of  the  executors  the  judge  found  that  £156  remained  in 
their  hands,  of  which  the  income  of  the  same  for  1762  had 
been  paid,  one-half  to  the  heirs  of  Jennet,  and  one-half  to 
the  nephew  Joseph  Hughes  (Ibid.,  60:452). 

MARTIN  HUGHES  (Hewes)  came  into  Boston  with  wife  and  one 
child  and  £200,  and  asked  liberty  to  set  up  as  a  printer  of  linens.  He 
failed  to  find  sureties,  and  found  keeping  a  "  disorderly  "  7  house  was,  in 
1736,  warned  to  depart.  He  was  still  in  town  in  1738,  and  again  re- 
ceived warning  to  depart  with  his  wife  and  children  (Town  Records). 
In  May,  1739,  he  was  "  warned  "  from  Sudbury,  having  come  from 
Concord  18  Sept.,  1738  (Middlesex  Sessions).  His  family  consisted 
of  self,  wife  Mary,  and  children  Henry  and  Catherine. 

Children  of  Martin  and  Mary : 

Henry,  born  prior  to  1737. 

Catherine,  baptized  at  Christ  Church  12  Nov.,  1737- 

MORRIS  HEWES  of  Boston,  married  8  Nov.,  1715,  Jane  Rogers, 
and  died  soon,  but  not  until  after  28  July,  1718,  when  the  Court  of 
General  Sessions  discharged  him  of  his  recognizance.  His  widow  as 
Jean  Hewes  joined  with  Sarah  Rogers,  relict  and  widow  and  execu- 
trix of  the  will  of  Gamaliel  Rogers,  of  Boston,  housewright,  Abraham 
Rogers,  Lydia  Rogers,  spinster,  children  of  Gamaliel  Rogers,  in  deed- 

7  This  term  did  not  then  have  the  same  meaning  as  now. 


416  OTHER  FAMILIES  —  MASSACHUSETTS 

ing  to  Simon  Rogers  of  Boston,  cooper,  all  their  right  in  the  mansion 
house  bounded  northerly  by  land  lately  Capt.  Fayrweather's,  15 
March,  1719  (Suffolk  Deeds,  34:209).  It  is  an  odd  circumstance 
that  widow  Elizabeth  Hewes  bequeathed  a  house  near  the  Old  South, 
occupied  by  a  Gamaliel  Rogers,  and  that  Fayrweather  had  married  a 
Mary  Hewes,  yet  there  appears  no  connection  between  any  of  these 
parties.  Morris  Hewes  or  Hughs  was  a  plasterer,  and  in  1715  sued 
John  Bromsall  for  assault  and  battery  (Common  Pleas). 

PHILIP  HUGHES  of  Boston,  calker,  died,  aged  62,  16  June, 
1729  (g.  s.  Copp's  Hill),  born,  therefore,  1667.  He  was  buried  18 
June,  1729,  aged  63  years  (Christ  Church  Records).  Will  proved 
1729.  To  son  Philip,  now  in  Britain;  daughter  Mary  Hughes,  son 
John  Hughes.  Daughter  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Nathaniel  Adams  of  Bos- 
ton, blockmaker.  To  sons  John  and  William  Hughes  all  my  money 
(Suffolk  Probate,  27:231). 

Children : 

Philip,  not  a  resident  of  New  England  in  1729,  or  later,  so 
far  as  known. 

Mary. 

John. 

Elizabeth,  married  19  July,  1727,  Nathaniel  Adams  of  Bos- 
ton (Boston  Records). 

William.  Administration  on  the  estate  of  William  Hughes,  of 
Boston,  calker,  was  granted  17  Nov.,  1730,  to  his  brother, 
John  Hughes,  calker,  of  Boston  (Suffolk  Probate,  28:237). 

RALPH  HEWES  of  Boston,  clothier,  died  13  Nov.,  1692  (Boston 
Records),  where  he  was  living  the  previous  year.  Administration  was 
granted  on  his  estate  9  Dec,  1692,  to  relict  and  widow,  Esther 
Hewes.  The  inventory  rendered  by  the  widow  disclosed  an  estate, 
entirely  household  goods,  of  £40-2-6  (Suffolk  Probate,  13:92).  Prob- 
ably she  was  the  Esther  Hughs  married  to  Robert  Hawkins  7  June, 
1694  (Boston  Records). 

Administration  on  the  estate  of  ROWLAND  HUGHES  of  Boston, 
mariner,  was  granted  26  Nov.,  1728,  to  Gilbert  Affleck  of  Boston, 
mariner   (Suffolk  Probate,  26:530). 

RICHARD  HUGHES,  a  housewright,  was  of  Boston  in  1738  (Suf- 
folk Common  Pleas). 

CAPT.  RICHARD  HEUGHES  of  Boston,  died  8  July,  1757,  aged 


OTHER  FAMILIES  —  MASSACHUSETTS  417 

42  (g.  s.  Copp's  Hill).  He  married  5  July,  1713,  Sarah  Reed  (Bos- 
ton Records),  who  died  23  Nov.,  1764,  aged  77  (g.  s.).  She  was  re- 
ceived into  the  communion  of  the  Second  Church  27  Nov.,  1720,  on 
which  day  her  children  were  baptized  (Church  Records).  She  left  an 
undated  will,  proved  29  May,  1765,  by  which  she  bequeathed  her  en- 
tire estate  to  her  two  daughters,  Marcy  and  Elizabeth  Hughes.  At 
the  town  meeting,  1743-4,  Capt.  Richard  Hughes  was  chosen  constable, 
but  refused  to  serve  (Town  Records). 

The  gravestones  of  Capt.  Richard,  his  wife  and  two  daughters,  are 
standing  in  Copp's  Hill  Cemetery. 

Children : 

Richard,  born  15  March,  1714-5.  His  will  was  probated  12 
August,  1757.  To  his  honored  mother,  Sarah  Hughes,  he 
gives  all  his  apparel,  both  linen  and  woolen,  with  silver 
shoes,  knee  and  neck  buckles,  gold  rings,  and  all  trooping 
furniture.  Also  some  negroes  he  had  in  Col.  Blizard's 
hands  in  Antigua,  and  his  estate  wherever  found.  His 
mother,  Benjamin  Harrod,  and  John  Prince  to  be  ex- 
ecutors. He  is  described  as  "  book-keeper."  His  personal 
estate,  valued  at  £17-6-8,  comprised  a  pair  of  pistols,  a 
pair  of  boots,  3  lace  hats,  several  coats  of  different  colors, 
4  pair  of  breeches,  3  jackets,  5  linen  waistcoats,  2  pair 
check  spatterdashes,  shoe,  knee  and  neck  buckles  of  silver, 
2  gold  rings,  1  pair  sleeve  buttons,  7  neck  stocks,  2  wigs, 
but  3  handkerchiefs,  and  7  white  and  2  worsted  caps,  etc. 

Elizabeth,  born  21  Dec,  1719.  She  died  unmarried,  May, 
1771,  leaving  a  will  dated  13  Ma} ,  proved  24  May,  1771. 
To  her  friend,  Ezekiel  Cheever,  Esq.,  and  her  cousin,  Eliza- 
beth Miller,  she  left  the  income  of  her  house  in  Prince 
Street.  To  cousin,  Jonathan  Farnum,  and  in  default  of 
issue  to  next  nearest  relation  on  her  mother's  side.  To 
the  children  of  Ezekiel  Cheever.  To  Elizabeth  Hughes 
Proctor,  minor  child  of  Edward  Proctor,  to  Mary,  minor 
child  of  Richard  Walker,  and  to  Sarah  Read,  daughter 
of  cousin,  Thomas  Read  (Suffolk  Probate,  70:194). 

Mary,  died  7  March,  1765.  Administration  on  her  estate  was 
granted  to  her  sister,  Elizabeth  Hughes,  spinster,  13 
Nov.,  1766  (Ibid.,  65:435).  She  was  probably  the  Mary 
Hews,  a  child  of  8  or  9  years,  who  witnessed  the  assault  of 
Abraham  Allen,  servant  of  Capt.  James  Cornwall,  of 
H.  M.  S.  Sheerness,  in  the  alley  by  her  mother's  house, 
which  caused  his  death,  21  Feb.,  1726-7  (Suffolk  Files, 
27,945. 


418  OTHER  FAMILIES  —  MASSACHUSETTS 

SAMUEL  HUGHES  of  Boston,  merchant,  died  in  Boston,  IS  May, 
1768,  aged  52  (Mass.  Gazette);  buried  20  May,  aged  52  (Trinity 
Church  Records).  His  estate  was  advertised  the  next  month  in  the 
Post  Boy.  He  married  3  Jan.,  1744  (Boston  Records),  Elizabeth 
Boutineau,  sister  of  James  Boutineau,  Esq.,  born  11  Feb.,  1716-17, 
daughter  of  Stephen  and  Mary  (Baudouin)  Boutineau,  Huguenots 
(Suffolk  Deeds,  167:22),  who  had  settled  in  Boston  after  a  short 
sojourn  at  Casco  Bay.  His  will  was  probated  3  June,  1768.  Ex- 
ecutors, the  widow,  Elizabeth  Hughes,  and  "  brother,"  James  Bouti- 
neau. To  his  widow  he  gave  the  improvement  of  dwelling  house  in 
King  Street,  all  household  effects,  plate,  with  certain  exceptions,  and 
one-third  his  personal  estate,  after  her  death,  to  be  divided  equally 
among  children,  Mary,  Samuel,  Ann,  James.  To  son  Peter  a  silver 
tankard.  To  sister,  Mary  Brown,  of  London,  £10  annually  for  life. 
Remainder  of  estate  to  children:  Peter,  Mary,  Samuel,  Anne,  and 
James  equally.  In  1754,  "  Samuel  Hewes  of  Queen  St."  was  chosen 
constable,  but  paid  and  was  excused  (Boston  Records).  Mrs.  Elizabeth 
Hughes,  aged  79,  buried  13  July,  1795  (Trinity  Church  Records). 
Her  will  dated  16  June,  proved  28  July,  1795  (Suffolk  Probate, 
93:655),  divides  her  estate  between  her  son  James,  her  daughter,  Ann 
Hughes,  and  the  two  children  of  her  deceased  daughter  Mary.  Family 
portraits  in  possession  of  James  are  given  to  him. 

Children : 

Peter,  born  26  Dec,  1746;  died  at  Antigua  16  Jan.,  1776 
(N.  E.  Chronicle).  He  was  clerk  of  the  market  in  1772, 
and  on  the  committee  to  visit  schools  in  1774.  He  suc- 
ceeded his  father  in  business  in  King  Street,  and  in  1774 
was  one  of  the  123  "  Addressers  "  to  Governor  Hutchinson 
on  his  departure.  He  owned  land  on  the  south  side  of 
State  Street  (Deeds,  125:244).  His  name  and  place  of 
business  appears  on  the  list  printed  and  circulated  at  that 
time,  with  those  of  122  others.  The  name  of  his  brother 
Samuel,  who  is  described  as  his  clerk,  also  was  appended 
to  the  address,  and  both  signed  the  Protest  against  the 
Solemn  League  and  Covenant,  thus  identifying  themselves 
with  the  "  Tory"  party.  (See  Mass.  Hist.  Coll.,  series  1, 
vol.  II,  p.  393.) 

Samuel,  born  7  Oct.,  1748.  He  departed  with  the  British  Army 
when  Boston  was  evacuated  in  March,  1776,  and  went  to 
Halifax.  He  was  also  one  of  those,  styling  themselves 
"  principal  inhabitants  of  Boston,"  who  addressed  Gov. 
Gage  on  his  arrival,  6  Oct.,  1775  (Curwen's  Journal  and 
Letters).     Sabin  in  American  Loyalists  says  of  him:     "  He 


OTHER  FAMILIES  —  MASSACHUSETTS  419 

was  one  of  the  58  Boston  Memorialists  in  1760,  but  followed 
the  Royal  Army  to  Halifax  in  1776.  In  1778  he  was  pro- 
scribed and  banished.  In  1784  administration  was  granted 
John  Hazen  on  the  estate  of  a  Loyalist  of  this  name,  who 
died  on  the  River  St.  John,  New  Brunswick.  Elizabeth, 
widow  of  Samuel,  of  Boston,  died  at  that  town  in  1795, 
aged  76." 

Mary,  born  27  Aug.,  1751.  Mary  of  "William  {sic,  evidently 
an  error  for  Samuel)  &  Elizabeth,"  baptized  1  Sept.,  1751 
(Trinity  Church  Records).  Harrison  Grey,  Jr.,  and 
Mary  Hughes,  married  12  Oct.,  1769  (Boston  Records). 

Anne,  baptized  21  March,  1755  (Trinity  Church  Records)  ;  un- 
married in  1795.  Anne  Hughes,  aged  67,  died  29  July, 
1822  (Boston  Records).  Administration  on  her  estate  was 
granted  to  Harrison  Gray  Otis,  Nov.,  1822.  Her  heirs-at- 
law  were  Sophia  Grey,  Sophia  Nevil  Turner  and  Emily 
Turner.  Estate  of  $5,181  comprised  bank  stock  and  a 
mortgage  by  Edward  Jones  and  Thomas  Hewes  on  a  house 
in  Milk  Street  (Suffolk  Probate). 

James,  bapt.  4  Nov.,  1759  (Trinity  Church  Records)  ;  buried, 
aged  41  years,  21  June,  1798  (Ibid.).  "James  Hughes, 
attorney-at-law,  aged  41,  died  at  Boston  (Columbia 
Centinel).  Graduated  from  Harvard  College  1780. 
Studied  four  years  with  Mr.  Hichborne,  and  was  admitted 
to  the  Boston  Bar  Association  and  to  practice  before  the 
Court  of  Common  Pleas,  1780  (Records  of  the  Bar  Associ- 
ation, published  in  Mass.  Hist.  Soc.  Proc,  19:154.  His 
autograph  is  reproduced  in  that  volume).  In  1789  he 
lived  in  Court  Street  (Directory).  In  1790  he  was  Justice 
of  the  Peace.  In  1791,  he  was  on  committee  to  draw  up 
instructions  for  the  deputies  from  the  town.  In  1790  his 
mother  transferred  to  him  the  brick  building  in  Cornhill, 
and  brick  store  on  State  Street,  which  she  had  inherited 
from  her  father  (Suffolk  Deeds,  167:221). 

Elizabeth,  buried  28  Sept.,  1750,  from  Trinity  Church;  bap- 
tized 9  Sept.,  1749  (Trinity  Church  Records). 

Elizabeth,  baptized  15  July,  1753  (Trinity  Church  Records), 
probably  d.  y. 

Susanna,  baptized  25  Dec,  1756  (Trinity  Church  Records); 
buried  30  Oct.,  1757  (Ibid.). 

WILLIAM  HUGHES  of  Boston,  physician,  married  in  Boston,  25 
Nov.,  168-,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Nathaniel  and  Elizabeth  (Grafton) 


420  OTHER  FAMILIES  —  MASSACHUSETTS 

Maverick,  and  granddaughter  of  Moses  Maverick  by  his  wife  Remem- 
ber, daughter  of  Isaac  Allerton,  a  passenger  on  the  Mayflower  (May- 
flower Descendant,  5:129).  She  may  have  been  that  Elizabeth 
Heughes  who  was  admitted  to  communion  at  the  Second  Church  1  Nov., 
1691,  and  whose  daughter  Elizabeth  was  baptized  31  March,  1695 
(Church  Record).  Her  will,  dated  8  Jan.,  1733-4,  mentions  grand- 
child, Remember  Perkins,  the  children  of  Dr.  Henry  Hooper,  to  whom 
£100;  daughter  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Henry  Allen,  carpenter,  to  whom 
for  life  her  dwelling  house  in  Beer  Lane,  in  the  North  End,  and  after 
her  death  to  her  children.  Grandson,  Henry  Allen,  Jr.,  Friend  John 
Potwine,  executor  (Suffolk  Probate,  30:235).  Her  inventory,  taken  4 
Feb.,  1734-5,  disclosed  53  oz.  silver,  valued  at  £66-17-6,  house  and 
land,  £800;  a  total  estate  of  £908-16-0  (Ibid.,  34;  170). 

A  stone  in  King's  Chapel  burial  ground,  reads,  "  Here  lyes  ye  body 
of  Mrs.  Elizb  Hughes,  wife  to  Mr.  William  Hughes,  died  26  March, 
1734,  aet.  67." 

William  Hughes  was  employed  on  more  than  one  occasion  as  inter- 
preter in  the  examination  of  the  French  privateersmen  who  came  into 
Boston,  and  of  Spanish  and  French  sailors  accused  of  piracy  (Suffolk 
Files). 

Beginning  with  1682,  when  he  bought  a  house  with  land,  in  the 
North  End,  of  Dorcas  and  Judith  Hunt  (Suffolk  Deeds,  12:277),  he 
made  several  transactions  in  real  estate.  On  the  14  Oct.,  1692,  he 
made  his  wife,  Elizabeth,  his  attorney,  with  power  to  sell  land,  and  act- 
ing under  that  power,  she  sold  to  David  Cutler,  a  mariner,  land  her 
husband  had  bought  of  Roger  Doubleday  on  a  lane  leading  from 
Fisher's  street  to  south  side  of  Mill  Creek  near  the  Mill  Pond,  24  Feb., 
1707-8  (Ibid.,  23;  202).  On  the  20  Feb.,  1704-5,  William  Hewes  had 
license  to  erect  a  timber  dwelling  house  23  ft.  by  18  ft.,  18  ft.  stud, 
with  flat  roof  and  battlements  on  same,  on  his  land  near  Mill  Bridge,  in 
room  of  an  old  house,  now  standing,  he  intends  to  demolish  (Council 
Records).  In  1710  his  house  on  the  north  side  of  Beer  Lane  is  men- 
tioned (Town  Records). 

His  will  dated  24  Dec,  1702,  was  proved  Dec,  1708.  To  his  son 
William  his  dwelling  house  and  land  adjoining;  to  daughter,  Remem- 
ber Hewes,  the  dwelling  house  bought  of  Zippora,  a  free  negro  woman, 
fronting  on  a  lane  on  the  north  side  of  the  Mill  Bridge;  daughter 
Elizabeth,  wife  of  Henry  Allen,  to  whom  he  had  already  given  a  house 
and  land.  Brother-in-law  Thomas  Jackson  of  Boston,  merchant  (Suf- 
folk Probate).  His  inventory  mentions  a  house  in  Beer  Lane,  one  in 
Back  Street,  and  another  in  Middle  Street  (Ibid.,  17;54). 

Children : 

Elizabeth,  born  26  April,  1685;  married  Henry  Allen. 


OTHER  FAMILIES  —  MASSACHUSETTS  421 

Remember,  born  7  March,  1687;  married  1  July,  1708,  John 

Perkins. 
William,   born    27   June,    1691,   evidently   died   unmarried,   in 

mother's  lifetime. 
Nathaniel,  born  3  Aug.,  1699;  died  young. 

WILLIAM  HEWES  of  Boston  had  by  wife  Amelia  (Boston 
Records)  : 

William,   born    21    June,    1808;    baptized    Second    Church,   6 

Nov.,    1808. 
Charles,  born   17  May,   1810;   died   14  April,   1811,  of  lung 

fever. 
Charles  Edwin,  born  23  June,  1812;  died  16  Aug.,  1813,  of 

typhoid. 
Charles  Edwin,  born  28  April,  1814. 
Frederick  Augustus,  born  25  June,  1817- 

A  child  of  ZECHARIAH  HEWES  was  buried  in  Boston  13  March, 
1701   (Sexton's  bill). 

MARY  HEWES,  married  17  Nov.,  1692,  in  Boston,  Capt.  John 
Fairweather.  He  made  settlement  of  part  of  his  estate  upon  her. 
John  Fairweather  was  son  of  Thomas  and  baptized  in  1634.  He  mar- 
ried, first,  1660,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Robert  Turner,  and  had  Thomas, 
Penelope,  and  John,  all  baptized  1670,  also  child  baptized  in  1672. 
He  was  captain,  representative  in  1684,  and  was  made  commander  of 
the  Castle  at  the  Revolution  of  April,  1689.  He  made  a  map  of 
Boston.  He  died  13  April,  1712.  There  is  no  settlement  of  his 
estate  of  record. 

Boston 

miscellaneous  entries  prior  to  1800,  or  affecting  persons  born 
prior  to  that  date 

ABIGAIL  HEWES  admitted  to  church  at  Roxbury,  12  April,  1730. 

CHARLES  HUGHES  married  6  Feb.,  1772,  Ann  Blount.  His 
daughter,  Mary  Ann,  baptized  6  Sept.,  1773  (Trinity  Church  Record). 

DANIEL  HEWS  married  Thankful  Gee,  9  May,  1779  (Boston 
Records). 

DANIEL  HUGHES'  wife,  Susanna,  died  June,  1799,  aged  18. 
(Columbian  Centinel.) 

DANIEL  HEWES,  of  Boston,  was  a  corporal  in  the  company  of 


422  OTHER  FAMILIES  —  MASSACHUSETTS 

Capt.  E.  Burbeck  in  Gridley's  Artillery  Regiment,  enlisting  3  June, 
1775,  and  in  service  6  Jan.,  1776. 

DANIEL  HEWES,  of  Attleboro,  was  a  private  in  company  com- 
manded by  Capt.  S.  Richardson,  which  marched  to  Rhode  Island  to 
hold  the  lines,  and  served  until  15  May,  from  21  April,  1777. 

DANIEL  HEWES  was  corporal  in  regiment  commanded  by  Col. 
T.  Carpenter,  Capt.  A.  Foster's  regiment,  in  the  expedition  to  Rhode 
Island,  serving  from  12  July  to  12  Aug.,  1778. 

DAN  HEWS  enlisted  6  Jan.,  1778,  and  was  discharged  1  July, 
1778,  serving  in  Capt.  John  Morgan's  company,  detached  from  the 
Hampshire  militia  to  guard  the  stores  at  Springfield  and  Brookfield. 

DERBY  HEWES  married  Edward  Jones,  both  of  Boston,  30  May, 
1779  (West  Church  Records). 

EDWARD  HEWES  married  Jude  Clarey,  1  Dec,  1768  (Boston 
Records). 

ELIJAH  HEWES  was  of  Boston,  1768  (Town  Records). 

GEORGE  HEWES,  master  of  ship  Thomas  Bonadventure,  was  in 
the  port  of  Boston  1618.  He  was  brother-in-law  of  Wrath  Bathorne, 
a  merchant  in  Malaga,  who  had  a  brother  Roger  Bathorne.  Hewes 
was  of  Deptford,  Kent,  and  was  in  port  some  time.  See  Aspinwall's 
Notarial  Record. 

GEORGE  HUGHES;  administration  on  the  estate  of  George 
Hughes,  called  of  Boston,  gentleman,  was  granted  to  Thos.  Selby  of 
Boston,  taverner,  28  Aug.,  1727.  Administration  de  bonis  non  to 
Thos.  Phillips  in  place  of  Selby,  deceased,  3  Oct.,  1727  (Suffolk  Pro- 
bate, 25  :456,  505).  Inventory  3  Nov.,  1729,  £20-4-1,  disclosed  a  small 
personal  estate,  including  gold  buttons  at  33  shillings,  and  a  silver  seal 
at  3  shillings,  32  books,  etc.  He  evidently  shared  chambers  with  an- 
other. The  charges  against  his  estate  were  for  nursing  £4,  wine  at 
funeral  £1-17,  etc.,  total  £16-6.  No  distribution  and  no  heirs  men- 
tioned.    He  appeared  as  attorney  in  Court  Common  Pleas  in  1725. 

On  22  June,  1725,  the  Council  ordered  the  payment  to  Geo. 
Hughs  of  30  shillings  for  twice  drawing  the  indictment  against 
John  Cbeckley  for  a  scandalous  libel  by  him  published.  (Council 
Records,  231.) 

GEORGE  HEWES,  a  butcher,  and  his  son,  arrived  at  Boston  from 
Halifax  on  sloop  Speedwell  22   Feb.,   1769.      (Register  of  Arrivals, 


OTHER  FAMILIES  —  MASSACHUSETTS  423 

Boston  Rec.  Com.  Rpt.,  29.)      He  is  probably  the  George  Hewes  who 
died  6  May,  1770,  aged  68  (Granary  Epitaphs). 

GEORGE  HUGHES  was  warned  from  Boston  1772  (or  there- 
abouts.     (Suffolk  Files,  90,760.) 

HANNAH  HEWES  was  admitted  to  full  communion  5  Jan.,  1785, 
at  the  New  South. 

HANNAH  HEWES  was  a  schoolmistress  and  lived  in  Pleasant 
Street,  1796   (Boston  Directory). 

HANNAH  HUGHES,  died  4  Aug.,  1833,  aged  84  (Boston  Death 
Record). 

HANNAH  HEWES  was  admitted  3  Aug.,  1794,  to  the  Hollis  Street 
Church. 

ISAAC  HEWES  was  Sealer  of  Leather  in  Boston,  1763  (Town 
Records). 

JOHN  HUGHES,  late  London,  Esq.,  and  late  commander  of  H.  M. 
sloop  Hind,  died  on  the  American  coast,  and  administration  on  his 
estate  was  granted  to  his  brother  Edward,  late  of  London,  now  resi- 
dent in  Boston,  4  Nov.,  1747  (Suffolk  Probate). 

JOHN  HUGHS,  "  a  lad  for  education,"  arrived  in  Boston  from 
Cape  Fear,  7  July,  1767  (Boston  Rec.  Com.  Rpt.,  29). 

JOHN  HUGHES  married  Elizabeth  Newcomb,  30  Nov.  1780 
(Boston  Records). 

JOHN  HEWS  was  elected  constable  in  1781  but  excused  (Boston 
Town  Records). 

JOHN  HUGHES  married  Rosanna  Baker,  14  April,  1768  (Bos- 
ton  Records). 

JOHN  HUGHES,  died  24  Jan.,  1821,  aged  45,  at  Boston  alms- 
house. 

JOSEPH  HUSE;  his  infant  child,  buried  19  Jan.,  1709-10  (Saxton's 
bill). 

JOSEPH  HUGHES  of  Cork,  Ireland,  mariner,  appointed  guardian 
to  Anthony  Blount  Hughes,  a  minor,  aged  17,  nephew  to  Anthony 
Blount,  late  of  Boston,  tallow  chandler,  deceased  29  July,  1727  (Suf- 


424  OTHER  FAMILIES  —  MASSACHUSETTS 

folk   Probate,   25;   413).     Anthony   Blount  and   Jane   Simpson  were 
married  19  Nov.,  1702  (Boston  Marriages). 

JOSHUA  HUGHES  of  Boston  had  following 

Children: 

Joshua,  died  7  Oct.,  1839,  aged  1  year,  6  months.  His  body 
removed  to  Mt.   Hope  Cemetery  in   1853. 

Margaret  A.,  died  15  April,  1845,  aged  2  years,  2  months. 
Removed  to  Mt.  Hope  Cemetery,  1853. 

Mary,  died  11  Aug.,  1837,  aged  1  year,  2  months.  Removed 
1853. 

MARGARET  HEWES,  a  stranger,  died  in  Boston,  26  Aug.,  1814, 
aged  73   (Boston  Records). 

MATHEW  HUGHES  married  Elizabeth  Stacy,  and  had  baptized 
at  Trinity  Church,  Christopher  Stacy,  and  Elizabeth,  twins,  16 
Oct.,  1796. 

NATHANIEL  HEWES  was  a  sailmaker  in  North  Street,  Boston, 
1796  (Directory). 

NATHANIEL  PHILLIPS  HEWS  married  Sally  Eaton,  Feb., 
1794   (Boston  Records). 

NATHANIEL  P.  HEWES  of  Boston  had  daughter  Sally,  who 
died  aged  16,  14  Jan.,  1814   (Boston). 

OWEN  HUGHES,  administration  1773  (Suffolk  Probate). 

OWEN  HUGHES  died  14  July,  1843,  aged  86  (Boston  Records). 

PRISCILLA  HEWES,  adult,  was  baptized  18  Feb.,  1803,  at  Hollis 
Street  Church. 

RICHARD  HUGHES  of  Boston,  mariner,  dying,  his  wife  Sarah 
was  appointed  to  administer  on  his  estate,  March,  1791  (Suffolk 
Probate). 

REBECCA  HEWES  married  30  Dec,  1731,  Robert  Montgomery, 
at  First  Presbyterian  Church. 

ROBERT  HEWS.  Deposition  of  Thomas  Hunt,  one  of  the  con- 
stables of  Boston,  and  Samuel  Sexton,  aged  about  31,  that  the  last 
night,  being  the  14  October,  about  Up.  m.,  they  apprehended  Robert 
Hews,  servant  to  Mr.  Thomas  Thatcher   (but  then  belonging  to  Mr. 


OTHER  FAMILIES  —  MASSACHUSETTS  425 

Pitman's  Ketch),  he  being  drunk,  and  creating  a  disturbance.      15  Oct., 
1684  (Suffolk  Files,  2262).     He  was  sentenced  to  pay  30  shillings. 

ROBERT    HEWES    of    Boston    married    14    May,    1712,    Sarah 
Kendrick   (Boston  Records). 

ROBERT  HEWES  "  of  Ireland "  married  Sarah  Dunnell  of 
Boston,  30  Sept.,  1714   (Boston  Records). 

ROBERT  HUGHS  married  Elizabeth  Hall,  3  Oct.,  1757  (Bos- 
ton R-ecords). 

ROBERT  HUGHS  died  (prior  to  Nov.  27)  1789,  at  Boston  (Inde- 
pendent Chronicle). 

ROBERT  HEWES  married  Deborah  Waite,  13  Dec,  1770  (Bos- 
ton Records). 

SARAH  HUGHES  of  Boston,  widow  and  shopkeeper,  sued  John 
Harden  of  Braintree  for  balance  of  account  in  1738.  He  had  not 
settled  in  April,  1740  (Common  Pleas). 

SARAH  HUGHES  admitted  to  the  New  North  Church,  2  June, 
1745. 

SUSANNA  HEWES  of  Boston,  widow,  boarding  with  her  son-in- 
law,  Richard  Woods,  of  Roxbury,  was  acknowledged  an  inhabitant  of 
Boston  in   1717,  and  to  receive  alms. 

THOMAS  HEWES  was  baptized  15  Feb.,  1756,  at  the  Old  South. 

THOMAS  HEWES,  mariner,  of  Boston.  20  March,  1792, 
Elizabeth  Buttend,  widow,  was  appointed  administratrix  on  his  estate, 
with  Simeon  Wyman,  gentleman,  and  Samuel  Buttend,  laborer,  as 
sureties   (Suffolk*  Probate,  91:187). 

THOMAS  HUGHES  died  25  Dec,  1830,  aged  55  (Boston 
Records). 

WALTER  HUGHES  had  wife,  Margaret,  who  died  1  March, 
1818,  aged  32   (Trinity  Church  Records). 

WILLIAM  HEWS,  a  stranger,  died  at  house  of  James  Sabin,  Jr., 
at  Rehoboth,  12  Aug.,  1737   (Rehoboth  Records). 

WILLIAM  HEWS  married  Abigail  Wittor,  2  May,  1793. 

Western  Massachusetts  and  Miscellaneous 
ANDREW  or  ANDREWS  HUGHS  of  Williamstown,  Mass.,  en- 


426  OTHER  FAMILIES  —  MASSACHUSETTS 

listed  at  Dorchester,  receiving  a  bounty  of  <£78,  to  serve  for  the  credit 
of  that  town,  11  May,  1778,  for  eight  months.  He  is  described  as  20 
years  of  age,  5  ft.  6^  inches  in  height,  dark  hair  and  eyes,  a  cord- 
wainer,  a  native  of  Canada,  and  resident  of  Williamstown.  He  is  else- 
where  described   as   enlisted   25   June,    1778,   and   discharged   7   Aug., 

1778  (Mass.  Rev.  Rolls). 

CHARLES  HEWS  of  Blanford,  Mass.,  enlisted  19  March,  1778, 
out  of  Capt.  William  Knox's  company,  3d  Hampshire  militia,  assigned 
to  Capt.   Smith's  company,  Col.   Marshall's  regiment.     Deserted  July, 

1779  (Mass.  Rev.  Rolls). 

JOHN  HUGHS  enlisted  in  Keep's  company,  Sheppard's  regiment, 
for  the  War,  in  1779.  He  was  of  Granville,  Mass.  (Mass.  Rev.  Rolls). 
This  was  probably  the  same  man  as  John  Hewes  and  John  Hugh,  a 
member  of  the  same  company,  who  enlisted  1  Jan.,  1779,  for  three 
years  and  deserted  at  Providence  2  May,  1779.  He  was  26  years  old, 
5  ft.  9  in.  tall,  light  complexion  and  light  hair,  and  a  "  foreigner." 

PETER  HUSE  or  HEWES  of  Fitchburg  was  discharged  7  Dec, 

1780,  having  served  5  months  and  7  days  in  the  Continental  Army, 
Watson's  company,  Col.  Greaton's  regiment.      He  re-enlisted  27  May, 

1781,  for  three  years,  and  died  in  the  service  18  Oct.,  1781.  He  was 
at  time  of  his  second  enlistment,  nineteen  years  old,  5  feet,  10  inches 
in  height,  light  complexioned,  and  a  farmer  (Mass.  Rev.  Rolls). 

SAMUEL  HEWES  of  Montague  was  a  private  in  company  com- 
manded by  Capt.  R.  Oliver  (who  was  from  Conway)  in  Doolittle's 
regiment,  27  June,  1775,  to  6  Oct.,  1775,  at  which  time  he  was  reported 
with  Col.  Arnold  (Mass.  Rolls). 

JOHN  HUGHES  of  Chesterfield,  alias  Williamsburg,  was  sued  on 
a  note  in  Oct.,  1784,  by  Isaac  Robinson  of  Hardwick,  physician 
(Hampshire  Court,  Common  Picas,  17:68). 

LOUIS  HEWES  (a  female)  married  17  July,  1744,  Thomas  Neal 
(Edgartown  Vital  Records). 

THAMASEN  HEWS  married  Lambert  Genehy,  14-Smo.,  1658,  at 
Dedham.  Their  daughter  Mary  was  born  24-lOmo.,  1659.  Lambert 
Gcncry  died  80-llmo.,  1674  (Dedham  Records).  According  to 
Savage,  Thamasen  w.-is  his  second  wile,  and  died  at  Watertown  2  Jan., 
1669,  aged  7".     By  another  wife  he  had  other  children. 


OTHER  FAMILIES  —  MASSACHUSETTS  427 

In   Eliot's    Church   List    (Roxbury)    Hues   is   named   as   a 

church  member,  and  is  called  "  maid  servant."     Her  name  follows  that 
of  John  Walker  in  the  list. 

HANNAH  HOUSE  married  16-1  mo.,  1670,  at  Charlestown,  James 
Brown,  glazier,  who  was  born  19-6mo.,  1647,  and  died  27  Feb.,  1707-8. 
They  lived  after  1672  at  Salem  and  Newbury,  and  had  many  children. 


PLYMOUTH  COLONY 

EMANUEL  HUGHS  of  the  Kennebec  River  settlement,  1654. 
The  only  mention  of  this  man  is  found  in  the  report  of  proceedings  to 
provide  an  orderly  government  on  the  Kennebec  River,  which  was 
under  the  jurisdiction  of  Plymouth. 

On  the  15  May,  1654,  the  inhabitants  upon  the  river  were  required 
to  make  their  personal  appearance  at  the  house  of  Thomas  Ashley  at 
Merry  Meeting  Bay  on  23  May,  and  at  which  time  and  place  the 
people  generally  assembled,  and  after  publication  of  the  authority 
contained  in  instructions  to  Gov.  Prince,  the  following  inhabitants  took 
the  oath  of  fidelity,  viz. : 

Thomas  Purchase,  gentleman;  John  Stone,  Thomas  Ashley,  John 
Richards,  James  Smith,  William  James,  Thomas  Parker,  John  White, 
John  Brown,  William  David,  Thomas  Weber,  Thomas  Atkins,  James 
Coale,  John  Parker,  EMANUEL  HUGHS,  Alexander  Thawyt. 

Thomas  Purchase,  being  chosen  by  the  inhabitants,  was  appointed 
by  Gov.  Prince  to  be  an  Assistant  to  the  Governor  in  this  part  of  the 
jurisdiction  of  New  Plymouth,  and  also  Mr.  Thomas  Southworth,  re- 
siding at  Cushenage  on  Kennebec,  and  such  other  as  may  be  sent 
hither  to  have  the  government  of  that  family,  with  same  power  and 
authority  of  the  Assistants  in  the  government  of  New  Plymouth. 
Thomas  Ashley  was  chosen  Constable.  (See  Ancient  Records  of  Col- 
ony of  New  Plymouth,  pp.  58,  59.) 

The  Scituate  and  Hingham  Hughes 

JOHN  HE  WES  of  Scituate,  called  the  "  Welchman,"  was  first  of 
Plymouth,  where  he  was  rated  in  1633,  and  that  same  year,  with  wife 
Jone,  whom  he  had  recently  married,  was  punished  for  an  offense 
against  the  law,  which  to-day  would  not  be  taken  cognizance  of.  He 
had  previously  lived  in  Scituate  and  his  name  had  been  given  to  a 
ford  on  the  road  to  Plymouth  from  Boston,  noticed  by  Gov.  Winthrop 
in  his  journal,  as  follows:  "  31  Oct.,  1632.  About  five  in  the  morning 
the  governor  (Winthrop)  and  his  company  came  out  of  Plymouth;  the 
governor  of  Plymouth,  with  the  pastor  and  elder,  etc.,  accompanying 
tin  in  mar  half  a  mile  out  of  the  town  in  the  dark.  The  Lieutenant 
Holmes,  with  two  others,  and   the  governor's  mare,  came  along  with 

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them  to  the  great  swamp,  about  ten  miles.  When  they  came  to  the 
great  river  (North  River),  they  were  carried  over  by  one  Luddam, 
their  guide  (as  they  had  been  when  they  came,  the  stream  being  very 
strong,  and  up  to  the  crotch)  also  the  governor  called  that  passage 
Luddam's  Ford.  Thence  they  came  to  a  place  called  Hue's  Cross. 
The  governor  being  displeased  with  the  name,  in  respect  that  such 
things  might  hereafter  give  the  Papists  occasion  to  say  that  their 
religion  was  first  planted  in  these  parts,  changed  the  name,  and  called 
it  Hue's  Folly.  So  they  came,  that  evening,  to  Wessguscus,  where 
they  were  bountifully  entertained,  as  before." 

In  spite  of  the  action  of  Winthrop  in  changing  the  name  of  this 
locality,  the  original  name  has  been  perpetuated. 

John  Hewes  was  admitted  freeman  of  Plymouth  6  March,  1637-8, 
and  took  the  oath  3  Dec,  1639  (Plymouth  Records).  In  1649  he 
appears  owning  lands  in  Scituate,  and  in  1648  is  called  lieutenant 
(Plymouth  Deeds,  66,  192).  In  1650,  described  as  "senior"  and 
"  planter  " ;  he  buys  of  Humphrey  Johnson  of  Scituate,  a  planter,  a 
dwelling  house  and  20  acres,  some  time  the  dwelling  house  of  John 
Williams,  Jr.,  of  Scituate  (Ibid.,  200). 

He  was  surveyor  of  highways,  1652  and  1653,  and  constable  in  1659. 
He  is  mentioned  as  among  the  inhabitants  of  Scituate  in  1643,  and 
took'  the  oath  of  fidelity  in  1644. 

In  1666  John  Hewes,  senior,  and  John  Hewes,  junior,  were  rated  in 
Scituate.  The  elder  appears  on  the  list  of  freemen  of  1670.  The 
name  John  Hewes  appears  twice  upon  the  roll  of  men  between  sixteen 
and  sixty  capable  of  bearing  arms  in  Scituate  in  1643. 

The  town  list  of  approved  inhabitants  to  whom  common  lands  could 
be  assigned  made  up  in  1673,  contains  the  entry,  "  John  Hews's  heirs." 
Deane  says  that  John  Hewes  died  in  1672;  also  that  his  son  John  died 
in  1661.  The  will  of  John  Hewes  is  dated  6  Feb.,  1671,  proved  22 
Feb.,  1673-4  and  mentions  wife  Joanna,  son  James,  son-in-law  Jere- 
miah  Hatch    (Genealogical   Memoirs   of   Middlesex   County,    I,   242). 

Children  of  John  Hewes  or  Hughes  (Hervghs)  of  Scituate,  probably 
by  wife  Jone,  or  Joanna: 

Mary  (perhaps  the  child  born  in  the  spring  of  1633)  married 
29  Dec,  1657,  Jeremiah  Hatch  (Scituate  Records).  He 
was  son  of  William  Hatch. 

Abigail,  married  William  Hatch,  who  died  prior  to  1653. 
She  married,  second,  Thomas  King.  In  1669,  in  a  pe- 
tition, she  describes  herself  as  widow  of  William  Hatch 
and  daughter  of  John  Hewes.  She  had  a  daughter  Phebe, 
aged   nearly    16   years   in    1669.     William    Hatch   died   in 


430       OTHER  FAMILIES  —  PLYMOUTH  COLONY 

Virginia,  leaving  a  will  dated  13  Nov.,  1653,  in  which  he 
names  wife  Abigail  and  daughter  Phebe. 
John,  who  if  of  age  to  bear  arms  in  1643,  would  have  been 
born  prior  to  1628,  but  as  the  second  John  Hewes  in  the 
list  is  not  followed  by  the  word  junior,  nor  the  first  by 
senior,  it  is  more  probable  that  the  persons  making  the  list 
wrote  the  father's  name  twice.  John  Hewes,  Jr.,  was 
rated  in  1666;  although  Deane  says  he  died  in  1661. 
Both  statements  are  reproduced  without  sight  of  the 
original  records,  nor  exact  references  to  the  record,  and 
are  therefore  subject  to  correction. 
Marshfield    records    give    the    marriage    of    Jeremiah    Burrowes    to 

[ ]   Hewes  in  May,  1651,  who  may  have  been  another  daughter 

of  John. 

JOHN  HUGHS  of  Hingham  (perhaps  son  of  John  of  Scituate; 
but  hardly  a  grandson,  as  suggested  by  Deane),  married  there  x  Mary 
Hobart,  daughter  of  Edmund  and  Elizabeth  Hobart,  who  was  bap- 
tized 18  March,  1637-8,  and  died  in  Hingham  25  July,  1674,  aged  36. 

Children,  as  given  by  Lincoln  in  "  History  of  Hingham  ": 

Mary,  born  4  Dec,  1665. 

John,  born  21  Sept.,  1667;  died  22  Aug.,  1669. 

Samuel,  born  1  May,  1669,  died  13  Sept. 

John,  born  18  July,  1672,  died  21  Sept. 
Lincoln  thinks  that  after  death  of  his  wife,  John  removed  from 
Hingham.  It  has  been  suggested  that  he  was  the  John  Hughes  of 
Watertown,  married  there  in  1676,  who  died  in  Lexington  in  1721. 
Aside  from  possibilities  suggested  by  the  dates,  there  is  no  evidence  to 
that  effect.  A  John  Hughes  was  a  soldier  in  Turner's  company  at 
Hatfield  in  December,  1675,  but  nothing  further  is  known  of  him,  or 
of  any  heir. 

Joshua  Bramhal]  and  wife  Thankful,  sold  to  Samuel  Bramhall,  land 
in  Hingham,  drawn  to  the  heirs  of  John  Hews  (Suffolk  Deeds,  81: 
196).  Joshua  Bramhal]  was  born  1722,  died  1755;  his  wife  Thankful 
died  1759,  aged  about  33.  Joshua  was  son  of  George  and  Anna 
(Baker)  Bramhall,  and  grandson  of  George  Bramhall,  whose  widow 
Martha  married,  1698,  Gershom  Hall.  Thankful  would  appear  to  have 
been  the  heir  to  John  Hewes,  unless  the  word  was  used  solely  in  the 
sense  of  assign. 

THOMAS  HEWES  or  HUGHS  of  Plymouth  was  possibly  a  son  of 
John,  but  no  evidence  has  been  found  connecting  him  with  any  Hewes- 

1  Lincoln    gives    the    date    !>    Dec,    Kill!),    probably    an    error    for    1664. 


OTHER  FAMILIES  —  PLYMOUTH  COLONY       431 

Hughes  emigrants.  He  first  appears  in  Plymouth  in  1668,  when  lib- 
erty was  granted  Edward  and  Thomas  Dotey  and  Thomas  Hewes  to  set 
up  a  stage  for  fishing  at  Clarke's  Island,  for  seven  years.  In  1672  he 
had  a  grant  of  land  near  the  upper  end  of  land  he  then  resided  upon, 
and  in  1677  had  a  grant  of  Hurtleberry  swamp,  to  make  meadow  of. 
In  1686  he  was  granted  for  five  years  the  improvement  of  five  acres 
(Plymouth  Town  Records).      In  a  deed  of  1671/ he  is  called  seaman. 

In  1670  he  was  fined  for  breaking  the  peace,  and  in  1672  acknowl- 
edged a  debt  due  Mr.  Braden  of  Boston  (Plymouth  Col.  Court  Rec- 
ords). Davis,  in  Landmarks  of  Plymouth,  tells  no  more  about  him, 
except  that  he  married  Abigail;  died  in  1697;  and  left  children 
as  below. 

Hs  made  his  will  11  June,  1697,  which  was  proved  29  De- 
cember following.  To  son  Edward  one  shilling;  daughter,  Ann  Hughs, 
one  shilling;  daughter  Elizabeth,  two-thirds  of  his  estate,  and  residue 
of  his  estate  after  the  death  of  her  mother.  Wife  Abigail  executrix. 
His  estate  was  small  (Plymouth  Probate,  1:  281). 

Children: 

Edward.  He  seems  to  have  removed  from  Plymouth.  There 
was  an  Edward  Huse  admitted  freeman  of  Massachusetts 
16  May,  1690,  who  from  the  position  of  his  name  in  the 
list  would  appear  to  be  of  Gloucester.  Nothing  further 
is  known  of  him.  Mr.  Walker  quotes  some  unidentified 
authority  to  the  effect  that  Edward  Hewes  of  Boston  was 
"opposed  to  the  law  of  1658,  punishing  Quakers'  with 
death  for  returning  to  the  Colony  of  Massachusetts  after 
banishment,"  date  of  this  occurrence  not  being  given.  The 
people  of  Scituate  and  of  Plymouth  Colony  generally  were 
more  kindly  disposed  to  the  Quakers  than  those  of  Massa- 
chusetts. But  who  this  Edward  was  is  unknown,  as  search 
for  the  item  in  the  records  has  failed. 

Ann,  unmarried  in  1697. 

Elizabeth.  Administration  on  her  estate  was  granted  Robert 
Davie  and  Deborah  his  wife,  who  was  a  daughter  of  Eliza- 
beth Hughes,  21  June,  1727  (Plymouth  Probate,  5:  300). 
On  19  March,  1727,  Eizabeth  Hughes  (sic)  granted  to 
her  daughter,  Deborah  Davie,  her  lands,  etc.,  for  her  life, 
with  reversion  to  grandson,  Thomas  Davie  (Deeds,  22:  52). 

HEWSON  HUGHES  of  Rochester,  had  wife  Joanna.  He  bought 
a  farm  there  of  Job  Bumpus  in  1736  and  sold  the  next  year.  Bumpus 
had  removed  from  Rochester  to  Bath  county,  N.  C,  and  Hughes  was 


432       OTHER  FAMILIES  —  PLYMOUTH  COLONY 

of  New   River,   Bath  county,   N.   C.    (see   Plymouth  Deeds,   30:177, 
31:146). 

JOHN  HUGHES,  born  on  the  Isle  of  Wight,  came  to  Truro,  Mass., 
when  twelve  years  of  age.  He  was  lost  in  the  Bay,  with  four  others, 
May,  1799,  aet.  49  years.  He  married  Rachel  Dyer,  daughter  of 
Fulke  and  Elizabeth  (Atkins)  Dyer,  who  was  baptized  at  Truro  22 
October,  1758.     He  left  eight  children.2 

zUnderhill:  Genealogy  of  Edward  Small,  p.  1259. 


CONNECTICUT 

John  and  Richard  Hughes,  early  of  Guilford  do  not  appear  to 
have  been  related.  JOHN  HUSE  was  one  of  the  signers  to  the 
Guilford  covenant  of  1  June,  1639,  on  board  the  ship  which  brought 
the  first  company  of  settlers.  (See  "  History  of  Guilford,"  by  R.  D. 
Smith,  p.  12.)  This  company  was  chiefly  from  the  counties  of  Surrey 
and  Kent,  and  its  members  were  mainly  agriculturists.  The  name  of 
John  Hughes  does  not  appear  among  the  inhabitants  of  1650,  nor  is 
other  mention   found   of   him. 

RICHARD  HUSE  was  probably  the  Richard  Hewes  of  Dorchester, 
Mass.,  where,  by  wife  Ann,  he  had  born: 

Bethel,  born  27-5mo.,  1637- 

Deliverance,  born  ll-4mo.,  1640. 

Constant,  born  17-5mo.,  1642. 
Richard  Hughes,  or  Hewes,  had  probably  other  children  after  his 
removal  to  Guilford,  among  them: 

Samuel,  of  whom  below. 

Nicholas,  of  whom  below. 
The  name  of  Richard  Hughes  appears  in  the  list  of  1650.  He  had 
settled  in  Guilford  as  early  as  1645.  He  died  3  July,  1658.  Steiner, 
in  History  of  Guilford  and  Madison,  states  that  Richard  Hughes 
came  probably  from  Dorchester,  and  that  his  son  Nicholas  was 
granted  a  houselot  8  Nov.,  1670,  if  he  would  remain  seven  years. 
Nicholas  was  a  blacksmith.  A  daughter  Sarah  was  a  school  teacher 
for  many  years,  and  as  late  as  1711-12. 

Inventory  of  the  estate  of  Richard  Hughes  was  presented  at  a 
court  in  Guilford,  5  May,  1659,  by  Mary,  late  wife  of  Richard 
Hughes,  and  then  wife  of  William  Stone,  who  was  appointed  admin- 
istrator. Inventory  of  the  estate  showed  it  to  be  worth  £96  (Col.  Rec. 
New  Haven,  2:  286). 

SAMUEL  HUGHES  of  Guilford,  probably  son  of  Richard,  mar- 
ried Mary  Dowd.  He  died  in  1693.  His  will  dated  9  May,  was 
proved  5  June,  1693.  To  his  daughter  Mary  he  gave  a  piece  of 
meadow  "  by  ye  house  lot  of  his  father,"  bounded  east  by  John  Stone 
and  south  by  the  Highway,  and  west  by  the  West  River.  Also  other 
land.     To  daughter  Abigail  the  "  home  lot."     He  had  given  to  Mary 

433 


434  OTHER  FAMILIES  —  CONNECTICUT 

a  valuable  estate  upon  the  occasion  of  her  marriage,  and  Abigail  is 
to  Abigail,  and  30  shillings  rent  out  of  the  estate  given  Mary,  for  her 
to  be  "  made  equal."  To  his  wife  the  use  of  the  house  and  barn  given 
life.  Wife  Mary  executrix.  The  inventory  of  "  Samuel  Hugges  " 
showed  a  personality  of  £105-11-06,  homestead  and  the  other  lands 
with  the  corn  on  it  £160.  A  right  to  9H  acres  in  the  Fourth  Division 
not  appraised  (New  Haven  Probate  Records).  He  was  assessed  in 
Guilford  in  1642  at  =£48-50  (Hinman  Mss.)  and  admitted  freeman 
13  May,  1669  (Col.  Rec.  Conn.,  2:  105). 

NICHOLAS  HUGHES  of  Guilford,  said  in  the  Hinman  Mss.  to 
have  been  assessed  in  Guilford  in  1642  at  £27-16.  If  this  is  a  cor- 
rect statement  of  the  date,  it  is  hardly  probable  that  he  was  son  of 
Richard,  as  more  probably  is  claimed  by  Steiner.  Nicholas  Hughes 
had  a  grant  of  a  houselot  in  Guilford  in  1670  (Steiner).  On  the  23 
March,  1681-2,  he  had  deed  from  Mary  Ailing  of  New  Haven,  he 
being  described  as  of  the  same  place,  of  six  acres  in  New  Haven  at 
the  further  end  of  the  suburbs  quarter.  On  30  Jan.,  1683,  his  third 
division  on  the  east  side  of  East  River,  5^  acres,  is  described  (New 
Haven  Deeds,  1:  97,  1:  222).  In  these  records  his  name  is  spelled 
Hues.  No  further  mention  of  him  is  found  on  deeds  or  probate  at 
New  Haven. 

He  married  about  1692,  Abigail  Curtis,  widow  of  Jonathan 
Curtis,  and  daughter  of  John  Thompson  of  Stratford.  There  are  no 
children  of  record,  and  his  land  fell  to  Jonathan  Curtis,  Jr.  Nicholas 
Huse  was  of  Stratford  in  1679-80,  and  in  1684  (Orcutt:  History  of 
Stratford). 

LEWIS  HUGHES  of  Lyme,  Conn.,  married  a  daughter  of  Thomas 
Hungerford,  who  died  1663;  Hungerford's  daughters  were  Sarah  and 
Hannah,  the  eldest  nine  years  old  at  his  death  (Calkin:  "History 
New  London  "). 

LEWIS  HUES  married  Martha  Hazard,  widow  of  Thomas  Haz- 
ard, R.  I.,  who  had  formerly  been  wife  of  Thomas  Sheriff  of  the  same 
place.  On  the  22  March,  1691,  Martha,  wife  of  Lewis  Hues,  granted 
to  her  son,  John  Sheriff,  all  her  estate  except,  etc.  In  this  deed 
she  mentions  that  her  husband  had  absconded  a  few  weeks  after  mar- 
riage with  nearly  all  her  personal  estate  in  her  former  husband's  time. 
She  was  born  probably  as  early  as  1630,  and  died  soon  after  1691.  See 
Austin's  Geneal.  Diet,  of  R.  I.,  p.  177. 

LEWIS  HUGHES  was  an  emigrant  to  Barbados  in  1635,  but  there 
is  no  reason  to  suspect  any  connection  of  this  man  with  New  England. 


OTHER  FAMILIES  —  CONNECTICUT  435 

JOHN  HUGHES7  enlisted  5  April,  and  served  until  14  June, 
1758,  in  Capt.  Champion's  company,  Whiting's  regiment,  in  the  cam- 
paign against  Canada. 

WILLIAM  HUGHS  7  was  in  Major  Durkee's  company  in  the  First 
Connecticut  regiment,  6  April  to  15  Nov.,  1761.  Durkee  was  of 
Norwich.  In  1783,  a  William  Huse  was  a  member  of  Bett's  company 
in  Webb's,  3d  Conn,  line  regiment,  having  enlisted  19  Jan.,  1781. 

NATHANIEL  HEWES 7  was  in  Lt.-Col.  Israel  Putnam's  own 
company  in  his  battalion  raised  for  the  campaign  against  the  Indians, 
and  served  from  5  April  to  11  Dec,  1764.  See  under  Nathaniel 
Hewes,  page   128. 

HENRY  FREEMAN  HUGHES  of  East  Haven,  Conn.,  said  to 
have  been  born  in  Wales  in  1723  and  to  have  deserted  from  the 
British  navy,  probably  at  Boston,  appears  in  East  Haven  about  1748. 
In  1752  he  bought  land  there,  and  for  many  years  ran  the  ferry  from 
Stable  Point  to  New  Haven  over  Wallingford  river.  In  1758  he 
signed  his  name  Huse.  He  was  an  Episcopalian,  and  at  one  time  in 
prosperous  circumstances,  yet  died  insolvent.  He  married  19  July, 
1749,  Lydia  Tuttle,  daughter  of  Noah  Tuttle.  She  was  born  27 
Jan.,  1722.  He  died  13  Oct.,  1791,  and  his  widow  died  in  Fair  Haven, 
2  August,  1794. 

Children : 

Henry,  born  7  July,  1751;  married  Grace  Whedon. 

Freeman,  born  about  1753;  married  24  Nov.,  1774,  Mary 
Richards.  When  the  British  raided  New  Haven  he  is 
said  to  have  joined  them  and  eventually  retired  to  Nova 
Scotia;  but  in  a  return  of  date  of  1777  by  New  Haven 
Selectmen  to  the  State,  of  men  in  the  army,  the  "  son  of 
Freeman  Huse,  now  prisoner  in  Great  Britain,"  appears 
(Conn.  Hist.  Soc.  Col.) 

John,  born  7  Sept.,  1757;  married  15  July,  1778,  Mary 
Grannis;  married  second,  Mabel  Baldwin. 

Daniel,  born  17  June,  1759;  married  Lucy  Grannis,  sister  of 
John's  wife.  He  married,  second,  Sarah  Atwater.  He 
married  third,  Rachel  Shailer. 

Abigail,  born  2  Oct.,  1761;  married  Stephen  Rowe. 

BODWELL  HUGHES,  said  to  have  been  a  brother  of  Henry  Free- 

i  French  and  Indian  War  Rolls  in  Conn.  Hist.  Society  Collections,  vols.  2 
and  9. 


436  OTHER  FAMILIES  —  CONNECTICUT 

man  Hughes,  married  at  East  Haven,  15  April,  1760,  Mercy  Collins, 
daughter  of  Abel  Collins.  He  lived  in  East  Haven,  but  removed  to 
Ohio,  where  he  died. 

His  name  appears  as  Huse  and  Hews  in  the  Revolutionary  Rolls  of 
Connecticut.  He  served  from  June  to  December,  1776,  in  the  5th 
battalion,  commanded  by  Col.  Douglas,  raised  to  re-enforce  Washing- 
ton in  New  York,  and  later  in  Ely's  company  in  the  1st  Connecticut 
line,  enlisted  7  Feb.,  1777,  for  three  years.  In  the  roll  of  this  regi- 
ment he  is  described  as  Bandwell  Hewes.  He  was  on  the  roll  of  the 
5th  Connecticut  line  regiment  1  Jan.  to  31  Dec,  1781.  He  enlisted 
19  Jan.,  1781,  in  the  3rd  Conn,  line  in  Bett's  company  and  was  in 
service  in  1783.  He  is  entered  on  the  rolls  of  the  Continental  frigate 
Trumbull,  as  Boduel  Huse,  having  enlisted  22  Dec,  1775;  "left  sick 
in  Connecticut  and  not  returned."  His  name  appears  in  lists  of  men 
in  the  service  every  year  of  the  War,  usually  as  Huse.  See  Revolu- 
tionary Rolls  published  in  Conn.  Hist.  Soc  Collections,  Vols.  8  and  12, 
and  Connecticut  Men  in  the  Revolution. 

Children: 

Rebecca. 

Anna,  married  Samuel  Browne. 

Collins,  born  May,  1776;  married  Abigail  Bradley. 

Rebecca,    married    Thomas    Howell;    married    2d.,    Josiah 

Moulton. 
Israel,  died  unmarried,  by  drowning. 
Joseph,  died  unmarried. 
For    descendants    of    Henry    Freeman    and    Bodwell    Hughes,    see 
Hughes  and  Allied  Families,  D.  Darwin  Hughes  (1879). 

HENRY  HUSE  (Henry  Freeman  Huse)  of  Westfield,  Mass.,  mar- 
ried Grace  Whedon.  His  estate  was  administered  upon  by  his 
widow  Grace,  2  May,  1786  (Hampshire  Probate,  Box  76;  36). 

27  March,  1775,  Henry  Huse  of  Westfield,  yeoman,  bought  from 
Josiah  Parks,  for  £80,  30  acres  at  Mill  Pond  in  Westfield,  on  the 
north  side  of  Great  River  (Hampden  Deeds,  15:  34.1).  On  16  Nov., 
1778,  he  bought  110  acres  with  mansion  house  thereon  of  James 
Noble  in  Westfield  new  Addition  (afterward  Russell)  on  the  road 
to  Blandford  (Jbid.,  16:  262).  This  estate  came  to  his  children,  of 
w1h.ui  Stephen  was  the  eldest  son,  and  various  deeds  are  of  record  dis- 
posing of  their  shares  to  Stephen  Huse  and  others.  From  the  deeds 
We   Learn   their  residence,  as   shown  below. 

Henry  Freeman  Huse  also  bought  laud  in  Westfield  in  1779  (Ibid., 
23:  60."/;,  which  lie  sold  to  Daniel  Huse  of  New  Haven  the  same  year 


OTHER  FAMILIES  —  CONNECTICUT  437 

(Ibid.,  34:  63).  Daniel  Hughes  sold  the  same,  he  then  being  of  East 
Haven,  and  describing  the  land  as  40  acres  in  Russell,  bounding  on 
land  of  heirs  of  Henry  Hughes,  deceased,  to  David  Tuttle  of  Russell, 
2  May,  1792  (Ibid.,  34:  178). 

The  name  is  spelled  Huse  on  the  Hampden  Deeds,  with  the  excep- 
tion of  the  deeds  of  Daniel  Hughes  of  East  Haven,  and  one  other 
instance.  Grace,  widow  of  Henry,  in  signing  bond  of  administration, 
wrote  her  name  Grace  Hues,  but  the  probate  papers  were  made  out  in 
the  name  Huse. 

Children,  from  guardianship  papers,  dated  3  Feb.,  1789: 

Stephen,  aged  14;  of  Russell,  living  1843. 

Samuel,  aged  13;  in  179-  of  Hebron,  Washington  Co.,  N.  Y. 

Henry,  aged  11 ;  in  1796  of  Russell,  when  he  buys  land  of  his 

brother   Samuel. 
Abigail,  aged  9. 

Freeman,  aged  7;  in  1803  of  Onondaga,  N.  Y. 
Grace,  aged  5. 
Lucretia,  aged  3. 

CAPT.  JOHN  HUGHES  was  a  resident  of  Norwich,  Conn.,  and 
was  born  about  1719.  He  died  1803.  He  married  in  1748  Zipporah 
Hartshorn,  daughter  of  David  and  Abigail  (Hebard)  Hartshorn,  of 
Franklin.  He  was  probably  the  John  Hughes  who  served  in  Capt. 
Perkins'  Norwich  company  which  responded  to  the  alarm  of  August, 
•1757,  and  marched  to  the  relief  of  Fort  William  and  Henry  (Conn. 
Hist.  Soc.  Col.,  vols.  2  and  9). 

Children: 

Eunice,  born  1749;  married  Jeremiah  Leach. 

Elijah,  baptized  1751. 

Hannah,  born  1752;  died  1754. 

John,  born  1755;  died  in  Cambridge,  Mass.,  in  1775.     A  John 

John  Hews  of  Norwich  appears  in  the  company  of  Capt. 

John  McKall,  and  is   credited  with  one  day's   service   on 

the  alarm  of  19  April,  1775. 
Hannah,   born    1758;   died    1801;   married    1774    Nathaniel 

Townsend  (Perkins:  Old  Houses  of  Norwich). 
Other  Connecticut  men  in  the  Revolution  8  were : 

JAMES  HUGHES,  who  was  a  sergeant  in  Capt.  Samuel  Whiting's 
company,  5th  Connecticut  Continental,  regiment,  enlisted  5  May,  1775, 

8  For  Revolutionary-  service  see  Connecticut  men  in  the  Revolution,  and 
vols.  8  to  12  of  the  'Collections  of  the  Connecticut  Historical  Society. 


438  OTHER  FAMILIES  —  CONNECTICUT 

re-enlisted  17  Nov.,  1775.  His  term  expired  December,  1775.  The 
same  or  another  James  Hughes  was  a  member  of  Col.  Elmore's  bat- 
talion in  January,  1777.  He  was  appointed  second  lieutenant  15 
April,  1776.  The  battalion  was  broken  up  in  the  spring  of  1777,  and 
the  men  mostly  re-enlisted  in  Col.  Lamb's  artillery  regiment  raised  in 
1777,  which  served  through  the  war,  and  participated  in  most  of  the 
battles  in  the  north  and  at  Yorktown. 

JAMES  HEWS  of  Hartford  is  returned  as  having  deserted  from 
the  5th  Connecticut  regiment  between  Jan.,  1778,  and  1  Jan.,  1780 
(Conn.  Hist.  Soc.  Col.). 

JOHN  HUGHES  was  a  member  of  Warner's  company  (Warner 
was  of  Middletown),  in  the  3d  Connecticut  line,  enlisted  26  May,  1777, 
for  three  years,  but  deserted  9  July,  1777-  Another  John  Hews 
"  of  Connecticutt  "  was  one  of  the  crew  of  the  armed  ship  Deane,  at 
Boston,  Nov.,  1780,  and  described  as  aged  21,  light  complexioned,  and 
a  seaman  (Mass.  Rev.  Rolls).  "  Capt."  John  Hugh  commanded  a 
company,  perhaps  in  1777-  The  same  year  "Lieut."  Hughes  is 
named,  probably  James  above. 

JOSEPH  HUSE  was  a  member  of  Dimon's  company  of  Fairfield 
in  May,  1775. 

THOMAS  HUGHES  was  detached  from  Chester's  Connecticut 
regiment  to  serve  in  Knowlton's  Rangers  in  Sept.,  1776.  He  was 
captured  by  the  enemy  at  Fort  Washington  16  Nov.,  1776.  A  soldier 
named  Huse,  no  christian  name  given,  was  a  prisoner  and  confined 
in  Great  Britain  in  1776.  He  was  of  New  Haven,  and  perhaps  is 
Freeman  Hughes  above  mentioned. 

MRS.  ABIGAIL  HUGHS  of  New  Haven  died  in  1787,  and  ad- 
ministration of  her  estate  was  granted  to  Elias  Stilwell  at  request  of 
Samuel  Hughes,  eldest  son.  She  left  an  estate  of  £131  (New  Haven 
Probate  Records).     Samuel  was  a  minor  in  1785. 

PARLEY  HUGHES  was  married  at  Thompson,  Conn.,  19  Nov., 
1778,  to  Esther  Onnsby.  He  was  an  inhabitant  of  Meriden,  N.  H., 
30  April,  1781,  when  he  is  one  of  the  petitioners  for  a  military  com- 
pany  there,  the  petition  being  addressed  to  Col.  Chase,  commanding 
the  1st  regiment  in  the  3d  Brigade,  State  of  Vermont.  He  signs  his 
name  as  Parley  Hews  as  m  11  as  Hughes  (N.  H.  Town  Papers,  13). 


OTHER  FAMILIES  —  CONNECTICUT  439 

JONATHAN  HUES  was  a  resident  of  Killingly,  Conn.,  and  had 
baptized  there: 

Jonas,  baptized  12  June,  1715. 

Abigail,  baptized  10  Feb.,  1717. 

Zerviah,  baptized  26  Aug.,  1722;  Zerviah  Hughes  and  Jona- 
than Converse  were  married  19  June,  1713,  at  Thomp- 
son parish,  Killingly. 
Other  marriages  at  Thompson  were: 

Edmund  Hughes' to  Elizabeth  Stevens,  27  March,  1739.  He 
is,  perhaps,  the  "  E.  Huges  "  who  lived  north  of  the  meet- 
ing house  in  Killingly,  on  the  county  road,  in  1755.  The 
"  widow  Hughes  "  also  lived  on  the  same  road  and  north  of 
the  meeting  house  (Conn.  Town  Papers,  IX.,  304b). 

Amy  Hughes  of  Thompson  to  John  Utley  of  Canada,  13 
April,  1758. 

Elizabeth  Hughes  to  David  Jewett,  Jr.,  6  Oct.,  1762. 


NEW  HAMPSHIRE 

Until  after  1720,  when  the  younger  representatives  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts families  of  this  name  began  to  seek  homes  in  the  then  unsub- 
dued wilderness  of  New  Hampshire  away  from  the  coast,  few  instances 
of  the  settlement  of  persons  bearing  the  name  Hewes  or  Hughes 
are  found  in  New  Hampshire.  The  settlement  at  Portsmouth  of 
Arthur  Hewes  of  Saco  has  already  been  mentioned  under  Maine. 

There  was  a  JOHN  HUES  4  in  Exeter,  probably  in  1671,  when  he 
witnessed  a  deed  of  Exeter  parties  to  land  in  Piscataqua  (Old  Norfolk 
Records,  Essex  Antiquarian,  12:  182). 

Administration  on  the  estate  of  JAMES  HUGHES  of  Kingston  was 
granted  29  Aug.,  1753,  to  Elizabeth  Hughes,  and  the  inventory  dis- 
closed an  estate  of  £590  (Provincial  Probate  Records,  18:  509). 
JAMES  HUSE  and  ISRAEL  HUSE  in  1743  lived  in  the  territory 
set  off  to  form  Hampstead.  Israel  Huse,  Jr.,  was  a  resident  in 
Kingston  in  1746  (N.  H.  Town  Papers,  vol.  II). 

WILLIAM  HEWS,  a  young  man  belonging  to  Hampton,  died 
in  the  army  at  Cape  Breton,  the  news  arriving  at  his  home  23  Feb., 
1746  (Register  58:  136).  Dow's  History  of  Hampton  does  not  men- 
tion any  family  of  this  name.  William  Hews  was  in  Col.  Moore's 
company  whicli  participated  in  the  capture  of  Louisburg,  17  June, 
1745. 

JOHN  HUGHES  was  a  merchant  in  Portsmouth  1732-3  (N.  H. 
Provincial  Deeds,  19:  413). 

DANIEL  HUSE  was  a  soldier  in  the  company  of  Capt.  John 
Webster,  June-July,  1754,  and  marched  to  Contoocook. 

JOHN  HUGH  and  MOSES  HUSE  were  soldiers  in  the  company 
commanded  by  John  Hazzen  in  Goffe's  regiment,  whicli  was  in  service 
about  Lake  Champlain  in  1760,  the  former  serving  from  6  March  to 
30  November,  and  the  latter  at  least  until  23  October.  They  were 
probably  from  the  vicinity  of  Plaistow. 

*  [nhabitants  of  Rockingham  county,  bearing  this  name,  are  very  likely 
of  the  Abel  Huse  family. 


OTHER  FAMILIES  — NEW  HAMPSHIRE  441 

JOHN  HUE  of  Albany  County,  N.  Y.,  bought  land  in  Bath,  N.  H., 
in  1768,  and,  as  John  Hew,  another  parcel  there  the  next  year  (N.  H. 
Prov.  Deeds,  80:  248,  493).  In  1770  as  of  Newbury,  N.  Y.,  he 
bought  land  in  Haverhill,  N.  H.,  and  the  same  year  was  "  of  Haver- 
hill (Ibid.,  80:  492,  494). 

SAMUEL  HEWES  of  Boston,  merchant,  took  a  mortgage  on  land 
in  Portsmouth  in  1755,  and  JAMES  HEWES  of  Boston,  the  distiller, 
had  at  an  earlier  date  lived  with  the  Scotch-Irish  at  Londonderry,  as 
will  be  found  in  place.  The  heirs  of  JOSHUA  HEWES,  JR.,  had 
a  share  in  Bedford  when  that  township  was  laid  out  as  one  of  the  Nar- 
ragansett  townships,  but  none  of  his  descendants  appear  to  have  resided 
there. 

JOHN  HUSE  was  master  of  the  scow  Phoenix,  65  tons,  plantation 
built,  which  cleared  for  Cadiz  from  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  25  May,  1726 
(Suffolk  Files,  33,641).  In  October,  1718,  John  Hughs,  master 
of  the  ship  Revival,  was  fined  at  Boston  for  entering  the  ship  Robert 
and  Mary  "  with  armed  men  in  a  riotous  manner,"  and  assaulting 
Robert  Manderson,  a  sailor   (Suffolk  General  Sessions). 

CLEMENT  HUGHES,  whose  record  follows,  appears  to  have  left 
no  male  issue.  He  was  of  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  a  merchant,  with 
business  connections  in  Salem  and  Boston,  and  probably  elsewhere 
along  the  coast.     His  wife  was  Hannah   (N.  H.  Deeds,  14:  359). 

In  1719,  "  Mr."  Clement  Hughes  appears  as  one  of  the  petitioners 
for  a  township  above  Kingston  (Prov.  Papers,  2:  699,  728).  The  next 
year  he  witnessed  a  deed  in  Salem.  A  statement  of  his  account  against 
Thomas  Coats,  covering  the  period  1709-1712,  is  preserved  in  Massa- 
chusetts Archives,  119;  246.  In  1721  he  bought  land  in  Dover,  N.  H. 
(N.  H.  Deeds,  17:  154)  and  during  several  years,  to  1728,  he  appears 
both  as  a  purchaser  and  a  grantor  of  lands  in  Newington,  Chester, 
Hampton,  Nottingham,  Rochester,  Dover,  N.  H.  He  was  a  grantee 
of  Barrington.  In  the  Probate  records  of  York  County,  Me.,  his  name 
appears  as  creditor  to  estates,  and  as  late  as  1743;  although  he  had 
died  prior  to  that  date,  for  7  August,  1742,  Hannah  Hughes  5  of 
Portsmouth,  widow,  sells  to  Daniel  Warner  land  in  Barrington  (Deeds, 
26:   97). 

Clement  Hughes  was  one  of  the  Portsmouth  men  sent  to  garrison  the 

s  In  April,  1743,  John  Brown  of  Boston  received  into  his  house,  Hannah 
Hughs,  his  wife's  sister,  and  two  children  of  Capt.  Balden,  from  Portsmouth 
who  came  on  a  visit  for  three  months.  In  May  the  Selectmen  ordered  that 
Brown  he  prosecuted  for  receiving  into  his  house  a  woman  from  Portsmouth 
(Selectmen's  records). 


442  OTHER  FAMILIES  —  NEW  HAMPSHIRE 

fort  at  Newcastle  in  June,  1708  (Adj.-Gen.' Rpt.,  2:  p.  25).  In  1718 
he  was  Clerk  of  Courts,  and  in  1722  Commissioner  of  Excise  for  New 
Hampshire.  Hannah  Hewes  owned  the  covenant  with  the  North 
Church  in  Portsmouth  16  Oct.,  1709,  the  same  day  her  sons  Clement 
and  Charles  were  baptized. 

Children;  from  register  of  North  Church: 

Clement,  bapt.  16  Oct.,  1709,  son  of  Hannah  Hewes. 
Charles,  bapt.  16  Oct.,  1709,  son  of  Hannah  Hewes. 
John,  bapt.  8  April,  1711,  son  of  Clement  Hewes. 
Hannah,  bapt.  26  April,  1713,  daughter  of  Clement  Hughes. 
Hannah  (Hughes),  bapt.  25  April,  1714;  of  Portsmouth,  single 
woman,  17  Oct.,  1761,  when  she,  as  "daughter  of  Clement 
Hughes,  and  his  only  surviving  heir,"  sells  land  in  Ports- 
mouth to  Samuel  Grindall  of  Portsmouth,  mason   (Deeds, 
64;    256).     She  was   living,   unmarried,   in    1783    (N.   H. 
Town  Papers,  Vol.  9). 
Samuel  (Hughes),  bapt.  5  May,  1717. 
William  (Hughes),  bapt.  20  Aug.,  1721. 
During  the  period  in  which  the  children  of  Clement  and  Hannah 
Hughes  were  baptized,  Solomon  Hewes  also  presented  his  many  chil- 
dren for  baptism.     There  appears  no  good  reason  to  suppose  that  Sam- 
uel and  William  above  were  not  children  of  Clement  Hughes,  but  the 
record  is  silent  concerning  their  parentage.     William,  son  of  Solomon 
Hewes,  was  an  older  man  than  he  baptized  in  1721. 

JOHN  HUGHES  (probably  a  descendant  of  Abel  Huse)  of 
Plaistow,  N.  H.,  removed  to  Essex  county,  Vermont,  before  the  Revo- 
lution, or  soon  after  its  outbreak.  He  served  with  his  two  sons,  John 
and  James,  in  the  frontier  company  commanded  by  Ward  Bailey,  from 
14  April  to  2  November,  1781,  ranging  the  northern  frontier  and  pro- 
tecting the  Upper  Coos  country.  The  station  of  the  Hughes'  was  at 
or  near  Guildhall,  Vermont.  (See  pension  case  of  John  Hughes,  also 
Vermont  Rev.  Rolls.) 

Children,  born  prior  to  1773,  the  younger  probably  in  Coos  country, 
N.IL: 

James,  born  in  Plaistow,  1760,  was  in  the  Revolution,  and  after 

its  close  settled  in  New  York,  where  he  was  living  in  1832, 

at  Lima,  Livingstone  county. 
John,  tx>rn  at  Plaistow,  19  May,  1762,  died  at  Canaan,  Vt.,  15 

Feb.,  1851  ;  married  at  Maidstone,  Vt.,  10  Dec,  1787.     He 

was  a  Revolutionary  soldi*  r. 


OTHER  FAMILIES  — NEW  HAMPSHIRE  443 

Sally,  born  (1778  °)  ;  married  [ ]  French,  and  about 

1842  or  1843  settled  in  Kennawha  county,  Wis.,  where  she 
was  living  in  1851. 
Joab. 
Jesse. 
John    Hughs    and    wife    Anna,    with    their   children,    John,    James, 
Sarah,  Joab,  and  Jesse,  from  Haverhill,  near  the  Coos,  N.  H.,  were 
"warned"  by  Groton  in  1773   (Middlesex  Sessions).     The  preceding 
December  he  had  purchased  of  Ezekiel  Haskell  a  farm  on  the  Pep- 
perell  road  in  Groton,  containing  40  acres,  paying  therefor  over  .£300. 
This  property  he  sold  7  April,  1777,  to  Sarah  Edes  of  Groton,  felt- 
maker,  for  £300  (Middlesex  Deeds,  74:85,  78,  91). 

JAMES  HUGHES  (John)  was  a  private  in  the  regiment  designated 
as  Congress's  Own  Regiment,  raised  Jan.,  1776,  commanded  by  Col. 
Moses  Hazen,  and  recruited  from  inhabitants  of  New  Hampshire,  the 
"  Grants,"  Canada  and  with  some  Indians.  He  was  of  the  company 
commanded  by  Captain  James  Heron  and  appears  on  a  roll  dated  8 
Sept.,  1788,  as  enlisted  for  the  war.  (N.  H.  Rev.  Rolls,  4)  John 
Hughes  was  a  member  of  this  regiment. 

Perhaps  this  was  the  same  James  Hughes  who  enlisted  14  April, 
1781,  and  served  until  2  Nov.,  1781,  and  again  from  12  March,  1782, 
to  1  Dec,  1782,  in  the  company  commanded  by  Lt.  Ward  Bailey, 
raised  for  the  defence  of  the  Upper  Coos  country  and  the  frontier. 
John  and  John,  Jr.,  were  also  of  this  command.  See  pension  applica- 
tion of  John  Hughes,  for  deposition  of  James,  who,  in  1832,  resided 
in  Lima,  New  York  (Vermont  Rolls,  pp.  521,  589). 

JOHN  HUGHES  ( John)  of  Averill,  Essex  County,  Vermont,  made 
application,  31  Oct.,  1832,  for  a  pension;  setting  forth  that  he  was 
then  aged  71  years,  and  that  he  enlisted  March,  1780,  at  Guildhall, 
now  Maidstone,  Essex  County,  and  served  eight  months  in  a  company 
of  Vermont  state  troops,  commanded  by  Lt.  Enoch  Hall,  which  was 
stationed  at  Maidstone,  and  scouted  between  Guildhall  and  the  Canada 
line  for  the  protection  of  the  inhabitants.  His  enlistment  expired  in 
November,  1780. 

He  re-enlisted  in  March,  1781,  at  Maidstone,  then  called  Guildhall, 
for  eight  months,  under  Lt.  Ward  Bailey,  for  the  same  duty  and  was 
discharged  November,  1781. 

He  re-enlisted  9  March,  1782,  for  eight  months,  in  company  com- 
manded by  Lt.  Ward  Bailey,  and  performed  the  same  duty,  and  was 
discharged  November,  1782. 

e  Sally's  birth  date  is  from  her  deposition  in  1851.  It  is  quite  probable 
that  she  was   the   second   child  of  that  name. 


444  OTHER  FAMILIES —  NEW  HAMPSHIRE 

He  refers  to  the  pension  application  and  declaration  of  Orsamus 
Bailey  of  Lemmington,  Vt.,  wherein  is  filed  a  paper  with  the  names 
of  the  company,  order  of  the  Board,  etc.  He  was  born  at  Plaistow, 
N.  H,  19  May,  1762. 

Depositions  of  Jesse  Hugh,  Samuel  Gates,  Nathaniel  Wait,  who  was 
of  Brunswick,  Vt.,  in  1780,  and  John  Merrill  of  Brunswick,  as  to 
identity  of  applicant,  that  he  was  of  Maidstone,  and  is  now  of 
Averill,  etc. 

Nathaniel  Wait  of  Brunswick  deposed  that  in  March,  1780,  he 
moved  into  Maidstone,  now  Brunswick,  and  resided  there  until  June, 
and  he  knew  that  Lt.  Enoch  Hall  commanded  a  company  of  state 
troops  in  Guildhall,  now  called  Maidstone,  and  that  John  Hughes  was 
a  soldier  under  said  Hall,  and  in  1781,  "I  enlisted  under  Lt.  Ward 
Bailey,  who  commanded  a  company  of  state  troops  in  Guildhall,  and 
Hughes  was  a  soldier  in  the  same  company." 

James  Hughes  of  Lima,  Livingstone  County,  N.  Y.,  aged  69,  de- 
posed that  he  is  a  brother  of  John  Hughes  of  Averhill,  Vt.,  and  that  in 
1780,  and  in  March,  the  said  John  enlisted  in  the  company  of  Lt.  Hall, 
and  this  deponent  served  with  John  two  months  in  the  said  company, 
and  he  had  frequent  letters  from  John  and  his  father  in  the  same  com- 
pany. This  deponent  served  above  mentioned  two  months  as  a  sub- 
stitute for  his  father,  and  his  station  was  at  Guildhall,  now  Maidstone. 
John  is  70  years  old  on  10  May,  1832,  and  two  years  older  (sic)  than 
James.  ] 

The  pension  of  John  Hughes  was  discontinued  in  1835,  because  of 
information  of  one  Temple,  but  was  renewed. 

Harvey  Hinman  notified  the  Department  26  July,  1847,  that  a  man 
named  John  Hughes  is  drawing  a  pension  for  services  rendered  in  the 
last  war  with  Great  Britain,  and  he  thinks  no  services  were  rendered. 
He  writes  from  Canaan. 

In  1857,  information  was  requested  of  the  Department  regarding 
the  case  of  Abigail,  widow  of  John  Hughes  of  Canaan,  Vt.,  now  re- 
siding with  her  daughter  in  Stratford,  N.  H.  She  has  a  life  interest 
in  a  farm  in  Canaan. 

Abigail  Hugh  of  Canaan,  Vt.,  aged  80  years,  deposed  18  Nov., 
1852,  that  she  is  the  widow  of  John  Hugh,  a  pensioner  under  the  Act 
of  1832;  that  they  were  married  10  Dec,  1787,  and  that  John  died  15 
Feb.,  1851.     She  applies  for  a  pension. 

Daniel  C.  Kimball  of  Maidstone  certifies  in  1851  that  there  were  no 
records  of  marriage  at  Maidstone. 

Benjamin  F.  and  Abigail  Bailey  of  Lemmington  depose  that  they 
have  known  John  and  Abigail  Hughes  fifteen  years,  and  that  they  had 
raised  a  Large  family  of  children. 


OTHER  FAMILIES  — NEW  HAMPSHIRE  445 

Sally  French,  aged  73,  in  1851,  deposed  that  she  was  present  at  the 
marriage  of  John  Hughes,  who  was  her  brother,  to  Abigail  Hall  in 
1786  or  1787-  She  now  resides  in  "  Kennorha  "  County,  Wis.,  and  has 
for  seven  years  or  more,  but  was  formerly  of  Maidstone,  Vt.  Her 
brother  and  Abigail  Hall  were  married  at  the  residence  of  deponent's 
father  at  Maidstone  by  Ward  Bailey,  Esq.,  Justice  of  the  Peace. 

Record  taken  from  the  town  record  of  Colebrook,  N.  H.,  in  1853, 
gives  the  children  of  John  Hugh  and  wife  Abigail,  as  follows: 

Children: 

Sally,  born  15  July,  1788. 
Permelia,  born  31  Jan.,  1790. 
Rhoda,  born  16  Aug.,  1792. 
Abigail,  born  16  April,  1794. 
Margaret,  born  16  Aug.,  1795. 
Calvin,  born  20  April,  1797- 
Laura,  born  6  March,  1799. 
George,  born  7  March,  1801. 
Mary,  born  27  March,  1803. 
Lydia,  born  28  Oct.,  1807. 
Harriet,  born  5  Feb.,  1811. 

"  As  stated  and  recorded  at  the  request  of  John  Hugh  and  wife 
in  1811"   (Widow,  3558). 

JOHN  HUGHES  was  first  lieutenant  in  the  company  commanded 
by  Capt.  Mathew  McConnell,  in  the  regiment  commanded  by  Col. 
Moses  Hazen,  called  Congress'  Own  Regiment,  8  Sept.,  1778.  This 
regiment  was  composed  largely  of  men  from  New  Hampshire  and  the 
"  Grants  "  and  was  raised  in  Jan.,  1776  (N.  H.  Rev.  Rolls,  IV,  p.  298). 

RICHARD  HUGHES  of  Amherst,  N.  H.,  was  born  in  1744. 
He  was  pensioned  in  1818  and  again  made  application  in  1820,  stating 
that  he  was  living  in  Plymouth,  N.  H.,  aged  76  years,  and  that  he  had 
served  as  a  sergeant  in  Capt.  Isaac  Fry's  company,  Col.  Scammell's 
regiment  in  the  New  Hampshire  line,  as  per  his  original  declaration 
made  29  April,  1818.  He  was  by  trade  a  cordwainer,  and  before 
getting  his  pension  was  assisted  by  the  town.  He  participated  in  the 
battles  of  Hubberton,  both  battles  of  Stillwater,  Monmouth  and  New- 
town. He  was  discharged  at  Danbury,  Conn.,  20  March,  1780.  The 
discharge  itself  is  on  file,  signed  by  Daniel  Livermore,  commanding 
officer,  from  which  it  appears  that  Hughes  was  formerly  of  the  "  parish 
of  Amherst,"  N.  H.,  and  having  served  three  full  years  is  honorably 
discharged  as  sergeant  3d  N.  H.  regiment  (Invalid,  44,452). 


446  OTHER  FAMILIES  —  NEW  HAMPSHIRE 

New  Hampshire  Revolutionary  Rolls  show  that  he  enlisted  23  May, 
1775,  in  Col.  James  Reid's  regiment,  serving  in  company  of  Capt.  L. 
Spaulding  of  Lyndeborough.  This  regiment  was  in  the  battle  of 
Bunker  Hill.  He  enlisted  18  March,  1777,  as  sergeant,  in  Capt. 
Frye's  company,  3d  N.  H.,  and  served  until  20  March,  1780.  His 
name  also  appears  as  a  member  of  the  same  regiment,  in  company 
commanded  by  Capt.  Ellis  and  Capt.  Gilman,  credited  with  service 
to  1  Jan.,  1781,  and  reported  enlisted  1  Jan.,  1780.  As  no  reference 
is  made  by  the  pensioner  to  this  last  service  it  is  possible  another 
person  of  the  same  name  enlisted  in  the  regiment  1  Jan.,  1780,  and 
served  one  year. 

JOSEPH  HUSE  was  a  member  of  the  militia  regiment  of  Col. 
Daniel  Moor,  which  included  Dunbarton,  etc.,  and  was  "  raised  "  out 
of  that  regiment  to  serve  in  company  of  Capt.  Samuel  McConnell, 
which  marched  to  New  York,  Sept.,  1776,  to  re-enforce  the  army. 
Attached  to  Baldwin's  regiment.  Discharged  in  December.  Par- 
ticipated in  battle  of  White  Plains  (N.  H.  Rev.  Rolls,  1). 

Another  Joseph  Huse  was  drafted  out  of  Col.  Stickney's  or  Col. 
Badger's  regiment,  and  enlisted  in  Capt.  John  Moody's  company, 
Baldwin's  regiment,  and  served  from  September  to  December,  1776, 
at  and  about  White  Plains   (N.  H.  Rev.  Rolls,  1). 

THOMAS  HUSE  of  Dunbarton  was  on  roll  of  company  com- 
manded by  Capt.  John  Moore,  Col.  Stark's  regiment,  at  Cambridge, 
Aug.,  1775  (probably  had  participated  in  battle  of  Bunker  Hill),  and 
later  in  October  was  in  McLaughlin's  company.  In  July,  1776,  he 
enlisted  for  Canada,  in  company  commanded  by  Capt.  William  Bar- 
ron, Wingate's  regiment  (N.  H.  Rev.  Rolls,  1).  He  was  a  grantee 
of  the  township  in  1752. 

His  children,  as  given  in  Stark's  History  of  Dunbarton,  were  as 
follows : 

Sarah,  born  4  Nov.,  1778. 
Seth,  born  30  June,  1782. 
Betty,  born  4  Aug.,  1784. 
James,  born  10  Aug.,  1786. 
Thomas,  born  30  July,  1788. 
Hannah,  born  11   Nov.,  1790. 
Lydia,  born  19  Feb.,  1793. 
Anna,  born  2  March,  1795. 
Cyrene,  born  13  Nov.,  1798. 
Seth,  born  5  June,  1802. 


OTHER  FAMILIES  —  NEW  HAMPSHIRE  447 

JONATHAN  HUGHES  of  Londonderry,  served  18  July  to  27 
Sept.,  1777,  as  ensign  in  Col.  Moses  Nichol's  regiment  in  Stark's 
brigade  (N.  H.  Rev.  Rolls,  2). 

There  was  a  JOHN  HUGHES  of  Londonderry  in  1769,  1776,  and 
1786. 

Another  JONATHAN  HUGHES  enlisted  8  Sept.,  and  served  until 
16  Dec.,  1777,  in  the  company  commanded  by  Capt.  Ezra  Currier, 
Col.  A.  Drake's  regiment  of  militia  which  marched  to  re-enforce  the 
northern  army  at  Saratoga  (N.  H.  Rev.  Rolls,  2). 

JONATHAN  HUSE  of  Sandown,  husbandman,  aged  29,  enlisted 
in  company  commanded  by  Capt.  P.  Tilton  in  Col.  Poor's  regiment  25 
May,  1775,  and  was  in  service  Oct.,  1775  (N.  H.  Rev.  Rolls,  1). 

JONATHAN  HUSE  of!  Sandown  was  mustered  October,  1777,  for 
Col.  Drake's  regiment   (N.  H.  Rev.  Rolls,  2). 

JOHN  HUGHES  of  Windham,  N.  H.,  said  to  have  been  christened 
Daniel,  and  to  have  deserted  the  British  army  at  Boston,  and  sought 
and  received  refuge  at  Londonderry,  where  the  ridiculous  story  places 
him  in  hiding  while  the  soldiers  searched  for  him.  The  British  found 
Concord  a  limit  to  their  strolls  into  the  country,  and  any  deserter 
reaching  Londonderry  might  have  considered  himself  safe,  unless  per- 
chance he  had  deserted  from  the  other  army.  This  John  was  a  poor 
man,  a  weaver,  and  died  7  Oct.,  1819,  aged  75.  He  married  Mehit- 
able  Buzwell  of  Kingston,  who  died  6  Dec.,  1845,  aged  98. 

Children : 

William,  removed  to  New  York,  where  he  died. 

Elizabeth,  married  John  Hopkins. 

Sarah,  married  James  Wilson. 

Anna,  married  Ebenezer  Gregg  of  Derry. 

Polly,  married  Joseph  Proctor. 

Barhet,  born  1  May,  1779;  died  23  March,  1858;  married  20 

Dec,   1804,  Jane  Wilson,  daughter  of  John  and  Agnes 

(Grimes)  Wilson. 
John,  born  Aug.,  1781,  died  March,  1851. 
Hannah,  married  James  Patterson;  married,  second,  Thomas 

Tilden  of  Boston. 
Mehitable,   died   aged    16. 
Margaret,  born  15  June,  1788;  married  William  Campbell. 

(Morrison's  "  History  of  Windham,  N.  H.") 


448         OTHER  FAMILIES  —  NEW  HAMPSHIRE 

Newington,  N.  H,  church  records  record  the  marriages  of  MAR- 
GARET HUE  to  William  Caverly,  both  of  Portsmouth,  13  Oct.,  1748, 
and  KATHERINE   HUE   to  Elias  Parcher,  3  Dec,  1747. 

JOHN  HUGHES  enlisted  for  one  year  as  a  seaman  on  the  Conti- 
nental frigate  Raleigh. 


The  following  notes  concern  persons  who  probably  are  descendants 
of  Abel  Huse: 

Lydia,    baptized    21    April,    1745,    daughter    of    Thomas    Huse 

(Haverhill  Vital  Records). 
John  Perkins,  son  of  Sargent  and  Olley  Hewes,  was  born  4 

Aug.,  1771  at  Epping,  N.  H. 
William  Huse  and  Rachel  Brier  who  married  18  July,  1780,  at 

Epping. 
Ebenezer  Huse  of  Amesbury  and  Eliza  Peaslee  of  New  Town 

were  married  at  Kingston,  N.  H,  28   Nov.,   1805. 
John  Jameson  and  Hannah  Huse  were  married  3  March,  1753, 

at  Kingston. 
Nathaniel  Ingalls  and  Abegail  Huse  were  married  25  Sept., 
1759,  at  Kingston. 
In   1804   Capt.    Huse   was   commander   of  the  military  company  in 
Haverhill,  Mass. 

Samuel  Huse  of  Kingston,  N.  H,  signed  a  militia  petition  in  1784. 
James  Huse  was  of  Hamstead,  N.  H,  in  1785. 
Moses  Huse  was  a  member  of  Capt.  Adams'  train  band  at  Henniker, 
N.  H,  in  1776. 

Abel  and  Isaac  Huse  were  of  Manchester,  N.  H.,  1794. 
Thomas  Huse  of  Goffstown,  N.  H,  opposed  the  petition  of  the  Pres- 
byterians  for  a  division  of  the  parish. 


VERMONT  7 

The  name  of  TIMOTHY  HUGH  appears  on  the  roll  of  a  com- 
pany of  militia  under  command  of  Capt.  M.  Dudley,  in  the  regiment 
commanded  by  Col.  J.  Abbot,  which  served  four  days  at  the  time  of 
the  alarm  at  Castleton,  October,  1781   (Vermont  Revolutionary  Rolls). 

The  other  mention  of  persons  of  this  name  on  the  Revolutionary 
Rolls  are  of  N«w  Hampshire  men,  and  should  be  sought  in  place. 

In  the  Census  of  Pensioners  taken  in  1840  there  appear  the  names 
of: 

BETSY  HEWES,  aged  81,  living  with  Daniel  Menard  at  Nor- 
wich, Vt.      (See  Samuel,  No.  62,  descendants  of  Joshua  Hewes.) 

WILLIAM  HEWES,  aged  79,  living  with  BENJAMIN  HEWES 
at  Milton,  Vt. 

7  Vermont  records  have  not  been  examined,  but  undoubtedly  search  of  town 
and  county  records  in  Vermont  would  reveal  many  persons  living  there  bear- 
ing the  surname  Hewes  or  Hughes. 


449 


MAINE 

Besides  Emanuel  Hughes,  mentioned  under  Plymouth,  who  was  at 
Kennebec  River  in  1654,  there  was  a  ROBERT  HUGHES,  a  mariner 
or  fisherman,  who,  24  Oct.,  1663,  testified  at  Boston  that  he  paid  Dr. 
George  Jackson  =£5,  part  payment  of  his  cure  by  Jackson  at  Pemiquid, 
the  same  being  paid  in  fish  by  the  hand  of  William  Pow  (Suffolk  Files, 
2174).     Nothing  further  is  known  of  this  man. 

THOMAS  HUES  and  Daniel  Wakley,  by  order  of  the  Committee 
now  sitting  at  Falmouth  by  order  of  the  Council  at  Boston,  gave  receipt 
for  one  barrel  of  powder  to  Mr.  James  Andrews,  Sr.,  of  Falmouth, 
21  Oct.,  1675  (Baxter  Mss.,  VI,),  and  he  was  undoubtedly  the 
Thomas  Hues  who  signed  the  petition  to  the  Governor  and  Council 
seeking  to  have  George  Ingersoll,  Sr.,  superseded  in  his  command  in 
the  local  military  company,  2  Feb.,  1675-6  (Ibid.,  IV). 

He  may  have  retired  to  Massachusetts  during  the  Indian  war,  as 
did  so  many  of  the  coast  of  Maine  settlers.  A  Thomas  Hewes  (19) 
was  buried  in  Boston  15  Sept.,  1713   (Sexton's  Bills,  Boston). 

ARTHUR  HEWES  of  Saco  was  probably  that  Hewes  who  was 
among  those  appointed  to  seats  in  the  meeting  house  at  Biddeford  in 
1666.  He  was  taxed  in  Saco,  1670  (Folsom:  History  of  Saco  and  Bid- 
deford). In  1675  he  was  driven  by  fear  of  the  Indians  to  take  ref- 
uge at  Salem;  but  in  1685  had  returned  to  Maine,  and  is  found  in  debt 
to  the  estate  of  George  Munjoy  for  <£4.  He  finally  settled  in  Portsmouth, 
N.  H.,  where,  calling  himself  Arthur  Hewes,  Sr.,  of  Portsmouth, 
planter,  20  Jan.,  1693-4,  with  wife  Sarah,  late  widow  of  Samson  Angier 
of  York,  and  as  administrators  of  said  Angier's  estate,  "  being  both  of 
us  ancient,"  he  deeded  to  John  Partridge  of  Portsmouth,  all  the  estate 
our  "  predessessor  had  in  York,  for  a  valuable  sum  of  money  paid  for 
our  future  sustenance  "  (York  Deeds,  5:1,  95).  On  the  15  June,  1695, 
Arthur  Hughes,  late  of  Saco,  at  "  president  "  in  Portsmouth,  and  his 
now  wife  Sarah,  for  £6,  sell  to  "  my  said  son,  Arthur  Hughes,"  land 
on  the  east  side  of  Saco  River,  "  and  we  have  good  right  to  dispose  of 
said  land,  as  by  our  deed  from  John  Bonighton  of  Saco,  dated  24  May, 
1694."  The  deed  from  Bonighton,  was  in  consideration  of  £3-10-00, 
paid  by  Arthur  Hughes,  late  of  Saco  (Ibid.,  106).  Arthur  Hues,  Sr., 
was  summoned,  according  to  order  of  court,  6  April,  1696  (N.  H.  Pro- 
vincial Papers,  2:  182). 

450 


OTHER  FAMILIES  —  MAINE  451 

Child: 

Arthur,  of  Newcastle,  N.  H.,  1693,  when  he  served  as  a  soldier. 
He  was   one  of  the  garrison   of  Fort  William  and   Mary 
in   1697    (N.   H.   Rev.   Rolls,   IV);   married  at  Boston   15 
Aug.,   1698,  to   Ruth   Boulton   of  Boston.     He  sold   to 
John  Atkinson,  Sr.,  of  Newbury,  feltmaker,  land  in  New- 
bury    (Essex    Deeds,    32:198).     Ruth    was    daughter    of 
William  and  Mary   (Dennison)   Bolton  of  Newbury,  born 
there  1  Aug.,  1667.     Her  father  died  1694  (Coffin's  New- 
bury).    Arthur  Hewes,  Rosamon  Carr,  Thomas  Jennings 
and  Nicholas  Norris,  soldiers  under  the  command  of  Capt. 
Shadrack  Walton  and  Nathaniel  Ware,  were  paid  £6-16-5 
by  the  treasurer  of   Massachusetts    (Treasurer's   Records, 
June,  1693,-June,  1694,  in  Archives,  122;  23).     There  is 
no    further    mention    of    this     family    on    Massachusetts 
records.     A      family     was     later     settled     at     Pepperell- 
boro,    Me.,    which    is    now    represented    by    the    modern 
Saco.     The   earliest  mention  of  the  name  on  the  records 
there    is    the    entry    of    the    marriage    intention   of    John 
Hughes  (22)  of  Pepperellboro,  with  Eunice  Merell  of 
Arundel,   14  Oct.,   1798.     They  were  married  at  Arundel 
7  Jan.,  1799.     Other  marriage  records  of  the  family  are 
found  later,  one  being  that  of  Richard  Hughes.     Andrew 
W.    Hewes,   who   was    a   prominent   man   in   Saco,   was    a 
member  of   the   firm   of  Littlefield   and   Hewes,   manufac- 
turers of  reels.     He  was  Common  Councilman  1873,  1874; 
Assessor,  Street  Commissioner,  "  one  of  the  best  Saco  ever 
had,"    1885,   1888,  1893,  and  for  a  long  time  one  of  the 
Registrars  of  voters.     He  was  a  native  of  Saco,  and  died 
there  aged  63,  leaving  a  widow,  three  sons  and  two  daugh- 
ters  (newspaper  clipping,  undated). 
Perhaps    members    of    this    family    were    William    Hughes,    who 
worked  14  days  building  the  block-house  at  Little  Falls  on  the  Saco 
(now  Dayton),  in  1730  (Ridlon:  Saco  Valley  Settlements).     William 
Hughes,  probably  of  York,  had  wife  Ruth.     On  3  Nov.,  1724,  they 
deposed   they  heard   James   FitzHenry,  before  he  was   killed   by  the 
Indians,  declare  he  intended  to  marry  Jannet  McCulland,  and  gave 
her  his  estate  (York  Wills,  3:  163).     John  Hughes,  a  schoolmaster 
in  Kittery  in  1732.     John  Hughe  served  from  12  April  to  20  Nov., 
1782,  in  Ulmer's  Company,  Col.  J.   Hunter's  regiment   (Mass.   Rev. 
Rolls).     Hannah  Hughes,  called  sister  by  John  Thompson  of  Kit- 
tery in  his  will,  1751   (York  Wills). 


452  OTHER  FAMILIES  —  MAINE 

MAJOR  HUES8  of  Wiscassett  died  15  Dec,  1805,  leaving 
a  widow,  Jemima,  who  died  16  Sept.,  1823,  aged  82.  They  were 
probably  the  parents  of  John  Hues,  Jr.,  who  died  14  Sept.,  1796 
(Gravestones  at  Wiscassett,  in  Maine  Hist.  Geneal.  Recorder,  8:75). 

NICHOLAS  HUGHES,  schoolmaster  at  North  Yarmouth  in  1770, 
was  of  Irish  birth  (Mayflower  Descendant,  1 :35)  probably  the  Nicholas 
of  Windham  or  Falmouth,  who  served  in  Mayberry's  company  in 
Francis'  and  Tupper's  regiment  12  Jan.,  1777,  to  1  July,  1778,  when  he 
died  (Mass.  Rev.  Rolls). 

ROBERT  HUES  died  17  Feb.,  1723,  in  the  service  at  the  Eastward, 
as  reported  by  Col.  Thomas  Westbrook  from  Falmouth,  2  June,  1724 
(N.  E.  H.  G.  Reg.,  45:219),  may  have  been  a  Maine  man,  or  recruited 
in  Massachusetts.  He  had  previously  served  2  May  to  14  November, 
as  sentinel,  in  a  company  commanded  by  Capt.  Joseph  Heath,  which 
served  in  Maine  (Mass.  Archives,  91 :39,  41). 

Widow  Grace  Hews  married  17  Feb.,  1814,  Robert  Jameson  and 
died    aged    88    (Redlon:    Saco    Valley    Settlements). 

8  His  name  appears  on  Mass.  Rev.  Rolls  as  Hews  and  Huse.  He  was 
commissioned  major  in  the  1st  Lincoln  regiment  14  Feb.,  1776,  commanded 
by  Col.  McCobb.,  and  resigned  30  March,  1778,  on  account  of  ill  health.  He 
was  then  of  Pownalboro.  John  Huse  of  Pownalboro  is  enumerated  in  a  cen- 
sus of  that  place  in  June,  1776.  His  family  consisted  of  himself  and  four 
females  of  whom  one  was  over  and  three  under  sixteen  years  of  age  (Archives, 
118:   196). 


RHODE  ISLAND 

LEWIS  HUES  married  Martha  Hazard,  widow  of  Thomas 
Hazard  of  Portsmouth,  R.  I.,  about  1690,  and  absconded  with  her 
property.  See  under  Connecticut.  Besides  this  "  stray,"  there  was  a 
family  in  Newport,  of  which  but  scanty  records  are  obtainable. 

JOSEPH  HUES  married  Mary  George  5  Jan.,  1743-4. 
Thomas  Hues  was  baptized  2  Sept.,  1753,  and  Mary  Hues  10  Feb., 

1751.  A  sampler  made  by  her  in  her  thirteenth  year  is  in  possession 
of  E.C.M.F.," 9  Frances  Hues,  said  to  be  a  daughter  of 
Josephine  and  Mary  (George)  Hughes,  married  9  May,  1781,  John 
Luther,  son  of  Nathaniel  Luther.  Deborah  Hues  married  4  Nov., 
1723,  Thomas  Huxham  (Trinity  Church  Records). 

CAPT.  THOMAS  HUGHES,  son  of  Capt.  Joseph  Hughes,  of 
Newport,  deceased,  married  at  Warwick,  Welthian  Greene,  daughter 
of  Col.  Christopher  Greene,  27  Feb.,  1782. 

Capt.  Thomas  Hughes  applied  for  a  pension  7  July,  1820,  when  he 
was  aged  68  years  and  a  resident  of  Warwick,  R.  I.  He  declares  that 
he  served  from  the  beginning  to  the  end  of  the  War  as  an  officer,  is 
deeply  in  debt,  has  no  property  or  business,  and  that  his  wife  and  one 
daughter  rely  on  him  for  support.     He  was  born  in  Newport  30  May, 

1752,  and  entered  the  army  12  May,  1775,  as  an  ensign  in  Col. 
Churche's  regiment,  in  which  he  served  until  1  Jan.,  1776,  when  he 
was  promoted  lieutenant  in  Hitchcock's  regiment,  and  was  promoted 
captain  June,  1777,  and  so  served  to  the  end  of  the  War.  He  was 
severely  wounded  at  the  Battle  of  Long  Island,  27  Aug.,  1776,  by  a 
musket  ball  through  the  hips,  and  was  disabled  until  November,  1777, 
when  he  again  joined  his  regiment.  He  has  never  entirely  recovered 
from  this  wound. 

From  the  Regimental  book  of  the  regiment  it  appears  that  Thomas 
Hughes  was  promoted  captain  23  June,  1777,  and  served  in  the  regi^ 
ment  successively  commanded  by  Cols.  Israel  Angell,  Christopher 
Greene,  and  Jeremiah  Olney  in  the  Rhode  Island  line  on  the  Conti- 
nental establishment,  until  15  June,  1783,  when  he  received  a  furlough. 
He  was  pensioned  in  1818.  His  widow  Welthian  was  pensioned  in 
1836  (Widow,  23,373). 

»  E.  C.  M.  F.  in  Transcript  Queries,  Jan.  18,  1910. 

453 


454  OTHER  FAMILIES  —  RHODE  ISLAND 

At  Warwick  19  Feb.,  1809,  was  married  Phebe  Hughes  to  Jeremiah 
Greene. 

DR.  JOSEPH  HEWES  of  Providence,  and  his  nephew  Joseph 
will  be  found  in  place  under  the  descendants  of  George  Hewes  of 
Salisbury.  The  later  records  of  Providence  are  liberally  sprinkled 
with  entries  of  the  name  Hughes,  but  in  no  instance,  from  an  inspec- 
tion of  the  names,  or  from  knowledge  of  the  families  mentioned  in  this 
work,  are  they  probably  other  than  immigrants  of  the  present  century. 

WILLIAM  HEWS  was  married  to  Abigail  Teal,  10  Dec,  1790,  at 
Providence  (West  Side  Cong.  Church)  and  CLOE  HEWES  married 
John  Reed  6  June,  1773  (St.  John's  Church,  Providence). 

SPICER  HEWES  10  of  Barrington,  whose  record  follows,  was 
originally  from  Massachusetts.  The  marriage  of  "  Spicer  Hughes  of 
Rehoboth  "  to  Mary  Munro  of  Swanzey  is  found  on  Rehoboth  records 
as  of  14  April,  1763. 

In  the  Census  of  1790  Spicer  Hewes  is  enumerated  as  having  a  fam- 
ily of  one  male  over  16  (himself)  one  male  under  16,  and  two  females. 
Spicer  Hewes  and  wife  Mary  deed  land  1769  (Bristol  Deeds). 

Children: 

Joseph,  "of  Spurr  and  Mary,"  born  11  Oct.,  1780  (Barring- 
ton   Records,  printed   by  Arnold.     Spurr  is  probably   mis- 
reading for  Spicer). 
Barrington  records  also  give  the  marriage  of  ELIZABETH  HEWS 
to  Squire  Allen,  26  Dec,  1790. 

EDMUND  HEWES  X1  of  Providence,  a  blacksmith,  sued  George 
Johnson  of  Salem,  butcher,  and  Zachariah  Sims  of  Boston,  victualler, 
6  Dec,  1728.  The  defendant  Sims  produced  a  license  from  Hewes 
that  he  should  be  allowed  to  pursue  his  business  for  three  years,  and 
obtained  costs,  on  which  execution  was  issued  25  March,  1730  (Suffolk 
Court  Common  Pleas). 

io "  Molly  reputed  daughter  of  Spicer  Hughes  and  Mary  Young  born 
25   Oct.,    1757"    (Rehoboth    records). 

ii  There  was  an  Edmund  Hughes  who  married  in  Thompson,  Conn.,  Eliza- 
beth Stevens,  27  March,  1739. 


SOLDIERS  IN  COLONIAL  WARS  FROM  NEW  ENGLAND 

The  references  are  to  volume  and  folio  in  Massachusetts  Archives. 

Arthur  Hewes,  served  under  Capt.  Shadrack  Walton  and  Nathaniel 
Ware.     Paid  1693-4.      (Treasurer's  Accounts  Archives,  122:23.) 

Benjamin  Hews,  served  in  the  expedition  against  Crown  Point, 
1755,  in  company  commanded  by  Major  Stephen  Miller,  Col.  Josiah 
Brown's  regiment.     Suffolk  Co.  return  dated  29  Sept.,  1755  (93:211). 

Benjamin  Hews,  enlisted  2  May,  1758,  served  in  company  com- 
manded by  Capt.  Cox,  Ruggles'  regiment.  Return  dated  23  May, 
1758.     Signed  a  roll  dated  Northampton,  30  May  (96:99). 

Benjamin  Huse,  of  Attleboro,  member  of  the  train  band  commanded 
by  Capt.  Jos.  Capron  8  April,  1757  (95:  259). 

Benjamin  Hewes,  of  Attleboro,  enlisted  5  May,  and  served  until 
14  Dec,  1759,  in  company  commanded  by  Capt.  Thomas  Cole  in  the 
Crown  Point  expedition  (97:374). 

Benjamin  Hewes,  of  Medfield,  enlisted  2  April,  1759,  served  until 
21  Nov.,  1760,  in  company  commanded  by  Capt.  Thomas  Cheever, 
stationed  at  Fort  Cumberland  (98:215). 

Benjamin  Hewes,  served  from  1  Jan.,  1760,  until  21  Nov.,  1760, 
in  company  commanded  by  Capt.  Cheever,  Fry's  regiment,  stationed  in 
Nova  Scotia  (98:440).     This  was  probably  a  re-enlistment. 

Carr  Huse,  of  Newbury  train  band,  13  July,  1757  (95:416).  En- 
listed 14  April,  1768,  and  served  until  5  Nov.,  in  company  commanded 
by  Capt.  Joseph  Newhall,  Col.  Jonathan  Bagley's  regiment  raised  for 
the  reduction  of  Canada  (96:225,  518).  Enlisted  24  March,  1760, 
also  given  1 8  March,  aged  20,  of  Newbury,  and  served  in  company  com- 
manded by  Capt.  Stickney,  Col.  Ingersoll's  regiment.  Marched 
through  Bedford,  Oct.,  1760  (98:25,  26,  186).  Appears  with  rank  of 
corporal  on  roll  of  company  commanded  by  Capt.  Anthony  Stickney, 
from  27  March  to  10  Dec,  1760,  and  credited  with  225  miles'  travel 
home  (97:384). 

Daniel  Huse,  marched  to  Contoocook,  June-July,  1754,  in  company 

of  Capt.  John  Webster  (Adj.-Gen.  Rpt.,  N.  H.).     Probably  from  near 

Kingston. 

455 


456  COLONIAL  WAR  SOLDIERS 

Daniel  Huse,  of  Sandtown,  served  from  21  March  to  24  Oct.,  1757, 
in  company  commanded  by  Capt.  Israel  Davis,  which  was  included  in 
the  capitulation  of  Ft.  William  Henry  (96:21). 

Daniel  Hews,  on  list  of  alarm  men  between  16  and  60  years  in 
Stoughton,  27  April,  1757   (95:328). 

Daniel  Huse  enlisted  2  May,  1758,  for  expedition  against  Canada, 
in  company  commanded  by  Capt.  Samuel  Glover,  Col.  Joseph  Williams' 
Regiment.     Autograph  affixed  to  pay  roll  (97:77). 

Daniel  Hews,  enlisted  3  Aug.,  served  until  9  Dec,  1758,  as  centinel 
in  company  commanded  by  John  North.  On  detachment  sent  to 
Pemaquid  from  the  Castle  by  the  Governor  (96:502). 

David  Hughes,  enlisted  14  July  (probably  1761),  aged  24,  of 
Boston  (98:435).  Marked  as  deserted  on  roll  dated  10  April,  1762, 
company  commanded  by  Capt.  Edward  Blake  (99:162). 

Elijah  Hews,  enlisted  out  of  a  company  in  Col.  Miller's  regiment 
for  expedition  against  Crown  Point  and  served  in  company  com- 
manded by  Capt.  Jeduthan  Baldwin,  Col.  Jonathan  Brown's  regiment, 
on  roll  dated  30  Sept.,  1755  (93:45). 

Elihu  Hewes,  aged  33,  of  Ipswich,  enlisted  2  April,  1759,  for 
expedition  against  Canada;  had  served  in  1758  at  Lake  George.  1759 
service  was  with  regiment  commanded  by  Col.  Daniel  Appleton 
(97:110).  Re-enlisted  2  Nov.,  1759,  and  served  until  7  Dec,  1760,  in 
company  commanded  by  Capt.  Stephen  Whipple,  as  ensign  (98:380). 

Elihu  Hewes,  a  mason,  was  paid  <£l-16  for  six  days'  work  repairing 
Fort  Pownall,  May,  1774  (99:465). 

Elisha  Hews,  ensign  in  company  commanded  by  Capt.  Stephen 
Whipple,  Col.  Bagley's  regiment,  1  Jan.,  to  7  Dec,  1760,  at  Louis- 
burg  (98:493).     See  Elihu  above. 

George  Hewes,  18  May,  1678.  The  name  of  George  Hewes  ap- 
pears in  the  list  of  soldiers  that  were  in  the  Falls  Fight  under  Capt. 
Wm.  Turner,  18  May,  1678,  in  the  list  prepared  by  Committee  of  Gen- 
eral Court  for  grant  of  township;  but  no  claimant  had  appeared  to 
1741.  His  residence  is  given  as  Springfield.  Bodge,  page  247,  lists 
him  as  of  Springfield,  and  as  slain.  A  John  Hughes  was  of  the  Hat- 
field soldiers  under  Turner's  command  7  April,  1676,  and  probably 
participated  in  the  P'alls  Fight,  but  name  is  not  on  list,  so  he  may  not 
have  been  of  the  volunteers.  Possibly  John  and  George  are  the  same 
persons.     See  Bodge,  pp.  241,  3. 

James  Hughes,  of  Boston,  served  in  Canada,  1690  (Boston  Treas- 
urer's Records). 

James  Hughes,  enlisted  3  Sept.,  served  until  12  Sept.,  1765,  recruit 
for  Castle  William   (99:316). 


NEW  ENGLAND  457 

Jeremiah  Hugh,  in  company  of  New  England  troops,  in  Col.  Sir 
Charles  Hobby's  regiment  and  company  at  Annapolis  Royal,  10  Oct., 
1710,  to  10  Oct.,  1711   (91:12). 

John  Hughes,  a  soldier  in  Turner's  command  at  Hatfield  from  Dec, 
1675,  to  April,  1676,  perhaps  was  in  the  Falls  Fight,  but  not  in  the 
list.     Was  he  a  son  of  William  Hughes  of  Lynn? 

Johan  Hues  on  a  roll  of  men  raised  by  John  Wendell,  dated  14 
July,  1756;  probably  assigned  to  Lt.  Amasa  Delano,  in  expedition 
against  Crown  Point  (91:271). 

John  Huse,  of  Chester,  enlisted  29  April,  served  until  6  July,  1755, 
in  company  commanded  by  Capt.  John  Tappen  in  Crown  Point  Expe- 
dition (94:36). 

John  Hews,  of  Haverhill,  enlisted  25  March,  served  until  5  Decem- 
ber, 1759,  in  command  of  Lt.  Joseph  Ingell,  in  expedition  against 
Crown  Point   (97:354). 

John  Hews,  of  Newbury,  aged  18,  enlisted  27  March,  1759,  in  regi- 
ment commanded  by  Col.  Joseph  Gerrish,  Jr. ;  described  as  a  servant  to 
Samuel  Toppan   (97:108). 

John  Hews,  of  Newbury,  enlisted  23  March,  1762,  served  until  4 
Jan.,  1763,  under  command  of  Henry  Young  Brown,  Esq.,  Described 
as  son  of  Ebenezer  Hews   (99:207). 

John  Huse,  in  company  commanded  by  Capt.  Herrick,  Col.  Preble's 
regiment,  1758   (96:217). 

John  Hues  enlisted  12  April,  in  service  28  May,  1758,  in  company 
commanded  by  Capt.  Samuel  Glover  in  expedition  against  Canada. 
Autograph  (97:74). 

John  Hewes  enlisted  2  April,  served  until  1  Nov.,  1759,  in  com- 
pany commanded  by  Capt.  Andrew  Giddings,  Col.  Jonathan  Bagley's 
regiment  (97:283). 

John  Hews  on  billeting  roll  of  company  commanded  by  Capt. 
Richards,  Col.  Joseph  Williams'  regiment.  Men  returning  from  Can- 
ada passing  through  Sudbury,  1758   (96:253,  267). 

John  Huse,  of  Haverhill,  physician,  on  alarm  list  of  the  First  Com- 
pany in  Haverhill  commanded  by  Benj.  Gale,  Lt.-Col.  John  Osgood's 
company  18  April,  1757  (95:288). 

John  Hughes  enlisted  12  Sept.,  1760,  in  service  13  Nov.,  1760;  ship 
King  George,  under  command  of  Capt.  Benj.  Hallowell,  Jr. 
(98:209). 

John  Hugh,  in  company  of  Capt.  John  Hazzen,  Col.  Goffe's 
regiment,  at  Albany,   1    Nov.,   1760.     Enlisted   6   March,   discharged 


458  COLONIAL  WAR  SOLDIERS 

30  Nov.,  1760.     Probably  from  vicinity  of  Plaistow,  N.   H.    (N.  H. 
Rolls,  Adj.-Gen.  Rpt.). 

John  Hugh,  of  Plaistow,  enlisted  14  June,  1756,  served  until  1  Dec, 
1756,  in  Crown  Point  Expedition,  in  company  of  Capt.  Edmund 
Mooers:  16  days'  travel  allowed  (95:111).  Also  on  roll  dated  26  July, 
1756,  described  as  of  Boston,  from  Col.  Wendell's  regiment,  enlisted  in 
Capt.  Edmund  Mooers'  Company,  Col.  John  Plaisted's  regiment 
(94:347.)      At  Fort  William  Henry  11  Oct.,  1756  (94:505). 

John  Hewes  of  Marblehead,  enlisted  12  May,  1758,  served  until 
discharged,  1  Nov.,  1758,  in  company  commanded  by  Capt.  Jeremiah 
Richards,  Col.  Joseph  Williams'  regiment  (96:440). 

John  Hewes,  of  Salem,  enlisted  2  April,  1759,  for  invasion  of 
Canada,  aged  18  years,  served  in  1758  at  Lake  George  (97:92). 

John  Hewes,  on  pay  roll  dated  Boston,  25  March,  1762,  of  company 
commanded  by  Capt.  Moses  Hart.  Described  as  enlisted  21  July, 
and  served  until  6  Dec,  1761,  and  as  residing  in  Lynn  (99:118). 

The  last  three  records  are  undoubtedly  of  the  same  man,  i.  e.  John 
Hewes  of  Lynnfield,  known  to  have  been  in  the  French  and  Indian 
War,  and  born  1741,  and  during  his  minority  bound  out  to  some  farmer 
in  that  vicinity. 

Joseph  Huse,  in  company  (train  band)  commanded  by  Major  Joseph 
Coffin,  at  Newbury,  13  July,  1757  (95:415). 

Joseph  Huse,  on  billeting  roll  of  Capt.  Edmund  Mooers,  Col.  Bag- 
ley's  regiment  1758  (96:224). 

Joseph  Huse,  a  captain  of  the  First  Newburyport  company,  Col. 
Jonathan  Bagley's  regiment  militia  (2  Regt.),  July,  1771   (99:404). 

Joshua  Hews,  served  as  armorer  in  the  expedition  against  Canada, 
from  21  July  to  15  Oct.,  1711  (Mass.  Treasurer's  Accounts:  Archives, 
122:  394). 

Moses  Huse,  at  Albany,  Nov.,  1760,  in  company  of  Capt.  John  Haz- 
zen,  Col.  Goffe's  regiment.  Enlisted  6  March,  discharged  23  Oct., 
1760  (N.  H.  Adj.-Gen.  Rpt.).  Probably  from  vicinity  of  Plaistow,  or 
farther  east. 

Nathan  Huse,  physician,  Amcsbury.  On  alarm  list  of  company 
militia  commanded  by  Capt.  Richard  Kelly,  June,  1757  (95:426). 

Nathaniel  Hewes,  of  Palmer,  enlisted  5  March,  served  until  25 
Nov.,  1760,  as  centinel  in  company  commanded  by  Capt.  Trustrinn 
Davis  (98:273). 

Nathaniel  Hews,  aged  85,  l><>ni  in  Palmer,  mustered  19  April,  1760, 

for  reduction  of  Canada.      Received    £10,  and    L'()  note   (98:10). 

Robert  Hughs,  served  from  10  Oct.,  1710,  until  10  Oct.,  1711,  in 


NEW  ENGLAND  459 

company  of  New  England  troops,  commanded  by  Capt.  James  Aber- 
crombie,  at  Annapolis  Royal  (91 :6). 

Robert  Hewghs,  enlisted  19  July,  served  until  14  Nov.,  1722,  as 
centinel  in  company  commanded  by  Capt.  Joseph  Heath   (91:40). 

Robert  Hewes,  on  alarm  list  of  company  in  12  District,  Boston, 
Dec,  1754  (93:147A). 

Robert  Hughs,  of  Boston,  enlisted  28  May,  served  until  14  July, 
1762,  in  company  commanded  by  Capt.  Abel  Keen   (99:225). 

Robert  Huse,  of  Ipswich,  enlisted  22  May,  served  until  13  Dec, 
1761,  in  company  commanded  by  Capt.  Gideon  Parker,  described  as 
son  of  or  servant  to  Abel  Huse  (99:111).  Re-enlisted  13  Dec,  1761, 
and  served  until  27  May,  1762,  described  as  son  or  servant  to  H.  Huse 
of  Ipswich  (99:181). 

Robert  Hews  served  under  command  of  Capt.  James  Abercrombie 
in  the  reduction  of  Port  Royal,  10  Oct.,  1710,  10  Oct.,  1711  (N.  H. 
Rev.  Rolls,  I.),  paid  1713-4  (Treasurer's  Accounts;  Archives,  122:421). 

Robert  Hues,  died  17  Feb.,  1723,  in  service  at  the  Eastward.  Re- 
turn by  Col.  Thomas  Westbrookj  from  Falmouth,  2  June,  1724  (N.  E. 
H.  Gen.  Reg.,  45:219).  His  name  appears  in  the  muster  roll  of  com- 
pany commanded  by  Capt.  Joseph  Heath,  2  May  to  14  Nov.,  1722,  as 
centinel.  They  served  in  Maine  (Mass.  Archives,  91 :39,  41).  1733-4, 
Robert  Huse  paid  for  arms  (Archives,  123:471). 

Samuel  Huse,  of  Methuen  appears  on  the  alarm  list  of  Capt.  Daniel 
Bodwell,  19  April,  1757  (Archives,  95:293).  As  servant  or  son  of 
Samuel  Huse  enlisted  1  May,  and  served  until  12  Nov.,  1758,  under 
Capt.  Samuel  Foster  (Archives,  96:453).  He  may  have  been  the 
Samuel  Huse,  Jr.,  who  was  on  Bodwell's  alarm  list  19  April,  1757 
(Archives,  95:297).  Foster's  company  was  in  Col.  Ebenezer  Nichol's 
regiment  (Archives,  96:263,  and  97:45). 

Samuel  Huse,  born  Newbury,  aged  17,  grandson  of  Charles  Chase, 
enlisted  3  March,  1760,  for  the  reduction  of  Canada,  and  served  under 
Capt.  William  Davenport  (Archives,  97:417). 

Samuel  Huse,  enlisted  9  May,  and  served  until  14  Nov.,  1759,  under 
command  of  Capt.  William  Davenport,  and  served  "  up  the  river  St. 
Lawrence"   (Archives,  97:325). 

Samuel  Huse,  of  Newbury,  servant  of  Charles  Chase,  enlisted  14 
March,  served  until  10  December,  1760,  under  Capt.  Anthony  Stickney. 
Allowed  225  miles'  travel  home  (Archives,  97:386).  Probably  same 
man  as  grandson  of  Charles  Chase. 

Samuel  Hews  of  Newbury,  son  of  Joseph  Hewes,  enlisted  23  March, 


460  COLONIAL  WAR  SOLDIERS 

and  served  until  18  Nov.,  1762,  under  command  of  Henry  Young 
Brown,  Esq.  (Archives,  99:207). 

Samuel  Hews,  served  at  Louisburg  1  Jan.,  1760,  to  12  Jan.,  1761, 
under  command  of  Capt.  Edmund  Moore,  Col.  Bagley's  regiment 
(Archives,  98:477). 

Samuel  Huse,  of  Methuen,  served  in  Edmund  Moore's  company, 
Bagley's  regiment,  12  Nov.  to  12  Jan.,  1761   (Archives,  98:368). 

Sargent  Huse,  served  in  Capt.  Samuel  George's  company,  Col.  Bag- 
ley's  regiment,  in  1758,  also  as  Hues  (Archives,  96:229,  315;  97:40). 
Probably  of  Amesbury.  Also  appears  in  the  train  band  commanded  by 
Capt.  Richard  Kelly,  1757  (Archives,  95:425). 

Stephen  Huse,  doctor,  appears  on  the  alarm  list  of  Lt.  Benjamin 
Gale,  of  Haverhill,  18  April,  1757  (Archives,  95:288). 

[Note: — Stephen  Hawes  of  Stoughton,  also  appears  in  1757,  on  the 
rolls  as  Hewes  (Archives,  95:66).] 

Thomas  Hewes,  a  soldier,  paid  1693-4  (Treasurer's  Accounts; 
Archives  122:23). 

Thomas  Huse,  a  sentinel  in  company  commanded  by  Capt.  John 
Wheelwright,  from  22  Aug.,  to  27  Nov.,  1722  (Archives,  91:59). 

Thomas  Hewes,  of  Boston,  a  gunner,  aged  22,  enlisted  8  May,  1756, 
in  train  of  artillery,  commanded  by  Col.  Richard  Gridley,  and  in 
Gridley's  own  company.  Discharged  29  Nov.,  1756.  (Archives, 
94:  202-4;  95:190). 

Thomas  Hewes,  empressed  out  of  the  Boston  regiment,  22  April, 
1756,  for  the  Crown  Point  Expedition,  under  command  of  Gen.  Wins- 
low  (Archives,  94:234). 

Thomas  Hugh,  a  carpenter  at  Lake  George,  in  company  of  carpen- 
ters building  vessels,  etc.,  13^  days,  1756   (Archives,  95:199). 

Will  Hews,  a  centinel,  in  company  commanded  by  Capt.  Robert 
Temple,  enlisted  26  June,  served  until  10  Dec,  1722  (Archives,  91 :80). 

William  Hughes,  of  Salem,  enlisted  29  May  and  served  until  19 
Nov.,  1725,  Lt.  Allison  Brown's  company,  re-enlisted  23  Oct.  and  served 
until  12  June,  as  centinel,  in  same  company  (Archives,  91:45,  121). 

William  Hews,  of  Stoughton,  on  alarm  list  of  Capt.  Ebenezer 
Mann,  Col.  Mellen's  regiment,  27  April,  1757  (Archives,  95:328). 

William  Hews,  in  a  list  of  officers  and  men  who  came  in  sloop 
Prosperous,  from  Ft.  Cumberland,  Chinecto,  to  Boston,  Nov.,  1760 
(Archives,   97:43-4a). 

William  Hughes,  enlisted  4  Sept.,  1765,  as  recruit  for  Castle 
William,  raised  by  Richard  Saltonstall  and  Francis  Miller  (Archives, 
99:316). 


NEW  ENGLAND  461 

William  Hughes,  "  a  poor  sailor,  very  old,"  lately  arrived  from  the 
expedition  against  the  Spanish  West  Indies,  received  into  the  alms- 
house (Boston  Selectmens'  Records,  Sept.,  1743). 

"  Mr.  Hughs,"  a  soldier,  arrived  from  Nova  Scotia  in  schooner 
Molly,  13  Dec,  1768.  Perhaps  connected  with  the  14th  regiment. 
(Boston  Rec.  Com.  29th  Rpt.) 

Ensign  Hews,  1759-60,  at  Louisburg,  with  Massachusetts  troops. 

William  Hughes,  worked  14  days  building  the  blockhouse  at  Little 
Falls  on  the  Saco  (now  Dayton)  in  1730  (Ridlon:  Saco  Valley  Settle- 
ments). 

William  Hughes,  a  soldier  in  Capt.  Moore's  company  in  the  N.  H. 
regiment  at  Louisburg,  1745  (N.  E.  H.  G.  Reg.,  25:267). 


PENNSYLVANIA  17 

John  Hughes,  who  settled  in  Upper  Merion,  Perm.,  came  to  that 
colony  about  1680,  it  is  said  from  Merionethshire,  Wales.  He  is  said 
to  have  had  a  brother  Rowland,  born  in  Anglesea,  who  died  in  Alnwick 
about  1741.  The  above  is  tradition.  John,  the  emigrant,  married 
Jane  Evans.  Their  son  Hugh,  born  1671,  was  a  tanner,  and  he  and 
his  wife,  Martha  Jones,  were  ancestors  of  an  important  Pennsylvania 
and  New  York  family,  exhaustively  treated  of  in  the  "  Holstein  Family 
History."  John  Hughes,  a  grandson  of  the  emigrant,  born  1712,  died 
1772,  was  stamp  officer.  He  married  Sarah  Jones.  Their  son,  Col. 
Isaac  Hughes,  died  26  April,  1782,  aged  34  years,  4  months;  married 
5  October,  1769,  Hannah  Holstein,  daughter  of  Matthias  and  Magda- 
lena  Holstein. 

Col.  Hugh  Hughes  of  New  York,  commissary  in  the  Revolution, 
was  of  this  family.  His  sons  were  General  James  Miles  Hughes  and 
Col.  Peter  Hughes,  valuable  officers.  "  Capt."  James  Miles  Hughes 
was  in  the  Continental  service,  and  died  27  Dec,  1802.  He  served  in 
Malcom's  regiment,  and  as  aide-de-camp  to  Gen.  Gates,  and  was  one 
of  the  original  members  of  the  New  York  Society  of  the  Cincinnati. 

John  Hughes,  captain  in  the  1st  Penn.  line,  resided  in  Washington 
County,  Penn.,  11  April,  1818,  when  he  was  aged  67  and  an  applicant 
for  a  pension.  According  to  his  great-granddaughter,  Miss  Dollie  E. 
Hughes,  of  Ft.  Madison,  Iowa,  in  1901,  he  was  of  Scotch-Irish  origin, 
and  born  in  Chester  County.  His  declaration  sets  forth  that  he  en- 
listed Jan.,  1776,  as  3d  lieutenant  in  the  6th  Pennsylvania  regiment  on 
the  Continental  establishment,  and  marched  to  Canada  before  the 
Declaration  of  Independence,  and  continuing  in  service  rose  through  the 
grades  as  follows:  1777,  2d  lieutenant  1st  Penn.;  1779,  Captain- 
lieutenant;  1780,  Captain,  and  so  served  until  3  July,  1783.  He  died 
15  Sept.,  1818.  In  1836  his  son  sought  information  regarding  his 
service.      (Invalid,   39:753.) 

A  John  Hughes,  lieutenant  in  the  4th  Penn.  regiment,  was  one  of 
the  original  members  of  the  Pennsylvania  Society  of  the  Cincinnati. 

it  Rev,  Richard  Cecil  Hughes  bom  1861,  president  of  Tabor  College,  is 
descended  from  ;i  Pennsylvania  family,  his  first  American  ancestor  being  a 
Rev.  William  Hughes,  said  to  have  died  in  Pennsylvania,  in  1770,  al  the 
age  of  "ii"  hundred  \ ears. 

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OTHER  FAMILIES  —  PENNSYLVANIA  463 

Henry  Hughs  served  in  the  army  from  the  state  of  Virginia,  but 
after  his  death  his  discharge  was  lost.  His  service  extended  through 
two  years,  but  he  had  not  received  a  pension.  In  1843  his  widow 
Kasia,  then  living  in  Lawrence  County,  111.,  aged  8-1  and  over,  applied 
for  a  pension.  She  further  stated  they  were  married  in  Washington 
County,  Pennsylvania,  9  June,  1789,  and  lived  there  eight  or  nine  years, 
thence  moving  to  Scioto  County,  Ohio,  and  there  Henry  died  19  April, 
1812,  and  in  1840  Kasia  moved  with  her  son  to  Lawrence  County,  111. 
(Rejected,  5353.) 

Their  children  were: 

Anne,  deceased,  born  24  April,  1790. 
Nathan,  born  4  Nov.,  1792. 
Catherine,  born  28  Nov.,  1794. 
Hugh,  born  12  July,  1796. 
Robert,  born  26  July,  1798. 
Henry,  born  21  Nov.,  1799. 

Andrew  Hughes,  born  near  Lancaster,  Pa.,  4  April,  1755,  of  Pick- 
ens District,  S.  C,  in  Oct.,  1834,  aged  79  years,  made  application 
for  pension. 

Soon  after  the  Declaration  of  Independence  a  liberty  pole  was 
reared  at  Capt.  Jewet's  muster  ground  in  Caswell  County,  N.  C, 
and  Hughes  there  volunteered  in  a  foot  company.  He  returned  home 
to  Orangeburg  County,  N.  C,  and  enlisted  under  Capt.  Thomas  Flack. 
Col.  Jas.  Lack,  under  Gen.  Rutherford,  the  year  not  recalled,  went  to 
the  overhill  towns  in  the  Cherokee  nation,  and  served  six  months.  He 
again  volunteered  and  enlisted  in  company  commanded  by  Capt.  Wads- 
worth  Tate,  Col.  Maban's  regiment,  under  Gen.  Butler,  and  marched 
to  Crosscreek,  where  they  defeated  the  Scotch  and  Tories  below  Cross- 
creek.  Served  three  months.  Again  volunteered  under  Capt.  W. 
Tate,  Major  Dickson's  command,  and  marched  to  Pine-tree,  now  Cam- 
den, and  went  into  winter  quarters.  Served  three  months.  He  again 
volunteered  under  Capt.  Jemison,  Col.  Little's  regiment,  and  marched 
to  Charleston,  S.  C,  thence  to  Puersburg,  and  there  heard  that  the 
British  had  captured  Savannah.  They  marched  up  the  Savannah  River 
on  the  South  Carolina  side,  while  the  British  marched  up  on  the  other 
bank  of  the  river  until  near  Augusta,  where  they  were  re-enforced  by 
General  Ash.  His  company  was  stationed  at  Liberty  Hill.  The  Brit- 
ish evacuated  Augusta.  The  Americans  crossed  the  river,  pursued 
them,  and  skirmished  with  the  rear  guard.  Thence  marched  to  the 
Two  Sisters,  where  breastworks  were  erected.     Served  nine  months. 

Twice  after  this  was  out  on  scouting  duty,  once  at  High  Rock  for 
twenty  days,  and  once  to  prevent  Tories   from  joining  Wallace,  ten 


464  OTHER  FAMILIES  —  PENNSYLVANIA 

days.  His  total  service  was  one  year,  nine  months,  and  thirty  days. 
He  was  pensioned  by  the  state  of  North  Carolina,  and  was  informed 
that  his  name  was  stricken  from  the  state  roll  that  he  might  apply 
for  United  States  pension.  One  of  his  tours  of  service  was  under 
Capt.  Fernay.  He  moved  from  Orange  to  Pendleton  Election  District 
in  South  Carolina,  where  he  then  resided,  and  had  resided  for  forty- 
four  years. 

Nancy,  widow  of  Andrew  Hughes,  living  in  Murray  County,  Ga.,  in 
November,  1855,  applied  for  pension,  her  husband  having  died  1  Sept.. 
1843.  She  was  his  second  wife.  He  had  sons  by  a  former  wife. 
(Widow,  25,805.) 

Charles  and  Mary  Hughes  depose  they  knew  Andrew  and  Nancy 
Hughes  before  their  marriage,  and  that  Andrew  died  at  the  house  of 
Charles  Hughes  in  Pickings  District.  The  deponents  were  of  Gwin- 
nett County,  Ga. 


NEW  YORK 

William  Hews,  of  New  York,  a  ship  owner  and  importer,  was,  it  is 
said,  engaged  in  importing  glass.  He  became  financially  involved,  and, 
sometime  about  1800,  retired  to  the  South,  where  he  owned  a  planta- 
tion. It  is  said  his  New  York  real  estate  was  mortgaged  to  a  man 
named  North  Talcott,  and  that  about  1813  Rozina,  a  daughter  of  Mr. 
Hews,  attempted  to  regain  possession.  She  retained  Aaron  Burr  as 
counsel,  but  he  did  nothing.  Friends  of  Hews  named  Usher,  living  in 
New  York,  also  attempted  to  save  his  estate.  He  is  said  to  have  had  a 
brother,  and  on  one  occasion  brought  into  New  York,  on  one  of  his 
vessels,  a  niece,  for  a  visit.  He  was  twice  married,  his  first  wife  died 
before  his  removal  to  the  South.  It  is  thought  Mr.  Hews  settled  near 
New  Orleans,  as  his  daughter  Rozina  was  educated  in  the  Ursuline 
convent  there,  and  another  daughter  married  and  lived  in  Iberville 
parish. 

Children : 

A  son,  went  to  sea  and  was  never  heard  from. 

Rozina,  married  first,  Bennet,  by  whom  she  had  a 

son,  Henry  Bennet;  married,  about  1821,  second,  William 
Wright  of  Centreville,  Md.,  and  had  a  child,  born  in  1822, 
and  a  daughter,  who  married  Charles  E.  Gifford.  Their 
son,  Charles  E.  Gifford,  lives  in  Chicago,  111. 

Mary,  married  Brousseau,  a  Frenchman,  who  after 

his  wife's  death  returned  to  France  with  their  children. 

Margaret,  married  Gorman  of  Baton  Rouge,  La. 

She  was  living  in  Iberville  parish,  La.,  in  1876. 

Children : 

Caroline. 

Rozina,  who  married  Jones,  and  had  Theodore 

and  Charles  Jones. 

Evert  Hughes,  was  a  member  of  the  4th  Ulster  County  regiment  of 
militia,  commanded  by  Col.  Hardenburgh. 

Henry  Hews  was  a  member  of  the  5th  New  York  regiment  of  the 

line,  Col.  Holmes. 

465 


466  OTHER  FAMILIES  —  NEW  YORK 

James  Hughes  was  commissioned  first  lieutenant  in  Capt.  Ledger's 
company,  1st  regiment,  New  York  line,  Col.  Alexander  McDougall,  22 
July,  1775.  He  was  a  lieutenant  in  the  same  regiment  in  Feb.,  1776. 
He  was  lieutenant  in  Pelton's  company  in  the  2d  battalion  in  the  Con- 
tinental service,  1  Nov.,  1776.  Also  major  of  levies  commanded  by 
Col.  Harper,  and  also  major  in  Dubois'  regiment  of  levies,  probably 
in   1779. 

Another  James  Hughes  was  sergeant  in  Nevin's  company,  7  May, 
1777,  in  a  regiment  in  the  Continental  service,  commanded  by  Col. 
Malcom.     His  name  omitted  from  roll  Feb.,  1778. 

Another  James  Hews,  also  Huges,  was  a  member  of  the  1st  regi- 
ment, New  York  line;  enlisted  26  April,  1777,  for  the  war,  discharged 
26  Jan.,  1778. 

John  Hughes  was  a  member  of  the  1st  regiment,  New  York  line, 
Col.  Goose  Van  Schaick. 

Another  John  Hughes  was  in  the  4th  regiment,  New  York  line,  Col. 
Holmes,  and  a  John  Huse  was  a  member  of  the  2d  regiment  Ulster 
County  militia,  Col.  James  McClaghry. 

Joseph  Hughes  was  a  member  of  the  1st  regiment,  New  York  line. 

Michael  Hughes  was  a  member  of  the  1st  regiment,  New  York  line, 
and  a  member  of  the  light  infantry  company  in  Sept.,  1780. 

Miles  Hughes  was  entitled  to  land  bounty  rights  because  of  service 
with  the  4th  regiment,  Dutchess  County  militia.  Major  Miles  Hughes 
was  of  Dubois'  regiment  of  levies,  1  July,  1780. 

Thomas  Hughes  enlisted  30  Nov..  1776,  and  served  until  spring  of 
1783  in  Veeder's  company,  1st  regiment,  New  York  line,  Col.  Van 
Schaick. 

Timothy  Hughes  was  commissioned  22  Jul}',  177.'),  as  2d  lieutenant 
in  Col.  McDougalTs  (1st  N.  Y.)  regiment,  and  was  serving  in  Canada 
in  Feb.,  1776.  He  was  of  (apt.  Mott's  company  in  177").  In  1778 
he  was  in  Nicholson's  regiment  of  Continentals.  lie  also  served  in 
Nicholson's  regiment  of  militia.  He  was  later  captain  in  Livingston's 
regiment,  and  resigned  because  of  "  Lad  treatment,"  25  Oct.,  1778. 

William  Hughes,  also  Hews,  was  a  member  of  the  5th  line  regi- 


OTHER  FAMILIES  — NEW  YORK  467 

ment,  Col.  Holmes,  also  in  Dubois'  regiment,  in  Capt.  Johnson's  com- 
pany; enlisted  17  Feb.,  1777,  omitted  from  roll  July,  1780. 

Another  or  the  same  William  Hughes  was  a  member  of  the  4th  reg- 
iment, Ulster  County  militia,  Col.  Hardenburg. 

Another  William  Hughes  was  a  member  of  the  4th  West  Chester 
regiment  of  militia,  Col.  Crane. 

Thomas  Hughs  of  City  of  New  York  in  1820,  aged  66  years,  ap- 
plied for  pension.  He  was  already  a  pensioner  under  Act  of  1818. 
His  wife  Dorothy  was  aged  77  years.  His  grandson,  Martin  Cassedy, 
was  aged  14  and  unable  to  support  himself.  Hughs  was  a  sawyer  of 
wood,  weak  and  infirm,  etc.  He  enlisted  1  May,  1776,  in  Capt. 
Vather's  company,  Col.  Wynkoop's  regiment  of  the  New  York  line,  and 
continued  therein  six  months,  when  he  enlisted  in  Capt.  John  Cox's 
company  in  1st  N.  Y.  Reg.,  Col.  Van  Schaick's,  Gen.  Clinton's  brigade. 
He  was  discharged  at  Snake  Hill  near  New  York.  He  was  in  the 
battles  of  Monmouth,  Yorktown,  and  several  other  engagements.  In 
his  first  application  he  stated  that  he  enlisted  in  April,  1776,  in  Capt. 
Garret  Nader's  company,  New  York  State  troops  in  the  Continental 
establishment,  and  in  Dec,  1776,  re-enlisted  in  Capt.  John  Cupp's 
company.  Van  Schaick's  regiment  (1st  N.  Y.)  for  and  during  the  war, 
and  served  until  discharged  in  1783.      (Invalid,  45405.) 

Richard  Hews  was  a  private  in  Capt.  P.  Schuyler's  company  in  the 
New  York  Provincial  troops,  in  1755.  (N.  Y.  Historical  Soc.  Col- 
lections, vol.  24.) 


VIRGINIA 

Captain  Richard  Hewes,  a  vestryman  of  St.  Stephen's  parish  in 
the  County  of  Northumberland,  Virginia,  and  a  prominent  business 
man  there,  married  Mary  Ball,  widow  of  Captain  Joseph  Ball  of 
Lancaster  County,  Virginia.  By  Captain  Ball  she  had  a  daughter, 
Mary,  who,  in  1721,  was  aged  13  years.  Mrs.  Hewes,  prior  to  her 
marriage  to  Captain  Joseph  Ball,  had  been  the  wife  of  a  Mr.  John- 
son, by  whom  she  had  had  two  children,  John  and  Elizabeth. 

Captain  Richard  Hewes  died  a  year  after  his  marriage.  The  in- 
ventory of  his  estate  being  filed  17  March,  1713,  by  his  widow,  who 
herself  died  in  1721,  leaving  a  will  which  was  proved  29  of  July.  In 
this  will  she  gave  all  her  estate  to  her  son,  John  Johnson,  except  a 
small  legacy  to  her  daughter,  Elizabeth  Bonum,  and  certain  other  leg- 
acies of  personal  property  to  her  daughter,  Mary  Ball.  This  will  is 
recorded  in  Northumberland  County.  John  Johnson  by  will  gave  to  his 
sister,  Mary  Ball,  all  that  land  at  Stafford  which  his  stepfather, 
Richard  Hewes,  had  given  to  him. 

Elizabeth  Johnson  married  Samuel  Bonum,  whose  will  of  22  Feb- 
ruary, 1726,  mentions  sister  Mary  Ball.  Mary  received  from  her 
father,  Captain  Joseph  Ball,  400  acres  in  the  "  Freshes  "  of  the  Rap- 
pahannock river,  and  this,  with  what  she  inherited  from  her  brother, 
she  carried  to  her  husband,  Augustine  Washington,  upon  her  marriage 
to  him.  The  issue  of  their  marriage  was  George  Washington,  first 
President  of  the  United  States.  (See  an  article  in  the  Virginia  Mag- 
azine, Jan.,  1901,  Vol.  8,  No.  3,  p.  283,  by  Dr.  G.  W.  Beale,  and  for  a 
pedigree  of  the  Washington  family  see  Waters'  Gleanings,  Vol.  I,  p. 
394.)  Dr.  Beale  wrote  with  relation  to  Richard  Hewes  the  following 
letter: 

"  Capt.  Richard  Hewes,  who  died  here  in  1713,  was  the  only  one  of 
the  name  in  this  part  of  Virginia  that  I  can  find.  There  are  no 
records  here  in  that  name  by  which  to  ascertain  his  ancestry.  His 
legacies,  or  gifts  of  land,  seem  to  indicate  that  he  died  childless.  The 
Register  of  the  Parish  in  which  he  lived,  covering  the  years  from  1680 
to  1790,  has  no  entry  in  this  name." 

Among  early  settlers  in  Virginia  were: 

Ralph  Hewes,  who  came  in  1685  at  the  cost  of  Richard  Bennett 
and  settled  on  Bennett's  plantation  on  the  Nansemond  River. 

Francis  Hewes  of  Charles  City  County  in  1637. 

RlCHARD  HEWE8  of  Henrico  County,  who  may  have  come  with  Wil- 
liam Cox  in   i <;.:<;.  as  Cox  claimed  a  head  right  fur  his  transportation. 

Robert  Hewes,  an  overseer  of  Fieldings  Place  in  Lancaster  County. 

4G8 


Monument  at  Fredericksburg,  Va.,  erected  by  the  National  Mary  W  ashington 
Memorial  Association  over  the  grave  of  Mary   (Ball)    Washington.     Dedi- 
cated   10    May,    1894.     Mary    (Ball)    Washington    married    Augustine 
Washington,   (i   March,    17:50.     She   died    25    Aug.,    1T89. 


OTHER  FAMILIES  —  VIRGINIA  469 

Thomas  Hewes,  aged  40  years,  was  a  passenger  on  the  John  and 
Elizabeth  in  1623,  bound  for    Elizabeth  City,  Va. 

The  following  items,  gleaned  from  Virginia  records,  show,  to  some 
extent,  the  standing  of  the  various  families  there: 

William  Hughes  married  Sophia  Dowdall,  license  *  being  taken 
out  6  June,  1744,  in  Spottsylvania  County. 

Robert  Hughes  married  4  Dec,  1770,  Sarah  Brent,  daughter  of 
Major  John  and  Margaret  Brent  of  Charlotte  County,  Va. 

Dr.  John  Hughes  married,  about  1800,  a  daughter  of  William 
Winn  of  South  Carolina. 

Thomas  Hughes  married  Elizabeth  Towles,  a  daughter  of  Major 
Stokeley  Towles  of  Spottsylvania  County,  a  Revolutionary  soldier. 

Capt.  Anthony  Hughes  of  Virginia  married,  1798,  Elizabeth 
Price  Crump,  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Mary  Crump  of  Round  Hill, 
Fauquier  County,  Va.,  widow  of  Jonas  P.  Adams  of  Loudoun  County, 
Va.,  merchant.  She  was  born  in  1773,  and  died  21  July,  1845,  in 
Jefferson  County,  Mo.,  having  had  issue  by  both  marriages. 

Archelaus  Hughes  was  of  Henry  County  in  1777-1781.  In  1779 
he  was  recommended  for  Commissioner  of  the  Peace.  In  1780  he  was 
Colonel,  and  that  same  year  was  appointed  County  Lieutenant  but  re- 
signed within  the  year. 

William   Hughes,  lieutenant  in  the  Virginia  regiment,   1761. 

William  Hughes,  adjutant  in  militia,  March,  1776. 

John  Hughes,  drummer  in  company  of  militia  commanded  by  Capt. 
Goodes.     There  was  a  John  Hughes  of  Gloucester  County  in  1783. 

Capt.  Robert  Hughes  of  the  Powhatan  County  militia  in  1776  and 

1777. 

David  Hughes  of  Powhatan  County  was  ensign,  18  Dec,  1777. 

Capt.  Edward  Hughes  of  a  company  of  guards  in  Gloucester 
County,  in  Oct.,  1777- 

Edward  Hughes  of  Gloucester  County  t  is  enumerated  in  the 
census  of  1782-3,  as  having  in  his  family  10  white  and  15  black  persons. 
Another  Edward  Hughes  of  the  same  county  had  three  whites  in  his 
family. 

John  and  Jasper  Hughes  of  Gloucester  County  were  owners  of 
"chairs"   (a  two-wheeled  horse-vehicle)   in  1794. 

Thomas  Hughes  was  one  of  a  jury  in  Gloucester  County,  em- 
pannelled  to  try  a  Tory,  in  1776. 

Thomas  Hughes  was  a  prisoner  on  the  Torbay  Prison  ship  in 
Charleston  Harbor,  1781. 

*  "  Few  marriage  licenses  prior  to  1775  are  to  be  found  in  any  county."— 
Virginia  Magazine,  IV,  197. 

t  Mrs.  Sally  N.  Robins  gave  some  account  of  the  Hughes  family  in  the 
History  of  Gloucester  County,  published  in  1893. 


470  OTHER  FAMILIES  —  VIRGINIA 

Ellis  Ap  Hugh  was  a  tythable  of  Northampton  County  in  1666. 

Stephen  Hughes  had  a  large  grant  of  land  with  John  Alexander, 
2,750  acres,  in  Goochland  County  in  1738.  The  land  was  to  be  taken 
on  both  sides  of  Randolph's  Creek.  Stephen  Hughes  of  Cumberland 
County  (organized  1749),  brother  and  heir  of  Ashford  Hughes,  de- 
ceased, had  administration  on  his  estate  27  Nov.,  1749.  They  were 
Quakers,  and  in  1739  had  been  of  Goochland  County.* 

Revolutionary    Pension    Records 

Absolom  Hughes  was  of  Barren  County,  Ky.,  in  1833,  when,  on  the 
20  March,  he  applied  for  a  pension,  making  oath  that  on  the  15  June 
next  he  would  be  aged  78  years,  and  that  he  was  born  15  June,  1755,  in 
Charles  City  County,  Va.,  where  his  baptism  would  be  found  on  the 
church  register;  that  he  moved  thence  to  Halifax  County,  in  1784,  and 
in  1814  to  Barren  County,  Ky. 

He  lived  in  Charles  City  County  during  the  Revolution  and  enlisted 
from  there,  serving  as  follows: 

October,  1775,  in  the  militia,  in  a  company  commanded  by  Capt. 
John  Gregory. 

In  1776,  enlisted  and  served  one  year  in  the  militia,  in  a  company 
commanded  by  Capt.  Edward  Marrabel. 

In  June,  1777,  volunteered  from  Charlotte  County,  and  served  as 
first  sergeant  for  two  months  in  a  company  commanded  by  Capt. 
Thomas  Williams. 

In  June,  1781,  he  was  drafted  from  Charlotte  County,  "where  he 
had  gone  to  visit  his  brother,"  and  served  under  Capt.  Gideon  Spencer, 
as  part  of  the  forces  under  Gen.  Lafayette.  He  was  taken  sick  at 
Dandridge  Old  Field,  Hanover  County,  and  was  left  there  by  the  army. 
He  remained  there  until  after  the  surrender  of  Cornwallis.  (Invalid 
Pension,  31,149). 

Edward  Hughes  of  Albemarle  County,  Va.,  made  application  for  a 
pension  7  Jan.,  1833,  then  aged  77  years.  He  was  born  4  March,  1756. 
His  declaration  states  that  he  enlisted  at  Charlotteville,  under  Capt. 
William  Fontaine,  and  marched  to  the  Long  Bridge,  near  Norfolk, 
where  he  joined  the  14th  regiment,  Col.  Charles  Lewis,  and  participated 
in  the  engagement  at  that  place,  and  remained  there  until  the  enemy 
burnt  Norfolk.  At  the  end  of  his  year's  service  was  discharged  at 
Richmond,  but  soon  after  enlisted  for  three  years,  in  a  company  com- 
manded by  Capt.  John  Marks.     He  with  other  recruits  were  inoculated 

*  There  was  a  family  of  Hughes  in  Overwharton  Parish,  Stafford  Co. 
James  Hughs  married  Agnes  MacCartee,  6  May,  174-1.  She  died  4  March, 
1 7  1i.  Their  son  William  wms  horn  II  Feb.,  1745.  Elizabeth  and  John,  chil- 
dren of  Hai.i'ii  HroiiKs,  were  horn  SO  June,  17.53,  and  24  Dec.,  1756,  re- 
spectively. Mahv  I  hems  married  George  Crosby,  6  Jan.,  1744.  Doffus 
Huohes  died  14  Sept.,  1753. 


OTHER  FAMILIES  —  VIRGINIA  471 

with  smallpox  at  Dumfries,  and  was  allowed  to  remain  in  Albemarle 
County  until  recovered,  whence  the  force  was  conveyed  to  Baltimore  by 
water,  and  thence  to  Philadelphia,  where  they  were  attached  to  the 
14th  regiment,  Col.  Charles  Lewis,  and  participated  in  the  battles  of 
Brandywine  and  Germantown.  After  these  battles,  because  of  the 
service  it  had  undergone,  the  14th  was  broken  up,  and  Hughes  was 
attached  to  the  1st  Virginia  regiment,  Col.  Richard  Campbell,  being  in 
the  company  commanded  by  Capt.  John  Marks,  with  Matthew  Jouatt 
as  lieutenant.  The  regiment  marched  to  Chesterfield  Court  House, 
Virginia,  by  way  of  Baltimore  and  Fredericksburg,  and  remained  there 
during  the  winter,  joining  Greene's  army  in  the  spring.  Hughes 
participated  in  the  battles  of  Guilford  C.  H.,  the  siege  of  Ninety-Six, 
and  Eutaw  Springs.  Since  his  discharge  he  had  lived  in  Albemarle 
County.     His  house  was  burnt,  and  his  discharges  destroyed. 

As  his  heirs  request  information  of  the  Bureau  in  Oct.,  1843,  he  had 
deceased  prior  to  that  time,  and  without  leaving  a  widow,  though  he 
appears    to  have  left  children.      (Invalid,  5,574.) 

Elias  Hughes  of  Utica,  Licking  County,  Ohio,  made  application  for 
a  pension  23  Aug.,  1832,  he  then  being  75  years  of  age.  He  was  born 
on  the  South  branch  of  the  Potomac  River,  in  Hardy  Co.  [now 
W.  Va.],*  and  during  his  terms  of  service  lived  in  Clarkesburg,  Va. 
He  was  son  of  Thomas  Hughes,  who  was  killed  by  Indians  on  Hack- 
ett's  Creek,  Va.,  in  1778. 

In  1774  he  assisted  in  holding  Miller's  Fort  in  West  Augusta  County, 
Va.,  and  was  in  the  battle  of  Point  Pleasant  on  the  Big  Kanawha.  In 
1775  he  enlisted  and  served  in  the  company  commanded  by  Capt.  James 
Booth  until  1778,  when  his  father  was  killed.  He  was  then  com- 
missioned captain  of  Rangers  and  Spies,  and  served  three  years  under 
Cols.  Benjamin  Wilson  and  William  Louther. 

He  served  as  a  private  from  1781  to  1783  under  Col.  George  Jackson 
and  after  peace  was  proclaimed,  in  1783,  continued  in  service  against 
the  Indians  until  Wayne's  treaty  in  1795.      (Invalid,  8,474.) 

Francis  Hughes  was  of  Orange  County,  Va.,  in  1818,  when,  on 
30  June,  he  made  application  for  a  pension,  he  then  being  aged  72 
years.  He  enlisted  from  Orange  County.  There  is  filed  with  his  ap- 
plication a  pass  issued  to  Francis  Alexander  Hughes,  a  sergeant  in 
Col.  Heath's  regiment  of  Virginia  troops,  to  pass  and  repass  from  his 

*  The  court  records  of  Augusta  County,  formerly  extending  over  a  large 
territory,  have  been  published.  The  index  contains  numerous  references  to 
the  name  Hughes.  Edward  Hewes  was  surety  for  Valentine  Sevear  in  Au- 
gust, 1746.  That  same  year  Jajies  Hut  and  William  Hugh  lived  near  Car- 
ter's Mill.  In  1757,  David  Hughes,  an  orphan,  aged  two  years,  was  ordered 
bound  out. 


472  OTHER  FAMILIES  —  VIRGINIA 

present  quarters  at  Middlebrook  to  Orange  County,  with  leave  of  ab- 
sence for  115  days.  This  pass  is  dated  Middle  Brooke,  22  Dec.,  1775, 
and  was  granted  because  of  Hughes'  being  convalescent  from  smallpox. 

He  was  a  sergeant  in  November,  1775,  and  his  name  appears  on  a 
muster  roll  of  the  company  commanded  by  Capt.  Robert  Powell,  a 
light  infantry  company,  as  sergeant  in  1779. 

He  enlisted  Sept.,  1777,  in  company  commanded  by  Capt.  John 
Francis  Mercer,  3d  regiment  Continental  line,  and  was  discharged  at 
Petersburg,  Va.,  June,  1779.  He  participated  in  the  battle  of  Mon- 
mouth and  in  various  skirmishes.  He  died  probably  in  1821  or  1822. 
(Invalid,  38,059.) 

Francis  Hughes  was  of  Green  County,  Tenn.,  21  July,  1833,  then 
aged  74  years,  when  he  applied  for  pension,  alleging  that  he  resided 
in  Burke  County,  N.  C,  in  June,  1776,  when  he  enlisted  as  a  ranger 
in  North  Carolina,  under  Capt.  Penland,  in  the  command  of  Gen. 
McDowell,  and  served  two  months  and  a  half  against  the  Cherokee  and 
Creek  Indians.  On  his  return  from  this  tour  of  service,  he  met  the 
troops  under  Gen.  Rutherford  on  their  march  to  the  Cherokee  Nation, 
and  volunteered  under  Rutherford.  The  expedition  proceeded  to  the 
"  Nation."  In  the  overhill  towns  the  Indians  embodied,  and  an  en- 
gagement ensued  in  which  the  Indians  were  defeated  with  a  loss  of  18 
killed.  This  tour  of  service  lasted  from  August,  1776,  to  December, 
1776,  four  months.  In  Jan.,  1777,  he  volunteered  under  Col.  John 
Sevier  to  retake  the  western  settlements  on  the  Watoga.  Seviers'  force 
was  employed  in  building  a  fort  for  defence  at  "  Gallaker's  "  on  "  Nola 
Sheeky  "  river,  in  the  present  State  of  Tennessee.  Hughes  was  sta- 
tioned there  for  twelve  months.  Under  the  Act  of  North  Carolina 
calling  for  new  levies,  he  volunteered  in  Sept.,  1780,  for  an  expedition, 
under  Col.  Sevier,  against  Ferguson.  He  was  in  Capt.  Samuel  Wil- 
liams' company  and  marched  with  Campbell's  Virginia  troops  across  the 
"  Yelow  Mountains  "  into  North  Carolina,  and  there  met  the  militia 
under  General  McDowell,  and  in  October  was  present  at  the  battle  of 
King's  Mountain.  After  the  battle  he  helped  guard  the  prisoners  on 
the  march  to  the  "  Barrix  "  for  exchange,  serving  three  months.  In 
the  winter  of  1780  he  again  volunteered  and  was  led  by  Col.  Sevier 
against  the  Cherokee  Indians  and  marched  to  the  borders  of  their 
country,  but  the  Indians  had  retired.  He  was  one  month  in  this 
service.     His  total  service  was  21  months  and  14  days. 

He  was  born  in  Shenandoah  County,  Va.,  in  1759,  and  had  lived  in 
Washington  County,  afterward  in  Green  County.  He  was  living  in 
1839.      (Invalid  pension,  3,075.) 

Gabriel  Hughes  of  Mathews  County,  Va.,  made  application  for  a 


OTHER  FAMILIES  —  VIRGINIA  473 

pension,  13  August,  1832.  He  stated  that  he  was  born  in  Kingston 
parish,  Cumberland  County,  Va.,  7  Nov.,  1762.  That  he  enlisted  in  a 
company  of  which  the  officers  were  Richard  Billups,  captain ;  Thomas 
Ga}de,  lieutenant,  and  Henry  Forrest,  ensign.  Afterward  he  served 
in  the  company  commanded  by  Capt.  Philip  Tabb,  of  which  James 
Gwynn  was  lieutenant.  He  was  discharged  after  the  siege  of  York, 
and  was  seldom  called  out  after  that. 

He  was  in  the  engagement  which  resulted  from  the  attack  by  Tarle- 
ton's  horse  on  the  French  horse,  by  which  the  French  horse  was  cut  to 
pieces,  and  his  company  was  ordered  to  their  support.  When  Mercer's 
grenadiers,  to  which  Hughes'  company  was  joined,  were  seen  coming  to 
the  aid  of  the  French,  "  they  went  at  it  again." 

His  record  of  service  was  as  follows : 
1778,  on  guard  duty  at  Lilley's  Neck,  one  month,  in  company  under 
command  of  Capt.  Richard  Billup,  ordered  out  by  Col.  Sir 
John  Peyton. 

1778,  one  month  at  Cricket  Hill,  near  Gwynn  Island. 

1779,  one  month,  under  the  same  officers. 

1779,  one  month  in  March  and  April,  one  month  in  June  and  July,  and 

one  month  in  September  and  October. 

1780,  one  month  in  March  and  April,  one  month  in  June  and  July,  and 

one  month  in  August  and  September. 

1781,  10  Feb.,  to  last  of  April  as  a  volunteer,  one  of  125  men,  from 

Gloucester  County,  under  command  of  Capt.  Phillip  Tabb,  to 
pursue  Arnold,  then  raiding  toward  Richmond. 

Three    months    in    company    commanded    by    Lieutenant 

Houlden  Hodgins  at  the  siege  of  York,  and  one  month  at 

Cricket  Hill,  under  the  same  officer.     All  of  these  tours  of 

duty  were  performed  in  the  Virginia  militia. 

Mary  Hughes,  widow  of  Gabriel,  applied  for  a  pension  in   1838. 

She  stated  that  Gabriel  died  20  Oct.,  1836,  and  that  they  were  married 

31  March,  1785. 

The  family  record  filed  with  these  papers  is  as  follows: 
Gabriel  Hughes,  born  7  Nov.,  1762. 
Mary  Hughes,  born  18  Oct.,  1765. 

Sarah,  daughter  of  Gabriel  and  Mary,  born  10  Jan.,  1786. 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Gabriel  and  Mary,  born  12  Feb.,  1788. 
Thomas,  son  of  Gabriel  and  Mary,  born  30  April,  1791. 
Mann  Page,  son  of  Gabriel  and  Mary,  born  25  Dec,  1792. 
Ann  Luse,  daughter  of  Gabriel  and  Mary,  born  20  April,  1796. 
Mann  Page,  son  of  Gabriel  and  Mary,  born  12  June,  1799. 
Francis,  son  of  Gabriel  and  Mary,  born  3  June,  1806. 
Another  family  record  on  file  is  as  follows : 

Gabriel  Hughes  and  Mary  Williams,  married  31  March,  1785. 


474  OTHER  FAMILIES —  VIRGINIA 

Gabriel,  son  of  Gabriel  and  Ann  Hughes,  born  7  Nov.,  1762. 
Gabriel  Hughes  departed  this  life  20  Oct.,  1836. 
Letter  of  Gabriel  Hughes  to  his  son,  Mann  P.  Hughes  of  Norfolk, 
dated    12    Sept.,    1836,   mentions    wife    of   Mann    P.,   probably    Betsy 
Hughes  named  in  letter,  and  their  children.     Supposes  he  has  heard 
of  the  death  of  "  Little  Susan,"  who  departed  this  life  5  July  last. 

Gabriel  Hughes,  father  of  the  soldier,  had  other  children.  (Widow, 
19,836.) 

Henry  Hugh  of  Scioto  County,  Ohio,  applied  for  pension,  1818. 
He  was  aged  67  years.  He  enlisted  on  the  Continental  establishment 
in  1780  for  18  months,  his  term  expiring  31  Dec,  1781.  He  enlisted 
at  Amherst,  Va.,  in  company  commanded  by  Capt.  John  Anderson,  in 
regiment  of  Col.  Haws  (sic),  and  served  in  the  army  of  Gen.  Green  in 
the  South,  participating  in  the  battles  of  Guilford,  Camden,  Eutaw 
Springs,  and  at  Camden  was  shot  in  the  right  shoulder. 

In  another  declaration,  dated  26  Dec,  1821,  then  aged  69,  and  a 
resident  of  Jackson  County,  Ohio,  he  states  that  Haws'  regiment  was 
in  the  North  Carolina  line,  that  he  obtained  a  pension  in  1819,  is  a 
farmer,  and  that  his  wife  is  aged  and  infirm,  and  that  she,  and  a  son 
seventeen  years  of  age,  are  dependent  upon  him  for  support.  (In- 
valid, 41,669.) 

James  Hughes  died  6  Feb.,  1852,  leaving  a  widow  Nancy,  who, 
under  the  act  of  1855,  received  a  bounty  land  warrant,  No.  36,537- 
She  deposed  28  Oct.,  1856,  then  of  DeKalb  County,  Ga.,  aged  82  years, 
that  her  husband,  James,  had  served  as  a  private  in  the  company  of 
Capts.  Stanton  and  Yancy  in  the  Virginia  militia,  probably  from  Cul- 
pepper County,  about  1779-80,  and  that  he  was  probably  discharged 
at  Matin  Hill,  Va.,  at  the  close  of  the  war.  He  made  an  ineffectual 
application  for  a  pension  under  the  Act  of  1832,  he  then  being  of 
DeKalb  County.  His  declaration  in  1845,  when  he  was  aged  86  years, 
stated  that  in  spring  of  1781  he  was  drafted  and  entered  the  militia 
company  commanded  by  Capt.  Stanton  in  Col.  Allcock's  regiment.  He 
resided  in  Culpepper  County.  He  served  under  Gen.  Lafayette,  and 
until  after  the  surrender  of  Cornwallis.  He  was  born  in  Westmoreland 
County,  Va.,  in  1758-9.  He  removed  from  Westmoreland  County  to 
North  Carolina,  thence  to  South  Carolina,  and  thence  to  Georgia.  (Re- 
jected, 5,350.) 

James  Hughes  of  Raleigh,  North  Carolina,  late  a  resident  of  Gooch- 
land County,  Va.,  aged  70  years,  made  application  for  a  pension  15 
Oct.,  1832. 

His  declaration  states  that  he  enlisted  in  Dec,  1778,  in  a  company 
commanded  by  Capt.  Alexander  Porter,  Col.  Richard  Parker's  regiment 


OTHER  FAMILIES  —  VIRGINIA  475 

of  Virginia  troops,  to  serve  until  1781.  He  was  captured  and  held 
prisoner  for  eighteen  months.  He  was  born  in  Hanover  County,  15 
Sept.,  1762.  After  enlistment  marched  into  Pennsylvania,  but  about 
twenty  miles  from  Philadelphia  the  regiment  was  ordered  back,  and 
by  forced  marches  to  Petersburg.  Parker's  regiment  was  the  first  to 
receive  orders  to  proceed  south.  He  was  at  the  storming  of  Savannah. 
The  sick  and  wounded  were  placed  in  small  vessels  to  go  to  Charleston. 
The  vessel  which  Hughes  was  on  sprung  aleak,  and  failed  to  get  relief 
from  their  own  boats  or  from  the  French  fleet.  The  storm  was  severe 
and  the  boats  were  terribly  handled  by  the  elements  for  four  or  five 
days.  On  the  night  of  the  fifth  day  their  boat  ran  aground  on  a  small 
island,  and  four  or  five  of  the  men  succumbed  to  starvation.  The 
island  on  which  they  were  cast  away  proved  to  be  fifty  miles  south  of 
St.  Augustine,  which  was  in  the  possession  of  the  British,  who,  hearing 
of  the  castaways,  sent  a  force  to  take  them  prisoners,  and  bring  them  to 
St.  Augustine.  Horses  were  provided  for  those  unable  to  walk.  The 
prisoners  after  four  months  were  sent  from  St.  Augustine  to  Charleston 
to  be  exchanged,  but  on  arrival  at  Charleston  found  the  British  about 
to  besiege  that  place,  which,  after  two  months,  •  surrendered,  and 
Hughes  again  became  a  prisoner.  His  colonel,  Parker,  was  killed  dur- 
ing the  siege.  The  prisoners  were  confined  in  barracks  for  five  months, 
the  men  continually  broke  out  and  escaped,  so  that  the  rest  were  placed 
upon  prison  ships.  Many  enlisted  in  the  British  service  in  the  hope  of 
getting  clear.  Hughes  was  confined  on  the  prison  ship  for  three 
months,  and  during  that  time  received  $2  sent  by  his  government,  which 
is  all  he  ever  received.  After  fourteen  months'  confinement  at  Charles- 
ton, he  was  sent  by  water  to  Jamestown,  Va.  He  was  at  the  siege 
of  Little  York  in  Anderson's  company,  and  was  duly  discharged  in 
summer  of  1781. 

He  lived  in  Hanover  County  until  removal  to  the  James  River  in 
Goochland  County,  where  he  remained  until  1832.  He  was  married  in 
1790  to  a  daughter  of  John  Sizer  of  Carolina,  and  has  had  seven  sons 
and  three  daughters,  of  whom  four  sons  and  two  daughters  were  then 
living.  With  his  wife,  aged  sixty-six  years,  he  then  resided  with  a  son, 
Nelson  B.  Hughes,  at  Raleigh.  James  Hughes  was  a  farmer,  and  for- 
merly owned  slaves,  which  he  sold  in  1821,  because  of  a  debt  contracted 
in  1816  by  endorsing  notes  for  others.  He  sold  his  property  in  Gooch- 
land County  to  son,  Garland  A.  Hughes,  of  Charlotte  County,  to  whom 
also  he  conveyed  his  three  slaves.  He  lived  with  Garland  until  the 
latter's  death,  when  the  estate  was  sold  and  the  former  owner  left  des- 
titute.     (Invalid,  7,046.) 

Jesse  Hughes,  who  died  1  March,  1838  (Treasury  Record),  applied 
for  a  pension  in  1832,  then  aged  76  years.     He  enlisted  in  1776,  from 


476  OTHER  FAMILIES  —  VIRGINIA 

the  county  of  Fluvanna,  in  the  "minute  service"  on  state  establishment, 
for  one  year,  and  was  attached  to  the  company  commanded  by  Capt. 
Roger  Thompson,  of  which  the  lieutenant  was  George  Thompson  and 
(later?)  James  Marks,  in  the  regiment  commanded  by  Col.  Meredith 
and  Col.  Dabney.  The  regiment  marched  to  Williamsburg,  thence  to 
Burrel's  Creek.  There  the  detachment  was  ordered  to  proceed  against 
the  Indians,  and  marched  as  far  as  the  Long  Island  on  the  Holston, 
under  Col.  Haynes  Morgan.  Gen.  Guest  had  the  chief  command,  and 
he  with  part  of  the  detachment  marched  on  to  the  French  Broad  and 
into  the  Cherokee  Nation,  and  concluded  a  treaty  with  the  Indians. 
After  this  Hughes  was  discharged.  He  again  enlisted  in  the  fall  of 
1776  for  three  years,  in  the  company  of  artillery  commanded  by  Capt. 
William  Pierce,  and  marched  to  York  in  winter  of  1777,  where  he  re- 
mained for  twelve  months  under  Col.  Harrison  and  Lt.-Col.  C.  Car- 
rington  of  the  County  of  Cumberland.  Part  of  the  detachment  were 
at  Portsmouth,  Va.  Being  an  artificer,  Hughes  remained  with  Col. 
Carrington,  where  his  services  were  most  required.  In  spring  of  1778, 
marched  north  and  j  oined  the  army  at  Valley  Forge,  and  thence  unde  r 
Gen.  Scott  marched  into  New  Jersey  and  participated  in  the  battle  of 
Monmouth  in  June,  1778.  After  that  battle  was  attached  to  a  de- 
tachment of  grenadiers  from  New  England  under  Major  Jackson,  and 
marched  to  Rhode  Island  and  joined  the  army  under  Gen.  Sullivan,  and 
was  in  the  battle  of  Rhode  Island  in  August,  1778.  On  the  retreat 
crossed  at  Bristol  and  marched  to  Providence.  From  Providence 
marched  to  Morristown,  N.  J.,  and  was  discharged  there  a  few  weeks 
prior  to  expiration  of  term  of  service,  in  preference  to  building  bar- 
racks and  going  into  winter  quarters.  In  1780,  again  volunteered  and 
served  in  the  South,  as  lieutenant  in  a  company  commanded  by  Capt. 
Leftwich  of  Bedford,  Va.,  under  Cols.  Stabblefield  and  Spencer  in  Gen. 
Stevens'  brigade.  Was  present  at  Gates'  defeat  and  marched  to  Hills- 
boro,  and  was  discharged  in  the  fall  of  the  same  year.  Again  volun- 
teered and  served  as  lieutenant  at  the  siege  of  York  in  1781.  (Invalid, 
9,594.)      The  pensioner  left  children. 

John  Hughs  died  12  May,  1815.  I.  D.  Woodward  in  1855  wrote 
from  Plattsburg,  N.  Y.,  to  the  Department  as  attorney  for  heirs  of 
John  Hughs,  claiming  that  he  had  served  as  a  captain  in  the  Virginia 
line  in  the  Continental  army.  The  request  for  half  pay  allowance  was 
not  allowed.      (Rejected,  15,270.) 

John  Hughes,  born  28  Oct.,  1758,  enlisted  from  Brunswick  County, 
Va.,  in  1776-7,  under  Capt.  Lucas  in  Gen.  Scott's  brigade,  and  was  in 
the  battles  of  Trenton,  Brandywine,  Germantown  and  Monmouth,  and 
on  1  Jan.,  1778,  was  appointed  quarter-master.     Appointed  lieutenant 


OTHER  FAMILIES  — VIRGINIA  477 

31  March,  1781;  captain  in  1st  Dragoons  31  March,  1781,  which  rank 
he  held  until  15  Nov.,  1783.  He  married  in  Surrey  County,  Ga.,  22 
July,  1781,  Ann  Moore,  born  17  June,  1762,  daughter  of  Mathew 
Moore. 

He  died  in  Surrey  County,  26  July,  1826,  and  his  widow  was  allowed 
a  pension  in  1839.  At  that  time  she  lived  in  Stokes  County,  N.  C. 
She  died  23  Aug.,  1848,  near  Rockford,  N.  C. 

According  to  her  application  John  Hughes  served  as  sergeant  and  as 
lieutenant,  and  also  as  major,  and  enlisted  from  Cumberland  County  in 
the  regular  army  under  Capt.  Woodson. 

Hartley  Barham  deposed  he  knew  Hughes  at  headquarters  at  Valley 
Forge,  and  that  he  was  highly  respected  in  the  service. 

Children  of  John  and  Ann  Hughes: 

Mathew  M.,  born  5  May,  1782. 

Polly  M.,  born  1  June,  1785;  married  [ ]  Dobson. 

Archelaus,  born  28  Nov.,  1787- 

Letitia    Dv    born    17    March,    1790;   married    Gen.    Joseph 

Winston. 
Leander,  born  4  Sept.,  1794. 
John  A.,  born  14  May,  1797- 
Ann  P.,  born  12  Sept.,  1806;  married  William  A.  Lash. 

All  of  these  children,  except  John  A.,  survived  the  mother  and  were 
living  in  1852.  At  that  time  Leander  was  supposed  to  be  living  in 
Platte  County,  Mo.,  but  in  1853  he  had  gone  to  California,  but  it  was 
not  known  if  he  had  taken  his  family  with  him. 

The  pay  account  of  John  Hughes  is  on  file  with  the  other  papers  in 
the  case.      (Widow,  18,082.) 

John  Hughes,  born  in  Powhatan  County,  Va.,  11  Aug,,  1763,  ap- 
plied for  pension  May,  1838,  when  he  was  aged  75  years.  He  was  a 
student  in  Washington  Henry  Academy  in  Hanover  County,  Va.,  and 
enlisted  in  Oct.,  1779,  as  a  private  in  the  company  commanded  by  Capt. 
Littlebury  for  three  months.  This  was  a  calvary  company.  He  was 
transferred  to  the  infantry,  entering  the  company  commanded  by  Capt. 
Williamson  in  Bland's  regiment.  He  served  under  Col.  George  Rogers 
Clarke  and  was  in  the  ambuscade  of  the  British  near  Howel's  Old  Fort. 
Detached  to  the  brigade  of  Light  Infantry  in  October,  1780.  He 
served  in  several  commands.  He  was  in  the  battle  of  Guilford,  and 
after  the  battle  was  appointed  ensign.  He  returned  to  Virginia  in 
April,  1781.  He  was  in  the  retreat  from  James  River  to  Point  of 
Fork.  He  was  appointed  lieutenant,  and  at  the  siege  of  York  was  in 
command  of  his  company.  In  1787  he  resided  in  Powhatan  County, 
but  in  1832  was  of  Jefferson  County. 


478  OTHER  FAMILIES  —  VIRGINIA 

A  letter  on  file  from  Richard  Hughes  Sullivan,  dated  1908,  U.  S. 
Weather  Bureau,  Indianapolis,  Ind.,  gives  the  information  that  John 
was  son  of  John  and  Judith  Neville  Hughes;  that  he  was  wounded  in 
battle  of  Guildford,  C.  H. ;  and  that  he  served  as  a  major  in  the  War  of 
1812.  He  died  11  Dec.,  1842,  leaving  a  widow.  The  declaration  of 
John  Hughes  states  that  he  enlisted  in  July,  1779,  in  a  company  com- 
manded by  Capt.  John  Barrett,  Col.  William  Dandridge's  regiment,  and 
served  two  months  and  a  half.      (Invalid,  30,501.) 

Jonathan  Hughes  (Huges)  of  Gallia  County,  Ohio,  and  lately  of 
Jefferson  County,  Ind.,  aged  81  years,  made  application  for  pension 
19  March,  1834.  He  was  born  in  Hampshire  County,  Va.,  25  March, 
1753.  He  enlisted  about  1  May,  1775,  in  Greenbrier  County,  Va.,  un- 
der Capt.  John  Cook,  to  serve  on  the  frontiers  against  the  Indians, 
and  was  stationed  at  Ellis'  Fort  on  the  Little  Levels  of  Greenbrier 
County.  He,  John  Ewins,  and  Joseph  Edwards,  were  appointed 
Indian  spies  from  the  fort.  He  was  on  the  frontiers  until  the  last  of 
September  and  was  then  dismissed  to  return  whenever  called  upon. 
He  took  the  field  again  in  May,  1776,  and  performed  the  same  service 
until  last  of  September.  In  the  spring  of  1777,  was  called  to  Major 
Rennick's  fort  on  the  Big  Levels  of  Greenbrier  County,  and  served 
under  Capt.  Andrew  Hamilton.  A  few  days  after  the  arrival  at  the 
fort,  volunteers  were  called  for  to  re-enforce  a  small  fort  called 
McCoy's,  on  Muddy  Creek.  Hughes  volunteered,  with  James  Briggs, 
William  Hamilton,  and  William  Gilkinson,  and  the  party  stopped  at  the 
fort  a  few  days  until  ordered  back  to  Remmick's.  He  was  then  ap- 
pointed an  Indian  spy  and  ordered  to  draw  rations  for  eight  days,  stay 
out  until  rations  were  exhausted,  then  draw  eight  days'  more  rations 
and  continue  scouting.  This  duty  he  performed  until  the  close,  of 
September. 

He  went  from  Greenbrier  County  to  Hampshire  County  in  the  sum- 
mer of  1778,  and  in  the  spring  of  1779  was  enrolled  in  the  company  of 
Capt.  George  Bell,  and  was  appointed  ensign.  His  commission  is  on 
file.  It  is  dated  9  Nov.,  1779,  and  is  signed  by  Thomas  Jefferson. 
With  it  is  filed  an  oath  of  allegiance,  dated  2  July,  1778,  and  a  certifi- 
cate of  service  in  Capt.  John  Cook's  company  dated  29  Oct.,  1780. 
About  the  middle  of  May,  1780,  Jonathan  Hughes  was  called  out  with 
Capt.  Bell's  company,  and  under  command  of  Col.  Morgan  marched 
from  Big  Capon  up  Lost  River  to  its  head,  thence  over  South  Branch 
Mountain.  At  the  summit  there  was  a  minor  engagement  with  Tories, 
who  were  defeated  with  a  loss  of  one  killed  and  one  wounded.  After 
a  month's  service  the  regiment  returned  to  Hampshire  County.  Shortly 
after  this  he  was  ordered  out  by  Capt.  Bell  to  pursue  deserters,  and 
was  engaged  in  this  duty  for  a  week.     With  his  papers  is  filed  a  dis- 


OTHER  FAMILIES  —  VIRGINIA  479 

charge  for  the  years  of  1775,  1776,  and  1777,  dated  29  Oct.,  1780, 
signed  by  Capt.  Cook. 

The  date  of  his  birth  was  taken  from  the  Bible  record  kept  by  his 
parents.  At  the  close  of  the  war  he  resided  in  Hampshire  County  until 
sometime  in  the  winter  of  1783,  when  he  moved  to  Wilkes'  County, 
N.  C,  where  he  lived  until  1808,  when  he  removed  to  Harrison  County, 
Va.,  where  he  lived  until  28  Jan.,  1829,  when  he  removed  to  Gallia 
County,  Ohio,  where  he  has  lived  most  of  the  time  since.  He  was  in 
Indiana  in  1833,  three  or  four  months,  teaching  school  in  Jefferson 
County.  In  an  application  to  have  his  pension  paid  in  Virginia  instead 
of  Ohio,  he  states  that  his  children  live  in  Virginia.  His  pension  was 
paid  to  3  April,  1842.      (Invalid,  9,591.) 

Robert  Hughs  applied  for  a  pension  in  1834.  He  was  born  18 
Aug.,  1760,  in  Prince  William  County,  Va.  His  records  were  lost  when 
his  daughter's  house  was  burned.  He  lived  in  Prince  William  County 
when  he  enlisted,  and  since  the  war  has  lived  in  Greenbrier,  Monroe 
and  Fayette  counties,  and  now  lives  in  Fayette  County,  Va.  He  was 
drafted  for  the  first  and  second  tours  and  was  a  substitute  on  the  third 
tour  of  duty.  In  1777,  he  served  three  months  in  the  company  of  Capt. 
Hugh  Brunt  in  the  neighborhood  of  Pittsburg.  In  1780-1  he  served  in 
the  artillery  company  of  Capt.  Hill  for  six  months.  His  service  as  a 
substitute  was  for  1 1  months  from  Sweet  Springs,  and  was  about  Pitts- 
burg. Being  off  on  a  foraging  expedition  his  party  seized  a  trading 
boat  on  the  Ohio,  which  drifted  several  days  down  the  river,  until  it 
grounded.  Indians  captured  the  crew  and  captain,  but  he  and  other 
soldiers  escaped,  and,  as  term  of  enlistment  was  up,  he  and  the  others 
did  not  return  to  their  command. 

He  made  his  declaration  in  1846  when  he  was  86  years  old. 

Elizabeth  Garrett  of  Kanawha  County,  Va.,  a  sister  of  Robert 
Hughes,  deposed  she  was  82  years  of  age.  Their  father  lived  in 
Prince  Williams  County,  where  her  brother  entered  the  army,  he  then 
being  about  seventeen  years  of  age.  His  second  enlistment  was  on  a 
draft  at  Sweet  Springs,  where  her  father  had  removed  to  Botetourt 
County.      (Rejected,  5,355.) 

Samuel  Hughs  of  Cooper  County,  Mo.,  aged  79  years,  applied  for 
a  pension  in  1832,  for  service  in  the  Virginia  militia.  He  served  three 
months  in  company  of  Capt.  Joseph  Marston  under  Gen.  Greene,  and 
was  at  the  battle  of  Guilford  Court  House.  He  continued  in  service 
from  Pittsylvania  County,  Va.,  but  later  hired  a  substitute  for  $1,000. 
He  was  born  in  1753  in  Hanover  County,  Va.,  and  moved  from  Pittsyl- 
vania County  to  Missouri.      (Rejected,  5,356.) 

Stephen  Hughes,  who  enlisted  from  Charles  City  County,  Va.,  died 
16  Jan.,  1830,  leaving  a  widow  Tabitha,  whom  he  married  2  Jan.,  1788, 


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and  who  applied  for  a  pension  21  Sept.,  1840,  she  then  being  aged  74 
years.  She  was  not  acquainted  with  him  until  after  the  Revolution, 
but  had  heard  him  say  he  was  a  regular  soldier. 

A  small  Bible  sent  to  the  Department  at  this  time  was  returned  in 
1877  to  John  and  Charles  Hughes  of  Black  Walnut,  Halifax  County, 
Va.     The  record  of  the  family  is  as  follows: 

John  Hughes,  born  20  Nov.,  1788. 

Richard,  born  6  March,  1790. 

William,  born  May  [ ] 

Charles,  born   [ ]    1795. 

Stephen,  born  4  Sept.,  1797. 

Absolom,  born  27  Feb.,  180 — . 

Elizabeth  Purson,  born  Aug.,  1802. 

Henry,  born  19  Dec,  1805. 
John  Hughes,  a  resident  of  Halifax  County,  was  appointed  admin- 
istrator on  the  estate  of  Tabitha,  widow  of  Stephen  Hughes,  in  1852. 
(Rejected,  5,352.) 

Thomas  Hughes  of  Jackson  County,  Va.,  in  1834,  aged  80  years, 
applied  for  a  pension.  In  1774  he  resided  on  the  West  Fork  of  the 
Monongahela  river  in  Virginia,  and  was  engaged  in  ranging  from  the 
West  Fork  to  the  Ohio  until  1779,  under  Capt.  William  Louther,  and 
was  subsequently  commissioned  a  lieutenant  of  Indian  spies  in  the 
same  company  and  did  not  resign  until  the  spring  of  1784,  after  which 
he  continued  on  ranging  expeditions  to  different  forts  until  the  close 
of  the  Indian  wars  in  1795. 

He  was  a  brother  of  Jesse  and  Ellis  Hughes,  whose  father  and  one 
brother,  not  named,  were  killed  by  Indians.  He  is  said  to  have  died  in 
Oct.,  1837,  having  lost  his  wife  three  months  previously,  and  left  an 
only  child,  Thomas,  who  was  aged  71  in  1854. 

The  soldier's  application  is  not  on  file,  but  it  was  rejected  because 
service  was  not  in  the  Revolutionary  War,  but  in  the  Indian  War. 
(Rejected,  5,357-) 

Thomas  Hughes  of  Culpepper  County,  Va.,  was  born  in  Orange 
County,  1754,  and  at  time  of  application  (1832)  for  pension  was  aged 
77  or  78  years.  He  enlisted  in  the  fall  of  1778  in  Capt.  Rucker's 
company,  Col.  Pendleton's  regiment  and  served  four  months,  chiefly  in 
Pennsylvania,  where  he  joined  the  army  the  Saturday  following  the 
battle  of  Germantown.  In  the  latter  part  of  the  summer  of  1781  he 
joined  the  main  army  in  Virginia,  and  served  three  months  as  sergeant 
in  a  company  commanded  by  Capt.  (Covington?)  under  Major 
Nathaniel  Welsh.  After  the  surrender  of  Yorktown  and  before  the 
prisoners  were  removed,  he  was  taken  sick  and,  with  his  brother,  who 
is  since  deceased,  was  sent  home  in  a  baggage  wagon  in  the  care  of 


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neighbors  who  were  returning  from  the  army.  In  all  he  served  seven 
months.  At  the  time  of  his  enlistment  he  was  living  at  Cabbin  Branch 
in  Culpepper  County,  and  has  resided  in  the  same  county  ever  since. 
He  received  a  pension  in  1837-      (Invalid,  5,589.) 

William  Hughes  died  17  June,  1833,  leaving  widow  Nancy,  who 
died  5  March,  1843,  whereupon,  5  Dec,  1853,  Benjamin  Hughes,  eldest 
son  and  heir,  made  application  for  arrears  of  pension. 

There  are  on  file  various  documents  of  interest,  among  which  is  a 
certificate  of  service  of  William  Hughes  for  service  in  the  North 
Carolina  line,  showing  £85-1-9  due.  The  Comptroller  of  North  Caro- 
lina issued  a  certificate  showing  that  the  books  in  his  office  showed 
service  of  William  Hughes  as  follows: 

Continental  line. 
Country  return. 
Hillsboro  District. 
Salisbury  District. 
Hillsboro  District. 
Benjamin  Hughes  claimed  that  his  father  had  done  service  with  the 
Virginia  Line  regiment,  in  Virginia,  South  and  North  Carolina.     That 
at  the  end  of  his  first  term  of  service  he  was  again  drafted  or  volun- 
teered, and  served  to  the  end  of  the  war;  that  he  was  in  the  battle  of 
Guilford  Court  House,  and  at  the  surrender  of  Cornwallis. 

A  certificate  on  file  shows  that  the  State  of  Virginia  made  a  settle- 
ment with  William  Hughes  28  Aug.,  1786,  as  a  soldier  in  the  infantry 
regiment  in  the  Continental  line,  from  1  Jan.,  1777,  to  31  Dec,  1781, 
and  that  payment  of  £11-14-8  was  made  to  Jane  Hughes. 

William  Hughes  died  in  Rutherford  County,  now  Cleveland,  N.  C, 
17  June,  1838,  and  his  widow  Nancy,  5  March,  1843,  as  per  inscrip- 
tions on  their  gravestones.     The  only  children  surviving  in  1853  were 
Benjamin  Hughes,  Young  Hughes,  and  Rebecca  Blanter. 
An  old  record  on  file  gives  the  following  record  of  children : 
Benjamin,  born  Jan.,  1783. 
Rebecca,  born  6  Oct.,  1789. 
Nancy,  born  14  Aug.,  1795. 
Young,  born  4  June,  1797. 

Richard,  born 1810. 

Burwell  Blanton,  born  23  Nov.,  1809.      (Rejected,  5,354.) 

William  Hughes  died  August,  1810.  His  widow,  Sarah  Hughes,  a 
resident  of  Charlotte  County,  Va.,  aged  79  years,  applied  for  a  pension 
in  1839.  She  deposed  that  she  knew  nothing  about  his  service,  having 
married  him  25  December,  1782,  after  he  had  left  the  army.  But  he 
had  told  her  he  enlisted  in  a  Virginia  Continental  regiment  early  in 


482  OTHER  FAMILIES  —  VIRGINIA 

1777,  for  three  years,  under  Capt.  Gentland  in  Lunenburg,  and  had 
served  his  term  of  enlistment,  and  also  that  he  served  three  months  in 
the  South  in  1780,  and  was  in  the  battle  near  Camden,  also  three  months 
in  1781  and  was  in  the  battle  of  Guilford  Court  House,  and  also  another 
three  months  in  1781,  and  was  at  the  siege  of  Yorktown,  where  he  acted 
as  sergeant. 

Robert  Mitchell  enlisted  in  latter  part  of  1776,  under  Capt.  Garland, 
for  three  years  in  Virginia  Continental  line.  He  was  in  the  14th  Vir- 
ginia regiment,  commanded  by  Col.  Charles  Lewis,  and  William  Hughes 
enlisted  at  the  same  time.  Mitchell  was  aged  85  in  1840,  and  his  name 
appears  on  the  roll  of  the  14th  regiment,  but  that  of  Hughes  does  not; 
but  the  name  of  David  Hughes  does  appear  on  the  rolls  of  company 
commanded  by  Capt.  Reid  in  said  regiment,  after  Sept.,  1778,  as  en- 
listed 14  Sept.,  1778. 

Ambrose  Haley  deposed  that  William  Hughes  was  late  of  Lunenburg, 
Virginia;  was  drafted  in  1780  and  was  in  the  battle  of  Camden,  and 
also  served  three  months  in  1781.     Hawley  was  81  years  old  in  1839. 

Billy  Hughes  and  Sarah  Murray  were  married  25  Dec,  1782. 

Children: 

Charity  Mason. 
Rebecca  Ward. 
Sarah  Thompson. 
Polly  Hughes. 

John  M.  Hughes.      (Certificate  of  Recorder  of  Court,  dated 
1850.) 
John  Hughes  deposed,  in  1840,  that  he  was  intimately  acquainted 
with  the  family,  and  that  William  had  a  relative,  Jane  Hughes,  his 
aunt,  now  deceased,  to  whom  he  paid  his  money  during  enlistment. 

Sally  Hughes,  in  1850,  was  allowed  a  pension  for  six  months'  service 
of  William  Hughes.      (Widow,  7,825.) 

William  Hughes  died  13  Nov.,  1834.  His  widow,  Mary,  was 
granted  a  pension.  She  died  19  Oct.,  1845,  leaving  children:  Judith 
Russell,  Sarah  Hughes,  John  S.  Hughes,  Thomas  Hughes,  Mary 
Hughes.  William  Hughes  in  1833  was  a  resident  of  Lincoln  County, 
Ky.     He  was  a  captain  in  the  Virginia  line. 

Papers  were  filed  proving  his  marriage  and  family. 

William  Hughes  born  5  July,  1783;  married  4  July,  1810.  His  wife 
was  born  18  Sept.,  1786.  Tharp  Hughes  was  born  25  Oct.,  181 — . 
William  Hughes  departed  this  life  Nov.  15,  1834,  in  the  eighty  (sic) 
year  of  liis  age. 

Marriage  bond,  signed  by  William  Hughes  and  William  Russle, 
dated  3  July,  1810,  that  William  Hughes  and  Polly  Russle  intend 
marriage. 


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Marriage  bond  dated  18  May,  1795,  Thomas  Young  and  Elizabeth 
Hughes;  filed  in  Lincoln  County,  Ky. 

Deposition  of  John  S.  Hughes  of  Lincoln  County,  son  of  William 
Hughes,  who  died  1834.  His  mother  died  a  few  years  since.  His 
father  had  the  following  children: 

BlRKETT. 

Betsey,  married  Thomas  Young. 

Mary  or  Polly,  married  Francis  Hughes. 

Sally,  who  was  living. 

William,  married  Mary  Russell. 

Juddy,  married  Joseph  Russle. 

Tharp. 

John  S.,  the  deponent. 

Lotty,  married  Tharp  Hall. 

Pratt. 

Sophia. 
Of  these  five  are  now  living.  The  deponent  was  born  7  June,  1791, 
and  brother  William  was  about  eight  years  old.  Sally,  older  than 
William,  is  now  seventy  years  old,  and  lives  with  deponent,  who  entered 
the  United  States  service  at  age  22  years  in  the  War  against  Great 
Britain,  and  was  in  the  battle  called  Dudley's  Defeat.  Dated  12  July, 
1850. 

Col.  James  Davison,  aged  72  years,  1850,  deposed  that  he  was  a  resi- 
dent of  Frankfort,  Ky.,  and  from  earliest  days  knew  William  Hughes 
and  his  family.  Burkett  was  a  very  stout  man,  and  about  the  age  of 
deponent's  brother,  Samuel  Davidson,  who  was  born  about  1769-70. 
The  other  children  were  Reuben,  Betsey,  Mary  or  Polly,  Sally,  William, 
Juddy,  Fanny,  Thorp,  John,  Thomas,  Lotty,  Pratt  and  Sophia.  They 
lived  about  a  mile  distant.  John  S.  Hughes  is  about  59  years  old,  and 
no  man  in  Lincoln  County  is  better  entitled  to  credit  in  historical  state- 
ments. The  whole  family  is  highly  respectable.  Deponent  was  in 
command  of  a  company  in  the  last  war  with  Great  Britain,  and  was 
wounded.      (Widow,  8,964.) 


THE  CAROLINAS,*  ALABAMA  AND  GEORGIA 

Nicholas  Hughes  had  a  grant  of  287  acres  in  Washington  County, 
Ga.,  Sept.,  1784.     The  following  month 

William  Hughes  had  a  grant  of  200  acres  in  Wilkes  County. 
(Council  Records.) 

William  Hughes,  a  smith,  who  had  settled  at  Abercorn,  Carolina, 
was  newly  gone  from  there  on  8  Feb.,  1738,  "which  showed  him  to 
be  an  arrant  rascal,  Mr.  Causton  having  lately  supplied  him  with  pro- 
visions."      (Stephen's  Journal.) 

"  These  persons  went  off  privately  at  night,  said  to  be  run  away, 
Hughes,  a  young  fellow,  tallow  chandler,  who  of  late  has  not  applied 
himself  to  any  business  of  any  kind.     28  Sept.,  1738."      (Ibid.) 

Revolutionary    Pension    Records 

John  Hughs  of  McMim  County,  East  Tennessee,  aged  about  80, 
applied  for  a  pension  5  Sept.,  1832.  He  enlisted  under  Capt.  Sevier 
and  was  in  the  battle  of  Wattagoa  river.  Served  six  months.  Resided 
in  Burke  County,  N.  C.  After  this  he  was  called  out  under  Sinclair, 
and  served  "some  time."  His  captain  was  Jacob  Tipton.  He  was  in 
"  Sinclair's  defeat."  Although  he  was  engaged  in  a  number  of  skir- 
mishes with  Tories,  he  is  too  old  to  recall  the  details.  He  moved  from 
Burke  Co.,  N.  C,  to  Blount  Co.,  Term.,  thence  to  McMim  Co.,  where 
he  now  resides.     His  pension  was  paid  to  4  Sept.,  1834.     (Inv.,  1,536.) 

William  Hughes  of  Shelby  County,  Ala.,  aged  about  80  years, 
applied  for  a  pension  20  Aug.,  1832.  He  entered  the  service  in  1776, 
then  living  in  Walke  County,  N.  C,  and  served  under  Capt.  Drury 
Kade,  of  which  company  William  Bugg  was  lieutenant,  in  the  regiment 
commanded  by  Col.  Benjamin  Few.  Capt.  Kade  resigned  at  the  end 
of  three  months  and  was  succeeded  by  Capt.  Ignatius  Few,  who  was 
taken  prisoner  in  the  battle  of  Nassau,  in  which  Hughes  participated, 
and  was  succeeded  by  Capt.  Williams.  They  were  principally  em- 
ployed in  scouting  on  the  rivers  Satilla  and  Allamahaw  in  Georgia, 
operating  against  the  British  and  Indians  and  Tories.  Major  James 
Moore  of  North  Carolina  was  in  command,  and  from  him  Hughes  re- 

*  Edward  Hughes,  printer,  publisher  of  the  S.  C.  Gazette,  died  30  July, 
1772.  Gbeexberry  IlidiKs,  also  a  printer,  married  Abigail*  daughter  of 
John  Muncreef,  M  April,  1785.  John  Huoiies  married  Bulah  Lawton,  29 
Jan.,  1801  (S.  C.  Gazette).    Apparently  all  were  of  Charleston, 

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CAROLINA,  ALABAMA,  GEORGIA  485 

ceived  his  discharge,  after  a  service  of  18  months,  at  Purysburg  on  the 
Savannah  River.  He  again  volunteered  for  five  months,  in  the  North 
Carolina  militia,  in  company  of  Capt.  Woodson,  of  which  company 
Daniel  and  James  Harad  were  lieutenants,  in  Collier's  regiment.  Gen. 
Rutherford  was  in  command.      Participated  in  the  battle  in  which  Gen. 

Sh was  defeated  at  Brier  Creek  in  Georgia,  below  Augusta. 

His  third  enlistment  was  for  two  months  in  a  company  of  N.  C. 
Volunteers  under  Capt.  Mathew  McCallers  of  Wake  County.  He 
fought  under  "  old  General  Butler  "  against  Col.  Fanin  and  Hector 
McNeil,  tories,  the  latter  being  killed  on  Cane  Creek  in  North  Car- 
olina. Hughes  knew  Col.  William  Washington.  Hughes  was  born  in 
Bladen  District  in  South  Carolina,  in  1752,  and  was  living  near  Raleigh 
in  Wake  County  when  he  enlisted.  He  removed  from  there  in  1783  to 
Richmond  County,  Ga.,  thence  to  Columbia  County,  thence  to  Warren 
County,  and  thence  to  Montgomery  County,  thence  to  Franklin  County, 
where  he  resided  nine  years.  In  1813  he  removed  to  Alabama,  his 
present  home.  There  were  no  regular  officers  with  the  troops  with 
which  he  served. 

Sarah  Hughes  of  Shelby  County,  aged  about  73,  widow  of  William 
Hughes,  applied  for  pension  4  Nov.,  1839.  She  was  married  about 
three  years  after  the  war,  by  Charles  Crawford,  in  Columbia  County, 
Ga.     Her  husband  died  24  April,  1833,  leaving  a  family. 

Martha  J.  Evans  of  Shelby  County  deposed  in  1854  that  she  knew 
Syltha  Harper,  formerly  Hughes,  was  66  years  old,  and  William 
Hughes  was  62,  Abner  A.  Hughes  of  Chambers  County,  Ala.,  58, 
Henrietta  Powell  of  Shelby  County,  54,  Jeptha  Hughes  of  Union 
Parish,  La.,  52,  Mary  E.  Chapman  of  the  same,  45,  and  all  were  chil- 
dren of  William  and  Sarah  Hughes.  Said  Sarah  Hughes  and  herself, 
about  1840,  went  to  Coosa  County,  Ala.,  to  live  in  the  family  of  her 
son-in-law,  Simon  Chapman,  wife  of  Mary  E.  Chapman  above  men- 
tioned, and  was  living  with  them  in  Union  Parish  in  1851-2.  She  died 
there  23  Aug.,  1853,  between  89  and  90  years  of  age. 

William  Hughes  was  appointed  administrator  on  the  estate  of  his 
mother,  Sarah  Hughes,  26  Oct.,  1855,  in  Shelby  County,  Alabama. 
Family  record  of  Syltha  Harper,  from  her  Bible: 

Benjamin  Harper,  born  29  Sept.,  1787. 

Syltha  Harper,  born  22  March,  1788. 

William  Harper,  their  first  born,  born  15  April,  1811. 

Sarah  E.  Harper,  born  2  Sept.,  1812. 

Lewrana   C.    Harper,  born   22    Sept.,   1814. 

Rebecca  I.  Harper,  born  9  April,  1815. 

Aleatha  C.  Harper,  born  12  June,  1817- 

Elizabeth  Ann  Harper,  born  2  Feb.,  1818. 

James  H.  Harper,  born  30  Nov.,  1821. 


486  OTHER  FAMILIES 

Mary  Ann  Harper,  born  14  Aug.,  1825. 
Martha  Harper,  born  4  Jan.,  1826. 
Henryette  Harper,  born  26  Nov.,  1828. 

Benjamin    Harper   and   Syltha   Hughes,   married    10    July, 
1810.      (Widow,  7,822.) 

Joseph  Hughes  died  20  April,  1844,  in  Newberry  District,  S.  C. 
His  son,  Thomas  S.  Hughes  of  Habersham  County,  Ga.,  aged  46  years, 
applied  in  1847  for  arrears  of  pension  due  his  father,  claiming  to  be  an 
only  son.  He  declared  that  his  father  served  under  Capt.  Jolly  and 
Capt.  Palmer,  alternately,  as  a  horseman,  from  Feb.,  1779,  to  Feb., 
1780;  that  he  served  as  lieutenant  of  horse  a  year  and  upwards  from 
May,  1780,  to  June,  1781,  in  Jolly's  company,  and  from  June,  1781,  to 
August,  1782,  as  captain  of  horse  in  Col.  Brandon's  regiment;  that  he 
married  in  1790  Sarah  Shaw,  who  died  in  1807. 

Copy  of  pay  account  of  Joseph  Hughes  in  the  South  Carolina  line, 
shows  that  Joseph  Hughes  served  190  days  as  horseman  from  3  Feb., 
1779,  to  13  Feb.,  1780,  in  company  commanded  by  Jolly  and  Palmer, 
and  415  days  as  lieutenant  in  Capt.  Jolly's  company  from  7  May,  1780, 
to  13  June,  1781,  and  374  days  as  captain  from  25  June,  1781,  to  18 
Aug.,  1782,  in  Col.  Brandon's  regiment. 

Information  was  filed  that  Thomas  S.  Hughes  had  a  brother,  Joseph, 
living  within  a  few  days'  ride  of  him  when  he  made  affidavit  that  he  was 
only  surviving  son,  and  that  he  concealed  from  said  brother  the  fact  he 
had  received  $6,000  back  pension  money,  but  paid  him  $100  as  his 
share.  Attorneys  for  Joseph  brought  the  matter  before  the  Bureau, 
and  instituted  civil  suit  against  Thomas  S.  Hughes,  and  the  case  was 
still  under  consideration  in  1855.  It  was  stated  by  Thomas  that  he 
supposed  his  brother  dead,  and  that  Joseph  was  not  competent  to  act 
for  himself,  etc. 

In  1849,  William  Loveless,  aged  70  years,  Garret  White,  aged  72 
years,  and  Simeon  White,  aged  74  years,  depose  they  knew  Joseph 
Hughes  of  Newberry  from  his  early  youth,  and  of  his  service  in  the 
Revolution  as  a  private  and  as  captain,  and  that  on  all  appropriate  oc- 
casions he  was  brought  forward  as  a  veteran  of  the  Revolution.  James 
Swinford  deposed  that  Hughes  guarded  the  women  and  children  at 
Brandon's  Bull  Pen,  where  they  had  sought  refuge  from  the  British. 

Joseph  Hughes  married  Sarah  Shaw  in  Newberry  District,  20  Sept., 
1790,  and  had  five  children,  of  whom  Thomas  S.  was  the  only  one 
known  to  be  living,  but  from  other  testimony  it  appears  that  Joseph 
was  living  in  Franklin  Count}',  Ga. 

Thomas  S.  Hughes  procured  a  pension  for  his  mother-in-law,  Mrs. 
Perdue.      (Invalid,  7,047.) 


CAROLINA,  ALABAMA,  GEORGIA  487 

Peter  Hughs  of  Sullivan  County,  Tenn.,  applied  for  pension  22 
August,  1832,  then  aged  70  years.  At  a  very  early  age  he  came  to  the 
Holston  country  from  the  frontier  of  North  Carolina  (now  Tennessee), 
on  Beaver  Creek,  and  after  remaining  there  some  time,  he  was  ordered 
out,  before  the  outbreak  of  the  Revolution,  on  a  tour  of  two  months 
against  the  Cherokee  Indians,  and  under  Capt.  Robert  Craig  marched 
into  what  is  now  Russell  County,  Va.,  where  he  served  his  term  as  a 
ranger.  In  the  fall  of  1777  he  volunteered  again,  and  20  August, 
1778,  he  marched  under  Capt.  Taylor  against  the  Shawnees  and  Dela- 
wares  in  Ohio.  At  Fort  Mcintosh  they  joined  Col.  Mcintosh  and 
under  his  command  proceeded  to  perform  fatigue  duty  at  the  fort.  At 
the  end  of  his  eight  months'  term  of  enlistment,  he  returned  with  Capt. 
Taylor  to  Holston  country  and  was  discharged.  In  September,  1780, 
he  again  volunteered  under  Capt.  Craig,  and  marched  with  Col.  Camp- 
bell's command  against  Ferguson,  who  was  understood  to  be  contem- 
plating crossing  the  mountains  and  taking  possession  of  the  lead  mines 
of  Virginia  in  Wythe  county.  The  company  joined  McDowell's  com- 
mand at  Gap  Creek  in  what  is  now  Chester  County,  Tenn.  The  com- 
mands of  Col.  Campbell,  Shelby,  McDowell,  Sevier,  and  Cleveland 
joined  before  arriving  at  King's  Mountain,  where  they  met  Ferguson, 
and  on  the  top  of  the  mountain  the  British  were  surrounded.  In  the 
engagement  which  ensued  Ferguson  was  killed  and  his  army  of  800 
taken  prisoners.  Hughes  was  one  of  the  guard  which  accompanied 
the  prisoners  to  near  Salisbury,  where  the  North  Carolina  militia 
received  them  and  Craig's  company  was  dismissed  after  a  three 
months'  tour  of  duty. 

Sometime  after  this  Hughes  volunteered  under  Col.  Sevier  against 
the  Indians,  joined  the  troops  at  Big  Creek  and  crossed  at  Dotsen's 
Ford  of  Holston  and  continued  on  to  (Telleec?)  Plains,  where  they 
burned  the  town,  corn  and  other  property.  This  tour  of  duty  was  two 
months. 

In  September  of  the  next  year  Hughes  volunteered  under  Col.  Lynch 
to  go  to  the  lead  mines  in  Wythe  County  at  New  River,  to  prevent  the 
British  gaining  possession,  and  was  on  guard  duty  there  for  two 
months. 

Jacob  Bealer  deposed  in  1832  that  he  knew  Peter  Hughes  served 
against  the  Shawnees  and  Delawares,  and  served  with  him  until  Bealer 
himself  was  detached  under  Capt.  Carmack  to  go  to  Ft.  Lawrence  on 
the  Muskingum  river,  in  December,  and  that  Hughes  served  under 
Capt.  Archibald  Taylor.     Benjamin  Bealer  deposed  to  the  same  effect. 

Lucy  Hughes,  widow  of  Peter,  applied  for  pension,  1850.  She  was 
a  resident  of  Washington  County,  Va.,  aged  88  years.  She  was  mar- 
ried 8  May,  1787-     Peter  Hughes  died  22  May,  1849. 


488  OTHER  FAMILIES 

Caleb  Morrill  deposed  5  Sept.,  1850,  that  he  has  known  David  Huges 
55  years,  and  that  he  is  the  eldest  son  of  Peter  and  Lucy  Huges,  and 
that  Lucy  was  formerly  Lucy  Blevins,  and  that  they  lived  a  mile  and 
a  half  from  where  Morrell  was  born,  and  had  children,  David,  George, 
Nancy  Starling  and  William,  all  born  prior  to  1800.  The  family  lived 
in  Sullivan  County,  Tenn.,  until  a  late  date  when  they  removed  to 
Washington  County,  Va.,  where  Peter  since  deceased. 

Samuel  Rhea  of  Blountville  wrote  in  1847  that  his  old  friend,  Peter 
Hughes,  has  had  some  difficulty  in  drawing  his  pension.  His  grandson 
has  built  a  house  for  his  grandfather  and  his  daughter,  and,  as  there  is 
nowhere  else  he  can  go  and  be  so  comfortable,  he  desires  his  pension 
paid  at  Jonesboro.      (Widow,  7,823.) 

John  Hughes  of  Henderson  County,  Ky.,  died  19  Sept.,  1830  or 
1834.  He  made  application  for  pension,  stating  that  in  1776  he  en- 
listed on  the  county  of  Warren,  N.  C,  for  three  years,  and  served  as 
orderly  sergeant  in  the  company  of  Capt.  Coles  in  the  9th  regiment  of 

the  quota  of  North  Carolina,  commanded  by  Col.  M ,  and  was 

discharged  from  company  commanded  by  Capt.  Somers  at  the  end  of 
the  war,  then  being  in  Col.  Thomas  Clarke's  regiment.  His  widow 
Esther,  aged  85,  applied  for  pension,  stating  that  her  husband  had 
died  at  Henderson,  Ky.,  19  Sept.,  1830,  and  that  they  were  married 
8  Sept.,  1781,  in  Carlisle,  Cumberland  County,  Pennsylvania,  by  Rev. 
Mr.  Hogg.  Treasury  books  show  that  payments  were  made  to  the  said 
John  Hughes  as  late  as  1834. 

In  1820  John  Hughes  gave  his  estate  as  consisting  of  only  a  lame 
mare  and  $20,  and  stated  that  all  his  children  had  left  him,  and  that 
his  wife  was  66  years  old  in  April,  1820.  In  this  declaration  he  alleges 
he  was  orderly  sergeant  in  Capt.  John  Somers'  company,  Col.  Thomas 
Clarke's  4th  N.  C.  line,  regiment,  and  that  he  was  in  the  battle  of 
Monmouth.      (Widow,  8,954.) 

James  Hughes  served  in  the  North  Carolina  line.  He  left  a  widow 
Sarah,  who  was  aged  74  in  1843.  In  1841  she  was  a  resident  of  Cas- 
well county,  N.  C.  Her  husband  died  in  1809.  His  service  was  eight 
and  one-half  months  in  the  infantry  under  Capt.  Thompson.  This 
company  was  stationed  from  October,  1778,  for  five  months  at  Purys- 
burg  on  the  Savannah  river  and  other  places.  He  served  three  months 
in  1781,  enlisting  in  September,  to  rescue  Gov.  Burke  and  the  troops 
taken  prisoners  with  him  (probably  at  Hillsboro  by  Col.  Fanning),  and 
engaged  in  the  pursuit  of  Fanning.  This  service  was  in  a  company 
commanded  by  Capt.  Hodges,  and  was  from  15  September  until  last 
of  December,  1781. 

James  and  Sarah  Hughes  were  married  in  the  fall  of  1789,  by  John 
Walker,  Esq. 


CAROLINA,  ALABAMA,  GEORGIA  489 

Children  (from  a  Bible  record) : 

Andrew,  born  13  June,  1790. 
John,  born  19  June,  1792. 
Elizabeth,  born  12  April,  1794. 
Martha,  born  30  Nov.,  1798. 
Samuel,  born  31  June,  1803. 
William,  born  4  Feb.,  1806. 
The  Bible  record  also  records  the  following:     Irenea  Ann  Mason, 
born  10  Dec,  1814.      Marinda  Mason,  born  5  Nov.,  1816.     Sarah  Jane 
Mason,  born  20  March,  1819.     Martha  Woodes  Mason,  born  4  Dec, 
1820.      Henry   Carter   Mason,   born    10   May,    1823.     James   Eperson 
Mason,  born  25  July,  1825.     William  Mason,  born  23  Dec,  1827. 

John  Dolly  of  Orange  County,  N.  C,  aged  about  87,  testified  con- 
cerning Thompson's  company  of  militia  in  1778,  and  the  marriage  of 
James  Hughes. 

John  Hughes  of  Caswell,  aged  75,  deposed  he  was  a  younger  brother 
of  James,  and  witnessed  his  marriage,  by  John  Walker,  Esq.,  in  Oct., 
1789,  to  Sarah  Patton. 

James  Turner  of  Orange  County,  aged  78,  deposed  regarding  the 
service  of  Capt.  Joseph  Young's  company. 

Sarah  Hughes  was  pensioned,  and  was  living  in  1848.  (Widow, 
3,818.) 

James  Hues,  a  resident  of  Maury  County,  in  September,  1832,  aged 
79  years,  applied  for  a  pension.  He  stated  that  he  was  born  in  Orange 
County,  N.  C,  in  1753,  and  was  living  there  at  the  time  of  his  enlist- 
ment, which  was  as  a  drafted  militia  man  for  the  term  of  three  months 
under  Capt.  George  Oldham,  Col.  Steven  Moore's  regiment.  He 
marched  under  command  of  Gen.  Caswel,  to  the  Cheraw  Hills.  He 
performed  a  second  tour  of  duty  as  a  volunteer  under  Capt.  Dinon, 
watching  the  Tories  in  Orange,  Chatham  and  Randolph  counties.  He 
was  afterward  drafted  for  a  third  tour,  under  Capt.  Reynolds,  and  was 
employed  as  a  picket  guard  watching  the  movements  of  the  British 
under  Lord  Cornwallis,  and  participated  in  a  skirmish  at  Rudy  Fork  of 
the  Haw  River.  The  commander  was  Col.  Moore.  The  Americans 
were  compelled  to  retreat  before  a  superior  force  of  British,  two  or 
three  weeks  before  the  Battle  of  Guilford.  His  fourth  tour  of  duty 
was  as  one  of  the  guards  under  command  of  Capt.  John  Oldham,  to 
the  General  Assembly  sitting  at  Hillsboro  in  1782.  About  five  or  six 
years  after  the  treaty  of  peace  he  moved  to  Georgia,  and  lived  there 
five  or  ten  years,  thence  moved  to  Maury  County,  Tenn.,  in  1816-17- 

Rachel  Hues,  widow  of  the  above,  died  leaving  three  children,  viz.: 
Elizabeth  Davis,  James  Hues,  and  David  Hues. 

James  Hues  of  the  county  of  Lawrence,  Tenn.,  aged  64,  deposed 


490  OTHER  FAMILIES 

3  Feb.,  1851,  that  he  was  the  child  of  James  and  Rachel  Hues;  that  his 
father  was  a  pensioner  for  Revolutionary  service,  and  died  28  Feb., 
1835;  that  his  mother,  whose  maiden  name  was  Rachel  Rutherun, 
never  remarried,  and  died  27  Oct.,  1842.  James  and  Rachel  were 
married  in  North  Carolina  in  1775,  and  prior  to  November,  1785,  had 
four  children,  viz.: 

Isabella, 

Catherine, 

David, 

Elizabeth, 

James,  born  2  Jan.,  1786. 
James  and  Rachel  moved  from  North  Carolina  to  Pickens  District, 
S.  C,  about  1791,  thence  to  Franklin  County,  Ga.,  about  1810,  and 
thence  to  Lincoln  County,  Tenn.,  about  1818,  thence  to  Lawrence 
County,  Tenn.,  in  1820,  and  in  1822  took  up  their  residence  in  Maury 
County. 

A  record  appended  gives  date  of  birth  of  James  Hughes  as  1751; 
Rachel,  born  22  Nov.,  1755;  their  children: 

Isabella,  born  25  Aug.,  1776. 

Catherine,  born  20   Nov.,   1779. 

Elizabeth,  born  21  April,  1783. 

James,  born  2  Jan.,  1786. 

David,  born  24  Oct.,  1791.      (Rejected,  5,342.) 

John  Hughes  died  in  Wayne  County,  Ky.,  2  May,  1837,  leaving  a 
widow,  Nancy  E.,  to  whom  he  was  married  at  James  Town,  Tenn.,  9 
Jan.,  1808,  and  whose  maiden  name  was  Wilson.  On  13  Jan.,  1873, 
she  applied  for  a  pension,  alleging  that  John  Hughes  served  under 
Greene  in  the  North  Carolina  militia  in  1782,  and  was  in  the  battle  of 
Guilford,  serving  in  the  company  of  Jesse  Neil ;  and  that  his  discharge 
was  lost  by  fire.  She  was  a  resident  of  Pulaski,  Ky.,  in  1873  and  was 
aged  92  years. 

Her  application  was  refused,  because  when  a  soldier  failed  to 
establish  during  his  lifetime  his  right  to  a  pension,  it  could  not  after- 
ward be  granted.  Moreover  the  Department  failed  to  find  a  record  of 
his  service  in  the  Virginia  troops.      (Rejected,  15,282.) 

Joseph  Hughes,  aged  71  in  October,  1833,  applied  that  year  for  a 
pension,  which  was  granted.  He  was  then  living  in  Alabama.  He 
served  one  year,  two  months  and  twenty  days  as  a  private;  one 
year,  seven  months  and  fourteen  day's  as  lieutenant;  and  six  months  as 
captain.  I  lis  declaration  is  most  interesting.  He  was  born  in 
1760,  or  1761,  in  Chester  District,  South  Carolina.  Previous  to  his 
birtli  his   parents   h;id   settled  there   as   refugees   after   an   Indian   in- 


CAROLINA,  ALABAMA,  GEORGIA  491 

vasion.  After  Marion's  treaty  of  peace  with  the  Indians  they  returned 
to  their  farm  on  Broad  river  in  Union  District,  S.  C,  later  Ninety-Six 
District.  He  enlisted  in  the  South  Carolina  militia  when  between  14 
and  15  years  of  age,  and  served  under  Capt.  Jolly  in  the  campaign 
against  the  Seneca  towns,  in  Col.  John  Thomas'  regiment.  He  served 
throughout  the  campaign  and  during  the  raids  on  the  Cherokee  towns. 
The  term  of  service  was  fourteen  weeks,  during  which  the  command 
suffered  severely  from  hunger  and  thirst.  He  next  joined  Gen.  Wil- 
liamson's expedition  against  the  Florida  Indians,  being,  he  thought,  in 
Palmer's  company.  They  had  one  skirmish  with  Tories  on  the  San- 
tillo,  the  enemy  being  commanded  by  Burntfoot  Brown.  After  their 
return  he  was  stationed  at  Augusta,  Ga.,  under  command  of  Gen.  Wil- 
liamson. In  May,  1780,  he  was  called  out  to  defend  Charleston. 
He  was  in  Brandon's  regiment.  When  the  command  reached  Conga- 
Tee  river  news  came  that  Charleston  was  taken.  About  this  time  he 
was  commissioned  as  1st  lieutenant  in  a  company  commanded  by  Capt. 
Benjamin  Jolly,  in  Brandon's  regiment.  After  this  he  was  in  various 
expeditions  and  participated  in  skirmishes  with  the  Tories.  He  was 
with  the  command  defeated  by  Bill  Cunningham  and  Col.  Nealy,  who 
commanded  a  force  of  Tories,  and  fled  with  all  the  other  Georgia  and 
North  Carolina  troops,  who  refused  protection  under  the  British,  to 
North  Carolina,  and  rendezvoused  on  the  Catawba  river,  and  there 
elected  Thomas  Sumpter  their  general,  and  participated  in  the  defense 
made  by  him.  After  this  he  served  under  Col.  Washington,  and  under 
Gen.  Morgan  at  the  Cowpens,  and  on  that  occasion  was  in  command  of 
the  company  and  was  wounded  in  the  hand  by  one  of  Tarleton's  troop- 
ers. Soon  after  he  was  commissioned  captain,  and  served  until  the  close 
of  the  war.  He  participated,  as  captain,  in  the  battle  of  Eutaw 
Springs.  During  the  war  his  residence  was  with  his  father,  and  he 
remained  there  until  1825.  As  eldest  son,  he  inherited  the  farm  when 
his  father  was  murdered  by  Tories  at  the  very  end  of  the  war.  In 
1825  he  removed  to  Green  County,  Ala.,  and  settled  on  the  line  between 
Green  and  Pickens,  but  in  the  fall  of  1829  moved  across  into  Pickens 
county,  where  he  resided  at  time  of  application  for  pension.  Besides 
the  engagements  above  mentioned  he  was  in  the  battle  of  King's 
Mountain,  and  many  other  engagements.  (Invalid,  31,764:  Ctf. 
13,339).  In  1788-9  he  was  sheriff  of  Union  District  and  his  papers 
were  lost  at  that  time,  his  house  being  destroyed  by  fire. 


PENSIONERS 
WAR  OF  1812. 


WAR  OF  1812 

Notes  from  Pension  Records 

Elihu  Hewes  died  at  Hermon,  Me.,  7  July,  1879.  He  enlisted  at 
Bangor  11  August,  1812,  and  was  discharged  at  Eastport  30  Dec,  1812, 
serving  in  company  commanded  by  Capt.  Joshua  Chamberlain  in  Col. 
Shead's  regiment  of  Massachusetts  militia.  He  received  two  land 
bounty  warrants  for  eighty  acres  each.  His  first  claim  for  a  pension 
was  rejected  in  1871,  but  afterward  allowed.  His  wife,  Betsy,  died  15 
Dec,  1870,  at  Hermon.     She  was  his  second  wife. 

Sylvester  C.  Hewes,  aged  71  years,  and  Rosannah  Kimball,  aged  51 
years,  both  of  Hermon,  depose  in  1879  that  they  were  present  at  the 
marriage  of  Elihu  Hewes  and  Betsy  Crocker,  both  of  Hermon,  in 
March,  1838.  The  marriage  is  not  recorded,  but  intention  of  marriage 
is  dated  26  March,  1838.  Elihu  Hewes  was  town  clerk  of  Hermon. 
He  was  five  feet  nine  inches  in  height,  brown  hair,  blue  or  grayish 
eyes,  light  complexion,  and  a  farmer.      (27,263.) 

John  Hughes  of  Washington  County,  Maine,  was  pensioned  in  1872. 
He  was  probably  of  Charlotte.  His  pension  was  discontinued  in  1882 
as  unclaimed.  In  application  made  24  April,  1871,  he  stated  he  was 
then  a  resident  of  Charlotte,  aged  87  years,  and  that  he  married  on 
the  17  July,  1808,  at  Dennysville,  Abigail  Smith.  He  enlisted  at 
Eastport,  June,  1812,  and  re-enlisted  at  Waldoboro,  May,  1813,  in  the 
21st  regiment,  and  was  discharged  at  Sackett's  Harbor,  May,  1814. 
He  was  at  the  battle  of  Plattsburg,  and  at  the  taking  of  Fort  Erie  and 
another  fort  in  Canada.  He  was  in  company  commanded  by  Capt.  I. 
Drew.      (17,730.) 

Dennison  Hughes  enlisted  in  Onondaga  County,  N.  Y.,  10  Oct., 
1814,  and  was  discharged  at  Sackett's  Harbor  15  Nov.,  1814.  He 
served  in  the  company  of  Capt.  Michael  Mead,  also  in  company  com- 
manded by  Capt.  Henry  Hughes.  He  died  11  June,  1874,  in  Paulding 
County,  Ohio.  He  was  born  in  Onondaga  County,  N.  Y.,  and  was 
fourteen  years  of  age  at  time  of  enlistment.  Height,  5  feet  10  inches, 
black  hair  and  eyes,  florid  complexion.  Lived  in  Vernon,  Ind.,  and 
Antwerp,  Ohio.  His  widow,  Hannah  Barnes,  was  aged  74  years  in 
1878.     They  were  married  at  Vernon,  Ind.,  16  Sept.,  1820,  and  had  the 

following  children: 

493 


494  PENSIONERS 

Mary  Ann,  born  22  March,  1822. 
Eliza  Jane,  born  21  Feb.,  1824. 
Andrew  Jackson,  born  8  Nov.,  1827. 
(Lorzilla)  Priscilla,  born  1  May,  1830. 
Robert  Barnes,  born  2  Dec,  1831. 
William  Sprague,  born  8  May,  1834. 
Dennison  Samuel,  born  12  Oct.,  1836. 
Jasper  Newton,  born  28  March,  1837. 

Edward  Hughes  enlisted  in  company  commanded  by  Capt.  Loel 
Gillet,  New  York  militia,  14  Sept.,  1814,  and  was  discharged  3  De- 
cember following.  He  was  stationed  at  Fort  Greenwich.  He  died  at 
Sidney  10  Nov.,  1863.  His  widow  Lois  was  aged  85  years  in  May, 
1871.  Marion  L.  Borst,  aged  32  years,  a  granddaughter,  supplied  the 
following  family  record:  Edward  Hughes,  born  20  Dec,  1790.  Lois 
Balcom,  born  22  May,  1786.  They  were  married  1  June,  1810. 
Nancy  A.  Thrall  was  a  daughter.      (2,303.) 

John  Hughes  of  Schuyler,  N.  Y.,  in  1871,  was  then  aged  76  years. 
His  wife,  whom  he  had  married  fifty-six  years  previously,  was  then 
blind.  He  had  received  two  land  warrants,  aggregating  160  acres. 
Enlisted  in  New  York  militia,  in  company  commanded  by  Capt.  L. 
Hutchins,  1  Sept.,  1813.  He  was  discharged  8  Nov.,  1813.  He  also 
served  from  5  Oct.  to  11  Nov.,  1814.      (6,969.) 

John  M.  Hughes  died  at  Cleveland,  27  May,  1871.  He  enlisted  at 
Mendon,  N.  Y.,  28  Dec,  1813  and  was  discharged  1  April  following. 
He  served  in  company  commanded  by  Capt.  Levi  Duncan. 

He  made  application  for  pension  in  February,  1871,  then 
aged  71  years.  He  was  twice  married.  His  first  wife,  Dorothy,  died 
at  Albany,  N.  Y.,  24  March,  1844,  and  was  buried  in  Victor.  He 
married  at  West  Charlton,  N.  Y.,  4  May,  1847,  Eliza  Bowlsly,  who 
was  living  in  1887,  aged  74  or  75  years,  at  163  Euclid  Ave.,  Cleveland, 
Ohio.  John  M.  Hughes  had  lived  in  Albany  and  in  Pittsburg,  Pa., 
and  after  his  second  marriage  at  Cleveland.      (21,179.) 

Daniel  Hughes  in  1871  resided  in  Hillsboro,  111.,  and  was  then 
aged  77  years.  He  enlisted  December,  1812,  and  was  employed  as 
teamster  to  haul  provisions  from  Delaware,  Ohio,  to  the  lakes.  He 
was  a  private  in  the  company  commanded  by  Capt.  Chotard,  3d  U.  S. 
Inf.  He  died  2  Sept.,  1882,  leaving  a  widow  Martha,  whom  he  mar- 
ried at  Buckskin  township,  Ross  County,  Ohio,  24  Dec,  1830.  She  was 
Martha  Kerr.  Her  daughter  Esther  married  Robert  Hagood.  Lived 
in  Montgomery  County,  Ohio.     (3,640,  32,781.) 


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John  Hughes  served  from  11  Jan.,  to  22  Feb.,  1814,  in  company- 
commanded  by  Capt.  David  Clark  in  Pennsylvania  militia.  At  time  of 
enlistment  he  weighed  175  pounds,  was  five  feet  eleven  inches  in  height, 
light  hair,  blue  eyes,  and  was  light  complexioned.  He  died  at  Shelby, 
Ohio,  26  July,  1862.  He  was  twice  married;  his  first  wife,  Elizabeth, 
died  about  15  Oct.,  1852.  His  second  wife  was  Hetty  Hunter,  widow 
of  William  McCreary,  who  died  in  Iowa  City,  Iowa,  August,  1843. 
She  died  16  May,  1889,  probably  at  or  near  Shiloh,  Ohio.  Thomas  S. 
Kester  of  Tiffin,  Ohio,  in  1889,  appears  as  administrator  of  his 
"  mother,  widow  of  John  Hughes." 

Joseph  P.  Hunter,  aged  59  years,  of  Richland  County,  Ohio,  and 
Benjamin  Hunter,  aged  63,  brothers  of  Hetty  Hughes,  depose,  in  1879, 
that  she  married  John  Hughes  24  Dec,  1858,  near  Mansfield,  Ohio. 
James  Hughes,  a  son  of  John,  was  aged  56  years  in  1879. 
(26,008.) 

Robert  Hughes  of  Jasper  County,  Texas,  in  1870,  made  application 
for  a  pension,  which  was  rejected.  He  enlisted  in  1814  from  Scioto 
County,  Ohio,  in  company  of  Capt.  John  Van  Meter,  and  marched  to 
Ft.  Meigs,  where  he  remained  until  his  discharge,  21  Feb.,  1815.  He 
had  had  two  land  warrants  of  80  acres  each.  At  time  of  his  enlistment, 
he  was  living  on  the  Scioto  river.      (15,276.) 

Samuel  Hughes  died  in  Adams  County,  Ohio,  15  Feb.,  1868,  leaving 
a  widow  Martha,  who  as  Martha  Smith  he  had  married  at  Decatur, 
Ohio,  18  May,  1815,  and  who  died  1  Dec,  1882.  He  served  in  com- 
pany commanded  by  Capt.  Caleb  Hockins  in  Ohio  militia.  He  enlisted 
at  Killingstown,  Ohio,  for  three  months  and  served  in  company  of 
Capt.  Marckland;  also  in  July,  1814,  in  regiment  commanded 
by  Col.  Daniel  Collier.  He  had  dark  hair  and  eyes,  and  was  dark 
complexioned,  was  five  feet  six  inches  in  height.  Since  his  discharge 
he  lived  in  Browne  County  and  in  Rattlesnake  County,  now  Clinton 
County,  Ohio.  He  served  in  Hoskins'  company  from  31  Jan.  to  10 
April,  1815.  His  widow  was  of  Wheat  Ridge,  Ohio,  and  aged  78  in 
1878,  when  she  applied  for  a  pension.      (17,613.) 

William  Hughes  of  Delphi,  Ind.,  aged  85  years,  applied  for  a  pen- 
sion in  1871.  He  enlisted  in  Ohio,  in  February,  1814,  and  was  dis- 
charged at  Sandusky  in  the  following  August.  He  served  on  the 
upper  Sandusky.  He  married  at  Newcastle,  Ind.,  6  June,  1817,  Jane 
Jameson.      (7,308.) 

William  Hughes  died  28  August,  1874.  He  served  in  the  Mary- 
land militia,  19  Aug.,  to  30  Nov.,  1814,  about  Baltimore,  in  the  com- 


496  PENSIONERS 

pany  of  Capt.  Joseph  H.  Nicholson.  He  had  black  hair  and  eyes,  and 
ruddy  complexion,  and  was  about  five  feet  six  inches  in  height.  He 
was  married  at  Pittsburg,  Pa.,  10  June,  1819,  and  about  1822  removed 
from  Pittsburg  to  Neville,  Ohio,  and  afterward  to  Cincinnati.  Emily 
N.  Hughes  lived  in  Cincinnati  in  1878,  aged  76  years.      (13,631.) 

Taylor  Hughes  served  as  a  private  and  sergeant  in  company  com- 
manded by  Capts.  W.  H.  Hitchcock  and  H.  S.  Ruffe  in  the  Maryland 
militia.  His  widow  Mary,  living  in  Illinois,  applied  for  a  pension  in 
1879.      (21,815.) 

Zachariah  Hughes  enlisted  in  the  1st  regiment,  U.  S.  artillery,  15 
Dec,  1812,  to  serve  for  five  years,  and  died  in  the  service  26  Dec,  1813. 

His  widow,  Elizabeth  Hughes,  guardian  of  the  heirs  of  Zachariah 
Hughes,  was  of  Georgetown.  The  children  were:  Camden  Riley, 
born  2  March,  1806,  and  Isaac  Riley,  born  17  Sept.,  1810.      (27,135.) 

John  Hughes  was  a  private  in  company  in  North  Carolina  militia 
commanded  by  Capt.  Blue.  His  widow  Effie,  then  living  in  North 
Carolina,  received  a  pension  in  1879.      (27,526.) 

James  Hughes  of  Pickins  County,  S.  C,  applied  for  a  pension  in 
1871  for  service  in  South  Carolina  militia.  His  application  was  re- 
jected.     (6,063.) 

John  Hughes  served  in  a  company  commanded  by  Capt.  Stamp  in 
the  Georgia  militia.  He  left  a  widow  Sarah,  who  was  pensioned  in 
1872.      (2,506.) 

John  Hughes  of  Macon,  Ga.,  served  as  fifer  in  company  commanded 
by  Capt.  Colson  in  Gen.  Twigg's  regiment,  Georgia  militia.  He  died 
21  Dec,  1851,  leaving  a  widow,  Millie,  whose  application  for  a  pension 
was  rejected  16  April,  1879.      (21,559.) 

Joseph  Hughes,  aged  72  years,  of  Oglethorpe  County,  Ga.,  enlisted 
in  the  navy  as  "  boy  "  22  July,  1811.  Served  first  under  Capt.  Mur- 
rel.  He  was  transferred  to  gunboat  Surprise,  Capt.  McRiver.  He 
was  stationed  in  the  Gulf  of  Mexico,  and  was  discharged  at  New 
Orleans  21  October,  1816.  He  married  Lavina  Powell,  in  Oglethorpe 
county,  27  May,  1845.      (21,003.) 

Thomas  Hughes  made  application  for  a  pension  in  1873,  stating  he 
was  85  years  of  age  and  resided  in  St.  Helena  parish,  La.  He  was 
married  there,  September,  1831,  to  Mercy  Curtis,  "now  living."  He 
enlisted  in  a  company  commanded  by  Isaac  Johnson  in  Young's  regi- 


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ment,  25  Dec,  1814,  and  was  dismissed  at  New  Orleans  11  March, 
1815.  He  was  at  the  breastworks  at  the  battle  of  New  Orleans,  8 
January,  and  after  the  battle  was  sent  across  the  river  to  re-enforce 
General  Morgan.  His  widow  applied  for  a  pension  20  Feb.,  1884, 
stating  that  she  was  then  aged  72  years  and  a  resident  of  Tangipahoa 
Parish,  La.,  and  that  her  husband  died  there  17  Nov.,  1883.  Thomas 
Hughes  was  five  feet  ten  inches  in  height,  with  dark  hair  and  eyes  and 
complexion.  He  weighed  135  pounds  and  was  born  in  Mississippi. 
He  was  a  farmer.      (21,003.) 

Edward  Hughes  received  a  pension  (24,113).  He  was  a  corporal 
in  company  commanded  by  Captain  G.  Henry  in  the  Pennsylvania 
militia  from  the  1  Sept.  to  4  Dec,  1814,  serving  about  Baltimore.  He 
was  aged  78  years  in  Sept.,  1871.  He  died  11  June,  1873,  leaving  a 
widow  Mary  (Hise),  whom  he  married  8  Dec,  1816,  in  York  County, 
Pa.,  and  who  in  1875  was  of  Newark,  111.  She  died  9  July,  1877- 
(11,372.) 

Elias  R.  Hughes  was  of  Rush,  Pa.,  in  1872.  He  enlisted  at  Sche- 
nectady, N.  Y.,  25  May,  1812,  for  five  years,  in  6th  U.  S.  Infantry. 
He  was  assigned  to  the  company  commanded  by  Capt.  H.  Shell.  He 
was  discharged  from  the  2d  infantry  25  May,  1817.  He  was  captured 
at  Charleston  3  October,  1812,  and  paroled  there  25  March,  1813. 
He  was  in  the  battle  of  Queenstown  13  Oct.,  1812,  where  he  was  taken 
prisoner  and  carried  to  Quebec.  He  was  paroled  to  Boston  and  ex- 
changed in  time  to  join  in  the  battle  of  Plattsburg  11  Sept.,  1814, 
being  in  Cols.  Leavenworth  and  Pickney's  regiment.  After  the  peace 
the  6th,  16th,  22d,  23d,  and  32d  regiments  were  consolidated. 
(20,210).  From  a  letter,  dated  1895,  from  M.  McNaught,  a  grand- 
daughter, of  Binghamton,  N.  Y.,  it  appears  that  his  first  wife  was 
Ellen  DeLancy  and  that  she  had  married  to  Mr.  Dodge.  By  her 
Hughes  had  two  children,  viz. :  Thomas  R.  Hughes,  a  pensioner  of  the 
Civil  War,  and  Jane,  the  mother  of  the  writer. 

George  Hughes  served  in  Capt.  Hoffman's  company,  Pennsylvania 
militia.     He  left  a  widow,  Margaret,  living  in  1879.      (16,758.) 

James  Hughes  of  Utica,  Ohio,  applied  for  pension  in  1871  for 
service  in  Pennsylvania  militia.     Rejected.      (6,204.) 

James  Hughes  served  in  company  commanded  by  Capt.  Maguire  in 
Pennsylvania  militia.     His  widow  Jane  was  living  in  1884.      (33,770.) 

Jeremiah  Hughes  served  in  company  commanded  by  Capt.  Old  in 


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Pennsylvania  militia.      His  widow  Margaret  was  living  in  Pennsylvania 
in  1879.      (19,604.) 

John  Hughes  of  Pennsylvania  served  on  the  U.  S.  ship  Essex.  He 
was  living  in  Pennsylvania  in  1872.      (13,435.) 

John  Hughes  served  in  company  commanded  by  Capt.  M.  Miller  in 
Pennsylvania  militia.  He  was  living  in  Pennsylvania  in  1872. 
(16,225.) 

John  Hughes  of  Carlisle,  Pa.,  in  1826,  and  of  Harrisburg  in  1827, 
obtained  a  pension.  He  claimed  to  have  been  wounded  in  the  service  in 
the  left  arm,  in  battle  near  Chippewa  in  1814.  He  was  a  private  in 
company  of  Pennsylvania  militia  commanded  by  Capt.  Samuel  White. 
He  enlisted  26  February  and  was  discharged  24  August,  1814.  It  was 
proved  the  wound  was  obtained  while  mowing,  after  discharge  from  the 
service,  and  his  pension  cancelled.     He  was  living  in  1832.      (3,078.) 

Samuel  Hughes  enlisted  19  Sept.,  and  was  discharged  12  Dec, 
1814.  He  served  in  a  company  of  Pennsylvania  militia  commanded  by 
Capt.  McGill.  He  was  married  to  Mary  Johnson  2  May,  1810,  in 
Westmoreland  County,  Pa.,  who  was  aged  77  years,  in  1871,  and  was 
then  living  at  Phillipstown.  He  died  in  White  County,  111.,  31  Oct., 
1844.      (1,432.) 

Thomas  Hughes  served  in  the  Pennsylvania  militia.  He  left  a 
widow,  Catherine,  who  was  living  in  Pennsylvania  in  1878.      (8,738.) 

Stephen  Hughes  died  11  June,  1843.  He  served  in  the  Pennsyl- 
vania militia  in  a  company  commanded  by  Capt.  William  Kepler.  His 
widow  Catherine  M.  Hughes  of  Brownsville,  Union  County,  Pa.,  ap- 
plied for  a  pension  in  1873,  but  her  claim  was  rejected.      (4,757-) 

David  Hughes  was  married  near  Washington,  Fayette  County,  Ohio, 
24  May,  1818,  to  Emily  Whitsett.  He  was  born  near  Louisville,  Ky., 
and  died  at  Springfield,  Ohio,  19  July,  1870.  He  lived  from  1815  to 
1829  at  Wilmington,  and  since  then  at  Springfield.  He  had  brown 
hair,  hazel  eyes,  and  was  very  energetic  and  quick  motioned.  He  was 
a  farmer.  His  widow  Emily  applied  for  a  pension  in  1879.  then  being 
aged  77.  a  resident  of  Springfield.  He  was  a  captain  of  a  company  in 
Col.  Hinkson's  regiment,  and  served  as  adjutant.  This  was  the  3d 
regiment,  2d  brigade,  Ohio  militia.  He  was  commander  of  a  company 
organized  in  Clinton  County  in  1810,  and  was  elected  adjutant  at  the 
beginning  of  the  war.      He  went  with  his  regiment  to  St.  Mary's,  then 


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Indian  Territory,  and  was  in  actual  service  four  months.  He  was  hon- 
orably discharged.  The  application  for  a  pension  was  denied  because 
the  name  of  Mr.  Hughes  did  not  appear  on  any  roll,  except  in  1813 
as  captain  of  an  independent  company.  David  was  son  of  Jesse 
Hughes,  one  of  the  first  associate  judges  of  Clinton  County,  and  was 
well-known  in  Ohio  (letter  of  Bennett  F.  Witt  of  Indianapolis,  1879). 
His  widow  was  aged  78  years  in  1879.  She  was  daughter  of  Joseph 
Whitsett  and  was  born  near  Cynthiania,  Ky.,  30  April,  1801.  She  was 
the  mother  of  Mrs.  Caldwell  of  Greenfield.  From  a  letter  written  by 
her,  it  appears  that  she  came  from  Kentucky  in  1814,  and  that  her 
husband  David  was  born  in  1791,  near  Louisville.  When  quite  a 
small  boy  David  accompanied  his  father  to  Wilmington,  Ohio,  where 
his  father  bought  200  acres,  cleared  a  farm  and  built  a  large  barn,  in 
which  was  held  the  first  court  in  Clinton  County.  (See  H.  Howes: 
Ohio  Historical  Collections.)  The  county  was  organized  in  1810. 
When  David  Hughes  was  elected  captain  he  mustered  the  men  in  his 
father's  field.  Warren  Sabin  kept  a  tavern  in  Wilmington  about  that 
time.  Jesse  Hughes  served  as  associate  judge  with  Thomas  Hinkson 
and  Aaron  Burr.  After  Hull's  surrender,  in  1812,  some  troops  as- 
sembled at  Urbana  and  other  points  to  repel  the  savages.  Capt. 
Thomas  Hinkson  offered  his  services  to  Gen.  Meigs,  who  was  then  at 
Urbana,  and  was  given  command  of  one  of  the  two  companies  of 
rangers  to  be  raised  by  requisition  of  the  president,  with  liberty  to 
select  his  own  officers.  Hinkson  reported  for  duty  with  his  company 
in  1813,  and  was  afterward  appointed  colonel  of  the  3d  regiment,  2d 
brigade. 

David  Hughes  left  a  widow,  Elizabeth,  who  in  or  about  1870  was 
of  Flat  Rock,  Ky.,  when  she  applied  for  a  pension,  asserting  that  her 
husband  had  served  in  the  Kentucky  militia.  A.  J.  Hughes  appears  in 
the  case.      Claim  rejected.      (15,285.) 

William  Hughes,  a  private  in  company  commanded  by  Capt.  Berry, 
Kentucky  militia,  left  a  widow,  Elizabeth,  who  was  a  pensioner  in  1879. 
(20,234.) 

William  Hughes,  aged  69  years  in  1861,  of  Ripley  County,  Indiana, 
applied  for  a  pension,  claiming  he  enlisted  at  Lancaster,  Ky.,  1  Aug., 
1812,  in  Capt.  John  Faulkner's  company,  Col.  Davenport's  regi- 
ment of  Kentucky  militia.  He  was  in  the  battle  of  the  Thames 
and  Moraviantown,  after  which  they  marched  to  Detroit,  and  to 
the  Carcow  river,  where  their  horses  had  been  left  thirty  days 
before.  Hundreds  of  the  horses  had  died.  In  October  he  was 
taken  sick  with  the  cold  plague.     An  ulcer  formed  on  his  leg  which  as 


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fast    as    cured    canie    in    another    place.     His    claim    was    rejected. 
(15,272.) 

Abner  Hughs  was  pensioned  in  1871.  He  died  25  Feb.,  1876.  He 
served  in  company  commanded  by  Capt.  J.  H.  Sowers  in  the  Virginia 
mnitia.      (2,807.) 

Anderson  Hughes  died  in  Gallia  County,  Ohio,  20  Feb.,  187-1.  He 
enlisted  in  company  commanded  by  Capt.  John  Walkup  in  1812  and 
was  discharged  13  April,  1815,  as  per  discharge  on  file.  He  married 
Permelia  Mathews,  who  died  about  May,  1854,  after  which  he  married 
in  Gallia  county,  May,  1856,  Delilah,  widow  of  George  Cress  who  had 
died  in  August,  1840.  Delilah  was  aged  73  years  in  1881,  and  was  of 
Pike  County,  Ohio.  Her  application  for  pension  was  rejected. 
(41,105.) 

Bolan  Hughes  served  in  company  commanded  by  Capt.  Gilson  Viers 
in  the  Virginia  militia.  He  is  otherwise  described  as  serving  in  com- 
pany commanded  by  Capt.  Atkinson,  in  which  company  Viers  was  a 
lieutenant.  It  appears  that  Viers  was  lieutenant  in  Capt.  James  At- 
kinson's company,  but  the  name  of  Bolan  Hughes  is  not  found  on  the 
rolls  of  said  company.  Hughes  was  aged  18  at  enlistment,  and  81  at 
his  death,  6  July,  1877,  at  Princeton,  Ind.  He  was  a  brother-in-law 
of  Gilson  Vier.  He  removed  from  Virginia  to  Kentucky,  thence  to 
Indiana.  He  married  near  Danville,  Ky.,  24  Sept.,  1818,  Rhoda  Dur- 
ham, who,  in  1886,  was  of  Princeton,  Ind.,  aged  86  years.  Hughes 
was  five  feet  six  inches  in  height,  fair  complexion,  black  hair  and  blue 
eyes.     Application  rejected.      (44,220.) 

Charles  Hughes  was  a  private  in  company  commanded  by  Capt.  I. 
Medley,  of  which  Poole  was  lieutenant,  in  Virginia  militia.  His  widow 
Judith  of  Virginia  applied  for  a  pension  in  1878.      (10,505.) 

Edward  Hughes,  a  private  in  Virginia  militia,  left  a  widow  Joice. 
She  was  of  Virginia  in  1878,  when  she  applied  for  a  pension. 
(10,959.) 

Edward  P.  Hughes  served  as  private  in  company  commanded  by 
Capt.  Sanford  in  Virginia  militia.  He  left  a  widow  Martha  C,  who 
applied  for  a  pension  in  1883.      (32,906.) 

Isaac  Hughes  served  as  private  in  company  commanded  by  Capt. 
Thomas  Creamer,  in  the  Virginia  militia.  His  widow  Nancy,  of  Ohio, 
was  pensioned.      She  was  living  in  1880.      (29,053.) 


WAR  OF  1812  501 

Jeremiah  Hughes  served  as  a  private  in  company  commanded  by 
Capts.  Richardson  and  Bailey,  in  Virginia  militia.  He  left  a  widow, 
Nancy,  who  was  of  Virginia  in  1878.      (13,747.) 

John  Hughes  served  as  corporal  in  company  commanded  by  Capt. 
A.  Wilson  in  Virginia  militia.  His  widow,  Mary  M.,  was  living  in 
Virginia  in  1879.      (17,330.) 

John  Hughes  was  an  ensign  in  the  Virginia  militia.  He  was  living 
in  1871. 

John  Hughes  of  Taylor's  Store,  Va.,  in  1871  applied  for  a  pension 
on  account  of  service  in  the  Virginia  militia.  His  claim  was  rejected. 
(12,578.) 

Joseph  Hughes  died  August,  1834,  at  Cottageville,  West  Va.  He 
served  in  Capt.  Parsons'  company  of  Virginia  militia.  His  widow 
Susannah  failed  to  obtain  the  pension  applied  for  in  1874.      (6,070.) 

Joseph  F.  Hughes  served  in  Capt.  McBride's  company  of  Virginia 
militia.  His  widow,  Mary  Hughes,  of  Iowa  was  pensioned  in  1879. 
(26,459.) 

Lewis  Hughes  served  in  the  Virginia  militia  in  companies  com- 
manded by  Capts.  S.  Hall  and  Carypen.  His  widow  Letitia,  living  in 
Missouri,  was  pensioned  in  1879.      (27,950.) 

Peter  Hughes  of  Missouri  was  pensioned  in  1872.  He  served  in 
company  commanded  by  Capt.  J.  Link,  in  the  Virginia  miHtia. 
(19,419.) 

William  Hughes  served  in  company  commanded  by  Capt.  William 
Leigh,  in  Virginia  militia.  His  widow  Polly,  living  in  Virginia  in 
1879,  was  pensioned.      (22,276.) 

Samuel  Hughes,  Sr.,  died  18  Feb.,  1872,  served  in  company  com- 
manded by  Capt.  J.  Paxton,  in  Virginia  militia.      (4,760.) 

Thomas  Hughes,  who  died  11  Sept.,  1851  or  1852,  left  a  widow 
Nancy,  who  applied  for  a  pension  in  1878.  Her  claim  was  re- 
jected because  her  husband's  service  was  performed  in  the  Indian  war 
of  1791.  About  1823  Thomas  Hughes  married  Polly  Hughes,  who 
died  in  Nicholas  County.  He  married  second,  Nancy  Kincaird,  24  Feb., 
1825,  in  Nicholas  County,  West  Va.  She  was  77  years  of  age  in  1878. 
He  was  17  years  old  when  he  enlisted  from  the  Kanawha  country  in 


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the  Indian  War.     He  was  of  fair  complexion,  red  hair,  black  eyes,  and 
six  feet  in  height.      (32,072.) 

William  Hughes  served  in  company  commanded  by  Capt.  J.  Shel- 
ton,  in  Virginia  militia.  He  left  a  widow,  Elizabeth,  who  was  pen- 
sioned in  1883.      (33,208.) 

William  Hughes  of  Muddlety,  West  Va.,  in  1886  applied  for  pen- 
sion, claiming  service  in  company  commanded  by  Capt.  Tiken  in  Vir- 
ginia militia,  but  his  claim  was  rejected.      (34,930.) 

William  Hughes  of  Halifax  Court  House,  Va.,  claimed  a  pension 
in  1879,  for  service  performed  in  company  commanded  by  Capt. 
William  Leigh,  but  his  claim  was  rejected.      (30,720.) 

Aaron  Hughes  served  in  company  commanded  by  Thomas  Wilson  in 
Tennessee  militia.     He  was  living  in  1871. 

Cornelius  Hughes  was  of  Hawkins  County,  Tenn.,  in  1852.  He 
made  application  in  1845,  then  residing  in  that  county,  aged  52  years. 
He  enlisted  in  a  company  of  East  Tennessee  militia,  commanded  by 
Capt.  Benjamin  Powell,  Col.  Johnson's  regiment,  under  Gen.  Taylor. 
He  served  six  months  from  Sept.,  1814.  He  marched  through  the 
wilderness  to  Mobile,  via  Fts.  Strotter,  Jackson  and  Claiborne,  700  or 
800  miles,  and  from  Mobile  back  to  Knoxville,  where  he  was  discharged 
in  April,  1815.  While  he  was  at  Mobile  the  British  attacked  Ft. 
Bowyer,  across  the  bay,  and  he  was  one  of  the  volunteers,  who  num- 
bered 1,000  in  all,  who,  under  command  of  Majors  Blue  and  Readman, 
crossed  the  bay  and  proceeded  by  land  to  the  relief  of  the  fort.  On 
their  arrival  the  relieving  force  found  the  British  in  possession.  They 
engaged  and  took  eighteen  prisoners.  Because  the  British  held  pos- 
session of  the  bay  and  could  intercept  their  retreat,  they  were  ordered 
to  retire.  They  were  unable  to  return  to  Mobile  for  ten  days  and  were 
much  exposed.  Because  of  exposure  in  the  service  he  has  since  suf- 
fered from  "head  pleurisy."  His  record  shows  he  enlisted  17  Sept., 
1814,  and  was  discharged  3  May,  1815.  He  received  a  pension.  He 
married  Mary  White  on  or  about  25  July,  1817,  or  1818,  in  Greene 
County,  Tenn.  In  July,  1866,  she  applied  for  a  pension,  giving  proofs 
that  during  the  Civil  War  she  was  loyal  to  the  Union,  though  the 
deponents  are  not  willing  to  testify  that  Cornelius  Hughes  was  a  Union 
man.  Daniel  and  Polly  White  give  testimony.  In  1869  her  claim  was 
rejected  because  of  disloyalty.     She  lived  near  Romeo,  Tenn.      (91.) 

David  Hughes  served  under  Capt.  A.  McCarty  in  the  Tennessee 
militia.  He  left  a  widow,  Elizabeth,  who  was  of  Tennessee  in  1875. 
(6,573.) 


WAR  OF  1812  503 

Enis  Hughes  died  near  Ft.  Smith,  23  Dec.,  1833,  leaving  a  widow, 
Mary,  whose  claim  for  a  pension  in  1877  was  rejected  for  want  of  proof 
of  service.  Widow's  application  in  1876  states  that  she  is  81  years  old, 
and  that  Enis  entered  the  service  in  company  of  Capt.  Greene  in  the 
3d  regiment,  Tennessee  militia,  in  1813.  Her  attorney  thought  it  more 
probable  that  he  served  in  a  Georgia  command.  There  are  no  rolls  of 
Greene's  company  of  the  Tennessee  militia.  Enis  Hughes  married 
Mary  McCain  14  Sept.,  1814,  at  Antioch,  Tenn.  In  1877  she  lived  at 
Mt.  Calm,  Texas.      (11,737.) 

Janus  Hughes  of  Abingdon,  Va.,  in  1879,  claimed  pension  for  serv- 
ice performed  in  company  commanded  by  Capt.  Scruggs  in  Tennessee 
militia.      Rejected.      (32,820.) 

Jesse  Hughes  resided  at  or  near  Greenwood,  Johnson  County,  Ind., 
in  1871,  when  he  was  aged  75  years.  He  enlisted  13  Nov.,  1814,  and 
was  discharged  18  May,  1815.  He  married  25  Sept.,  1851,  Elizabeth 
Hawkins  at  Fayette  County,  Indiana.  He  marched  with  his  regiment 
from  Sullivan  County,  Tenn.,  to  Mobile,  and  remained  there  until  news 
of  the  peace  was  received.  Served  in  company  commanded  by  Capt. 
James  Landons,  Col.  Dayless'  regiment  of  Tennessee  militia.      (1,512.) 

John  Hughes  of  Tennessee  in  1872,  served  in  company  commanded 
by  Capt.  D.  Collier  in  Virginia  militia.      (14,410.) 

Madison  R.  Hughes  of  Riggs'  Road,  Tenn.,  in  1871,  made  claim  for 
pension.     Rejected.      (2,437.) 

Robert  Hughes  died  24  June,  1852,  leaving  a  widow,  Elizabeth, 
who  was  of  Piney  Flatts,  Tenn.,  in  1878,  when  she  applied  for  a  pen- 
sion for  service  performed  by  her  husband  in  the  Tennessee  militia. 
Her  claim  was  rejected.      (19,793.) 

William  Hughes  of  Davidson  County,  Tenn.,  was  living  in  1850. 
He  served  as  second  sergeant  in  a  company  of  mounted  gunners  com- 
manded by  Capt.  Pipkins,  Col.  Perkins'  regiment,  Tennessee  mounted 
riflemen.  He  enlisted  19  Dec,  1813,  and  was  discharged  8  Feb.,  1814. 
He  was  wounded  in  the  right  arm  at  Emucksaw,  Territory  of  the  Creek 
Indians.     He  returned  home  22  Jan.,  1814.      (90.) 

William  Hughes  and  Elizabeth  Oliver  were  married  7  Dec,  1854,  in 
Williamson  County,  Tenn.  His  widow  was  aged  55  in  1866.  He  died 
in  Windsor  County,  Tenn.,  21  March,  1864,  an  old  man.  He  had  lived 
fifteen   years   in   Williamson   County,  and  prior  to  that  had   lived  in 


504  PENSIONERS 

Alabama.  He  was  mustered  10  Jan.,  1814,  in  company  of  Capt.  Ed- 
ward Buchanan  in  the  2d  regiment,  commanded  by  Col.  Samuel  Bunch, 
in  the  East  Tennessee  brigade  commanded  by  Gen.  Doherty.  On  their 
march  they  ascended  the  river  to  Ft.  Deposit  and  there  engaged  the 
Indians.  Thence  marched  with  the  main  army  to  Ft.  Strotter 
(Stother),  thence  to  Ft.  William,  and  next  morning  helped  to  dislodge 
some  Indians  near  there  and  pursued  them  until  night.  At  Ft.  Stother 
Hughes  was  transferred  to  Capt.  George  McPherson's  company  and 
was  sent  to  Ft.  Deposit,  where  he  became  sick.  He  was  not  a  rebel, 
nor  did  he  bear  arms  against  the  United  States  in  the  Civil  War.      (93.) 

William  Hughes  served  in  company  commanded  by  Capts.  Crawford 
and  Buchanan,  in  the  Tennessee  militia.  He  left  a  widow,  Elizabeth, 
living  in  Tennessee  in  1879,  when  she  applied  for  a  pension.      (25,550.) 

Emery  Hughs  of  Campbell,  Campbell  County,  Va.,  was  a  private  in 
Capt.  Samuel  Johnson's  company,  third  Virginia  militia,  Col.  Dickinson 
commanding,  in  the  War  of  1812.  He  was  married  3  Oct.,  1809,  at 
Campbell,  by  Abner  Garley,  a  Methodist  minister,  to  Sarah,  who  mar- 
ried, second,  in  Campbell  County,  23  Dec,  1818,  Jesse  Adams.  In 
1867  she  was  aged  75  years  and  in  1859  was  living  in  Marysville.  She 
was  allowed  a  pension.  According  to  his  widow's  statement,  Emery 
Hughs  shortly  after  his  discharge  died  of  disease  contracted  in  the  serv- 
ice in  the  hospital  at  Camp  Ellicott's  Mills,  Md.,  6  Dec,  1814.  The 
treasury  record  gives  his  death  as  occurring  1  Jan.,  1815.  (Widow, 
15,509.) 


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"  Memorial  Addresses  on  the  Life  and  Character  of  Mrs.  David 

Hewes  " 

ANNA  MARIA  LATHROP 

was  born  at  Albany,  New  York,  and  was  educated  at  the  far-famed 
Albany  Female  Academy,  established  in  1814.  "  It  was  the  first 
institution  in  America  or  Europe  to  essay  a  practical  solution  of  the 
great  problem  of  the  higher  education  of  women."  This  Academy 
was  the  outgrowth  of  the  Union  School,  on  Montgomery  street,  organ- 
ized through  the  efforts  of  the  eminent  lawyer,  Mr.  Ebenezer  Foot, 
directed  by  the  counsels  of  his  wife.  Mr.  Foot  drew  up  a  subscription 
paper,  binding  the  signers  to  send  for  a  year,  from  May  1,  1814,  the 
number  of  "  female  scholars  "  affixed  to  their  names.  A  lot  of  land 
was  leased  on  Montgomery  street  and  a  cheap  one-story  building 
erected  thereon,  the  school  being  opened  at  the  time  specified  in  the 
contract. 

Horace  Goodrich  of  Milton,  Saratoga  County,  a  graduate  of  Union 
College,  was  the  first  teacher. 

The  school  had  become  so  well  established  before  the  close  of  1820, 
as  to  warrant  an  act  of  incorporation,  which  act  was  passed  in  1821, 
the  school  taking  the  name  it  now  bears.  Through  the  exertions  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees  under  this  act,  the  site  of  a  new  building  near  the 
old  one  was  selected,  and  the  cornerstone  was  laid  June  25,  1821.  On 
the  roll  of  parchment  placed  in  a  sealed  bottle  and  deposited  beneath 
the  stone  was  this  inscription: 

"  This  stone  is  laid  in  the  fear  of  Jehovah,  the  God  of  knowl- 
edge, and  commended  to  his  protection  and  care." 

The  building  was  completed  in  November  of  the  same  year.  Such 
was  the  growth  of  the  school  that,  in  1828,  a  building  was  erected  in 
the  rear  of  the  main  edifice,  connected  with  it  by  corridors.  In  1833, 
the  school  had,  through  the  influence  of  Hon.  Gideon  Hawley,  been 
placed  under  the  "  visitation  and  control "  of  the  State  Board  of 
Regents,  of  which  he  was  Secretary,  and  was  the  "  first  school  for 
females  "  admitted  to  this  consideration. 

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508  APPENDIX  I 

In  1833  the  school  building  was  again  found  inadequate  to  accommo- 
date its  rapidly  increasing  membership,  and  measures  were  taken  to 
procure  the  site  on  North  Pearl  street,  upon  which  now  stands  the 
edifice  dedicated  May  12,  1834,  and  which  has  recently  held  its  seventy- 
eighth  annual  commencement,  and  has  entered  the  last  quarter  of  its 
century. 

Anna  Maria  Lathrop,  by  her  gentle  disposition  and  sterling  qualities 
of  mind  and  heart,  endeared  herself  to  the  associates  of  her  girlhood, 
and  won  the  love  and  affection  of  all  with  whom  she  came  in  contact. 

Imbued  with  the  influence  of  Christian  truth,  she  at  a  very  early  age 
became  a  member  of  the  Pearl  Street,  now  Emanuel  Baptist  Church, 
and  to  the  end  she  adorned  the  profession  she  then  made,  by  a  life  of 
faith  in  Christ. 

Some  of  the  best  thoughts  of  her  life  in  connection  with  the  place 
of  her  birth  were  given  to  a  plan  of  her  sister's  —  a  plan  most  cheer- 
fully and  readily  acquiesced  in  by  herself  —  to  convert  the  old  home- 
stead which  for  generations  had  been  the  home  of  the  Lathrop  family, 
and  around  which  lingered  so  many  hallowed  associations,  into  a  me- 
morial that  should  forever  perpetuate  the  love  for,  and  interest  taken 
in  the  orphan  and  friendless  by  her  father  and  mother. 

On  May  11,  1861,  she  sailed  from  New  York  for  California  on  the 
steamer  Northern  Light,  connecting  at  Panama  with  the  steamer  Golden 
Age,  arriving  at  San  Francisco  June  3,  1861. 

From  thence  she  proceeded  to  Sacramento  to  the  residence  of  her 
sister,  Mrs.  Leland  Stanford,  arriving  some  six  months  previous  to  the 
inauguration  of  Leland  Stanford,  her  brother-in-law,  as  the  great  War 
Governor  of  California;  at  a  time  when  the  strong  arm  of  the  law 
might  be  called  upon  to  dispel  the  dream  of  a  few  ambitious  men  in 
their  plan  to  form  a  Pacific  Coast  Republic. 

Miss  Lathrop  was  in  the  full  maturity  of  womanhood  when  she 
became  a  member  of  the  household  of  the  Executive  Mansion  of  the 
young  and  growing  Golden  State.  Her  dignity,  grace  of  manner,  and 
vivacity,  made  her  society  equally  charming  to  the  young  and  old,  and 
contributed  in  no  small  degree  to  that  conviviality  and  good-fellowship 
which  gave  the  hospitality  extended  by  Governor  and  Mrs.  Stanford 
more  than  a  local  reputation.  She  continued  to  reside  with  the  family 
until  their  removal  to  San  Francisco,  in  1873. 

In  1879,  we  find  her  again  in  Albany,  ministering  with  a  loving 
daughter's  devotion  at  the  bedside  of  her  aged  and  invalid  mother. 

With  an  abiding  faith  in  Him  "  who  doeth  all  things  well,"  she 
watched  with  patient  resignation  and  the  assured  hope  of  the  Christian, 
until  "  the  long  and  toilsome  journey  of  life  "  of  the  suffering  mother 
ended,  upon  a  peaceful  Sabbath  afternoon,  September  3,  1882. 

Among  the  noblest  acts  of  her  life,  and  one,  the  beauty  of  which  no 
tongue  however  eloquent  can  fittingly  portray,  was  the   adoption,   in 


LATHROP    HOMESTEAD,    ALBANY 


ANNA  MARIA  LATHROP  HEWES  509 

1885,  of  her  brother's  motherless  daughter,  a  delicate  babe  of  six 
months.  The  same  gentleness  and  quiet  which  had  characterized  every 
emotion  of  her  previous  life,  guided  her  in  this  great  responsibility. 
Her  love  for  the  infant  seemed  no  common  affection  —  a  new  influence 
had  come  into  her  life,  and  her  whole  heart  went  out  to  the  babe  with 
maternal  tenderness.  As  years  sped  on,  the  little  girl  became  at  once 
the  child  and  companion,  and  the  relation  between  them  was  most 
touching  and  beautiful. 

The  period  following  her  marriage  to  Mr.  David  Hewes  of  San 
Francisco,  which  occurred  June  11,  1889,  was  spent  in  travel  abroad. 
Her  heart  seemed  to  expand  under  the  influence  of  these  journeyings 
through  foreign  lands  —  a  new  life  seemed  to  have  dawned  for  her. 
She  frequently  remarked  in  her  enthusiasm  "  that  there  seemed  nothing 
more  to  be  desired  —  that  in  visiting  the  places  of  public  interest  in 
the  great  cities  of  Europe,  the  ambition  of  her  life  and  the  fondest 
wish  of  her  heart  had  been  fulfilled." 

On  her  return  to  America  she  revisited  the  honored  and  loved  home 
of  her  nativity  and  the  historic  places  connected  with  events  in  the  lives 
of  her  Puritan  ancestors.  If  she  was  proud  of  anything,  it  was  of  her 
ancestry.  Patriotism  was  a  prominent  trait  in  her  character.  To  this 
characteristic  may  be  traced  that  feeling  which  prompted  her  to  connect 
herself  as  a  life-member  with  the  National  Mary  Washington  Me- 
morial Association,  and  the  Society  of  the  Daughters  of  the  American 
Revolution,  a  society  to  which  she  was  eligible  to  membership  through 
the  military  service  rendered  by  her  maternal  and  paternal  grandfather 
in  the  War  of  the  Revolution. 

The  wedded  life  of  Mrs.  Hewes  was  a  brief  but  happy  one.  Simple 
in  her  tastes,  her  greatest  enjoyment  was  at  her  own  fireside  surrounded 
by  her  friends.  In  the  companionship  of  her  husband,  and  in  the  sun- 
shine of  the  presence  of  the  little  adopted  daughter  Jennie,  now  a  girl 
of  eight  years  of  age,  the  charming  picture  of  her  domestic  life  could 
not  be  surpassed. 

Some  'months  before  her  death  her  health  became  so  seriously 
affected  as  to  confine  her  to  her  room  the  greater  portion  of  the  time. 
During  this  period  of  anxiety,  "  when  the  chill  and  shadow  of  the 
coming  event  "  lay  so  heavily  on  their  hearts,  she  was  tenderly  nursed 
and  cared  for  by  her  husband  and  family,  who  hoped  almost  against 
Hope  itself  that  she  might  be  restored  to  health.  But  it  was  otherwise 
decreed.  For  on  August  3,  1892,  the  messenger  came,  and  she  entered 
upon  the  fruition  of  her  immortality. 

In  the  words  of  the  California  State  Regent  of  the  Daughters  of  the 
American  Revolution,  "  she  has  passed  on  and  over  the  '  shining  river ' 
and  entered  upon  an  existence  where  time  has  been  blended  with 
eternity,  and  where  faith  has  been  forever  lost  in  certainty." 

Her  death  will  be  mourned  not  only  by  her  immediate  home-circle, 


510  APPENDIX  I 

but  by  the  various  charitable  and  religious  organizations  of  which  she 
was  a  member,  and  to  which  she  had  been  a  generous  patron.  In  her 
casket  are  the  crushed  hearts  of  the  poor  whom  she  has  befriended  and 
whose  troubles  she  has  alleviated,  the  sorrowing  with  whom  she  has 
wept,  the  famibes  nurtured  and  cared  for  by  her  private  acts  of 
beneficence. 

"  In  the  clear  morning  of  that  other  country  — 

In  Paradise  — 
With  the  same  face  which  we  have  loved  and  cherished, 

She  shall  arise ! 
Let  us  be  patient,  we  who  mourn  with  weeping 

Some  vanished  face  — 
The  Lord  has  taken  but  to  add  more  beauty 

And  a  diviner  grace." 


ANNA  MARIA  LATHROP  HEWES  511 

In   Memoriam 

Away,  away; 
Released  from  fettering  bonds  of  clay, 
Her  spirit  flits  in  joy  away, 
And  we  are  left  in  tears  to-day. 

To  eyes  which  now  in  death  do  close, 
Above,  lo,  heavenly  scenes  disclose; 
Her  ears,  which  heard  the  orphan's  sigh, 
Now  list  sweet  chimes  beyond  the  sky. 

Her  heart,  which  ever  throbbed  so  warm, 
Is  now  beyond  earth's  chilly  storm ; 
Those  lips,  which  whispered  tenderest  love, 
Now  lisp  the  chorus  sweet  above. 

But  cheeks  of  marble,  white  as  snow, 
Shall  blush  again  in  heavenly  glow; 
Up  from  the  shades,  'neath  sunbeam  bright, 
She  wakes  where  day  shall  know  no  night. 

While  now  around  her  waiting  bier 
In  sorrow  falls  the  loving  tear — 
We  linger  o'er  her  dust  and  weep, 
Angels  of  love  their  vigils  keep. 


Thus  ebbs  out  life  —  its  curtains  fall  — 
God  help  us  each,  who  loved  in  life 
The  child,  the  maiden  fair,  and  wife, 

That  we,  too,  heed  the  needy's  call. 

And  though  entombed  shall  flesh  decay, 
Despite  restraining  powers  of  art, 
Her  memory,  fresh  in  loving  heart, 
Shall  warmer  glow  from  day  to  day 
To  soothe  and  cheer  our  grief  away. 

J.  C.  Pelton. 
San  Diego,  Cal.,  August  8,  1892. 


512 


APPENDIX  I 


Historic  names  forever  greet  us, 

Where'er  our  wandering  way  we  tread ; 

Familiar  forms  and  faces  meet  us, 
As  living  walk  with  us  the  dead. 


Man's  fame,  so  often  evanescent, 

Links  here  with  thoughts  and  things  that  last; 
And  all  the  bright  and  teeming  Present 

Thrills  with  the  great  and  glorious  Past. 


MRS.  JANE  L.  STANFORD 
LELAND  STANFORD,  JR. 

LELAND  STANFORD 


Ancestry  of 

Amta  Uteta  Hatfjmp 

Anna  Maria  Lathrop  camie  of  an  ancestry  dating  back  to  early 
colonial  times,  distinguished  for  intellectual  and  pious  attainments. 
Being  descended  on  both  sides  from  the  best  Puritan  stock  of  New 
England,  she  possessed  a  heritage  of  all  that  was  noble  and  elevating 
in  character.  She  was  the  fifth  child  of  Dyer  andsJane  Ann  (Shields) 
Lathrop,  and  was  born  in  Albany,  New  York,  September  22,  1832. 
Her  father, 

DYER  LATHROP 
(Seventh   Generation), 
settled  in  Albany  in   1811,  and  was  one  of  the  incorporators  of  the 
Albany  Female  Hospital,  and  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Asylum  for 
Orphan  and  Destitute  Children,  organized  in  1829,  and  at  the  time  of 
his  death,  April  18,  1855,  one  of  its  main  supporters. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Directors  of  the  Albany  Orphan  Asylum,  held 
April  19,  1855,  the  president  announced  the  death  of  Mr.  Dyer 
Lathrop,  their  late  treasurer,  and  it  was  resolved  as  the  sense  of  the 
Board : 

"  That  in  the  death  of  Mr.  Lathrop  the  community  has  lost  one  of 
its  best  citizens,  and  the  Board  a  most  valuable  officer.  Not  often  have 
we  known  so  unassuming  a  manner  united  with  such  benevolence  of 
heart  and  such  energy  of  action.  For  twenty-four  years  he  has 
watched  over  the  interests  of  our  institution  with  the  fidelity  of  a 
parent.  With  no  reward  but  an  approving  conscience,  he  has  not  only 
during  this  long  period  been  the  faithful  guardian  of  its  finances,  but 
in  its  many  and  often  protracted  embarrassments,  when  other  means 
have  failed,  his  credit  has  always  been  our  reliance  till  the  exigency 
has  been  passed.  It  is  the  sentiment  of  every  member  of  this  Board 
that  a  good  man  has  gone  from  us,  and  that  the  orphan  has  lost  a  friend 
whose  place  will  not  be  easy  to  supply." 

So  fades  the  summer  cloud  away, 
So  sinks  the  gale  when  storms  are  o'er, 
So  gently  shuts  the  eye  of  day, 
So  dies  the  wave  along  the  shore." 

Dyer  Lathrop's  father, 

JEDEDIAH  LATHROP,  JR., 
(Sixth  Generation), 

was  born  at  Bozrah,  Conn.,  February  9,  1747,  and  married  Amy  Gard- 

513 


514  APPENDIX  I 

ner,  daughter  of  Jonathan  and  Mary  Gardner,  of  Gardner's  Island, 
New  York.  He  served  with  distinction  during  the  War  of  the  Revo- 
lution in  Captain  Huntingdon's  Company,  Selden's  Battalion,  Wads- 
worth's  Brigade  of  Connecticut  State  Troops.     His  father, 

CAPTAIN  JEDEDIAH  LATHROP, 

(Fifth  Generation), 
was  born  at  Norwich,  Conn.,  January  4,  1718,  and  died  June  9,  1792, 
in  the  seventy-fifth  year  of  his  age.  He  was  twice  married  and  the 
father  of  thirteen  children,  ten  of  whom  survived  him,  and  to  whom  he 
portioned  his  estate  by  will,  dated  October  11,  1790.  He  was  a  man 
of  commanding  influence,  serving  his  fellow-citizens  in  both  civil  and 
military  capacities.  In  the  profession  of  arms  he  became  a  leader, 
and  his  opinion  was  sought  for  in  all  matters  affecting  the  affairs  of 
the  town.     His  father, 

ISRAEL  LATHROP,  JR. 

(Fourth  Generation), 
was  born  in  Norwich,  Conn.,  February  1,  1687,  and  was  twice  married. 
First,  to  Mary  Fellows,  June  20,  1710,  by  whom  he  had  seven  children. 
He  was  employed  for  a  number  of  years  in  the  military  service  of  his 
town,  at  a  time  when  "  Indian  warfare  was  of  a  kind  calculated  to 
fill  the  breast  of  a  peaceful  and  exposed  population  with  dreadful  ap- 
prehension and  to  chill  the  blood  of  the  most  courageous." 

He  was  an  active  man  in  town  affairs  to  whom  his  fellow-colonists 
turned  in  times  of  trouble.     His  father, 

ISRAEL  LATHROP 

(Third  Generation), 
was  born  in  October,  1659,  and  married  Rebecca  Bliss  April  8,  1686. 
Tradition  states  that  he  served  throughout  the  severe  and  bloody 
Indian  War  of  1675  (King  Philip's)  with  much  credit,  for  at  this 
period  "  the  warbke  virtues  were  a  necessity."  His  tombstone,  the 
oldest  now  standing  in  old  Norwich  town  on  which  there  is  an  inscrip- 
tion, has  the  following  epitaph:  "  Here  lies  ye  body  of  Mr.  Israel 
Lathrop,  ye  husband  of  Mrs.  Rebecca  Lathrop,  who  lived  a  life  of 
exemplary  piety  and  left  ye  Earth  for  Heaven  March  ye  28,  1733,  in 
ye  73d  year  of  his  age."     His  father, 

SAMUEL  LOTHROPP 

(Second  Generation), 
was   born  in   England   and  came  with  his    father  to   Scituate,   Mass., 
in  1634. 

He  was  one  of  the  Fathers  of  New  England,  and  carried  on  the  busi- 


ANNA  MARIA  LATHROP  HEWES  515 

ness  of  a  house  builder  in  Boston.  His  wife  was  Elizabeth  Scudder. 
Their  marriage  is  recorded  on  the  Barnstable  Church  Register,  as  fol- 
lows: "  My  sonn  Samuel  and  Elizabeth  Scudder  marryed  at  my  house 
by  Mr.  Freeman  Nov.  28,  1644."  They  afterwards  settled  in  Barn- 
stable. 

In  1643  he  is  reported  as  one  of  the  five  Lathropps  of  the  town  liable 
to  bear  arms.  In  1648  he  removed  to  Pequot,  now  New  London,  Conn., 
where  he  was  at  once  assigned  to  positions  of  responsibility  and  honor 
by  his  townsmen.  In  1668  he  removed  to  Norwich,  which  from  that 
time  became  his  home,  and  where  he  died  February  29,  1700.  His 
widow  (second  marriage)  died  in  1734  at  the  advanced  age  of  102 
years.     His  father, 

REV.  JOHN  LOTHROPP  — THE  PIONEER 

(First  Generation), 
was  baptized  in  Etton,  Yorkshire,   December   20,    1584.     In  his   six- 
teenth year  he  entered  Queen's  College,  Cambridge,  matriculating  in 
1601,  graduating  B.  A.  in  1605,  and  M.  A.  in  1609. 

Having  been  admitted  to  Holy  Orders,  he  became  a  Curate  in 
Egerton,  Kent,  and  served  his  parish  zealously  for  a  number  of  years. 
Becoming  dissatisfied  with  the  government  of  the  Church,  he  severed  his 
connection  with  it,  and,  in  about  1609,  enrolled  himself  with  the  Inde- 
pendents, the  Non-Conformists  of  his  native  land.  In  1623  he  became 
the  Pastor  of  the  First  Independent  Church  of  London  —  a  body  of 
dissenters  having  no  place  of  pubbc  worship,  their  meetings  being  held 
by  stealth.  In  1632,  Mr.  Lothropp  and  several  members  of  his  church 
were  seized  for  violating  the  Conformist  Law,  and  cast  into  Newgate, 
where  he  was  confined  for  two  years,  and  was  only  released  on  giving 
bond  that  "  he  would  not  be  present  at  any  private  conventicle." 

He  left  England  for  America  in  the  ship  Griffin,  and  arrived  at 
Boston,  Mass.,  September  18,  1634.  A  few  days  later  he  proceeded  to 
Scituate,  where,  on  January  18,  a  church  was  organized,  and  he  was 
chosen  minister.  Dissensions  having  arisen  among  his  people  in  refer- 
ence to  the  subject  of  baptism,  he  removed,  in  1639,  to  Barnstable,  more 
than  half  his  church  removing  with  him,  where  he  died,  November  8, 
1653.  "  He  left  a  record  of  scholarship,  piety  and  practical  work,  for 
which  his  descendants,  to  the  latest  generations,  may  well  hold  him  in 
honor." 

The  English  ancestor  of  Rev.  John  Lothropp  was 

THOMAS  LOWTHROPPE, 

who  was  thrice  married.  John,  the  American  pioneer,  was  a  son  by  the 
second  wife,  who  was  buried   at  Etton,   January  6,    1588.     Thomas 


516  APPENDIX  I 

Lowthroppe  was  born  at  Cherry  Burton,  Yorkshire,  and  died  at  Etton, 
Harthill  wapentake,  East  Riding,  Yorkshire,  in  1606.  His  will  bears 
date  October  5,  1606.     His  father, 

ROBERT  LOWTHROPPE, 

died  in  1558.  His  will,  bearing  date  North  Burton,  July  16,  1558,  was 
proved  at  York,  October  20th  of  the  same  year.     His  father, 

JOHN  LOWTHROPPE 

great-grandfather  of  Rev.  John  Lothropp,  was  living  early  in  the  six- 
teenth century,  in  Cherry  Burton,  a  parish  about  four  miles  from  Low- 
thorpe.  Though  belonging  to  a  junior  branch  of  the  family,  he  was  a 
gentleman  of  extensive  landed  estates  in  Cherry  Burton  and  other 
parts  of  the  county.  According  to  a  Yorkshire  subsidy-roll,  made  in 
the  37th  year  of  Henry  VIII  (1545)  he  was  assessed  twice  as  much  as 
any  other  inhabitant  of  the  parish.  Of  his  parentage,  date  of  birth, 
etc.,  nothing  is  known,  the  early  parish  registers  having  disappeared. 


LATHROP   MEMORIAL.  ALBANY 


ANNA  MARIA  LATHROP  HEWES  517 

RESOLUTION 

Adopted  by 

SEQUOIA  CHAPTER, 

Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution, 

of  San  Francisco 


Impressed  by  the  retrospect  of  the  exemplary  character  of  our  asso- 
ciate, the  late  Mrs.  Anna  Maria  Lathrop  Hewes,  we,  the  members  of 
Sequoia  Chapter,  Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution,  of  San  Fran- 
cisco, in  regular  meeting  assembled,  desire  to  express  our  sincere  sorrow 
at  the  irreparable  loss  we  have  sustained   in  the  death  of   one  who, 
whether  as  the  devoted   wife,  the  affectionate  sister,  or  the  faithful 
friend,  by  her  simple  and  unaffected  manners,  added  to  other  mental 
and  social  attributes  of  her  character,  endeared  herself  to  all  who  were 
privileged  to  know  her.      In  disposition  our  friend  was  most  amiable 
and  sympathetic,  and  kind  and  courteous  to  all  with  whom  she  came  in 
contact.     Ever  ready  with  open  hand  to  aid  the  poor,  and  to  assist  the 
needy  with   generous   hospitality,   she  has,  by   the  purity  of  her  life 
and    the    practice    of    those    qualities    which    adorn    and    dignify    the 
character,  erected  a  noble  monument  to  her  own  memory. 
"  Life's  labors  done, 
Serenely  to  her  final  rest  she  passed, 
While  the  soft  memories  of  her  virtues  yet 
Linger,  like  twilight  hues  when  the  bright  sun  has  set." 
As  members  of  a  society  of  which  she  was  an  honored  member,  we 
would  most  tenderly  convey  to  those  loved  ones  to  whom  she  was  most 
near  and   dear,   the   assurance  of   our  deepest   sympathy;   and  would 
commend  them  to  Him  who  has  promised  to  keep  in  perfect  peace  those 
who  love  and  trust  in  Him. 

In  token  of  respect  for  her  great  moral  worth,  your  Committee 
recommend  the  adoption  of  the  following  resolution: 

Resolved,  That  we  will  inscribe  upon  our  hearts  the  necessity  of  emu- 
lating her  Christian  example,  her  zeal  for  all  that  was  truly  good,  and 
her  fidelity  to  the  interests  of  our  society. 

In  conclusion,  we  recommend  that  tins  preamble  and  resolution  be 
spread  upon  our  minutes,  and  that  a  page  of  our  records  be  set  apart  to 
perpetuate  her  memory. 

Georgiana  C.  Ord  Holladay, 
Virginia  Knox  Maddox, 
L.  E.  A.  Horsburgh, 
S.  Isabelle  Hubbard, 

Committee.  , 
Alma  Priscilla  Alden,  Mary  E.  Alvord,    Regent. 

Recording  Secretary. 


APPENDIX  II 

Letters  Written  by  Mrs.  Ruthe  Tapley  Hewes  Swain  to  Her  Son, 
David  Hewes,  1850-1851 

Lynnfield,  Feb.  17th  1850. 
My  Beloved  and  Absent  Son: — 

Your  letters,  13th  and  29th  of  December,  arrived  safely.  I  received 
one  the  first  of  February,  the  other  the  middle  of  the  month.  It 
affords  me  great  pleasure  to  have  letters  from  you.  I  don't  know  but 
that  I  should  be  cross  if  I  did  not  hear  from  you  oftener  than  some  of 
the  folks  do  from  their  sons.  Old  Mr.  Danforth  is  going  to  put  a  letter 
in  with  ours,  about  his  son.  I  carried  my  letters  down  and  the  sermon 
for  him  to  read.  He  has  had  no  letters  from  Henry  Danforth  and 
feels  badly. 

My  'dear  son,  I  have  not  seen  the  letter  you  sent  to  Aaron,  but  I 
have  heard  of  it.  I  was  sorry  to  hear  you  had  met  with  a  loss.  Well, 
my  son,  they  that  have  must  lose.  I  feel  so  anxious  about  you,  my 
dear  son,  that  when  I  would  be  cheerful,  I  feel  sad.  I  read  and  hear 
so  much  about  that  part  of  the  world  where  you  are.  If  you  don't 
die  a  natural  death  I  am  afraid  you  will  be  killed.  I  do  want  you  to 
come  home.     Be  careful,  won't  you,  my  son  ? 

If  you  know  anything  about  the  Messrs.  Sweetsers  send  word  in  my 
letters,  for  their  folks  hear  nothing  from  them.  They  have  had  one 
letter,  that  is  all.  My  son,  you  want  two  letters  a  month.  Would  it 
be  best?  There  does  not  seem  to  be  anything  interesting  enough  for 
so  many  to  write  about.  My  dear  son,  your  likeness  is  all  that  it  can 
be  to  me,  but  I  do  want  to  see  you  in  person.  I  carry  your  likeness 
with  me.  I  don't  leave  the  house  one  hour  without  taking  it  with  me 
and  have  ever  since  you  have  been  gone.  Some  say  to  me,  you  always 
carry  David  with  you,  don't  you  ?     Yes,  I  say,  I  do. 

My  dear  son,  you  may  think  that  I  don't  want  to  write  to  you  as 
I  only  sent  you  the  last  two  times  a  quartered  sheet,  but  my  head  has 
troubled  me  more  for  six  weeks  than  it  has  for  a  year  past,  and  as 
mother  and  sister  and  brother  and  grandchildren  all  write  together,  it 
gives  you  a  good  deal  of  correspondence.  Mary  Ellen  will  tell  you 
about  Mr.  Richardson  of  Stoneham.  My  son,  you  cannot  begin  to  think 
how  many  there  are  who  die  on  the  way  home,  or  soon  after  they  get 
home. 

Sabbath  afternoon:     We  have  a  meeting  all  day.     The  weather  is 

518 


MRS.   RUTHE    (TAPLEY)    HEWES 
From   Painting   front  a  Daguerreotype  of  1850 


LETTERS  OF  MRS.  RUTHE  HEWES  519 

like  the  first  of  April.     The  snow  and  ice  are  all  gone.     We  have  had 
great  rains. 

My  dear  son,  come  home  before  the  sickly  season  comes  on.  Won't 
you  say,  "  yes,  I  will  if  I  can  "?  I  will  write  you  a  long  letter  next 
time.  Receive  a  mother's  blessing,  and  you  shall  have  my  prayers. 
Much  love  from  Your  affectionate  mother, 

R.  H.  S. 

Joel  has  just  come  with  his  letter. 

Lynnfield,  May  27th. 
My  Ever  Dear  Son: 

What  shall  I  write?  Well,  I  will  write  a  chapter  of  anxieties,  but 
first,  I  will  tell  you  about  Captain  Bancroft  and  wife. 

They  heard  some  two  months  ago  that  their  son  George  had  gone 
to  the  Sandwich  Isands,  and  they  feared  that  the  vessel  in  which  he 
went  was  lost,  but  as  they  saw  nothing  in  any  paper  they  hoped  he  was 
safe,  but  now  they  have  letters  that  the  vessel  has  never  been  heard 
from  since  sailing.  Twenty  days  was  a  long  trip,  and  the  ship  had 
been  gone  sixty  when  this  letter  was  written.  Oh,  what  suspense  they 
are  in.      Hope  and  fear  mingle  together,  but  fear  is  the  greatest. 

Oh,  my  dear  son,  if  you  only  knew  your  mother's  feelings  about  you, 
I  think  you  would  say — "  I  will  go  home."  If  you  had  all  the  gold- 
dust  there  is  in  California  and  you  should  become  sick  and  not  likely 
to  live,  it  would  all  look  as  worthess  as  the  dust  in  the  air.  I  feel  very 
anxious  about  your  health.  Do  be  careful  of  it.  I  am  anxious  for 
fear  you  are  breaking  down  by  going  from  one  thing  to  another,  and 
that  you  will  get  so  much  business  on  hand  that  you  cannot  get  away. 

How  soon  it  will  be  said  of  us,  as  it  is  said  of  others, — "  They  are 
dead."  What  matters  it  whether  we  leave  one  dollar  or  a  million  dol- 
lars behind  us,  if  we  have  an  interest  in  Heaven? 

My  dear  son,  I  am  alone  here  the  most  of  the  time.  My  mind  goes 
from  this  child  to  that  one.  Sometimes  I  wish  I  could  live  my  life 
over  again,  to  see  if  I  could  not  live  a  better  life  before  them  and  set 
a  better  example,  but  that  cannot  be.  All  that  I  can  do  now  is  to  pray 
for  them,  and  that  I  do  daily. 

Nothing,  nothing  in  this  world  gives  me  so  much  comfort  as  to  know 
that  my  children  are  doing  well. 

My  dear  son,  how  do  you  enjoy  your  mind?  I  often  think  of  what 
Rev.  Mr.  Allen  said, — that  it  was  a  slippery  place  off  where  you  are, 
and  that  if  you  do  not  live  faithful,  you  will  fall.  Oh,  my  son,  if 
you  should  get  rich,  but  lose  that  peace  which  the  world  cannot  give 
nor  take  away,  awful  would  be  your  state. 

My  son,  live  at  the  foot  of  the  cross.     You  need  daily  grace  like 


520  APPENDIX  II 

the  daily  manna  of  the  Children  of  Israel  in  the  Wilderness ;  it  is  to  be 
daily  sought  and  daily  used.  You  have  not  told  me  that  you  have  a 
class  in  Sunday  school,  but  I  hope  that  you  have. 

Frederick  Wiley  was  ordained  at  South  Reading  the  20th  of  May. 
He  preaches  at  Raynhani,  Mass.,  for  one  year. 

George  Cox  has  not  gotten  home  yet.  There  is  a  report  the  vessel 
is  lost.  Do  you  know  the  name  of  the  vessel  he  came  in?  My  dear 
son,  when  I  get  a  newspaper  I  don't  stop  for  anything  till  I  look  it  over 
to  see  if  your  death  was  in  it.  You  say, — "  Why,  mother  ?  "  Well, 
my  son,  I  feel  a  deep  anxiety  about  you  that  no  one  knows  but  myself. 
You  cannot  begin  to  think  how  many  deaths  are  reported  in  the  Massa- 
chusetts papers  of  those  who  went  out  to  California.  You  are  liable 
to  die,  too. 

The  lady  I  spoke  of  is  Miss  Emily  Parsons.  She  is  a  fine  girl  and 
beloved  by  every  one.  I  want  you  to  come  home  and  build  in  Lynn- 
field.  There  are  some  new  houses  going  up  this  year.  Mr.  Rounday 
and  Levi  H.  Russell  are  both  building.  Mr.  George  Witchridge  has 
gone  from  Lynnfield  to  New  Concord  in  New  Hampshire  to  live.  Mr. 
W.  Witchridge  has  put  up  a  large  shoe-shop, — two  stories.  We  are 
coming  up  in  Lynnfield.  We  have  a  fine  minister  and  like  him  very 
much.     I  don't  want  you  to  go  back  when  you  come  home  for  good. 

June  5th.  Have  just  heard  that  George  Cox  has  gotten  home.  I 
would  be  glad  to  hear  something  about  him  before  I  send  this,  but  it 
must  go  at  once  or  I  cannot  send  it  for  fifteen  days,  the  next  mail. 
Lucy  Ann  is  up  and  brought  over  your  last  letter.  Charles  says  that 
Sophia  has  not  had  hers  yet.  We  are  all  well  as  far  as  I  know,  my 
dear  son.  I  do  want  to  see  you  so  very  much.  Mr.  Swain  sends  love. 
With  much  love  from  your  affectionate  mother. 

R.  H.  S. 

June  8th. — It  has  been  five  weeks  since  any  of  us  have  had  a  letter 
from  you.  I  have  written  you  every  month.  Have  delayed  sending 
this  in  hopes  I  should  hear  from  you,  but  no  word  comes. 

Sabbath  morning  the  minister  of  Stoneham  preaches  for  us.  To-day 
he  attends  a  funeral  in  Stoneham  after  meeting.  We  think  it  is  dear 
Briand. 

Lynnfield,  June  20th,  1850. 
My  Very  Dear  Son: 

How  do  you  do?  Well,  I  hope.  Your  long  wished  for  and  prayed 
for  letter  came  at  last.  Charles  wrote  me  a  short  letter  and  sent  it 
with  yours. 

My  dear  son,  I  begin  to  feel  as  though  you  were  dead,  for  every 
paper  contains  the  account  of  more  or  less  deaths  in  your  place.     I  ask 


REV.     CHARLES     W.     HEWES,     DAVID     HEWES, 

RE  A.   G.  S.  ABBOTT,  C.  W.  CONEY 

About  1860 


LETTERS  OF  MRS.  RUTHE  HEWES  521 

myself  every  time  I  read  them  why  it  is  that  my  dear  one's  death  is  not 
there  in  the  paper.  I  know  it  is  all  through  the  goodness  of  God,  and 
oh,  if  He  will  only  spare  your  life  to  come  home!  I  ask  not  for  gold 
or  silver.  I  plead  for  your  life.  I  have  in  all  four  letters  from  you. 
I,  with  others  of  the  family,  have  sent  you  five  letters.  The  one  you 
had  received  when  you  wrote  April  2nd,  was  our  first,  we  sent  it  in 
January.  I  had  a  letter  from  you  on  our  fast  day, — April  11th.  I 
wrote  you,  I  think  the  12th.     Yours  of  February  27th,  I  got  in  April. 

My  dearest  son,  I  have  so  much  to  say  to  you  that  I  don't  know  what 
to  say  first.  After  this  I  will  write  a  little  every  day  until  my  letter 
is  full.  I  am  glad  to  know  that  your  health  is  so  good.  Do  be  care- 
ful of  your  dear  health.  My  own  is  pretty  good.  It  is  much  better 
than  when  you  left,  for  which  I  feel  grateful  to  the  One  who  preserves 
us.  The  family  connection  are  all  well  as  far  as  I  know,  excepting 
George  Richards.  He  has  dyspepsia  so  badly  that  he  has  to  leave 
work  for  a  time.  He  is  going  out  fishing  for  a  few  weeks.  Lucy  Ann 
and  babe  are  coming  to  Lynnfield  to  stay.  I  went  to  Roxbury  this 
week  and  stayed  three  days.  L.  and  myself  went  to  Chelsea  to  see 
Aunt  Betsey  and  Mrs.  Young.  I  carried  your  letters  and  had  them  all 
read.  They  had  a  letter  from  George  but  none  from  Mr.  Young,  that 
is,  none  since  he  arrived  there,  they  had  two  written  on  the  way.  B. 
said  she  had  cried  herself  almost  to  death.  Oh,  my  dear  son,  you  can- 
not think  how  badly  we  feel  here  when  we  cannot  get  letters.  You 
feel  badly  there  also,  no  doubt,  but  we  are  all  here  together  and  it  is 
a  great  comfort  to  us  to  know  that  there  are  so  many  of  you  together 
there.  May  the  Lord  preserve  you  from  all  sickness,  temptation  and 
death.  I  hope  you  will  have  that  peace  of  soul  that  the  world  cannot 
give  nor  take  away. 

Oh,  my  dear  son,  try  to  live  so  that  you  will  be  prepared  for  sudden 
death,  if  that  should  be  the  will  of  God.  Don't  feel  too  anxious  to  be 
rich.  How  many  times  I  have  wished  that  I  had  fixed  on  an  hour  when 
we  would  both  bow  the  knee  and  pray  for  each  other.  My  son,  let  us 
fix  on  Sabbath  afternoon  at  5  o'clock,  and  every  day  in  the  week  besides 
in  our  closets. 

You  would  like  to  know  how  we  are  getting  along  in  the  church  and 
society.  Mr.  Green  preached  his  last  sermon  the  28th  of  April,  the 
same  day  you  wrote  to  Charley  and  me.  I  write  many  things  in  a  book 
so  I  can  look  back  and  see  what  I  was  doing  the  day  you  write  to  me. 
I  was  at  meeting  on  that  day.  Mr.  Green  has  moved  to  Andover,  to 
his  brother's.  We  have  had  preaching  every  Sabbath  since  he  left, 
and  good  preaching,  too,  by  different  ones.  Rev.  Mr.  Fay,  from  Wil- 
mington has  preached  4  times.  Then  we  had  a  young  man  from  Union 
College  to  preach  3  or  4  times.  The  Sewing  Circle  are.  painting  the 
inside  of  the  meeting  house.     They  have  a  sofa  for  the  pulpit,  and 


522  APPENDIX  II 

carpeted  the  aisles.  You  would  hardly  know  the  inside  of  the  church, 
it  looks  so  much  better.  You  remember  that  we  wanted  Mr.  Green  to 
let  a  year  go  this  spring.  He  would  not,  so  some  of  those  who  did 
not  like  him  got  up  a  Universalist  meeting  over  the  Town  Hall.  They 
have  a  minister  boarding  here  with  them  who  has  hurt  us  because  we 
cannot  sell  all  the  pews,  notwithstanding  all  that  we  feel  encouraged 
for  we  have  a  third  meeting  on  the  Sabbath  and  prayer-meeting  in  the 
week-time,  with  pretty  good  congregations. 

I  have  written  that  Col.  Cox  died  April  21st,  in  my  other  letter. 
They  have  had  a  man  go  on  after  William's  remains.  The  man  has 
gotten  back.  He  was  one  of  those  who  went  with  William  Cox  and 
others  and  had  to  come  back  because  he  was  sick.  If  you  get  my  let- 
ters you  know  that  James  Hewes  and  Mr.  Newhall  have  come  home. 
James  Hewes  has  bought  his  father's  place  and  is  going  to  live  with 
him.  Mr.  Newhall  is  living  on  Ed.  Cox's  place.  We  have  no  one  in 
our  house  this  year.  Joshua  Hewes  and  Daniel  Hewes  have  gone  off 
where  you  are.  I  did  not  know  it  until  after  they  had  gone  or  I  should 
have  written  by  them.  Mary  Ann  did  write  a  letter  and  sent  it  by 
them  to  you. 

My  dear  son,  when  do  you  think  of  coming  home  ?  I  do  want  to  see 
you.  Oh,  how  glad  I  am  to  hear  from  you!  Just  as  I  am  finishing 
my  letter  I  receive  a  letter  or  letters  from  you  dated  May  14th,  and  a 
lock  of  your  hair.  The  sight  of  it  affects  my  heart,  I  .  .  .  (there 
is  a  break  in  the  letter  here  and  new  ink  used  when  the  writing  is  re- 
sumed) . 

I  am  so  rejoiced  to  hear  from  you.  I  am  going  right  up  to  Sophia's. 
I  have  read  far  enough  to  know  that  you  are  alive  and  well.  I  cannot 
read  all  of  your  writing,  so  I  go  to  some  of  my  children  to  hear  them 
read  it.     A  letter  from  you  is  better  than  the  best  meat  that  ever  I  ate. 

I  am  at  Sophia's  now  and  have  heard  your  letters.  To-morrow  I 
shall  go  to  Salem  if  possible.  I  want  to  see  the  man  that  has  seen  you. 
Many  thanks,  my  dear  son,  for  what  you  mentioned  you  had  sent  me. 
It  is  too  bad  that  Charlie  does  not  write  to  you.  I  shall  write  to  him 
about  it.  I  will  do  my  best  to  have  all  write  to  you.  If  I  could  write 
as  well  as  all  my  dear  children  can,  I  would  write  for  them. 

Much  love  and  many  kisses,  from 

Your  Affectionate 

Mother. 

Lynnfield,  July  14th,  1850. 
My  Ever  Dear  Son: 

How  do  you  do?  I  hope  in  perfect  health.  I  hope  my  letters  will 
always  find  you  happy  and  in  perfect  health. 

I  received  your  letter  dated  the  29th  of  May  on  the  27th  of  June. 


LETTERS  OF  MRS.  RUTHE  HEWES  523 

The  letter  which  you  sent  by  Captain  A.  S.  Perkins  I  received  June 
29th.  You  sent  both  by  him  but  he  mailed  the  letter  as  you  see  by  the 
date,  and  the  gold,  too,  but  not  from  Salem,  as  you  wished  him  to. 

I  will  put  the  paper  into  this  letter,  then  you  will  know  where  it 
was  mailed  from.  The  letter  was  60c,  the  gold  40c;  $1.00  in  all. 
Captain  Perkins  has  not  been  here;  I  should  like  to  see  him,  but  don't 
know  when  I  can. 

My  Very  Dear  Son,  What  can  I  do  for  you?  That  was  a  very 
great  present !  Why,  I  am  60  years  old  and  I  never  had  anything  like 
it  before.  I  can  do  nothing  for  you  where  you  are,  but  to  pray  for  you 
and  write  to  you,  and  that  I  will  do. 

July  15th.  The  vial  that  the  gold  was  in  was  broken  all  to  pieces.  I 
could  pick  out  the  most  of  it.  It  was  very  acceptable,  I  tell  you.  I  ami 
owing  six  dollars  for  a  bonnet  and  two  dollars  to  the  Post  Office.  Why 
have  I  said  anything  about  this !  I  never  feel  badly  about  the  money  I 
pay  for  a  letter.  Oh,  no  indeed !  I  would  work  with  pleasure  when 
others  are  in  bed  to  have  a  letter  from  any  of  my  dear  children, 
especially  one  that  is  as  far  away  as  you,  and  I  thank  you  for  what  you 
have  paid  on  letters  to  me. 

I  had  a  letter  from  you  that  was  written  March  27th,  and  received 
on  the  4th  of  July. 

Mr.  Temple  and  Mr.  Bagger  went  part  of  the  way  to  California, 
but  got  home-sick  and  came  back.     They  were  gone  about  a  fortnight. 

July  19th.  William  Cox's  remains  were  brought  back  to  Lynnfield 
a  few  days  ago  and  buried  by  his  father's. 

July  16th.  My  Dear  Son,  I  am  going  to  write  to  you  every  chance 
I  have  until  this  letter  is  full. 

I  have  hoped  that  Charles  would  come  home  this  summer,  but  he 
wrote  a  short  letter  to  Sophia  saying  that  he  thought  they  would  not 
come  this  year.  George  and  Lucy  Ann  are  up  here.  They  have  been 
here  three  weeks.     George's  health  has  been  poor,  but  is  better  now. 

I  have  not  heard  one  word  about  Benjamin  Buxton,  only  what  I 
wrote  you. 

My  dear  son,  I  want  to  tell  you  about  the  churches  and  society  here 
in  Lynnfield.  Well,  I  have  written  you  about  Mr.  Green.  He  is  gone. 
We  have  had  good  preaching  every  Sabbath  since  he  left.  After  he 
had  left,  the  Sewing  Circle  painted  the  inside  of  the  meeting  house. 
Then  we  had  a  subscription  paper.  I  went  one  day  with  that.  Two 
others  went.  We  got  in  all  about  30  dollars,  with  which  we  have  car- 
peted the  aisles.  You  would  hardly  know  the  house.  What  is  still 
better,  we  have  had  for  the  last  three  Sabbaths  a  fine  young  man  from 
Yale  College  by  the  name  of  Reed.  Why,  my  dear  son,  I  never  heard 
such  preaching  in  our  meeting  house  in  all  my  life.  There  is  a  good 
state  of  feeling  in  this  place.     If  we  can  detain  him  we  shall  feel  as 


5M  APPENDIX  II 

if  we  had  drawn  a  prize.  He  has  gone  this  week  and  next  to  see 
friends  in  New  York.  The  church  and  society  held  a  meeting  yester- 
day to  see  what  they  could  do  to  induce  him  to  come  back.  Mr. 
William  Whitchredge  and  Mr.  Joseph  Hart  joined  the  society.  It  was 
such  a  busy  time  haying  that  there  was  but  few  out.  They  raised  $65 
by  subscription.  Deacon  Perkins,  $20.  Deacon  Smith,  $5.00.  His 
health  has  been  very  poor,  but  he  does  a  great  deal  for  us.  Mr.  Swain 
gave  $10.  Mr.  Hart  $10,  Mr.  Whitcheridge  $10,  Mr.  Bryant  $10;  the 
paper  is  to  be  carried  around  to  see  what  can  be  raised  on  it  besides 
the  $65.00. 

Well,  my  dear  son,  I  have  felt  for  a  great  many  years  that  if  I  ever 
had  much  given  me  I  would  give  some  part  of  it  to  support  the  Gospel. 
Now  there  is  a  chance  for  me  to  do  as  I  have  so  long  thought  I  would 
like  to  do.  When  asked  what  I  would  do,  I  told  them  what  you  had 
sent  me.  It  amounts  to  $32.72.  What  a  sum  for  me !  Well,  my  dear 
son,  I  will  give  seven  dollars  of  it,  and  if  you  had  not  said  that  you 
would  remember  your  brothers  and  sisters  I  should  have  been  so 
selfish  that  I  should  have  asked  you  to  give  a  little,  for  the  common 
report  says  that  Mr.  Green  has  been  the  means  of  a  number  leaving 
us,  part  of  them  professors  of  religion, —  Captain  Bancroft,  Mr.  Hub- 
bard Emerson,  Col.  Cox's  family,  besides  others.  That  weakens  us, 
but  if  God  be  for  us  it  is  more  than  all  that  can  be  against  us. 

Time  will  tell  that  if  we  can  retain  this  Rev.  Mr.  Reed  we  shall 
have  great  reason  to  be  thankful.  Those  whom  I  mentioned  have  all 
gone  to  the  Universalist  meeting.     They  have  a  minister  for  one  year. 

You  ask  me  how  my  head  is.  It  troubles  me  at  times,  but  is  so  much 
better  than  I  ever  hoped  that  I  feel  as  if  I  were  well. 

My  dear  son,  how  do  you  enjoy  your  mind?  Dear  son,  do  let  us 
live  faithful  and  not  be  too  anxious  for  the  world.  Life  is  so  uncer- 
tain. I  mentioned  in  my  last  letter  that  I  wanted  you  to  unite  with  me 
in  prayer  particularly  on  Sabbath  afternoon  at  5  o'clock  and  often  at 
other  times.  George  and  Lucy  Ann  are  at  Reading.  Benjamin  Swain 
is  well.  His  face  looks  very  badly,  so  pitted.  He  has  left  off  doing 
anything  to  his  machine.  If  he  would  be  steady  and  work  at  it  he 
might  make  his  fortune.     He  is  in  Boston  now,  making  shoes. 

Mr.  Swain  sends  love.  Says  if  he  comes  to  Sacramento  he  shall 
bring  a  load  of  potatoes  out  there  to  you.  Everything  that  is  growing 
looks  fine.  Folks  are  haying  now.  Berries  are  plenty.  Do  you  have 
any  there?  I  wish  I  could  see  you.  You  mentioned  that  you  might 
come  home  in  the  fall  and  go  back  in  the  spring.  Won't  you  have 
money  enough  to  stay  in  Massachusetts  ?  I  shan't  want  you  to  go  back. 
Not  if  I  am  living,  my  dear  son. 

I  wrote  you -a  letter  in  March  that  you  have  not  acknowledged.  I 
paid  the  postage  on  it, —  50  cents.      I  have  not  paid  one  since,  for  I  do 


LETTERS  OF  MRS.  RUTHE  HEWES  525 

not  know  whether  a  letter  will  be  as  sure  to  go  if  I  prepay.  Some  say 
they  will  not.  Some  of  the  children  are  going  to  write  to  you.  Do 
write  to  me  soon,  won't  you  ?  And  do  be  careful  of  your  health.  The 
last  letter  to  you  I  sent  to  the  Post  Office  on  the  26th  of  June. 

Sabbath,  July  21st.  Oliver  Emerson  has  preached  for  us  to-day. 
He  has  been  at  home  for  three  weeks.  Is  going  back  again  soon.  He 
is  smart.      He  has  not  altered  much.     Looks  older. 

My  dear  son,  Aunt  Flint  came  up  last  Wednesday.  Mrs.  Buxton 
received  yours  that  you  sent  with  mine.  The  poor  woman  feels  so 
badly.  She  has  heard  no  word  from  her  son  since  she  got  news  that 
her  husband  was  dead.  She  wanted  sister  Flint  to  come  and  see  if  you 
had  written  anything  to  me  about  him.  If  you  can  learn  anything  do 
write  to  his  mother.  George  and  Lucy  Ann  went  home  yesterday. 
They  think  of  writing  to  you.  Aunt  Hart  from  Danvers  was  here  to- 
day noon.     Tillden  and  Ruth  were  here  yesterday. 

July  29th.  My  dear  son,  I  have  sat  down  to  finish  this  letter.  No 
one  has  come  to  take  it  yet  and  I  am  determined  to  write  to  you  as  long 
as  I  am  able.  To  you,  and  to  others  that  are  far  away.  I  had  a  few 
lines  from  Charles  in  April  and  a  few  lines  once  since.  Not  half  a 
sheet  in  all.  I  wrote  to  him  and  sent  the  letter  you  sent  me  when  the 
gold  came.  I  thought  that  would  tell  him  that  he  did  not  write  you. 
There  is  nothing  very  interesting  to  write  about.  Everything  moves 
along  just  the  same.  It  is  very  healthy.  There  has  not  been  a  death 
since  Col.  Cox's  in  April.  George  Hewes  is  not  well  but  is  some  better. 
Doctor  Stevens  is  doing  for  him  now. 

My  dear  son,  I  carry  your  likeness  wherever  I  journey.  Mary  Ann 
has  had  it  to  carry  to  the  Sewing  Circle. 

Pearson,  who  killed  his  wife  and  two  little  children,  is  to  be  hung  to- 
morrow between  the  hours  of  nine  and  ten.  His  father  wants  him 
brought  home  to  have  a  funeral,  if  it  is  so  I  think  we  shall  go  to  it. 
Webster  is  to  be  hung  the  30th  of  August.  I  will  send  you  a  paper 
that  has  his  confession  in  it.  He  has  been  a  bad  man  and  no  mistake. 
Aunt  Flint  says  that  folks  think  in  Cambridge  that  he  was  the  cause  of 
his  mother's  death  and  of  the  disappearance  of  an  Irish  girl. 

From  Your  Affectionate  Mother, 

R.  H.  Swain. 

Lynnfield,  July  26th,   1850. 
My    Very   Dear  and  absent   Son: — 

I  have  just  sent  a  letter  suddenly  to  the  Post  Office,  for  you.  It  is 
the  second  time  I  have  had  to  send  a  letter  before  I  had  finished  it, 
because  there  was  a  chance  to  send. 

Now  I  have  commenced  another  at  once,  for  I  will  write  you  one  a 
month  as  long  as  I  can. 


526  APPENDIX  II 

July  27th.  I  have  taken  my  pen  to  write  again.  I  had  a  letter 
from  Charlie  this  morning  saying  he  was  coming  home  to-day, —  wants 
me  to  meet  him  at  South  Reading,  at  12  o'clock.  I  am  going,  but  you 
see  I  have  written  you  four  lines  today. 

28th.  Yesterday,  when  I  got  to  Mary  Ann's,  Charlie  was  there. 
He  has  come  alone  on  business  to  Boston  and  is  going  to  stop  one 
week.  His  family  are  well  but  he  has  so  much  to  do  that  he  could  not 
be  away  from  home  long.  He  is  one  of  the  Trustees  who  are  getting 
up  that  School  again.  Elizabeth  Coney  and  Mary  Henfield  are  going 
to  attend  it. 

29th.  Charles  preached  for  the  Baptists  yesterday  morning  and  for 
us  at  third  meeting.  His  text  was, — "Take  my  yoke  upon  you,  for  my 
yoke  is  easy  and  my  burden  light." 

August  Abbott  said  that  Charles  preached  the  best  sermon  that  had 
ever  been  preached  in  the  Baptist  meeting  house.  He  (August)  gave 
him  a  new  pair  of  boots  for  a  present  today. 

30th.  Mr.  Swain  and  Charles  have  gone  to  Roxbury.  Tomorrow 
will  be  a  great  day  at  North  Reading, —  a  Railroad  Celebration. 

Aug.  2nd.  Charles  went  home  this  morning.  He  says  he  has  sent 
you  three  letters  and  some  papers.  The  Railroad  Company  invited  its 
Stockholders  and  others  interested  to  a  free  excursion  from  Salem  to 
Lowell  and  back.  From  a  thousand  to  fifteen  hundred  went.  Charles 
was  invited.  When  they  came  from  Lowell  they  stopped  at  North 
Reading  and  had  a  lunch  upon  the  Hill  in  front  of  the  meeting  house. 

The  next  day  every  one  who  wished  to  go  to  Lowell  was  invited  to 
go  free.  The  cars  were  loaded  again.  Neither  Mr.  Swain  nor  myself 
went.  Tillden  and  family,  Aaron  and  family,  Joel  and  family  and 
Jeremiah's  children  went,  but  none  of  Benjamin's  family. 

Aaron  has  his  model,  two  story  shop  up.  He  tore  the  other  one 
away.  The  Railroad  Depot  is  where  Mr.  Campbell  used  to  live,  next 
to  Mr.  Ben  Sampson. 

Aug.  5th.  I  have  no  doubt  you  have  seen  the  death  of  Mr.  Daniel 
P.  King  in  the  papers,  and  think  likely  you  have  seen  the  Confession 
and  Execution  of  Pearsons.  He  was  brought  to  Wilmington  and 
buried  by  the  side  of  his  wife  and  little  children. 

Lucy  Ann  has  gone  home  with  Charles  to  stay  a  number  of  weeks. 
My  dear  son,  when  Charles  was  here  I  wanted  him  to  fix  me  a  paper  to 
send  to  you,  but  he  said,  "  No,  mother,  I  will  send  him  one  for  you 
when  I  get  home."  So  you  see  I  cannot  do  as  I  would  like  to  because 
I  don't  know  how.  You  told  me  in  your  letter  that  you  had  the  Re- 
corder to  read,  and  I  asked  Deacon  Smith  if  Dr.  Webster's  Confession 
was  in  the  Recorder,  he  said  that  it  was,  so  I  suppose  you  have  seen  it. 

August  10th.  My  dear  son,  I  have  had  a  letter  from  you  this  after- 
noon.    How  good  it  is  to  hear  from  you !     It  is  better  than  meat  or 


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drink.  Sophia  is  here,  so  I  can  have  every  word  of  it,  so  I  will  say- 
Goodnight. 

Aug.  12th.  I  had  Sophia  fix  the  letter  you  sent  to  Charles  Flint 
and  sent  it  to  Mrs.  Buxton.  C.  is  10  miles  out  from  Boston,  I  have 
forgotten  the  name  of  the  place,  and  I  thought  it  would  do  Mrs.  B. 
so  much  good  to  know  something  about  her  son.  I  asked  how  to  send 
it  to  C.  My  dear  son,  I  have  sent  you  a  letter  every  month.  March, 
and  April,  and  May,  and  June,  and  July.  They  all  went  from  here 
the  last  of  the  month.  I  ought  to  have  said  I  have  written  you  one 
every  month  since  you  went  from  home.  Where  can  my  last  letters  be 
that  I  have  sent?  They  have  all  been  directed  as  you  told  me  in 
your   letter. 

I  have  mentioned  all  that  was  interesting  and  all  that  Sophia  had 
not  written.  You  said  in  your  last  letter  you  expected  that  Mr. 
Badger  and  Mr.  Temple  were  not  far  from  you.  I  wrote  you  in  my  last 
letter  but  one,  that  was  June,  that  they  were  gone  but  12  or  14  days 
after  starting  and  then  came  back.  They  mailed  our  letters  in  New 
York  after  they  came  back.     They  were  homesick. 

Old  Mr.  Danforth  wants  you  to  write  in  your  letters  if  you  know 
anything  about  his  son  Henry.  He  has  not  heard  one  word  from  him 
since  April.  Captain  Bancroft  has  put  up  a  large  barn  on  the  end 
of  the  other  barn  next  to  the  meeting  house  and  Joseph  Hill's. 

21st.  My  dear  son,  I  am  going  to  finish  my  letter  to  send  to  you. 
Oh,  if  I  had  wings  I  would  fly  to  you  quickly.  I  do  want  to  see  you 
so  much,  my  son. 

What  do  you  want  me  to  do  with  the  gold  you  sent  me?  I  told  you 
what  I  had  done  with  some  of  it.  I  want  to  do  something  with  it  to 
remember  you  by.  I  have  thought  I  would  get  a  carpet,  but  then  if  I 
should  be  sick,  I  would  need  the  money  more  than  a  carpet. 

You  mentioned  in  your  letter  that  Mr.  Young  was  coming  home  after 
his  family.  Why,  I  am  afraid  it  will  make  Aunt  Betsey  crazy.  She  is 
so  full  of  trouble.  If  I  can  find  out  when  he  gets  home  I  shall  go  down 
and  see  him.  When  will  you  come  home?  Don't  think  of  settling 
down  out  there,  I  beg  of  you.     You  said  you  had  bought  land. 

August  29th. 
Dear  Brother: — 

I  am  at  mother's  this  afternoon  and,  as  she  has  not  finished  her  letter 
I  am  going  to  do  it  for  her. 

We  are  all  well  except  Mary  Ann's  folks.  Mary  Ellen  is  quite  un- 
well. Their  little  son,  the  youngest,  Daniel  Proctor,  is  dead.  He  died 
Monday,  the  26th  of  August,  of  cholera  infantum.  He  was  buried 
yesterday,  the  28th.  They  feel  very  badly  indeed.  He  was  sick  only 
four  days.     He  died  very  suddenly  indeed.     Mary  Ann  wished  mother 


528  APPENDIX  II 

to  say  to  you  to  be  sure  and  write  her  a  good  long  letter.     Poor  girl ! 
She  feels  sad  indeed  at  such  a  loss. 

Mr.  Young  has  just  left  here  but  was  gone  when  I  came.  We  were 
very  glad  indeed  to  see  some  one  who  has  seen  you  and  to  hear  so 
directly  from  you.  You  say  in  mother's  letter  that  you  have  not  had 
a  letter  by  the  last  three  steamers.  Mother  and  myself  have  written 
once  a  month.  The  letters  must  be  lost.  Mr.  Young  brought  two  vials 
of  gold.  One  he  said  was  for  mother  and  the  other  for  Joel.  Mother 
thinks  he  made  a  mistake  and  one  is  for  me.  Mother  says  not  but 
what  the  gold  would  be  very  acceptable  to  her,  but  why  Joel  before 
Sophia  ? 

Now  I  will  say  a  word,  never  mind  about  that,  though  it  would  be 
very  acceptable  indeed. 

Dear  Brother,  if  our  lives  and  health  are  preserved  I  am  very  glad 
to  hear  that  you  are  prospering  in  the  things  that  pertain  to  this  life, 
but  let  us  remember  to  lay  up  a  treasure  above.  We  have  written  all 
the  interesting  news  in  our  last  letters.  Mother  sends  a  great  deal  of 
love. 

Good-bye,  dear  brother,  with  much  love, 

R.  H.  S.  and  S.  L. 

Father  says  "  give  my  respects  to  David." 

Lynnfield,  Aug.  22nd. 
Dear  Uncle: — 

Here  I  am  down  to  spend  the  afternoon  with  Grandmother,  and  it 
is  here  that  she  asked  me  to  write  to  you,  which  indeed,  I  am  very  glad 
to  do.     We  are  all  quite  well  and  hope  you  are  too. 

Grandmother  is  getting  tea,  which  I  presume  you  would  be  very  glad 
indeed  to  drink  with  us.  We  fear  you  are  prospering  so  well  in  that 
far  off  land  that  you  will  not  return  to  us  for  a  long  time.  However, 
we  are  thankful  that  your  life  is  spared. 

A  very  sad  accident  happened  at  the  south  part  of  the  Town  on 
Friday  last,  in  which  13  lives  were  lost  by  drowning.  It  was  a  picnic 
party  that  came  out  from  Lynn.  Twenty-five  of  them  were  sailing  on 
the  pond  and,  by  some  means  or  other,  the  boat  was  upset.  Report  says 
that  the  boat  leaked  a  very  little,  which  frightened  the  ladies.  (They 
were  mostly  ladies,  only  one  man  being  in  the  boat)  which  caused  them 
to  run  from  side  to  side  to  avoid  the  water.  The  man  that  was  on 
board  had  been  married  but  three  weeks  when  both  of  them  found  a 
watery  grave.  Part  of  them  were  from  Medway  and  Saugus.  Sad 
thought,  Thirteen  funerals  on  Saturday.  One  week  from  next  Mon- 
day I  am  to  take  my  leave  of  absence  from  Lynnfield  for  a  short  time, 
bound  for  Lansingburgh,  N.  Y.  Miss  Mary  E.  Henfield  is  going  out 
with  me.     We  anticipate  much  pleasure  both  in  our  journey  and  our 


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studies.  I  don't  know  whether  I  shall  stay  more  than  one  quarter  or 
not.  You  will  say,  "stay  a  year,  certainly."  Had  I  California  dust 
enough,  I  could  decide  very  quickly.  Sometimes  I  almost  wish  I  were 
out  there  with  you.  I  am  attending  writing  school  now,  which  doubt- 
less, you  have  already  anticipated,  at  sight  of  my  great  improvement 
in  the  art. 

I  suppose  you  do  not  regret  going  out  to  that  Western  Land.  If 
you  did,  would  you  say  so?  The  Railroad  from  Lowell  to  Salem  is 
now  finished  and  they  are  having  glorious  times.  They  are  in  their 
element.     You  had  better  come  home  and  enjoy  the  frolic  with  them. 

My  self-allotted  time  is  now  far  spent,  but  I  hardly  know  where  to 
stop  now  that  I  have  got  well  under  way.  I  shall  make  no  apologies  for 
this  scribbling  as  none  is  necessary.  Mother  and  the  rest  of  the  folks 
would  be  glad  to  send  abundance  of  love  and  many  good  wishes,  but 
as  they  do  not  know  that  I  am  writing  you,  you  must  take  "  the  will  for 
the  deed." 

I  should  be  most  happy  to  hear  from  you  when  I  am  gone  if  it  be 
possible.     I  bid  you  an  affectionate  Good-bye. 
In  Haste, — 

Lizzie. 

(Additional,  written  by  Sophia)  : 

Mother  wants  to  see  you  more  than  ever,  and  so  do  I.  You  must 
come  this  fall,  can't  you?  We  have  just  heard  that  Major  Mansfield 
is  dangerously  sick  with  dysentery.  It  is  a  general  time  of  health. 
Do  take  good  care  of  yourself.  Mr.  Crane,  from  the  Paper  Mill, 
Sarah  Carter's  husband,  returned  home  last  Saturday  with  $8,000. 

Lynnfield,  Sept.   3rd,  1850. 
My  Very  Dear  Son: 

It  makes  me  grieved  and  sad  when  I  hear  that  you  don't  get  my  let- 
ters. I  have  written  one  to  you  every  month  since  you  left.  I  have 
received  all  of  your  letters  since  you  began  to  number  them  except  No. 
4.  I  have  written  you  all  that  was  interesting  as  I  passed  along,  for 
I  wrote  but  a  few  lines  at  a  time. 

I  cannot  but  think  you  will  get  some  of  them ;  but,  Oh  my  dear  son, 
don't  leave  off  writing  to  me,  I  beg  of  you.  Take  my  word  I  will 
write  you  a  letter  every  month  as  long  as  I  can  hold  my  pen.  I  can 
write  but  a  few  lines  at  a  time.  My  eyes  trouble  me,  though  my  head 
is  much  better. 

You  ask  if  I  have  received  my  gold.  Yes,  I  wrote  in  two  letters  at 
least  about  it.  In  my  last  I  said  nothing,  thinking  you  had  received 
my  previous  letters.  I  got  the  letter  you  sent  by  Captain  Perkins, 
June  20-27,  and  received  the  gold;  but  he  did  not  do  as  vou  wished 


530  APPENDIX  II 

him  to.  The  letter  was  mailed  on  the  Steam-ship.  I  have  not  seen 
him.  If  I  knew  you  had  not  yet  received  my  letters  I  would  write 
again  what  I  have  written,  but  I   hope  you  have  them  now. 

Mr.  Young  and  wife  came  to  see  me  last  Friday — 29th.  I  was  glad 
to  see  them.  He  could  stop  but  one  hour.  I  had  to  get  dinner  in 
the  time  so  I  could  ask  him  but  a  few  things  and  I  want  to  see  him 
again  very  much.  He  gave  me  a  letter  and  a  vial  of  gold, — said  you 
sent  it  to  me.  He  said  nothing  of  your  sending  any  to  your  brothers 
and  sisters.  I  asked  his  wife  if  she  was  sure  if  you  had  sent  it  to  me, 
because  you  had  already  sent  me  a  large  present  of  gold,  and  had  said 
you  would  remember  brothers  and  sisters  next.  She  said:  "Yes, 
William  says  it  is  for  you."  They  had  seen  you  about  an  hour  and  sent 
a  vial  back  by  Mr.  Bryant,  he  said  it  was  for  me. 

Sophia  came  down  here  the  same  afternoon.  I  told  her  that  I 
guessed  the  one  they  had  given  me  was  for  her,  and  you  were  going 
to  give  to  the  oldest  first.  After  that  we  heard  from  North  Reading 
and  Mr.  Young  had  sent  the  rest  of  it  there. 

Elizabeth  Coney  has  gone  to  Charles  to  go  to  school  where  he  lives. 
I  sent  a  vial  of  gold  by  her. 

My  Dear  Son,  you  have  made  us  all  a  handsome  present,  me  in  par- 
ticular, for  which  I  give  you  many  thanks. 

Mary  Ann  has  lost  her  little  boy,  Proctor.  He  was  sick  four  days 
with  dysentery.  He  died  the  26th  of  August.  They  had  his  likeness 
taken  after  he  died.  It  looks  well,  not  like  death  —  but  like  sleep. 
Mary  Ann  is  taken  with  him.  She  held  him  in  her  arms.  I  was  there 
the  day  he  died.  He  was  in  great  distress  until  about  two  hours  before 
he  died.  He  became  easy  then.  He  was  perfectly  sensible.  Would 
wipe  the  tear  from  his  mother's  face.  He  began  to  talk  when  easy. 
He  pointed  to  us  all  and  kissed  every  one  without  any  one  saying  a 
word  to  him  about  it,  and  smiled  a  number  of  times.  I  never  saw  any- 
thing like  it  before.  He  died  like  a  baby  going  to  sleep,  but  I  never 
saw  a  family  feel  as  badly  as  they  did.  But  the  all-wise  hand  of  God 
has  taken  one  who  was  prepared  to  go.  Whose  turn  it  will  be  next  we 
cannot  know,  and  it  is  no  matter  if  we  are  only  prepared.  My  Dear 
Son,  let  us  try  to  live  so  that  if  we  should  be  called  suddenly  we  could 
give  up  our  account  with  joy,  for  how  often  are  we  warned  of  the 
certainty   of   death. 

August  10th.  To-day  I  have  been  to  Mary  Ann's.  Scobey  is  sick 
and  it  is  doubtful  if  he  lives.  Mary  Ann's  cup  is  full.  I  hope  these 
afflictions  will  be  for  her  spiritual  good.  I  am  going  to  attend  a  lec- 
ture this  afternoon.  We  have  a  minister  from  New  Jersey  preach- 
ing here  now.  We  like  him  much.  We  are  in  hopes  that  he  will  settle 
with  us.  His  name  is  Condit.  I  have  written  you  all  about  Mr.  Green 
in  my  other  letters.      I  hope  you  have  them  before  this. 


LETTERS  OF  MRS.  RUTHE  HEWES  531 

Dear  Brother: — 

Mother  has  gone  to  meeting,  but  she  said  this  letter  must  go  to- 
morrow, so  I  am  writing  for  her.  I  am  storm-stayed,  Lucy  is  more  com- 
fortable.    The  other  friends  are  all  well. 

Cousin  Joshua  started  for  Sacramento  in  May  last,  to  go  to  you. 
Have  you  seen  him?      Cousin  Daniel  has  started  too. 

The  potato  crop  is  mostly  eaten  up  by  rot.  It  was  never  so  bad 
before.  We  have  had  a  great  deal  of  rain.  It  is  a  general  time  of 
health.     I  hope  you  are  well. 

There  are  abundance  of  berries  of  all  kinds.  Mother  says  she  hopes 
you  have  got  gold  enough  from  the  Mines  to  come  home. 

A  heap  of  love  from  us  all.  Good-bye.  Write  to  us  as  often  as  the 
mail  comes  out.  Sister  Ruth. 

Lynnfield,  Nov.  26th,  1850. 
My  Dear  Child: — 

How  do  you  do?  In  good  health,  I  hope.  I  received  a  letter  from 
you  yesterday,  the  25th.  It  was  mailed  October  14th.  My  son,  what 
happiness  it  is  to  me  to  get  a  letter  from  you  and  to  know  that  you  are 
alive  at  each  time,  but  it  is  so  very  trying  to  me  to  know  that  you  do  not 
receive  my  letters.  I  have  sent  you  one  every  month  since  you  left 
home,  and  have  written  you  all  that  was  interesting. 

I  don't  know  but  that  I  have  had  all  of  your  letters  excepting  one, — 
No.  4.     I  did  not  get  that  one. 

Have  you  not  heard  yet  of  the  death  of  Mary  Ann's  little  boy  — 
Proctor?  He  died  August  26th.  Was  sick  only  four  days, —  Cholera 
Infantum.  Leroy  was  taken  with  dysentery  and  for  a  number  of 
weeks  it  was  not  thought  that  he  would  live,  but  he  got  better. 

Benjamin  was  taken  sick  with  his  old  complaint,  Rheumatism,  and 
has  not  done  any  work  for  about  three  months.  He  cannot  walk  a 
step.  I  have  been  in  hopes  that  he  would  be  able  to  come  up  here  on 
Thanksgiving,  but  he  is  not  here.  We  have  had  three  invitations  to 
Thanksgiving,  from  Ruth,  Joel  and  Oliver  Swain.  Mr.  Swain  thinks 
we  must  go  to  Oliver's. 

My  dear  son,  where  are  you  going?  Oh,  I  wish  you  were  coming 
home !  We  wrote  to  you  the  last  of  August  and  the  first  of  September 
all  about  Mary  Ann's  family  affliction.  Mary  Ann  and  Mary  Ellen 
wrote  with  me  at  that  time.  If  you  have  not  had  those  letters  Mary 
Ann  wanted  you  to  write  her  a  long  letter.  She  has  had  one  from  you 
since  but  you  had  not  received  ours  then.  They  are  afflicted  but  do  not 
complain. 

I  had  a  short  letter  from  Charles  the  other  day.  He  sent  me  the 
one  he  had  from  you.  He  said  he  had  sent  you  five  letters.  It  is  too 
bad  that  you  cannot  get  our  letters. 


532  APPENDIX  II 

It  has  been  a  very  pleasant  fall.  On  the  26th  of  November  we  had 
a  very  little  snow.     James  Reed  died  the  12th  of  Nov.     He  had  a  fever. 

We  like  our  minister  well.  There  is  a  good  state  of  feeling  in  the 
church.  The  meetings  are  well  attended.  There  were  50  out  to 
prayer-meeting.  Two  of  Mrs.  Moses'  daughters  have  joined  the 
church. 

I  have  been  to  Roxbury.  Addie  Cox  went  with  me.  I  went  to  Aunt 
Flint's  and  sent  for  Mrs.  Buxton  to  come  to  Aunt's.  She  said  she 
would.  I  suppose  something  prevented  for  she  did  not  come.  I  carried 
your  letters  with  me  and  had  them  read,  but  neither  of  the  girls  were 
at  home.  I  was  sorry  I  could  not  see  Mrs.  Buxton.  Her  son  has  never 
written  any  particulars  to  his  mother  about  his  father.  She  says  she 
has  great  reason  to  thank  you  for  your  kindness  to  her  and  to  her  son. 
I  have  re-written  in  this  much  that  I  said  in  my  last  letters,  for  fear 
you  will  not  get  them.  My  brother,  Joseph  Tapley,  has  lost  his  wife. 
She  had  a  fever  and  died  the  23rd  of  October.  We  wrote  you  all 
particulars  in  the  last  letter.  Lucy  Ann  says  she  don't  know  what 
George  has  written  you  about  coming  to  you.  She  has  no  thought  of 
coming.  He  won't  come  without  her.  All  the  friends  are  well  but 
Benjamin.  My  health  is  pretty  good.  My  head  troubles  me  but  little, 
though  my  eyes  do. 

I  ask  Ruth,  Aaron  and  Joel  to  write  with  me  this  time.  Aaron  and 
myself  had  a  letter  from  you  last  month.  I,  with  Joshua  Hewes,  this 
month.  Lizzie  Coney  came  home  last  week.  She  liked  her  school 
much. 

Thanksgiving  Day.  Well,  my  dear  son,  it  is  raining  to-day,  and  it 
reminds  me  of  another  rainy  Thanksgiving  Day,  a  number  of  years 
ago,  when  none  of  the  children  came  home  to  Thanksgiving  but  you.  I 
look  back  to  the  time  when  there  was  a  large  family  at  home,  now 
there  are  only  enough  to  say  "  we."  My  dear  children  are  all  out  of 
sight,  but  not  one  of  them  are  out  of  mind. 

My  child,  I  want  to  know  how  you  enjoy  your  mind?  Do  you  have 
that  peace  which  the  world  can  never  give  nor  take  away?  Do  not 
feel  too  anxious  to  get  rich.  A  little  of  this  world  with  a  clear  con- 
science and  a  contented  mind  is  far  better  than  gold  or  silver. 

I  must  close  to  go  to  meeting.  I  thank  you  for  writing  to  me  often. 
It  is  better  than  meat  or  drink  to  me  to  have  a  letter  from  you,  but  Oh, 
I  tell  you,  I  want  to  see  you !  I  often  think  when  I  am  here  alone  if 
I  only  had  wings  how  I  would  fly  to  you !  But  then  I  say  to  myself, 
how  can  I  be  thankful  enough  to  know  that  you  have  enough  of  this 
world,  and,  I  hope,  an  interest  in  Heaven  too. 

When  I  read  in  the  papers  you  sent  me  of  the  sufferings  on  the 
plains,  I  asked  myself  how  I   should  feel  if  you  were  one  of  them. 


LETTERS  OF  MRS.  RUTHE  HEWES  533 

Oh,    I    cannot    tell !    but,    my    son,    be    very    careful    of    your    health. 
I  must  say  Good-bye ; 

Much  love  from   your  Affectionate   Mother, 

R.  H.  S. 

Lynnfield,  Nov.  30th,  1850. 
My  Very  Dear  and  Absent  Son; — 

Ruth  and  myself  mailed  you  a  letter  yesterday  in  answer  to  the  one 
you  wrote  October  13th,  and  which  reached  us  Nov.  25th. 

In  this  letter  I  told  you  that  Mr.  Swain  and  myself  were  going  to 
Oliver  Swain's  to  Thanksgiving  dinner.  We  went  the  next  day,  and 
had  a  number  of  our  children  at  home;  Joel  and  wife,  Tillden  and  fam- 
ily, Aaron  and  family,  Oliver  Swain  and  family.  I  expected  Jeremiah 
and  Sophia  to  come  with  Benjamin  and  Mary  Ann  if  they  were  able. 

As  I  mentioned  in  my  last,  Benjamin  Cox  has  been  sick.  Oh,  my 
son,  as  I  sat  at  the  table  with  those  of  the  children  who  were  present, 
how  my  mind  flew  to  you !     The  tears  would  come ! 

I  mentioned  that  at  last  Thanksgiving  you  were  here,  but  Oh,  where 
were  you  now! 

We  had  a  very  good  time, —  nineteen  of  us  in  all. 

Dec.  4th.  I  will  write  a  little  more  to-day.  Last  Sunday  Mary 
Ann  came  to  our  meeting  and  came  home  with  us  afterwards  to  dinner. 

Yesterday,  Tuesday,  we  had  the  neighbors  in  to  spend  the  after- 
noon. There  were  Mr.  Bryant  and  wife,  Mr.  Macenter  and  wife,  Mr. 
Levi  Smith  and  family,  Mr.  Shute  and  family,  fifteen  altogether. 

Dec.  6th.  Sophia  came  down  at  11  o'clock  to  spend  the  day  with 
me.  Mrs.  Shannon  and  Lydia  Hewes  also  came  in  to  see  me.  I  told 
you  in  my  last  letter  that  James  Reed  was  dead.  To-day  his  property 
is  seized.  Oh,  my  dear  son,  what  changes  a  month  will  bring  about! 
Sometimes  a  single  day  will  bring  sickness  and  sudden  death. 

The  first  of  this  month  the  friends  of  Mr.  Levi  H.  Russell  received 
news  of  the  death  of  his  brother,  Benjamin,  who  went  to  California. 
He  was  drowned.  This  was  terrible  news  to  his  friends.  It  happened 
on  October  13th,  you  may  have  seen  it  in  the  papers. 

My  dear  son,  it  is  one  year  to-night  since  you  and  George  came  and 
said  you  were  going  to  California.  That  was  the  first  I  could  believe 
you  were  really  going  away.  Oh,  the  night  you  left  me !  And  not 
only  that  night  but  all  the  nights  and  days  of  these  long  weeks  and 
months  for  the  year  that  you  have  been  gone!  What  a  continual 
anxiety.  Yet  I  feel  thankful  that  I  have  had  letters  from  you  so  often. 
Still,  I  am  afraid  of  your  becoming  so  anxious  to  get  rich  that  you  will 
not  enjoy  your  mind  well.  Oh,  be  careful  of  that,  my  son.  How  many 
there  are  who  obtain  their  riches  and  start  for  home,  but  die  before 


534  APPENDIX  II 

they  see  home.  I  don't  want  you  to  think  I  do  not  want  you  to  be 
industrious  and  to  do  all  the  good  you  can,  for  I  prize  what  you  sent  me 
very  highly,  and  the  brothers  and  sisters  think  much  of  theirs,  for  it 
came  from  one  who  loves  them,  but,  Oh  my  dear  son,  you  cannot  begin 
to  think  how  much  your  mother  wants  to  see  you !  I  think  if  I  had 
wings,  I  should  not  stop  much  until  I  got  to  you. 

As  I  sit  here  alone,  I  say  to  myself, —  "  What  would  I  give  to  have 
David  come  and  spend  the  evening  with  me."  Yet  what  is  an  evening 
compared  with  Eternity?  Oh,  that  the  Spirit  of  God  may  ever  strive 
with  us,  my  son !  Let  us  live  day  by  day  as  we  shall  wish  to  have  done 
when  we  are  called  to  give  up  our  account. 

My  son,  live  prayerfully.  Be  ever  found  at  the  foot  of  the  cross; 
so  that,  if  you  die,  you  may  leave  a  bright  and  shining  evidence  that 
you  died  in  the  Lord,  and  your  mantle  may  come  and  rest  on  your 
affectionate  mother  and  brothers  and  sisters. 

Oh,  my  dear  son,  I  hope  it  will  be  the  will  of  God  for  you  to  come 
back. 

Dec.  19th.  Today  Deacon  Smith  and  Rev.  Mr.  Wright,  who  is 
going  into  the  work  of  a  Colporteur,  came  in  as  I  was  writing  to  you. 
I  said, — "  I  am  writing  to  my  son  in  Sacramento."  "  Have  you  a 
son  there?  "  asked  Mr.  Wright;  "  I  hope  he  is  pious."  "  He  is,"  said 
I.  "  Well,"  said  he,  "  he  needs  a  great  deal  of  religion  to  keep  him 
from  falling  in  that  wicked  place."  Mr.  Wright  prayed  while  here.  I 
never  heard  such  a  good  prayer  before.  He  prayed  in  particular  for 
you.  Oh,  my  dear  son,  how  he  did  pray  for  you.  He  appeared  to  me 
the  most  Godly  man  I  ever  saw.  He  is  spending  a  few  days  in  Lynn- 
field,  selling  books.  He  preached  for  us  last  Sunday  on  keeping  the 
Sabbath.  It  was  good,  too.  We  like  our  minister  very  much.  He 
appears  to  be  thoroughly  devoted. 

My  dear  son,  if  you  live  a  devoted  life  where  you  are,  you  may  be 
the  means  of  the  conversion  of  a  soul  that  would  be  worth  more  than 
gold,  and  be  a  star  in  your  crown.     Gold  doesn't  shine  in  Heaven. 

Dec.  21st.  I  have  just  beard  that  Eli  Newhall  died  yesterday  of 
fever.  Do  you  know  anything  about  the  Mr.  Hindle  who  went  with 
you?  We  have  a  letter  from  his  brother  in  Andover  asking  if  you 
had  said  anything  about  him.  They  have  not  heard  a  word  since  last 
February,  and  are  very  anxious.  If  you  know  anything  write  them  or 
me.  Do  you  receive  any  papers  ?  We  have  sent  a  good  many.  I  feel 
anxious  for  another  letter  from  you.  What  should  I  do  if  I  did  not 
hear  from  you  more  frequently  than  others  do  from  their  friends  there ! 

A    foot   of    snow   has    fallen    since   yesterday   and   it   is   very   cold. 

Dec.  28th.  No  letter  yet.  There  was  a  severe  storm  last  week.  It 
was  said  that  the  Mail  Steamer  did  not  arrive.  I  hope  that  I  shall 
have  a  letter   from  you  when  it  does.     A  great  deal  is   said  in  the 


LETTERS  OF  MRS.  RUTHE  HEWES  535 

papers  about  the  Cholera  in  Sacramento.  My  dear  son,  how  bad  is  it? 
That  is,  if  you  are  alive  to  answer.  I  ask  myself  whether  I  am  writing 
to  the  living  or  to  the  dead.  I  am  getting  so  impatient  to  hear  from 
you  I  don't  know  what  to  do.  When  I  would  feel  cheerful  I  feel  sad. 
On  Christmas  Day  we  all  went  to  Joel's  and  had  a  very  good  time. 
There  were  twenty-two  of  us.  Jeremiah  and  wife  and  one  child,  Till- 
den  and  wife  and  one  child,  Aaron  and  wife  and  one  child,  Benjamin 
Cox  and  wife  and  one  child, —  Benjamin's  health  is  better  but  he  can- 
not walk  a  step  yet  without  two  crutches.  He  has  not  done  anything 
for  four  months  and  it  is  not  likely  that  he  will  this  winter.  Mary  Ann, 
poor  child,  has  had  a  hard  time.  Oh,  my  son,  what  would  I  give  if  you 
were  here !  Do  come  home.  Ben.  and  Mary  Ann  and  their  child  came 
home  with  us  and  stayed  until  night.  Joel  and  wife  and  the  two  girls 
spent  the  evening  with  us.  Sophia  came  down  the  next  morning,  Jere- 
miah in  the  afternoon.     Mr.  Swain  carried  them  home  at  night. 

My  dear  son,  this  year  and  this  half  Century  are  almost  at  a  close. 
What  another  year  and  another  fifty  years  will  bring  about,  God  only 
knows.     It  is  very  healthy  in  this  part  of  the  world. 

My  son,  have  you  ever  received  the  letters  that  I  sent  by  Adams  Ex- 
press ?      There  was  one  in  May  and  one  in  August. 

Sabbath,  Dec.  29th.  A  storm  of  snow  commenced  yesterday.  It 
still  snows  and  blows  so  hard  that  we  cannot  go  to  meeting.  Nothing 
can  pass  until  the  roads  are  broken  out.      It  is  very  cold. 

This  is  the  last  Sabbath  of  this  year.  When  I  look  back  over  the 
year  that  has  passed  and  see  how  many  families  have  been  broken 
into  by  death,  I  ask  myself  why  it  is  that  death  has  not  come  nearer 
still  and  taken  away  one  of  my  own  dear  children  or  myself.  Why,  it 
is  just  the  goodness  of  the  Lord.  She  that  was  Harriet  Jenkins  died 
very  suddenly.  I  forgot  what  the  Doctor  called  it.  She  was  at  her 
father's  one  day,  visiting.  The  next  day  at  noon  she  was  a  corpse. 
Oh,  how  often  we  are  told  to  set  our  house  in  order !  Dear  son,  may 
the  Lord  help  us  so  to  live  that  if  we  are  called  before  this  year  or 
another  year  closes,  we  may  give  up  our  account  with  joy  and  not  grief. 

I  had  a  letter  from  Charles  last  week.  All  are  well.  He  said  in 
the  letter  that  he  had  sent  you  3  letters  and  a  number  of  papers.  Have 
you  received  them  all  ?  He  tells  me  that  he  and  the  family  are  coming 
home  next  July  to  stay  until  September,  for  it  is  their  vacation,  in 
their  school.  They  will  spend  the  first  of  the  time  in  Providence.  Oh, 
my  dear  son,  I  wish  if  we  all  live,  you  could  be  here.  I  want  to  see 
my  dear  children  all  together  once  more. 

Dec.  30th.  The  last  day  of  the  year !  No  letter.  Mr.  Swain  and 
myself  are  going  up  to  Reading  today  to  spend  the  day.  I  am 
going  down  to  the  Post  Office  first,  to  see  if  any  letter  has  come; 
if  not,  I  shall  leave  this  at  the  Office  for  you.     I  don't  know  as  you 


536  APPENDIX  II 

will   ever  get   it.     My  dear,   I   wish  you  many  a    Happy   New   Year. 
Much  love  from 

Your  Affectionate  Mother, 

R.  H.  S. 

Do  you  get  any  letters  from  home?  Do  you  know  Mary  Ann's 
youngest  child  died  in  August?  We  have  sent  you  six  letters  since 
then. 

Lynnfield,  March  23rd,  1851. 
My  Beloved  Son: — 

How  do  you  do  ?  I  have  had  the  letter  you  sent  by  Mr.  Emerson  of 
South  Reading,  and  a  piece  of  quartz  rock,  and  a  diamond  glass,  for 
which  I  feel  very  thankful,  for  knowing  who  it  came  from.  I  look  at 
it  and  show  it.  I  have  not  seen  Mr.  Emerson,  but  Mary  Ann  has  been 
down  to  see  him.  I  hope  he  will  call  to  see  me.  If  I  can  I  shall  call 
on  him. 

The  last  letter  I  or  any  of  us  had  direct  from  you,  was  dated  29th 
of  Dec.  I  got  it  the  16th  of  Feb.  I  had  a  paper  the  11th  of  this 
month  from  you.  I  have  been  expecting  a  letter  some  weeks,  why  I 
don't  have  one,  I  know  not.  You  have  always  been  so  faithful  to  write, 
and  as  I  have  not  had  all  your  letters,  I  think  they  must  be  lost.  It 
is  very  trying,  you  know,  to  be  expecting  a  letter  and  have  none,  but 
what  should  I  do  if  I  didn't  hear  from  you  oftener  than  some  of  the 
folks  here  do.  Old  Danforth  has  not  had  a  letter  from  his  son  Henry 
for  eight  months.  He  put  in  a  piece  with  me  the  last  time  I  wrote, 
last  February. 

I  have  sent  you  a  letter  every  month  since  you  have  been  gone.  I 
have  had  18  letters  from  you  and  7  papers.  I  have  sent  you  a  number 
of  papers. 

26th.  I  will  write  a  few  lines  this  morning.  It  is  a  fine  and  beauti- 
ful day.  It  is  very  healthy.  Our  Minister  has  not  been  called  to  tend 
a  funeral  since  he  has  been  here.  Five  months.  My  health  is  better 
than  when  I  last  wrote  you.  I  have  had  my  health  insured.  Had  to 
pay  five  dollars  and  a  quarter.  If  I  should  be  sick,  I  would  draw 
back  three  dollars  a  week.  Mary  Ann  and  Mary  E.  has  had  theirs 
insured.  They  are  writing  with  me  and  will  tell  you  all.  Lizzie 
Coney  has  a  gentleman,  William  Nichols,  Isaiah's  son.  He  is  a  fine 
young  man.  We  have  let  our  house  this  year  to  a  man  named  Berry, 
of  Danvers. 

My  dear  son,  I  am  sorry  that  Charles  and  Lucy  Ann  don't  write  to 
you,  and  they  don't  write  to  me.  Lucy  and  George  have  not  been  up 
since  last  Summer.  They  are  going  to  move  this  spring,  but  will  be 
nearer  his  store.     Joel  has  been  here  today.     He  is  fat  as  a  pig.     He 


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LETTERS  OF  MRS.  RUTHE  HEWES  537 

told  me  he  had  not  tasted  of  a  drop  of  spirit  since  he  was  forty.  That 
was  last  Aug.  I  am  glad  to  know  it.  The  friends  are  all  well  as 
far  as  I  know. 

April  6th. 
My  Ever  Dear  Son: — 

Are  you  alive  ?  We  have  had  no  letters  since  Dec.  You  will  see  my 
letter  has  not  been  sent,  for  I  have  been  sick.  I  had  an  ill  turn  and 
fell  to  the  floor.  I  was  in  terrible  agony  for  awhile.  Have  not  been 
able  to  do  anything.  Am  not  now.  Oh,  my  son!  I  do  want  to  see 
you.  It  would  be  some  relief  to  have  a  letter.  I  cannot  write  any 
more  now. 

Dear  Brother: — 

It  is  Monday,  7th  of  April.  I  am  at  mother's  this  afternoon. 
Mother  says  she  is  glad  there  is  a  family  coming  in.  She  has  so  many 
ill  turns.  You  knew  Francis  Simionds,  did  you  not?  He  drowned 
himself  the  28th  of  Mar.  in  Beaver  Dam  brook.  He  has  of  late 
boarded  at  Uncle  Joshua's,  worked  for  his  board.  He  was  rather 
feeble.  He  had  nothing  to  help  himself  with.  The  people  got  up  a 
subscription  of  about  thirty  dollars,  but  he  felt  bad  about  it  and  did 
not  receive  any  of  it.  He  said  he  felt  unworthy  of  it  and  wished  it 
returned  to  those  who  gave  it.  He  felt  as  though  he  was  so  great  a 
sinner  he  could  not  be  saved.  I  think  he  was  somewhat  deranged.  He 
took  off  all  of  his  clothes  except  his  pants  and  laid  them  on  the  bank. 
Brother  Joel  is  going  to  build  another  barn.  What  a  fellow  to  go 
ahead.  George  is  quite  smart.  Emily  Parsons  has  just  been  to  Lowell 
and  had  a  new  set  of  teeth.     She  looks  first  rate. 

Dear  Brother,  don't  fail  to  write.  I  hope  we  shall  have  a  letter 
soon.  We  are  very  anxious  to  hear  from  you.  Mother  sends  much 
love  to  you  and  subscribes  herself  as  ever  your  affectionate  Mother. 
Good  Bye.     Much  love  to  you  dear  Brother. 

As  ever  your  unworthy  sister, 

Sophia. 

Lynnfield,  April  20th,  1851. 
My  Ever  Dear  Son: 

Your  long  wished  for  letter  came  at  last.  I  received  it  on  the  10th 
of  this  month.  It  was  mailed  February  27th.  I  sent  you  one  a  couple 
of  days  before  receiving  this. 

Why  is  it  that  your  letters  do  not  come  as  regularly  as  they  used  to 
do?  Nine  weeks  between  the  last.  I  received  two  papers  at  the  same 
time.  I  have  sent  you  a  good  many  papers.  Have  you  ever  got  one? 
We  have  had  a  very  severe  storm  the  past  week.  In  some  places  it 
did  the  most  damage  ever  known  but  was  not  so  disastrous  just  about 
here.     If  you  see  the  Boston  papers  you  will  get  all  particulars. 


538  APPENDIX  II 

It  is  snowing  so  hard  today  we  cannot  go  to  meeting.  I  have  not 
been  able  to  go  for  three  Sabbaths  past,  but  I  am  better  now  and  could 
have  gone  today  if  the  weather  had  permitted. 

Old  Mr.  Thomas  Bancroft  died  on  the  11th  of  this  month  of  old  age. 
My  son,  I  read  in  your  letter  that  you  are  going  into  some  new  busi- 
ness. When  will  you  get  enough  to  be  satisfied?  I  said  to  myself, 
"  When  will  my  boy  ever  come  home  with  so  much  business  on  hand?  " 
I  think  you  and  Joel  are  somewhat  alike.  All  the  time  upon  the 
stretch.  I  said  to  Joel  the  other  day, —  "  If  myself  and  all  my  chil- 
dren were  as  faithful  in  serving  the  Lord  as  we  are  in  serving  the 
world,  what  a  family  we  should  be !  " 

How  often  we  are  reminded  of  the  shortness  of  time  and  the  cer- 
tainty of  death!  Captain  Mansfield  died  April  14th.  The  two  oldest 
members  of  our  church  are  gone.  One  at  86,  the  other  84.  Whose 
turn  it  will  be  next  we  know  not.     It  may  be  mine. 

On  May-day  my  brother,  Joseph  Tapley,  was  here.  He  is  very  low- 
spirited.  He  feels  his  loss  very  much.  I  hope  you  have  had  the  let- 
ters and  papers  that  had  his  wife's  death  in.  You  have  not  said 
whether  you  received  them  or  not.  Mary  died  last  October  of  fever. 
She  was  sick  less  than  a  week  and  unconscious.  It  is  a  heavy  loss  to 
that  family. 

My  son,  do  you  know  anything  of  Henry  Danforth  or  of  George 
Bancroft?  I  had  two  papers  from  you  three  days  ago.  I  am  glad 
to  hear  you  were  well.  When  I  read  what  a  place  you  are  in  I  feel  so 
unreconciled  I  don't  know  what  to  do.  You  told  me  in  your  December 
letter  that  you  thought  of  coming  home  in  one  year,  but  when  I  read 
of  your  going  from  business  to  business  I  say  to  myself,  "  When  will 
David  come  home?  "  I  beg  of  you  not  to  feel  anxious  to  get  just  such 
an  amount  before  you  come.  It  may  all  take  wings  to  itself  and  fly 
away.     Some  one  may  take  your  life  for  your  money. 

We  are  all  well  as  far  as  I  know.  We  all  pass  along  about  the  same. 
There  is  nothing  very  interesting  to  write  about. 

George  Cox  has  not  come  yet.  His  mother  told  me  to  give  her  best 
respects  to  you.  She  said  she  felt  very  thankful  to  you  for  speaking 
so  often  about  George  in  your  letters,  for  he  did  not  write  for  months 
together. 

It  is  cold  and  backward  at  this  time.  No  one  has  begun  to  plant 
yet.     The  trees  are  beginning  to  put  out  leaves  a  little. 

My  son,  did  you  ever  get  the  letter  that  I  wrote  you  telling  you  about 
Uncle?  You  inquire  about  Mr.  Green.  He  is  in  Andover.  He 
preaches  at  the  Rock  School-house  at  times.  Mary  C.  Hewes  is  going 
up  there  to  keep  school  this  summer.  Mrs.  Moses  Richerson's  daugh- 
ter keeps  our  school,  and  Emily  Person  the  Center  school. 

My  dear  son,  when  will  you  come  home?     I  don't  want  you  to  get 


LETTERS  OF  MRS.  RUTHE  HEWES  539 

rooted  off  there  so  that  you  will  think  of  going  back  if  you  live  to  get 
home.  It  is  my  prayer  that  you  may  come  home  and  that  you  may 
always  be  kept  from  all  sickness  and  accident  and  temptation  and 
death. 

It  is  a  duty  and  a  privilege  to  pray  for  one  another.  Remember  me 
at  the  throne  of  grace,  will  you?  May  you  be  preserved  from  dangers 
seen  and  unseen,  and  ever  be  found  in  that  narrow  path  which  leads  to 
Heaven.     Take  a  mother's  blessing. 

Much  love  from  your  Affectionate  Mother, 

B.  H.  S. 

May  6th.  You  will  see  by  this  date  that  I  have  been  a  good  while 
writing  this  letter.     I  can  write  but  a  few  lines  at  a  time. 

Good-bye. 

Lynnfield,  June  16th,  1851. 
My  Ever  Dear  And  Absent  Son: 

Where  are  you?  In  the  body  or  not?  Not  one  word  do  I  hear  from 
you,  though  Lucy  Ann  has  been  up  and  stayed  from  the  3rd  to  the  1 3th. 
She  brought  the  letter  that  you  sent  to  Charles  the  first  of  April.  The 
last  letter  I  had  from  you  was  dated  the  29th  of  March.  I  send  you 
a  letter  the  first  of  every  month  and  also  a  paper.  I  am  going  up  to 
Joel's  this  afternoon.  Lucy  is  there,  and  is  coming  home  with  me  to- 
night. I  wish  I  could  visit  with  you.  If  I  had  wings  I  would  come  to 
you.  I  do  want  to  see  you,  I  tell  you.  No  one  but  a  mother  can  know 
how  much. 

June  21st.  Sophia  and  Mary  Ann  and  Ruth  and  Lucy  have  all  been 
to  see  me  this  week.  George  was  up  twice  while  Lucy  was  here. 
George  has  moved  this  spring.  Mr.  Mills,  the  one  that  Lucy  named 
her  little  girl  for,  is  married,  and  George  and  his  wife,  and  Mr.  Mills 
and  his  wife  have  rented  a  house  together  and  live  together.  They  hire 
a  maid.  Lucy  oversees  her  one  week,  and  Mrs.  Mills  the  next.  Not  a 
very  good  plan.  I  think  I  should  prefer  to  be  by  myself,  but  every  one 
as  they  please.  23rd.  Sophia  has  had  the  letter  you  sent  with 
Charles. 

June  31st.  My  dear  son, —  I  had  a  paper  but  no  letter  from  you  the 
last  mail.  I  have  been  quite  unwell  from  getting  over  done.  Had  a 
good  deal  of  company,  but  am  some  better.  We  think  of  going  to 
Chelsea  the  Fourth  of  July,  for  I  heard  that  Mr.  Young  intended  going 
to  California  this  summer.  Mr.  Townsend  has  got  home.  Mary  Ann 
had  a  letter  from  you.  I  was  glad  to  hear  from  you  and  to  know  that 
your  health  was  good,  and  then  I  was  sorry  to  know  that  you  had  sent 
for  Benjamin  and  his  family.  Can  you  think  it  is  best  for  them  to 
come  to  you?  Oh,  I  thought  you  would  be  coming  home 
another     year    if     you     did     not    this     year,     but     if    they     should 


540  APPENDIX  II 

go  Mercy  knows  when  I  should  see  you !  But  I  shall  try  to 
feel  reconciled  to  it  but  my  son,  how  uncertain  life  is !  In  two 
weeks  I  have  been  called  to  follow  two  nieces  to  the  grave.  Suppose 
Benjamin's  family  should  start  to  come  to  you  and  you  should  be  taken 
away  or  Benjamin  or  Mary  Ann,  where  would  they  be?  And  they 
would  have  to  sacrifice  all  they  have  here.  I  do  think  it  is  a  great 
undertaking.  They  are  so  liable  to  be  sick.  Mary  Ann  has  been  sick 
of  late  with  sore  throat.  Mary  Ellen  told  you,  I  suppose,  in  her  letter, 
and  they  said  they  had  written  about  Mrs.  Nichols  and  Sister  Wiley's 
little  girl  both  dying. 

I  heard  today  that  my  Cousin,  Mrs.  Richards,  is  dead.  She 
died  very  suddenly, —  did  up  her  morning  work  and  died  at  9  o'clock. 
I  think  in  a  fit.  Oh,  my  son,  how  often  we  are  reminded  of  the  certainty 
of  death!     I  often  think  that  when  I  die  I  shall  go  suddenly. 

My  head  does  trouble  me  very  much,  at  times  it  seems  as  though 
something  on  top  of  my  head  would  break.  If  I  am  only  prepared  it 
matters  but  little.      I  do  enjoy  my  mind  well  at  times. 

Our  minister  preached  last  Sunday  on  the  efficacy  of  prayer.  He 
was  faithful.  Prayer  is  appointed  to  convey  the  blessings  God  desires 
to  give  us.  My  son,  we  know  that  prayer  has  removed  the  mountain  of 
sin,  and  it  will  remove  the  mountain  of  unbelief  if  we  ask  in  faith. 
Unless  we  have  the  peace  that  the  world  cannot  give  we  cannot  enjoy 
much  that  is  lasting.  Let  us  live  at  the  foot  of  the  cross,  be  humble, 
and  pray  for  one  another.      Pray  for  your  mother. 

July  5th.  We  did  not  go  to  Chelsea,  my  head  troubles  me  again 
so  I  have  to  be  as  still  as  I  can.  Mr.  Townsend  has  been  to  see 
me  this  week.  I  was  glad  to  see  him  I  tell  you!  My  son,  why  don't 
I  have  a  letter?  I  cannot  think  that  you  have  done  writing  to  your 
mother.     Oh,  I  must  leave  this,  my  head  feels  so  badly. 

July  7th.  I  will  try  to  finish  this,  it  must  go  to  the  Post  Office.  No 
letter  comes  from  you,  my  dear  son.  I  pray  that  you  may  live  humble 
and  prayerful,  may  be  kept  from  sickness  and  from  accident  and  from 
death ; —  be  a  shining  light  in  Sacramento.  Do  not  feel  too  anxious 
to  get  rich  for  fear  the  wealth  may  prove  a  clog  in  your  way.  If  you 
could  be  the  means  of  the  salvation  of  one  soul,  it  would  be  worth  more 
than  all  the  gold  in  California. 

Brothers  and  sisters  and  father  send  love  and  a  large  share  from 
Your  Affectionate  Mother, 

R.  H.  S* 

♦Mrs.   Swain   died    13    Sept.,    1851. 


APPENDIX  III 

THE  RIGHTEOUS  REMEMBERED. 

IN  MEMORIAM. 

Died  in  Lynnfield,  Mass.,  Dec.  18th,  1827, 

COL.  JOEL  HEWES,* 

aged  Jfl  years. 


HIS  DYING  WORDS: 
"  Come,  Lord  Jesus,  come  quickly? 
Why  do  thy  chariot  wheels  delay  ? 


"  Friends  and  physicians  could  not  save 
This  mortal  body  from  the  grave; 
Nor  can  the  grave  contain  it  here, 
When  Christ,  our  Conqueror,  shall  appear." 

OBITUARY. 

Died,  in  Lynnfield,  Massachusetts,  on  the  18th  Dec,  1827,  COL. 
JOEL  HEWES,  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  aged 
forty-one  years.  The  disease  of  which  he  died  was  pulmonary  con- 
sumption. The  subject  of  this  memoir  experienced  religion  in  May, 
1810,  while  he  lived  in  Lynn,  under  the  ministerial  labors  of  the  Rev. 
Mr.  Stevens ;  shortly  after,  he  removed  to  his  native  place  in  Lynnfield, 
where  he  set  up  the  family  altar,  invited  the  Methodist  ministers  to 
preach  in  his  house.  Their  labors  were  blessed;  a  small  society  was 
formed,  and  he  was  appointed  their  class  leader  and  steward.  Though 
they  met  with  opposition,  still  he  stood  firm  in  the  cause  in  which  he 
had  engaged,  and  though  the  society  was  small,  yet  he  had  the  happi- 
ness to  see  its  increase  so  that  they  were  able  to  build  a  house  for  the 
worship  of  God.  In  February,  1826,  his  health  began  to  decline,  but 
he  enjoyed  much  of  the  presence  of  God  —  as  the  following  extract 
will  show,  from  the  pen  of  a  sister,  who  was  with  him  at  the  time: 
"  In  the  month  of  April,  1826,  I  witnessed  a  scene  that  will  long  live 

*  As  related  in  the  text,  page  154,  Col.  Joel  Hewes  was  of  deep  religious 
convictions.  At  his  death  a  clergyman  of  his  denomination  prepared  the 
obituary,  which  was  later  published,  and  which  is  here  printed. 

541 


542  APPENDIX  III 

in  my  remembrance.  It  was  my  lot  to  see  the  agonies,  and  hear,  as  I 
then  supposed,  the  dying  words  of  a  Christian  brother.  Having  been 
for  some  time  in  a  settled  consumption,  all  hope  of  his  recovery  was 
given  over,  and  we  all  looked  upon  him  as  a  dying  man  —  but  his  soul 
was  triumphantly  happy.  His  wife,  who  was  watching  with  trembling 
anxiety  his  wasting  strength,  after  he  had  been  conversing  till  he  was 
quite  exhausted,  requested  him  to  desist,  when  he  exclaimed  with  rap- 
ture—  '  Glory  to  God ;  I  shall  soon  have  immortal  lungs,  that  will  never 
tire,  and  never  wear  out.'  To  one  of  his  neighbors  he  said  —  '  this 
tabernacle  is  gloriously  taking  down ;  I  shall  soon  be  disencumbered 
from  this  claj'ey  tenement.'  To  another  he  said, — '  Glory  to  God ! 
This  religion  that  I  have  recommended  to  others  is  my  support  in  death, 
my  hope  in  eternity,  my  joy,  my  crown  of  rejoicing.'  When  prepara- 
tion was  making  for  him  to  indite  his  will,  he  looked  up  with  inex- 
pressible sweetness,  and  said :  '  My  Heavenly  Father  has  made  His 
will,  and  He  wills  even  our  sanctification.' 

"  In  his  dying  charge  to  his  children,  he  said  to  his  oldest  son, —  '  See 
your  grief-worn  mother,  who  will  soon  be  left  a  widow  to  the  mercy  of 
her  orphan  children ;  ■ — ■  tell  me,  Joel,  will  you  be  kind  to  her.'  '  Yes, 
father,  I  will,'  —  was  the  reply.  An  awful  pause  ensued  —  then  with 
raised  eyes,  and  uplifted  hands,  he  exclaimed,  '  I  call  God,  I  call  angels, 
I  call  all  heaven  to  witness  what  you  say;  and,  O  Joel,  if  you  are  not 
kind  to  your  mother,  I  shall  appear  in  judgment  against  you.'  To 
Mary  Ann,  he  said,  '  you  will  soon  follow  me ;  your  cough  will  soon 
wear  your  body  down,  and  Oh,  never  let  it  be  said  you  have  gone  to  hell 
with  the  fashionable  world.'  After  exhorting  all  his  children  one  by 
one,  to  seek  the  Lord,  he  turned  to  me  and  said:  '  Go  tell  my  brethren 
that  I  die  rejoicing;  tell  the  church  that  I  am  going  to  leave  them,  and 
tell  them  it  was  my  dying  request  that  they  should  meet  me  in  heaven.' 
After  this  he  so  far  recovered  as  to  be  able  to  attend  meeting  a 
number  of  times,  and  to  meet  in  class.  Though  still  afflicted  in  body, 
he  would  exhort  the  church  to  be  faithful,  to  be  prepared  to  meet  him 
in  heaven,  to  which  he  believed  himself  fast  hastening,  and  so  long  had 
he  been  class  leader,  he  appeared  to  feel  for  them  as  a  father  for  his 
children.  But  while  this  veteran  of  the  cross  of  Christ  was  laboring 
under  disease  of  body,  and  patiently  waiting  his  dissolution,  he  had 
the  unspeakable  happiness  of  witnessing  a  glorious  revival  of  religion 
in  tin's  place,  and  of  seeing  five  of  his  oldest  children  professing  faith 
in  Christ  and  joining  the  society.  At  one  time  while  his  children  were 
under  conviction,  being  absent  from  home,  one  of  them  experienced  the 
pardoning  mercy  of  God;  when  he  returned,  she  met  him  rejoicing  in 
God,  and  while  he  rejoiced  with  her,  he  exclaimed,  '  now  lettest  thou 
thy  servant  depart  in  peace,  for  mine  eyes  have  seen  thy  salvation.' 
And  while  he  continued  with  them,  he  gave  them  many  exhortations, 


COLONEL  JOEL  HEWES  543 

to  be  faithful  —  to  endure  unto  the  end,  and  to  meet  him  in  heaven. 
This  servant  of  God  lived  a  number  of  months  after  this,  but  from 
indisposition  of  body,  I  was  unable  to  be  with  him  for  a  number  of 
weeks  before  he  died.  The  following  extract,  written  by  the  family, 
will  show  the  happy  frame  of  mind  which  he  possessed.  Although  his 
sickness  was  long  and  distressing,  he  bore  it  with  Christian  patience 
and  resignation.  He  would  often  say,  when  he  retired  to  rest,  '  O  that 
the  Lord  would  take  me  this  night,  but  not  my  will  but  thine,  O  God,  be 
done' ;  and  often  repeated  that  hymn,  '  My  God,  the  spring  of  all  my 
joys,'  &c. 

"  In  October,  he  said,  '  O  that  I  had  died  a  year  ago  last  May;  then 
I  should  have  escaped  all  this  suffering,  but  I  will  not  complain,  for 
what  the  Lord  does  is  right.'  Nov.  4th,  was  the  last  time  he  was  able 
to  go  from  the  fire  to  the  bed  without  help ;  he  often  said  to  his  wife, 
'  are  you  not  willing  to  give  me  up,'  and  not  till  about  the  middle  of 
the  month  could  she  say  she  was,  when  he  shouted,  glory  to  God,  that 
another  cord  was  broken.  He  requested  his  wife  to  keep  up  his  fam- 
ily prayer;  so  great  was  his  desire  for  this  that  he  could  not  rest  till 
she  had  promised  him  she  would ;  said  he,  may  the  family  altar  which 
has  been  erected  in  this  house  never  be  taken  down,  while  there  is  a 
post  standing  in  this  building.  Tuesday  before  Thanksgiving  he  asked 
what  day  in  the  week  it  was ;  being  answered,  said  he,  '  I  was  in  hopes 
to  celebrate  a  day  of  thanksgiving  in  heaven  this  year.' 

"  Dec.  2.  While  in  great  distress  of  body,  he  said,  '  can  this  be 
death!  If  it  is,  I  could  shout  and  sing  to  Christ  my  king.'  Dec.  9. 
He  said  if  he  knew  it  was  the  last  day  he  had  to  live,  still  he  could  re- 
joice in  God.  A  short  time  before  he  died  he  requested  to  have  the 
11th  chapter  of  Hebrews  read  to  him;  one  observed,  it  speaks  of  many 
happy  veterans ;  he  shouted  so  as  to  be  heard  anywhere  in  the  room, 
though  he  had  not  been  able  to  speak  loud  for  a  number  of  weeks  be- 
fore, and  said,  he  should  soon  get  home  to  sing  and  shout  with  them. 
He  believed  he  enjoyed  the  blessing  of  perfect  love.  He  felt  nothing 
but  love  to  God  and  man.  At  one  time  his  wife  said  to  him,  '  I  will 
read  to  you  in  the  Herald.'  '  Glory  to  God,'  he  said,  '  I  shall  soon  be 
where  I  shall  hear  Heralds  sing.'  He  wished  his  eldest  daughter  to 
sing  New  York  —  '  Vital  sparks  of  heavenly  flame,'  &c. —  but  her  grief 
was  too  great  to  sing.  He  said,  '  O  that  I  could  hear  some  spiritual 
singing!  '  Some  of  the  members  of  the  church  were  sent  for,  and 
while  they  sang  and  prayed  for  him,  they  had  a  refreshing  season  from 
the  presence  of  the  Lord.  He  was  in  an  ecstasy  of  joy,  and  ex- 
claimed—  'this  is  but  a  foretaste  of  what  I  shall  soon  enjoy.'  Mon- 
day night  before  he  died  he  had  no  rest;  about  eleven  o'clock  they 
thought  him  to  be  dying;  he  requested  his  family  not  to  mourn  for  him, 
and  had  his  reason  perfectly  to  the  last. 


5U  APPENDIX  III 

"  While  in  the  pangs  of  dissolving  nature  with  a  hope  full  of  im- 
mortality, and  heaven  in  his  view,  his  wife  asked  him, — '  are  you 
happy  ?  '  He  exclaimed  as  in  an  ecstasy,  '  O  yes ;  glory  to  God ;  come 
Lord  Jesus,  and  come  quickly;  why  do  thy  chariot  wheels  delay?  '  and 
without  a  struggle  or  a  groan,  the  vital  spark  took  its  flight  to  enjoy 
the  bliss  of  heaven.  He  left  a  wife  and  eight  children  to  mourn  their 
loss. 

"  '  Friends  and  physicians  could  not  save, 
This  mortal  body  from  the  grave; 
Nor  can  the  grave  contain  it  here, 
When  Christ,  our  Conqueror,  shall  appear.'  " 

Lynnfield,  Feb.  6,  1828. 


APPENDIX  IV 
NOTES  ON   THE    NEW   ENGLAND   ANCESTRY 

OF 

COL.  JOEL  and  RUTH  (TAPLEY)  HEWES 
The  Tapley  Family  x 

Examination  of  a  map  of  Devonshire,  England,  will  reveal  an  in- 
dentation on  the  eastern  coast,  known  as  Tor  Bay.  About  the  bay 
cluster  the  villages  to  which  the  Tapley  family  of  Salem  have  traced 
their  ancestors.  There,  at  Marldon  and  Paignton,  during  the  early 
part  of  the  seventeenth  century,  were  families  bearing  the  names  Tap- 
ley,  Peter,  Gilbert,  Endicott,  and  Yabsley.  These  families  were  con- 
nected by  marriage  and  association. 

The  same  combination  of  names  and  neighbors  existed  at  Salem  and 
vicinity  in  the  early  days  of  the  settlement  of  New  England. 

Stephen  Tapley  of  Marldon,  yeoman,  made  his  will  19  July,  1591. 
It  was  probated  25  Oct.,  1591.  He  left  bequests  to  the  poor,  to 
repairs  of  the  church  at  Marldon,  and  to  each  of  his  grandchildren  (not 
named).  A  silver  spoon  was  given  to  Philip,  Gylbert,  Edward  and 
Charles  Tapleygh,  and  also  to  Johane  Phelps.  Margerie,  the  testator's 
wife,  received  the  residue  of  his  estate  and  was  made  executrix  of  his 
will. 

Margerie,  the  wife  of  Stephen,  was  daughter  of  Elizabeth  Peter  of 
Marldon,  whose  will  dated  12  Nov.,  22d,  Elizabeth,  was  proved  28  May, 
1581.  In  this  will  mention  is  made  of  her  daughter  Margerie  Tap- 
leigh,  son-in-law  Stephen  Tapleigh,  and  of  Gilbert  Tapeleigh,  a  sheep 
being  bequeathed  to  the  last  named. 

The  Peter  family  to  which  Margerie  (Peter)  Tapley  belonged  is 
undoubtedly  that  connected  with  Bohay.  The  name  Gilbert  probably 
came  into  the  Tapleigh  family,  as  did  the  name  Odo,  from  the  marriage 
with  Peter,  who  in  turn  were  connected  with  the  family  of  Gilbert,  a 
family  famous  in  the  annals  of  American  discovery  and  colonization 
through  one  of  its  members,  Sir  Humphrey  Gilbert,  lost  at  sea  in  1583. 

The  ancestry  of  Stephen  Tapleigh  has  not  as  yet  been  proven,  but 
for  several  generations  the  family  had  been  represented  in  this  part  of 
Devonshire. 

i  For  further  information  regarding  the  English  Tapleys  see  "  Notes  on 
English  Origin  of  the  Tapley  Family,"  by  Eben  Putnam,  in  Genealogy  of  the 
Tapley  Family  (1900),  pp.  VI.  et  seq.  Mr.  David  Hewes  is  planning  a  second 
edition  of  the  Tapley  Genealogy,  profusely  illustrated. 

545 


546  APPENDIX  IV 

Gilbert  Tapley,  as  he  spells  his  name  in  his  will,  died  in  Marldon, 
and  was  buried  17  Sept.,  1629.  His  will,  dated  26  March,  1629,  was 
proved  3  Sept.,  1630.  His  wife  Friswide  was  appointed  executrix,  and 
to  her  was  given  the  estate  for  life.  Titus  and  Josias,  sons  of  the  tes- 
tator, received  legacies,  as  did  the  grandchildren. 

Friswide,  the  widow  was  buried  at  Marldon  9  March,  1640. 

Josias  Tapley,  the  son  of  Gilbert,  lived  in  Marldon,  and  had  chil- 
dren baptized  there  as  follows:  John,  bapt.  7  March,  1622-3; 
Dorothy,  16  April,  1626;  Joane,  18  May,  1628;  Gilbert,  2  Sept.,  1632. 
The  marriage  of  Josias  Tapley  and  Emblme  Pastow  took  place  30 
Sept.,  1613.  As  this  was  undoubtedly  the  marriage  of  Josias,  son  of 
Gilbert,  it  is  probable  that  the  following  baptisms  of  children  recorded 
as  "of  Joseph"  should  have  been  recorded  as  of  "Josias,"2  viz.: 
Mary,  bapt.  (  ?4  Feb.),  1613-4;  Julian,  June,  1615;  Emlyn,  15  Aug., 
1615;  Joseph,  25  Nov.,  1620.  A  son,  name  illegible,  Feb.,  1620-1. 
The  name  of  the  child  bapt.  Feb.,  1620-21  ended  in  "  as"  and  we  find 
recorded  the  burial  of  Josias,  son  of  "  Josias  "  Tapley,  15  July,  1621, 
which  is  confirmatory  of  the  supposition  that  Josias  should  be  read  for 
Joseph  throughout. 

Gilbert  Tapley,  the  youngest  son  of  Josias,  baptized  2  Sept.,  1632, 
is  beyond  reasonable  doubt  the  Gilbert  Tapley  who  first  is  found  in 
New  England  at  Beverly  in  1676.  He  is  said  to  have  been  born  in 
1634,  but  there  is  no  definite  statement  to  that  effect.  His  wife  is  said 
to  have  been  born  in  1632.  It  is  plain  that  his  age  agrees  very  nearly 
with  that  of  Gilbert  born  in  Marldon.  Depositions  as  to  age,  and  ages 
at  death,  appearing  in  our  early  records  often  vary  from  one  to  sev- 
eral years ;  the  same  man  sometimes  giving  his  age  at  "  about  "  a  cer- 
tain number  of  years,  and  again  the  exact  age.  Gilbert  Tapley  soon 
removed  to  Salem,  where  he  was  in  1677,  when  he  is  described  as  a  fish- 
erman, a  calling  which  at  that  time  appealed  to  the  adventurous  men, 
accustomed  to  the  sea,  of  both  the  English  and  New  England  coasts. 
It  was  also  a  very  profitable  calling,  yielding  returns  greater  than  that 
yielded  by  agriculture.  The  fisheries  of  the  Massachusetts  coast  have 
been  from  early  time  the  sources  of  the  fortune  of  many  of  our  most 
distinguished  families.  At  Salem,  Gilbert  Tapley  lived  on  what  is 
known  as  Winter  Island,  then  the  center  of  the  fishing  industry,  and 
there  after  1690  he  may  have  kept  an  inn,  as  from  that  time  he  is 
styled  "  innkeeper."  He  was  listed  among  the  freemen  resident  in 
Salem  in  1686,  though  the  date  of  his  admission  is  not  found. 

Gilbert  Tapley  died  17  April,  1714.  His  wife  Thomasine,  or  as  her 
name  more  frequently  occurs,  Tamsine,  died  1  Nov.,  1715.  She  had 
been  admitted  to  the  church  in  Beverly  6  Jan.,  1674,  when  her  three 

2  The  error  being  probably  that  of  the  copyist,  rather  than  the  clerk.        , 


THE  TAPLEY  FAMILY  547 

children  were  baptized.  These  children  were:  Gilbert,  born  26  Aug., 
1665;  Joseph,  born  10  March,  1668,  probably  deceased  in  1689;  and 
Mary,  born  4  April,  1671. 

Gilbert  Tapley  (Gilbert,  Josias,  Stephen),  born  166 — ,  lived  in 
Salem,  and  died  there  1710,  in  the  lifetime  of  his  father.  Administra- 
tion on  his  estate  was  granted  to  his  widow  Sarah,  6  Nov.,  1710.  He 
had  been  twice  married:  (1)  10  April,  1686,  to  Lydia  Small,  daughter 
of  Thomas  and  Ruth  Small  of  Salem,  and  (2)  to  Sarah  Archer,  21 
Aug.,  1707- 

His  children  were  by  his  first  wife.  They  were:  Mary,  born  4 
Nov.,  1689;  Joseph,  born  30  July,  1691,  married  27  Nov.,  1712, 
Margaret;  Lydia  born  10  March,  1696-7;  and  Gilbert,  born  13  July, 
1699,  married  9  Jan.,  1721,  Elizabeth  Henderson,  and  whose  line  died 
out  in  the  person  of  William  Tapley,  a  soldier  in  the  Revolution. 

Joseph  Tapley  (Gilbert,  Gilbert,  Josias,  Stephen)  married  27  Nov., 
1727,  Margaret  Masury  of  Salem.  Joseph  had  administration 
on  his  grandfather  Gilbert  Tapley's  estate,  and  in  1714  had  License 
to  keep  an  inn,  probably  continuing  his  grandfather's  business. 
He  was  also  engaged  in  fishing.  He  probably  died  prior  to 
1740.  His  children  were:  Gilbert,  born  6  May,  1722,  and  John, 
born  about  1728,  who  married  15  Feb.,  1749-50,  Elizabeth,  daughter 
of  Amos  Buxton.  John  lived  in  Danvers,  where  he  died  prior  to  1773. 
He  was  at  one  time  owner  of  the  slave  woman  Dill,  whose  part  in 
the  famous  tea  party  on  the  roof  of  the  Page  mansion  in  Danvers,  still 
standing,  is  described  in  Lucy  Larcom's  well  known  poem,  "  A  Gambrel 
Roof."  He  owned  other  slaves,  a  not  unusual  circumstance  in  those 
days  among  persons  who  needed  household  servants. 

Gilbert  Tapley  (Joseph,  Gilbert,  Gilbert,  Josias,  Stephen)  re- 
moved to  Danvers,  shortly  after  his  marriage,  which  took  place  at 
Salem  (which  then  included  Danvers)  6  June,  1747,  to  Phebe  Putnam, 
daughter  of  John  and  Lydia  (Porter)  Putnam  of  Danvers.  She  died 
6  May,  1770,  and  Gilbert  married  11  March,  1771,  Mary  (Flint) 
Smith,  widow  of  Nathaniel  Smith,  and  upon  her  death,  1  July,  1798, 
he  married  6  June,  1799,  Mrs.  Sarah  (Abbott)  Farrington. 

Gilbert  Tapley  was  a  "  housewright,"  and  was  very  active,  both  in 
his  business  and  in  church  and  town  affairs.  He  held  town  office,  and 
was  one  of  the  Minute  Men  who  marched  from  Danvers  to  Lexington 
on  the  Alarm  of  19  April,  1775.  From  him  descend  the  present  bearers 
of  the  name  in  Danvers,  where  the  name  is  honored  for  the  part  its 
owners  have  taken  in  its  history. 

Gilbert  Tapley  died  6  May,  1806,  and  his  widow  died  1  Jan.,  1823, 
in  Andover.  Of  his  eight  children  (the  records  of  whose  descendants 
may  be  found  in  the  Tapley  Genealogy),  Joseph,  born  10  April,  1756, 
was  the  fourth. 


548  APPENDIX  IV 

Joseph  Tapley  (Gilbert,  Joseph,  Gilbert,  Gilbert,  Josias,  Stephen) 
married  19  Aug.,  1758,  Mary  Smith,  daughter  of  Nathaniel  and  Mary 
(Flint)  Smith,  his  step-sister,  and  after  her  death,  which  occurred  in 
Lynnfield  13  March,  1814,  he  married  23  Dec,  1818,  Rowena  Page, 
who  died  27  Oct.,  1860.  Joseph  Tapley  responded  to  the  Lexington 
Alarm,  serving  under  Capt.  Samuel  Flint.  In  1781  he  removed  to 
Lynnfield,  where  he  lived  in  the  house,  still  standing,  which  in  1893 
was  placed  in  perfect  repair  by  his  grandson,  Mr.  David  Hewes,  who 
was  born  immediately  opposite  in  the  Joel  Hewes  house,  since  destroyed 
by  fire.  Near  by  is  the  tomb,  the  construction  of  which  was  begun  in 
1820,  by  Joseph  Tapley.  He  was  the  first  to  rest  there,  being  killed 
by  a  sled  under  which  he  slipped,  while  hauling  wood,  11  March,  1820. 
This  accident  occurred  on  the  Reading  road,  soon  after  his  caution  to 
his  son  Jesse  to  beware  such  a  risk.  He  was  greatly  esteemed  by  his 
townsmen,  and  was  a  man  of  keen  perception  and  successful  in  his 
calling. 

Children : 

Polly,  born  20  Dec,  1775;  married  13  Dec,  1782,  Daniel,  son 
of  John  and  Lydia  Hart  of  Lynnfield.  Of  her  grandsons 
one,  Hon.  Thomas  N.  Hart,  was  mayor  of  Boston,  and 
another,  Hon.  George  D.  Hart,  was  mayor  of  Lynn.  Mrs. 
Polly  Hart  died  2  Nov.,  1860. 

Betsy,  born  28  May,  1778;  died  9  July,  1855;  married  25 
March,  1799,  Joseph  Hart,  brother  to  Daniel. 

Aaron,  born  23  Aug.,  1780;  died  unmarried,  16  March,  1802. 

Sally,  born  25  Nov.,  1782;  died  27  Feb.,  1869;  married 
Ephraim  Averill. 

Phebe  Putnam,  born  21  Sept.,  1785;  died  in  Londonderry, 
N.  H.;  married  4  April,  1805,  Benjamin  Buxton,  and  sec- 
ond, Mr.  Barker. 

Jesse,  born  30  June,  1788;  died  2  June,  1877.  He  married 
Eliza  W.  Davis.  He  was  captain  of  militia  during  the 
War  of  1812  and  was  summoned  with  his  company  to  the 
defense  of  Salem.  Later  he  removed  to  Lowell,  and  was 
for  many  years  engaged  in  transporting  the  products  of 
the  mills  to  Boston.  After  the  opening  of  the  railroad,  he 
supplied  timber  to  shipbuilders  and  others.  He  was  the 
father  of  Jesse  Fellows  Tapley  and  George  Wendall  Tap- 
ley,  well  known  to  the  publishing  and  binding  trades  in 
New  York  and  New  England. 

Ruthe,  born  1  April,  1791,  married  Col.  Joel  Hewes.  See  page 
151. 

Joseph,  born  20  Sept.,  1793;  died  in  Lowell  16  Aug.,  1869; 


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THE  TAPLEY  FAMILY  549 

married  2  April,  1818,  Mary  Hunt,  who  died  23  Oct.,  1850, 

after  which  he  married,  17  Sept.,  1851,  Ann  M.  Fogg,  who 

died  21  March,  1871. 
Clarissa,  born  11  June,  1796;  died  in  Worcester,  3  June,  1882; 

married  Edmund  Flint. 
Lucy,  born  10  Jan.,  1799;  died  in  Wakefield,  19  July,  1885. 

She  was  twice  married;    (1)    10  March,   1816,  to  Samuel 

Wiley;   (2)   12  Sept.,  1832,  to  Eli  Wiley. 
Miranda,  born  4  July,  1818;  died  in  Kansas,  29  July,  1871; 

married  3  Nov.,  1839,  Elias  Crafts. 
Sarah  A.,  born  Sept.,  1819;  died  10  Oct.,  1820. 


THE  PUTNAM  FAMILY 

The  ancestry  of  Phebe  Putnam,  wife  of  Gilbert  Tapley,  and  grand- 
mother of  Ruthe  Tapley,  wife  of  Col.  Joel  Hewes  of  Lynnfield,  is  taken 
from  a  pedigree  published  in  1909,  entitled  "  Puttenham  of  Putten- 

HAM-PUTNAM  OF  SALEM." 

Galo,1  living  in  the  reign  of  Henry  I,  is  named  as  the  father  of 
Richard,2  living  in  the  time  of  Henry  II.  (1154-1189),  who  was  lord 
of  the  manor  of  Puttenham  in  Hertfordshire  when  he  presented  the 
living  of  the  church  of  Puttenham  to  the  Prior  and  Canons  of  Ashby, 
which  gift  was  confirmed  in  1278  by  his  descendant,  "Johannes5 
filius  Wale."  The  line  of  descent  from  this  Richard  to  Wale  father  of 
John  is  not  of  known  record,  but  in  1199  Simon,3  a  knight,  and 
Ralph,3  who  held  a  knight's  fee  in  Puttenham  in  1210,  are  both  de- 
scribed as  "  de  Puttenham."  Walter  de  Puttenham  4  is  found  living 
in  Puttenham  in  1252,  and  is  undoubtedly  identical  with  "  Wale,"  who 
was  father  of  John,5  lord  of  Puttenham  in  1278  and  in  1291.  This 
John5  had  a  son  John,6  whose  wife  in  1305  was  Agnes.  A  con- 
temporary of  the  elder  John  5  was  Henry  5  de  Puttenham,  who  was 
a  follower  of  Edmund  Plantagenet,  Earl  of  Cornwall.  Probably 
John  5  and  Henry  5  were  brothers.  It  is  also  probable  that  the  "  Lady 
of  Puttenham,"  who  in  1303  held  half  a  knight's  fee  in  Puttenham, 
was  widow  of  one  or  the  other.  She  was  mother  of  Sir  Roger  de  Put- 
tenham,6 who  was  born  prior  to  1272.  Sir  Roger  had  wife  Alina  in 
1315,  and  possessed  lands  in  Puttenham  in  Herts,  of  which  shire  he 
was  sheriff  in  1322,  and  in  Penne,  Bucks,  which  lands  descended  to 
Nicholas  the  prepositus  named  in  the  heraldic  visitation  of  1534.  Alina 
was  probably  identical  with  Helen  (the  two  names  being  the  same),  who 
was  daughter  of  John  Spigurnel  and  niece  of  Sir  Henry  Spigurnel,  the 
justice.  She  married,  after  the  death  of  Sir  Roger,  Thomas  de  la 
Hay,  king's  commissioner  and  knight  of  the  shire  in  1337-  Thomas  de 
la  Hay  held  lands  in  Penne  in  the  right  of  his  wife,  and  also  Putten- 
ham, with  reversion  to  the  heirs  of  Roger  Puttenham. 

This  Sir  Roger6  Puttenham  supported  Edward  II  in  his  contest 
against  the  Mortimers.  His  heir  was  another  Sir  Roger,7  who  received 
a  pardon  in  1338,  and  was  knight  of  the  shire  in  1355  and  1374.  He 
was  twice  married.  He  had  two  sons,  one,  Roger,8  a  priest,  the  other, 
Robert,8  who  held  Puttenham  and  Marston,  and  lands  in  Penne,  etc., 
and  who  was  living  in  1356.  His  son  William  9  was  sergeant-at-arms 
to  the  king  in  1386,  and  married  Margaret  Warbleton,  who,  upon  the 

550 


THE  PUTNAM  FAMILY  551 

death  of  her  father,  John  de  Warbleton,  brought  extensive  estates  in 
Berkshire  and  Hampshire  to  the  Putnams.  Their  son  Henry,10  who 
died  1473,  aged  65  and  over,  was  the  father  of  William  Puttenham,11 
who  married  Anne  Hampden,  and  therefore  grandfather  of  Sir  George 
Puttenham,12  Edmund  Puttenham  12  and  Nicholas  12  Puttenham.  The 
last  named  was  the  younger  son,  and  had  the  Penne  estates.  He  and 
his  descendants  were  usually  described  as  Putnam,  though  it  was  not 
until  after  the  time  of  the  migration  that  the  use  of  the  longer  style 
spelling  became  obsolete.  Nicholas  Putnam  12  had  two  sons. 
John,13  the  elder,  had  the  Penne  property,  still  known  as  Putnam  Farm. 
His  male  descendants  died  out  in  the  persons  of  his  grandchildren. 
Henry,13  the  younger  son,  was  named  in  the  will  of  his  brother  John  13 
in  1526. 

John  Putnam  15  of  Wingrave  and  Slapton  was  son  of  Richard  14  of 
Eddlesboro  and  Woughton,  who  owned  land  in  Slapton  also,  and  was 
undoubtedly  a  grandson  of  Nicholas.12  As  he  was  not  of  the  Penne 
family,  and  as  no  other  sons  of  Nicholas  are  known,  it  follows  he  was 
Henry's  13  son.  The  names  Henry  and  Nicholas  were  continued  only  in 
this  Woughton  and  Wingrave  family. 

The  elder  line,  seated  at  Sherfield  on  Loddon  in  Hampshire,  de- 
scended from  Sir  George  Puttenham,12  became  extinct  in  the  male  line 
in  the  persons  of  his  grandsons,  Richard,14  Francis  14  and  George.14 
The  last  named  was  the  author  of  "  Arte  of  English  Poesie,"  one  of  the 
recognized  English  classics,  and  which  has  lately  been  shown  to  be  a 
source  much  drawn  on  by  Shakespeare.  Sir  George  14  had  a  romantic 
and  strenuous  career,  as  did  his  brother  Richard.14  Both  were  grand- 
sons of  the  great  writer  on  English  law,  Sir  Thomas  Eliot.  Their 
sister  Margaret 14  married  Sir  John  Throckmorton,  Justice  of  Chester, 
and  had  a  son  Francis.  Francis  Throckmorton  suffered  death  for  con- 
spiring to  free  Mary,  Queen  of  Scots.  His  body  was  quartered  after 
the  barbarous  fashion  of  that  day. 

John  Putnam15  of  Wingrave,  mentioned  above,  died  in  1573.  His 
son  Nicholas  16  died  in  1598.  Margaret,  widow  of  Nicholas,  married, 
second,  William  Huxley,  and  died  in  1619.  Nicholas16  was  a  yeo- 
man, having  property  in  Stukeley  and  also  in  Wingrave,  the  next 
parish  to  Puttenham,  and  was  the  father  of  John  Putnam,17  who 
settled  in  Salem,  Massachusetts. 

John  Putnam/7  the  emigrant,  was  baptized  in  Wingrave  17  Jan., 
1579.  He  married  Priscilla,  removed  to  Salem  in  1640  or  1641,  and 
died  there  in  that  part  now  Danvers,  30  Dec,  1662.  He  left  three 
sons,  the  elder  of  whom,  Thomas,18  was  ancestor  of  Gens.  Israel  and 
Rufus  Putnam;  the  youngest  Capt.  John,18  the  most  energetic  of  the 
sons,  but  whose  descendants  are  the  least  in  number;  and  Nathaniel,18 


552  APPENDIX  IV 

who  is  the  ancestor  of  a  majority  of  the  persons  bearing  the  name 
today.  His  homestead  was  between  the  present  Danvers  Square  and 
Tapleyville.  These  three  sons  were  baptized  at  Aston  Abbotts,  a  par- 
ish adjoining  Wingrave. 

Nathaniel  Putnam18  was  baptized  11  Oct.,  1619.  He  died  at 
Salem  23  July,  1700,  having  served  in  many  public  capacities,  including 
deputy  to  the  General  Court.  His  wife  was  Elizabeth  Hutchinson, 
daughter  of  Richard  and  Alice  (Bosworth)  Hutchinson,  who  was  bap- 
tized at  Arnold,  England,  30  August,  1629,  and  died  in  Salem,  June, 
1688.  The  Hutchinsons  were  an  armorial  family  of  ancient  lineage, 
and  were  among  the  first  settlers  at  Danvers. 

John  Putnam,19  son  of  Nathaniel,18  was  born  26  March,  1657,  and 
died  September,  1722.  He  married  2  Dec,  1678,  Hannah  Cutler, 
daughter  of  Samuel  and  Eliza  Cutler.  Like  his  father  he  was  much 
engaged  in  the  public  business  and  highly  respected.  His  son  John,20 
born  16  August,  1691,  died  10  Feb.,  1764.  He  married  Lydia  Porter, 
adopted  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Love  (Howe)  Porter,  and  a  descend- 
ant of  Abraham  Howe  of  Ipswich.  She  was  born  in  1692,  died  22 
April,  1777-  Their  daughter,  Phebe  Putnam,21  born  1728,  married 
Gilbert  Tapley. 

Among  the  families  from  whom  Phebe  21  (Putnam)  Tapley  descended 
is  that  of  Warbleton,  as  mentioned  above.  The  Warbletons  were  de- 
scended from  William  de  Warbleton,  who  was  kinsman  and  heir  of 
Thomas  de  Warbleton  who  died  in  1286.  William's  son  Thomas  was 
sheriff  of  Hampshire  and  was  probably  engaged  in  the  battle  of  Ban- 
nockburn  (1310).  Prof.  Burrows  wrote  of  him,3  "such  a  man  was 
like  the  old  Earls  *  *  *  *  he  would  in  short,  appear  to  have 
been  formed  in  the  school  of  Edward  I,  and  to  have  been  brought  for- 
ward by  that  monarch  on  account  of  his  personal  worth."  Through  the 
Warbletons,  Phebe21  (Putnam)  Tapley  inherited  the  blood  of  the 
Foxles,  a  family  distinguished  for  their  wealth  and  responsible  positions 
held.  Sir  John  de  Foxle  had  risen  in  the  service  of  the  king  until  he 
became  a  judge.  He  was  one  of  King  Edward's  barons.  He  died  in 
1325,  leaving  a  son  (by  wife  Constantia,  daughter  of  John  de  la 
Hoese),  Sir  Thomas  Foxle,  who  was  a  more  important  man  than  his 
father,  and  who  was  constable  of  Windsor  Castle  from  1328  until  his 
death.  He  was  associated  with  Sir  John  de  Brocas  in  the  rebuilding  of 
that  castle,  a  work  completed  by  the  famous  William  de  Wykeham,  who 
was  a  protege  of  Foxle  and  of  the  Brocas  family.  This  Sir  John 
de  Brocas  was  of  an  ancient  Gascon  family,  and  his  daughter  Matilda 
married  Sir  John  de  Foxle,  son  of  Sir  Thomas. 

3 "  Brocas  of  Beaurepaire,"  a  volume  of  exceeding  interest  to  every  de- 
scendant of  John  Putnam. 


THE  PUTNAM  FAMILY  553 

Through  the  Hampdens,  Phebe 21  (Putnam)  Tapley,  inherited 
another  long  line  of  distinguished  ancestry.  Both  through  the  War- 
bletons  and  through  the  Hampdens  she  was  descended  from  the  Dam- 
martin  family,  Counts  of  Dammartin  in  France.  Through  the  Hamp- 
dens, and  again  through  the  Dammartins,  she  came  from  the  Fiennes 
family,  which  held  important  posessions  in  both  the  English  and  French 
territories  of  the  English  kings.  An  ancestor,  William  de  Fiennes, 
was  son  of  Ingelram  de  Fiennes  or  Fienles,  a  siegneur  in  Boulogne 
(who  lost  his  life  at  Aeon  in  1189,)  by  his  wife,  Sybilla  de  Boulogne 
de  Tyngrie,  an  important  personage  and  daughter  and  sole  heiress  of 
Faramus  de  Boulogne.  Faramus  was  one  of  the  most  important 
nobles  of  the  court  of  King  Stephen,  and  retained  favor  under  his 
successor,  Henry  II.  He  was  son  of  William  de  Boulogne,  son  of 
GeoiFrey,  born  about  1062,  by  a  daughter  of  the  Norman  Geoffrey  de 
Mandeville  ;  and  grandson  of  Eustace  II,  sovereign  count  of 
Boulogne,  by  Ida  daughter  of  Godfrey  IV,  Duke  of  Lorrain.  Eustace 
was  great  grandson  of  Charles,  Duke  of  Nether  Lorraine  and  Brabant, 
who  died  in  992,  and  who  should  have  succeeded  his  father,  Louis  IV, 
as  King  of  France.  Louis  IV  died  in  954.  He  was  descended  through 
a  line  of  French  kings  from  the  great  Charlemagne,  emperor,  who  died 
814,  and  was  cannonized  in  1165,  and  from  Alfred  the  Great  of 
England,  and  Henry  I  of  Germany.  To  follow  the  ramifications  of 
the  ancestral  lines  of  Phebe  (Putnam)  Tapley  through  various  English 
and  French  families  would  yield  much  of  interest,  for  she  inherited 
distinguished  ancestry,  not  in  one  line  but  in  many,  each  ascending  gen- 
eration opening  out  more  and  more  into  historic  families  whose  records 
have  been  preserved  to  a  much  greater  extent  than  the  average  indi- 
vidual has  any  conception  of. 

For  details  of  many  of  the  families  lightly  touched  upon  above  ref- 
erence can  be  had  to  the  "  Putnam  Lineage,"  by  Eben  Putnam,  pub- 
lished in  1908;  "  Brocas  of  Beaurepaire  and  Roche  Court,"  by  Montagu 
Burrows,  1886;  "  Le  grand  Feudataire  Renaud  de  Dammartin  et  la 
coalition  de  Bouvines,"  by  M.  Malo,  1898,  and  Browning's  "  Americans 
of  Royal  Descent,"  last  edition. 


554 


APPENDIX  IV 


Descent  of  Ruthe  Tapley  from  Charlemagne,  Alfred  the  Great,  and  Henry 
the  Fowler,  Emperor  of  Germany. 


Alfred  the  Great. 

Edward,    King    of 
England. 


Charlemagne    (742-814). 
Louis  I.   (778-840). 
Charles  II.  (823-877). 
Louis  II.  (846-879). 


Ogive  =     Charles  III.   (879-929).        Henry  I.  of  Germany. 


|  I 

Louis   IV.    (921-954)  =  Gerberge  de  Saxe 


Charles,  Duke  of  Brabant 

Lambert,  Count  =  Gerberga  de  Brabant 

of   Louvain    I 

I 
Eustace  I,  Count  of  Boulogne  =  Mahaut 


I 
Eustace   II.   d.   109—. 

Goeffrey   of   Boulogne  =  A  daughter  of  Goef- 
I  frey  de  Mandeville 

William  de  Boulogne 

Faramus   de   Bolonia        Alberic  I.  Count 
de   Tingry  of  Dammartin 


Egidius    de    Fiennes  =  Sybilla   de  Tingry 
-^,  d.  1184         I 


Alberic,  Count 
of  Dammartin 


William  de  Fiennes,  d.  1241    =  Agnes  de  Dammartin 
>  I 


A  daughter,  wife  of  Bartholomew  de  Hampden 

Sir  Reginald  de  Hampden 

Sir  Alexr  de  Hampden 

Sir  Reginald  de  Hampden 

Sir  John  de  Hampden,  d.  1375 

Sir  Edmund  de  Hampden 

Sir  John  de  Hampden 


Anne  de  Hampden,  wife  of 
William  de  Puttenham  of 
Puttenham  and  Penne,  etc. 


Nicholas   Putnam  of  Penne 

Henry   Putnam 

Richard   Putnam 

John  Putnam 

i 
Nicholas   Putnam 

John  Putnam  of  Salem 

Nathaniel   Putnam 

i 
John  Putnam 

John  Putnam 

Phebe  Putnam  =  Gilbert  Tapley 
i 
Joseph  Tapley 


Ruthe  Tapley  =  Col.  Joel  Hewes 

David  Hewes 

of   Orange,   Calif. 


THE  NORDEN  AND  COPP  FAMILIES 

Samuel  Norden,  a  cordwainer,  first  appears  in  Boston  in  1646, 
when  he  married  Joanna  Copp,  daughter  of  William  Copp  of  Boston, 
also  a  cordwainer.  William  Copp,  for  whom  Copp's  Hill  is  named,  was 
admitted  to  the  church  in  Boston,  4-5-1640,  and  as  freeman,  2  June, 
1641.  His  wife  Judith  was  admitted  to  the  church  24-11-1640. 
Their  daughter  Johanna  was  admitted  to  the  church  26-3-1644. 
William  Copp  made  his  will  31  Oct.,  1662,  which  was  proved  15  March, 
1669-70.  In  it  he  named  wife  "  Goodeth,"  daughter  Tewxshery,  sons 
David  and  Jonathan,  daughters  Ruth  and  Lydia;  also  grandchildren, 
William,  Thomas,  John  and  Mary  Harvey,  John  and  Sarah  Atwood, 
and  Samuel  and  Sarah  Norden.  (N.  E.  Hist.  Gen.  Register,  48:459.) 
The  grandchildren,  Samuel  and  Sarah  Norden,  each  received  a  legacy 
of  <£5.  Savage  says  that  William  Copp  came  probably  in  the  Blessing, 
aged  26.  His  daughter  Ann  married  Herman  Atwood,  and  Martha 
married  William  Harvey. 

By  a  curious  mistake  on  Boston  records,  at  the  time  his  eldest  child 
was  baptized  Samuel  Norden  is  described  as  "  Hugh  Northend,"  but  the 
mother's  name  is  correctly  given,  and  also  the  additional  information 
that  she  was  "  formerly  Copp."  They  were  married  probably  in  1646. 
Samuel  Norden  in  1651  occupied  the  house  built  by  Robert  Harding 
(see  Suffolk  Deeds,  1:319),  but  the  next  year  he  is  found  selling  a 
house  near  the  "  new  meeting  house  "  (ibid.,  276).     He  held  town  office. 

Children : 

Hannah,  bapt.,  aged  about  5  days,  30-3mo.,  1647,  "  of  Joanna 

and    Hugh    Northend    she    form.    Copp."     She    married 

Joshua  Hewes,  Jr.,  q.  v.     In  Nathaniel  Norden's  will  she 

is  described  as  "  my  own  sister." 

Sarah,   bapt.,   aged   about   4   days,  of   "  Joanna  and   Samuel 

Northend,"  12-6  mo.,  1649. 
Samuel,  born   8-9-1651. 

Nathaniel,  born  27  Nov.,  1653.     Of  whom  below. 
Benjamin,  born   15  June,  1656. 
Joanna  Norden  died  29-4-1656,  and  Samuel  married,  second,  1656, 
Elizabeth  Pormont,  daughter  of  Philemon  Pormont  of  Boston,  by 
whom  he  had: 

Elizabeth,  born  2  Sept.,  1657. 

Susannah,  born  26  Nov.,  1659,  married  17  Aug.,  1693,  John 

Hudson  or  Hewson. 
Joseph,  born  28  Feb.,  1663. 

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556  APPENDIX  IV 

Abigail,  bapt.  10-10-1665. 

Joshua,  born  3  July,  1666. 

Mary,  born  22  March,  1669,  bapt.  as  Marah,  27-1-1670. 

Isaac,  born  8  March,  1672-3. 

One  of  the  daughters,  by  the  second  wife,  married  a  Hooper,  and  had 
a  son  Samuel,  a  legatee  of  his  uncle,  Nathaniel  Norden,  the  only  one  of 
his  paternal  relatives,  aside  from  the  descendants  of  Hannah  Hewes, 
who  is  mentioned  in  his  will. 

Capt.  Nathaniel  Norden  of  Marblehead,  son  of  Samuel,  was 
born  27  Nov.,  1653.  He  was  at  first  a  mariner,  and  later  a  pros- 
perous merchant.  He  was  one  of  the  selectmen  of  Marblehead  in  1690, 
and  that  year  he  and  Capt.  Legg  are  asked  by  the  General  Court  to 
explain  why  they  have  not  kept  better  order  at  Marblehead.  He  was 
of  the  Council  for  Massachusetts,  1708-23. 

He  was  married  to  Jane  Lattimer,  a  daughter  of  Christopher  Lat- 
timer  of  Marblehead,  prior  to  1686.  She  died  20-2-1722,  and  he  mar- 
ried again  20  Sept.,  1722,  Mary  Legg,  then  widow  of  Capt.  Edward 
Brattle,  and  who  after  his  death  married,  24  July,  1728,  Col.  Edmund 
Goffe  of  Cambridge. 

Capt.  Nathaniel  Norden  made  his  will  16  Feb.,  1724.  It  was  proved 
11  March,  1727-8  (Essex  Probate,  19:  555).  To  his  two  loving  kins- 
men, Nathaniel  and  Joshua  Huse  (sic),  sons  of  Samuel  Huse,  late  of 
Boston,  cooper,  deceased,  and  grandsons  unto  Joshua  Huse,  formerly  of 
Boston,  cordwainer,  deceased,  and  Hannah,  his  wife,  "  who  was  my 
owne  sister,"  .£40  apiece,  and  also  to  their  sister,  Hannah  Huse,  £30. 
To  Sarah  Grice,  daughter  of  Hannah  Huse,  "  my  late  deceased  sister," 
£40.  To  the  children  of  Joseph  Dolbier  (sic)  of  Boston,  brazier, 
whom  he  had  by  my  niece  Hannah  Huse,  namely,  Edmund  Dolbear, 
£40,  and  to  his  two  sisters  £30  apiece.  To  Mary  Perkins  of  Boston, 
widow,  late  Mary  Hooper,  wife  of  Samuel  Hooper  of  Marblehead,  de- 
ceased, £40,  and  to  Mary  Hooper,  her  daughter  which  she  had  by 
Samuel  Hooper,  deceased,  £40. 

To  Samuel  Hooper,  who  is  son  to  my  half-sister,  who  was  daughter  of 
my  father  by  my  mother-in-law,4  £10. 

To  Rev.  John  Barnard,  my  pastor,  £10.  To  beloved  wife,  Mary 
Norden,  one-third  of  the  estate  during  life,  and  one-half  the  personal 
estate,  after  debts  and  legacies  are  paid,  and  she  is  also  to  enjoy  all 
personal  estate  she  had  at  the  time  of  her  marriage  to  me.  Also 
dwelling  house,  meadow  and  orchards,  stables  and  warehouses,  etc.,  in 
Marblehead  for  her  life;  also  for  life,  the  rents  and  profits  of  my  real 
estate.  Wife  Mary,  and  William  Welstead  of  Boston,  Esq.,  to  be  ex- 
ecutors, and  to  whom  £50  and  £10  respectively. 

*  Step-relatives  are  invariably  so  described  in  those  days. 


NORDEN-COPP  FAMILIES  557 

Residue  of  estate  to  the  children  and  grandchildren  of  my  sister, 
Hannah  Huse,  which  may  survive  me,  to  be  equally  divided  between 
them,  their  heirs  and  assigns. 

The  widow,  Mary  Norden,  and  William  Welstead  declined  to  accept 
administration  of  the  estate,  whereupon  Samuel  Hewes,  merchant,  and 
Edmond  Dolbear,  merchant,  both  of  Boston,  were  appointed  as  admin- 
istrators with  the  will  annexed,  26  March,  1728. 

An  inventory  of  the  estate,  taken  the  preceding  day,  showed  the 
estate  to  be  worth  £4,593-10-8,  including  362  ounces  of  plate  at  15 
shillings,  £271-10-0,  land  in  Freetown,  part  of  island  at  Minheegen, 
Kettle  Cove  in  Gloucester,  mansion  house  with  gardens,  and  a  small 
dwelling  house,  etc.,  in  King  St.,  £1550,  orchard  adjoining,  £100, 
meadow  adjoining,  £250,  another  house  and  land  in  possession  of  Mary 
Tucker,  £50,  a  farm  with  house  and  barn,  being  Maverick's  "  pur- 
chase," £500,  purchase  that  was  Codner's  adjoining  the  farm  £100, 
fish  stage,  lease  land  and  other  land  on  the  Neck,  £10. 

A  number  of  interesting  papers  are  filed  with  the  will.  There  are 
receipts  from  legatees  as  follows: 

8  July,  1728,  from  William  Dollar  (possibly  Dolland)  for  £40, 
legacy  to  his  wife  from  her  "  uncle  Nathaniel  Norden."  (This  was 
probably  Mary  Hooper.) 

4  March,  1728-9,  from  Sarah  Grice  and  Mary  Perkins,  who  make 
their  mark,  for  legacies  of  £40. 

21  July,  1729,  from  William  Killworth  for  his  wife,  Elizabeth  Kill- 
worth,  and  from  Charles  Busso  for  his  wife,  Hannah  Dolbear,  now 
Busso,  these  last  being  witnessed  by  Hannah  Hewes. 

16  Dec,  1729,  from  Nathaniel  Hewes,  for  his  legacy. 

25  Feb.,  1729-30,  from  Edmond  Goft'e  for  £50  legacy  for  his 
wife. 

A  complaint  was  entered  26  July,  1729,  that  the  administrators  had 
not  made  an  accounting  of  the  estate,  consequently,  on  the  5  August, 
they  made  their  first  accounting,  showing  debts  paid  of  £1271-  From 
the  bills  on  file  we  learn  that  Norden  was  attended  in  his  last  ill- 
ness by  James  Strahan,  who  presented  his  bill  for  attendance  and  med- 
icines from  30  Jan.,  to  3  Feb.,  1727-8,  £5. 

Edward  Pell  presented  a  bill,  July,  1728,  "  to  painting  &  gilding  10 
escutcheons  @  22  shillings,  £11,  to  hatchment  and  frame  6  shillings, 
five  yards  of  Allimode  @  7/6  £1-17-6.  Total  £18-17-6."  Evidently 
the  funeral  was  graced  with  an  abundance  of  heraldic  emblems.  It 
would  be  interesting  to  know  if  any  of  the  ten  escutcheons  have  re- 
mained in  existence.  The  Gore  roll  of  arms,  printed  in  Heraldic 
Journal,  Vol.  1,  has  the  following  entry,  "  No.  12.  Nathaniel  Norden, 
Esq.,  of  Marblehead,  one  of  his  Majesty's  Council.  Norden  and  Lati- 
mer.    Argent,  on  a  fesse  gules  between  three  beavers  passant,  a  cross- 


558  APPENDIX  IV 

let  fitchee  between  two  fleurs-de-lys,  gold.  Crest,  a  demi-beaver,  holding 
in  his  mouth  a  branch  of  leaves.  The  impalement  is,  Gules,  a  cross 
patonce  argent"   (for  Latimer). 

There  is  an  order  on  Mrs.  Hannah  Hewes,  dated  "  Marblehead,  11 
March,  1727-8.  Please  pay  to  Robert  Robinson,  Esq.,  three  pounds  six 
shillings  money  on  demand.     I  am  yor  Dutiful  Son     Sam1  Hewes  " 

A  deed  dated  21  Feb.,  1686-7,  from  Christopher  Lattimer,  of  Mar- 
blehead,  vintner,  to  son-in-law,  Nathaniel  Norden,  of  Marblehead, 
mariner,  in  consideration  of  £20,  conveys  land  whereon  the  house  of 
said  Norden  stands,  and  the  land,  house  and  orchard  which  was  the 
estate  of  and  occupied  by  my  father,  William  Pitt,  deceased. 

Archibald  Ferguson  of  Marblehead,  mariner,  and  Moses  Hawkes  of 
Lynn,  planter,  empowered  to  sell  the  real  estate  of  Mr.  Moses  Maverick, 
sometime  of  Marblehead,  in  consideration  of  £65,  convey,  4  Sept., 
1699,  to  Nathaniel  Norden  of  Marblehead,  merchant,  part  of  the  Great 
Plain  farm  laid  out  to  Moses  Maverick,  deceased,  i.  e.,  37  acres,  etc., 
being  the  whole  of  his  £15  first  purchase.      (Essex  Deeds,  9:3;  14:86.) 

Samuel  Hewes  of  Boston,  merchant,  for  ,£1500  old  tenor  on  23  Oct., 
1749,  sold  to  Nathaniel  Bowen  of  Marblehead,  gentleman,  all  his  right, 
title  and  interest,  being  9/13  part  in  the  messuage,  lands,  etc.,  in  Mar- 
blehead, which  of  right  belonged  to  Nathaniel  Norden,  Esq.,  deceased, 
that  is  to  say,  the  messuage  where  he  dwelt  at  the  time  of  his  death, 
except  so  much  as  was  recovered  by  law  by  the  heirs  of  Christopher 
Lattimore,  deceased;  a  messuage  formerly  Capt.  Andrew  Pratey's,  a 
messuage  formerly  of  Henry  Tewksbury ;  Norden's  farm  50  acres,  near 
to  Forest  River,  called  the  Dungeons,  being  part  of  the  Plain  Farm  so- 
called,  except  so  much  as  belonged  to  heirs  of  Christopher  Lattimore. 
The  said  thirteenths  being  the  shares  of  Samuel  Hewes,  the  grantor, 
and  by  purchase  of  William  and  Elizabeth  Killworth,  Charles  and 
Hannah  Burso,  John  and  Elizabeth  Reed,  Hannah  Blay,  Edmund  Dol- 
bear,  Stephen  and  Hannah  Winter,  Joshua  Hewes,  Edmund  Grice 
Dolbear  and  wife  Elizabeth.  Wife  Elizabeth  Hewes  releases  dower. 
(Essex  Deeds,  95:  66.) 

On  the  8  Oct.,  1 729,  Mary  Perkins  and  Sarah  Grice,  widows ;  Joshua 
Hewes,  tailor;  Nathaniel  Hewes,  blacksmith;  Hannah  Blay,  William 
Killworth,  and  Charles  Busso,  cordwainer,  all  of  Boston,  released  to 
Col.  Edmund  Goffe  of  Marblehead,  all  their  right,  etc.,  in  the  estate  of 
Nathaniel  Norden,  granting  him  power  of  attorney,  etc.  (Essex 
Deeds,  56:57.) 

The  purchase  by  Samuel  Hewes  of  the  various  interests  in  the  estate 
are  as  follows:  For  £100,  from  John  Reed,  J1*.,  of  Barrington,  Bristol 
Co.,  brickmaker,  and  wife  Elizabeth  (Elizabeth  Hewes,  daughter  of 
Joshua,  the  gunsmith),  1  July,  1729. 

For  £300,   from   Charles   Busso   of   Boston,   cordwainer,   and  wife 


NORDEN-COPP  FAMILIES  559 

Hannah^  and  from  William  Killworth  of  Boston,  cordwainer,  and  wife 
Elizabeth  (Hannah  and  Elizabeth  were  daughters  of  Joseph  Dolbear 
by  Hannah  Hewes),  3  July,  1729. 

For  ,£100,  from  Hannah  Blay  of  Boston,  widow,  granddaughter  of 
Hannah  Hewes,  wife  of  Joshua  Hewes,  cordwainer  (she  was  sister  of 
Elizabeth  Reed),  4  Nov.,  1729. 

For  £65,  from  Edmond  Dolbear  of  Boston,  bookkeeper,  and  wife 
Deborah,  said  Edmond  being  one  of  the  grandchildren  of  Hannah, 
wife  of  Joshua  Hewes.      12  Aug.,  1745. 

For  £25,  from  Edmund  Grice  Dolbear  of  Boston,  tailor,  and  wife 
Elizabeth.  (He  was  a  grandson  of  Hannah  Hewes,  who  married 
Joseph  Dolbear.)      30  Apr.,  1748. 

For  £25,  from  Stephen  Winter  of  Boston,  jeweller,  and  Hannah,  his 
wife.      (She  was  Samuel  Hewes'  own  sister.)      12  August,  1745. 

For  £84-6-0,  from  Joshua  Hewes,  tailor,  who  gave  his  bond  for 
.£100,  to  be  void  if  he  repaid  the  said  £84;  his  interest  in  the  estate 
and  his  legacy  being  collateral  for  the  loan.  (He  never  discharged  the 
bond,  and  his  share  was  forfeited  to  Samuel.)  25  April,  1729.  (See 
Essex  Deeds,  53:  164,  167;  54:   171;  95:  6,  7,  etc.) 

On  the  4  Feb.,  1745,  Benjamin  Hewes  and  wife  Prudence  of  Kings- 
ton, Jamaica,  gave  power  of  attorney  to  Samuel  Hewes  of  Boston,  mer- 
chant, doubtless  in  relation  to  the  settlement  of  their  interest  in  the 
Norden  estate,  but  not  specifically  mentioning  the  same.  (Suffolk 
Deeds,  71:   234.) 

The  four-thirteenths  which  Samuel  Hewes  did  not  attempt  to  convey 
to  Bowen  were  probably  the  interests  of  Sarah  Grice,  Mary  Perkins, 
Nathaniel  Hewes,  the  blacksmith,  and  Benjamin  Hewes,  which  if  the 
case  would  presume  the  death  without  issue  of  both  Joshua  and 
Nathaniel,  sons  of  Samuel.  The  latter,  however,  would  seem  to  have 
been  living  in  1729,  when  he  receipted  for  his  legacy.  There  is  no 
receipt  from  Joshua  for  his  legacy,  but  it  is  to  be  noted  that  Joshua, 
the  tailor,  in  pledging  his  interest  to  Samuel  in  1729,  mentions  his 
legacy  as  well  as  interest  in  estate.  Could  he  have  been  the  younger 
Joshua?  There  is  as  yet  confusion  in  the  records  relating  to  the  two 
Nathaniels  and  Joshuas. 


THE  JOHNSON  FAMILY 

Samuel  Johnson,  a  mariner,  first  appears  in  Boston  in  1653, 
when  the  record  of  birth  of  his  son  Peter  is  found.  In  1654,  21  July, 
he  bought  of  William  Parsons,  carpenter,  in  consideration  of  £25,  a 
dwelling  house  and  orchard  at  the  upper  end  of  the  south  marsh, 
between  lands  of  Mr.  Thomas  Webber  west,  and  lands  of  Mr.  Henry 
Webb,  north,  with  lands  of  James  Davis  east,  and  facing  the  street 
south,  in  length  80  feet,  and  in  breadth  42  feet.  Ruth  Parsons,  wife 
of  William,  also  signs  the  deed,  which  runs  to  Samuel  Johnson  of 
Boston,  seaman,  and  Mary  Johnson,  his  wife  (Suffolk  Deeds,  2:229). 

Mr.  W.  H.  Whittemore  in  the  Appendix  to  the  Book  of  Possessions, 
page  101,  describes  the  lot  of  Parsons  as  situated  with  the  lane  west, 
Henry  Webb  north,  James  Davis  east,  and  the  Spring  Gate  south, 
being  lot  No.  72  on  his  plan. 

The  Spring  Gate  was  the  spring  and  watering  place  between  the 
lots  of  Thomas  Oliver  and  Gov.  John  Winthrop,  and  reached  on  the 
east  to  Hibbin's  lot.  The  present  Spring  Lane  marks  the  old  way  to 
the  watering  place.  This  lot  sold  to  Johnson,  was,  therefore,  about  at 
the  corner  of  Devonshire  and  Water  streets. 

Samuel  Johnson  died  23-1  lmo.,  1656,  according  to  the  inventory  of 
his  estate.  His  house  and  ground  were  valued  at  £20.  His  total 
estate  was  <£56-0-5,  as  certified  to  by  Mary  Johnson,  the  widow.  Evi- 
dence of  young  children  in  the  family  is  afforded  by  the  item,  one 
trundle  bed,  with  furnishings,  at  £2-16-0.  Besides  this  trundle  bed, 
there  were  but  two  bedsteads  in  the  house,  one  with  flock  bed,  one 
bolster,  rug,  and  a  feather  bolster,  being  valued  at  £1-16-6,  the  other, 
with  more  elaborate  furnishings,  at  £5.  This  does  not  indicate  a  large 
family.      (Suffolk    Probate,    3:66.) 

Mary  Johnson,  widow,  left  an  undated  will,  which  was  proved 
2-4  mo.,  1670.  (Suffolk  Probate,  7:21.)  To  her  son,  Samuel  John- 
son, she  gave  the  "  fore  part  of  my  house,  with  the  peice  of  land  which 
lyeth  between  my  house  and  Mr.  Richard's  house,"  from  the  front  to 
the  lower  end  of  the  garden,  about  16  feet  in  breadth,  for  his  lifetime, 
then  to  pass  to  his  eldest  son,  who,  if  he  die  without  issue,  it  shall  pass 
to  the  eldest  son  of  either  of  my  daughters,  "  and  so  successively  to  the 
next  heir  male  to  be  carried  along,  never  to  be  sold  or  mortgaged." 
Also  to  Samuel  the  bed  in  the  great  chamber,  a  silver  wine  cup,  one 
silver  spoon,  and  the  copper  in  the  cellar,  on  condition  of  his  paying  to 
his  sisters,  Rebecca  and  Hannah,  30  shillings  apiece. 

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THE  JOHNSON  FAMILY  561 

To  her  daughter,  Rebecca  Allen,  the  back  part  of  the  house  for  her 
life,  then  to  her  son  if  he  be  living,  otherwise  to  the  next  of  her  chil- 
dren, or  if  none  are  living  then  to  the  eldest  son  of  daughter  Hannah 
Lyscom.  Also  to  her  daughter  Allen,  my  apprentice's  time,  who  at  the 
end  of  her  time  is  to  have  two  suits  of  apparel. 

To  her  daughter  Hannah  Lyscom  "  at  the  lower  end  of  my  garden 
the  whole  breadth  of  my  ground  from  Samuel's  part  to  Mr.  John  Lev- 
erett's  fence,  and  16  feet  toward  the  north  end  of  my  house  for  a  way 
to  both  their  houses,  also  £20  which  my  son,  William  Allen,  owes  me." 

To  son,  John  Lyscom,  £10.  To  her  daughters,  Rebecca  and  Han- 
nah, all  her  household  goods.  Goods  in  the  shop  are  mentioned.  The 
three  children  are  appointed  executors.  Henry  Bridgham  and 
Nathaniel  Bishop  are  appointed  overseers.  A  deposition  purporting  to 
be  that  of  James  Johnson,  that  he  witnessed  the  signing  of  the  will, 
is  signed  "  Samuel  Johnson  his  mark." 

Ail  inventory,  taken  22-12  mo.,  1669,  disclosed  a  total  estate  of 
£638-18-7,  of  which  the  house  and  land  stood  at  £300.  The  inventory 
mentions  the  hall,  kitchen,  little  kitchen,  cellar,  and  kitchen  chamber. 
Items  in  the  inventory  are,  Spanish  money  £102-11-0,  New  England 
money,  £12,  six  silver  spoons  and  a  silver  wine  cup,  £3,  wearing  ap- 
parrell,  £19,  and  shop  goods  £224.  Deposed  to  by  Rebecca  Allen, 
29-2-1670  (Suffolk  Probate,  7:  49). 

There  was  at  this  time  a  James  Johnson,  a  glover,  who  was  deacon 
in  the  church,  and  husband  of  Thomas  Oliver's  daughter  Abigail. 

Children : 

Rebecca,  married  William  Allen  of  Boston.     She  had  Re- 
becca, born  25  Sept.,  1670. 
Hannah,  married  John  Lyscom  or  Luscomb,  of  Boston,  and 
had  John,  born  2  Jan.,  1667;  Mary,  born  10  Aug.,  1671; 
Ebenezer,  born  29  April,  1676. 
Samuel,  aged  34  in  1685  (Suffolk  Files,  2377),  of  whom  below. 
Samuel    Johnson    (Samuel)    of    Boston,    cooper,    lived    in   Water 
street  on  the  estate  inherited  from  his  mother.     In  March,  1675-6,  he 
was  elected  hogreeve.     In  March,  1676-7,  he  is  mentioned  as  a  cooper. 
He  is  probably  the  Samuel  Johnson  who  was  tythingman  in  1680,  and 
also  one  of  the  five  clerks  of  the  market  that  year.     There  was  also  a 
contemporary  of  the  same  name.     One  or  the  other  was  constable  in 
1683-4,  and  measurer  of  grain  in  1701. 

He  made  his  will  28  Nov.,  1715,  which  was  proved  16  July,  1716 
(Suffolk  Probate,  19:159).  To  his  loving  wife  Hannah  he  gave  40 
shillings  annually  to  be  paid  by  his  two  daughters  and  son  equally. 
"  Unto  my  two  daughters,  Mary  Sutton  and  Hannah  Hews,  the 
westerly  part  of  my  house  called  the  kitchen,  measuring  16  feet  in 


562  APPENDIX  IV 

breadth,  with  the  land  the  same  breadth  from  the  street  to  the  rear  of 
my  land  to  be  enjoyed  by  them,  their  heirs  and  assigns  forever,  and  to 
have  equal  privildeges  of  the  well  for  water  "  *  *  *  unto  my  six 
grandchildren  six  silver  spoons  of  equal  value.  I  also  give  unto  my 
four  grandsons  my  four  fire  locks."  To  his  son  Joseph  he  gave  all 
the  rest  of  the  house,  a  silver  hilted  sword,  and  a  silver  whistle  and 
cane,  and  the  residue  of  the  estate,  and  made  him  executor. 
He  married  Hannah. 

Children: 

Hannah,  born  22  Jan.,  1677-8;  married  Samuel  Hewes,  q.  v. 

Samuel,  born  24  Jan.,  1670-1. 

Joseph. 

Mary,  married  William  Sutton.     He  and  wife  Mary  sell  to 

Hannah    Hewes,    widow,    their    house    in    Water    street. 

(Deeds,  34:224.) 


SMITH  FAMILY  6 

John  Smith  of  Salem  married  Elizabeth  Goodale,  daughter  of 
Robert  Goodale,  before  1658,  as  on  that  date  he  calls  Robert  Goodale 
his  father-in-law  (Essex  Deeds,  Vol.  I,  p.  40).  She  was  baptized  at 
First  Church,  probably  31-3  mo-1640.  An  inventory  of  the  estate  of 
John  Smith  was  returned  by  widow  Elizabeth,  16-5  mo.,  1672.  She 
married,   second,   March,    1674-5,   William   Bennett. 

Children: 

Abraham,  born  probably  about  1658,  baptized  28  Aug.,  1670. 

John,  baptized  28  Aug.,  1670. 

Sarah,  baptized  28  Aug.,  1670. 

Mary,  baptized  28  Aug.,  1670. 

Elizabeth,  baptized  28  Aug.,  1670. 

Elizabeth,  baptized  8  Aug.,  1672. 

Abraham  Smith  (John),  married  25  Apr.,  1694,  at  Topsfield, 
Mary  Perkins,  daughter  of  William  Perkins,  and  resided  at  Salem 
Village  after  his  marriage.  She  was  born  at  Topsfield  4  Apr.,  1672. 
He  was  a  weaver  and  yeoman.  On  6  Dec,  1692,  he  agrees  with  his 
brothers  and  sisters  to  take  care  of  his  mother,  Elizabeth  Bennett, 
during  the  remainder  of  her  life  in  consideration  of  the  land  which  she 
then  possessed  (Essex  Deeds,  9:67).  On  June  3,  1740,  Abraham 
Smith  deeds  all  his  real  estate  to  his  son  Nathan. 

Children : 

Nathan,  born  8  Dec,  1696. 
David,  born  26  July,  1699. 
Joseph,  born  3  Nov.,  1702. 
Eleazer,  baptized  15  June,  1707. 
Stephen,  baptized  5  Oct.,  1712. 

Nathan  Smith  (Abraham,  John),  born  8  Dec,  1696;  married 
Mary.  He  was  a  cooper  and  lived  at  Salem  Village.  His  will,  dated 
28  July,  1766,  mentions  wife  Mary;  daughter,  Elizabeth  Felton;  Amos, 
Asa  and  Nathan,  children  of  daughter  Mary;  and  son  Nathan,  to 
whom  he  gives  all  his  lands,  2  guns,  his  best  sword,  cutlass  and  all  his 
cooper's  tools.  Inventory  returned  by  son  Nathan,  28  Nov.,  amounted 
to  £457-2-7- 

e  From  notes  of  Harriet  S.  Tapley. 

563 


564  APPENDIX  IV 

Children: 

Elizabeth,  born  30  Nov.,  1722,  baptized  at  Salem  Village  20 

May,  1722. 
Mary,  born  7  April,  1726,  baptized  at  Salem  Village  12  June, 

1726. 
Nathan,  born  7   April,   1727,  baptized  at  Salem  Village  29 

June,  1729. 

Nathan  Smith  (Nathan,  Abraham,  John),  born  7  April,  1727; 
married  11  July,  1750,  Mary  Flint.  He  was  a  yeoman  and  lived  at 
Salem  Village,  now  Danvers.  Administration  on  his  estate  was  granted 
to  his  widow  Mary,  5  March,  1770.     His  estate  amounted  to  .£864-15-9. 

Children: 

Jesse,  born  17  Jan.,  1752. 

Ruth,  born  15  Jan.,  1755. 

Mary,  born  19  Aug.,  1758,  married  Joseph  Tapley. 

John,  born  18  Nov.,  1761. 

Elizabeth,  born  16  Aug.,  1764. 


THE  WELLMAN  FAMILY 

The  founder  of  the  Wellman  family  of  Lynnfield  was  Thomas 
Wellman.  "  Goodman  "  Wellman  is  named  in  the  accounts  of  Gif- 
ford,  agent  for  the  Iron  Works  at  Saugus,  in  his  suit  in  1653  against 
the  proprietors  for  advances  for  diet  for  laborers,  and  for  provisions 
purchased  and  teaming  done  by  his  own  help  and  the  neighboring 
settlers.  From  the  prefix  "  Goodman,"  it  is  probable  that  Gifford  in- 
tended a  farmer  and  not  a  laborer,  and  that  Thomas  Wellman  was  the 
man.  We  know  he  owned  land  prior  to  his  purchase,  jointly  with 
John  Knight,  17-12mo.,  1653-4,  of  two  sixty-acre  lots  at  Lynn  End 
(Lynnfield),  near  Stone's  Meadow  and  Bates'  Brook,  as  this  purchase 
was  bounded  on  the  north  by  land  already  his. 

When  Thomas  Wellman  settled  in  Lynnfield,  then  a  part  of  Lynn,1 
and  from  what  part  of  Great  Britain  he  came,  are  queries  yet  to  be 
answered.  A  William  Wellman  was  an  inhabitant  of  Gloucester  in 
1649,  but  soon  removed  to  New  London,  Conn.  He  was  evidently  a 
man  of  about  the  same  age  as  Thomas.  No  connection  between  them 
has  been  traced.  Stephen  Wellman,  the  soldier  who  was  killed  at 
Bloody  Brook  bridge,  18  Sept.,  1675,  may  have  been  a  connection, 
though  not  a  son  of  Thomas.  The  name  Stephen  occurs  in  the  Lynn- 
field family  in  the  third  and  fourth  generations  in  the  line  of  Isaac 
Wellman. 

Thomas  Wellman  made  other  purchases  of  land  adjoining,  and  also 
in  the  vicinity  of  his  earlier  purchases,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death 
possessed  a  good-sized  farm.  In  1659  the  road  from  Reading  to 
Salem  was  laid  out,  passing  his  house.  In  1660  he  was  one  of  those 
appointed  by  the  Court  to  estimate  the  damage  caused  by  the  overflow 
from  the  millpond  of  the  Iron  Works.  He  died  10  Oct.,  1672,  in- 
testate. The  inventory  of  his  estate  disclosed  a  total  estate  of  £370- 
10-10,  with  debts  of  £13.  Of  the  total  estate  £200  was  in  land,  180 
acres.  The  dwelling  house  was  valued  at  £30,  the  barn  at  £20.  On 
the  22  Nov.,  1672,  the  widow  and  children  entered  into  an  agreement 
concerning  the  estate,  those  participating  being  Elizabeth  Wellman, 
"  senior,"  the  widow  and  executrix ;  Abraham  Wellman,  eldest  son ; 
Isaac  Wellman,  "her  younger  son";  Elizabeth  Wellman,  eldest  daugh- 
ter; Sarah  Wellman,  second  daughter;  Mary  Wellman,  youngest  daugh- 
ter. The  name  of  Sarah  Wellman,  however,  does  not  appear  among 
the  signers  of  the  document. 

1  Lewis,  in  History  of  Lynn,  notes  his  presence  in  Lynn  in  1640. 

565 


566  APPENDIX  IV 

Children  : 

Abraham,  probably  born  prior  to  1645;  "  perhaps  in  1643." 

Elizabeth,  "  eldest  daughter." 

Sarah,  "  second  daughter." 

Isaac,  born  probably  about  1650;  "younger  son";  married  13 
March,  1678-9,  Hannah  Adams.  He  was  one  of  the  com- 
pany commanded  by  Capt.  Gardner  at  the  capture  of  the 
Narragansett  fort  in  Dec,  1675.  His  son  Stephen,  born 
6  Sept.,  1681,  married  (intention  recorded  at  Lynn,  27 
April,  1706)  Abigail  Boston  of  Wells2  and  had  several 
children  born  in  Lynn. 

Mary,  "  youngest  daughter." 

Abraham  Wellman  (Thomas)  lived  in  Lynnfield,  on  part  of 
the  paternal  farm.  A  large  elm  on  the  hillside  just  above  Gerry's 
Cider  Mill  is  said  to  mark  the  site  of  the  house.  Nearby  is  an  old 
cellar  hole  and  remains  of  doorsteps.  The  house  was  taken  down  about 
1836.  In  1810  James  Wellman  of  Salem,  who  published  a  brief  gene- 
alogy of  the  Wellman  family  in  1867,  when  he  was  eighty-four  years 
of  age,  visited  Miss  Sarah  Wellman,  who  then  dwelt  in  the  house. 
According  to  her  statement,  her  sisters,  her  father,  two  uncles,  one  of 
whom  was  Capt.  Jacob  Wellman,  and  her  grandfather,  Abraham  Well- 
man,  Jr.,  were  born  in  this  house.  As  the  latter  was  born  in  1673  it 
is  quite  possible  the  house  was  the  home  of  the  original  Thomas  Well- 
man. 

Abraham  and  Isaac  Wellman  join  in  mortgaging  land  near  Bates' 
meadow  in  1686.  In  1709,  Abraham  and  his  wife  Elizabeth  granted 
to  their  son  Abraham  f  acre  of  meadow,  called  Ireson's  Hole,  bounded 
by  Stone's  brook  and  upland  of  Isaac  Wellman,  etc.  The  same  year 
they  granted  part  of  the  home  farm  to  their  son  Abraham,  bounded  in 
part  by  meadow  already  given  by  them  to  their  son  Thomas  Wellman, 
and  westerly  on  the  land  of  Isaac  Wellman,  brother  to  the  grantors, 
etc.  They  also  granted  a  right  of  way  to  the  country  road  over  the 
east  side  of  the  farm.  In  1730  the  place  on  which  Isaac  Wellman  had 
lived  was  in  possession  of  Josiah  Brown,  and  is  described  as  bounded 
on  land  belonging  to  Thomas  and  Abraham  Wellman. 

Abraham  Wellman  made  a  will  15  March,  1715-6,  which  was  proved 
3  Jan.,  1718,  in  which  he  describes  himself  as  "  in  old  age  and  weak  of 

2  Widow  Abigail  Wellman  died  22  Nov.,  1768,  in  her  eighty-sixth  year. 
Her  husband  died  21  Jan.,  1767.  Jacob  Wellman  Hewes,  who  was  born  in 
1778,  stated  that  John  Hewes  was  the  son  of  Prudence  Boston.  There  is 
reason  to  suspect  that  Jacob  confounded  the  maiden  name  of  his  grandmother, 
whom  probably  he  never  saw,  with  the  wife  of  Isaac  Wellman. 


THE  WELLMAN  FAMILY  567 

body."  He  named  his  wife,  Elizabeth,  and  his  daughters,  Abigail, 
Elizabeth,  Mary  and  Martha,  and  states  that  his  sons  have  already  had 
their  portions  in  land.  The  widow  survived  until  10  May,  1736.  On 
the  15  June,  1730,  the  selectmen  of  Lynn  represented  that  she  was 
blind  and  non  compos  mentis.  A  commission  reported,  however,  that 
though  she  was  not  capable  of  "  managing  anything  for  her  subsistence 
we  cannot  say  she  is  distracted."  She  was  the  daughter  of 
John  Cogswell  of  Ipswich,  as  shown  in  the  account  of  the  Cogswell  an- 
cestral line. 

Children : 

Thomas,  born  11  Oct.,  1669;  married  6  Jan.,  1696-7,  at  Read- 
ing Sarah  Brown  of  that  town. 

Elizabeth,  born  16  Feb.,  1670-1;  died  1673. 

Abraham,  born  25  Nov.,  1673;  of  whom  below. 

John,  born  10  May,  1676;  living  1769. 

Elizabeth,  born  25  July,  1678;  married  George  Lawson  and 
in  1723  was  living  in  Attleboro. 

Mary,  living  1716. 

Martha,  living,  unmarried,  in  Attleboro  in  1723. 

Abigail,  living  in  1716. 

Abraham  Wellman  (Abraham,  Thomas)  of  Lynnfield,  born  25 
Nov.,  1673;  died  intestate.  He  married  Elizabeth  Taylor,3  their 
intention  of  marriage  being  entered  at  Lynn  2  Nov.,  1717-  She  was 
the  mother  of  the  children  given  below.  No  record  of  her  death  ap- 
pears, unless  by  chance  she  was  that  Elizabeth  who  died  in  1736. 
Abraham  perhaps  married  again,  in  1758,  Abigail  Ranger.  He  lived 
in  the  Wellman  house,  torn  down  about  1836.  In  1723  he  purchased 
of  his  sisters,  Elizabeth,  wife  of  George  Lawson,  and  Martha  Well- 
man,  both  of  Attleboro,4  and  from  his  brother  Thomas  Wellman  of 
Lynn  all  their  share  in  the  real  estate  of  their  father  Abraham,  de- 
ceased.    He  had  previously  purchased  other  land  of  Thomas   (1716). 

Children : 

Abraham,  born  1718;  died  aged  55  years;  married  31  Oct., 
1765,  Mrs.  Mehitable  Go  wing.  Their  daughter  Sarah, 
born  1777,  died  1823,  was  living  in  the  old  house  in  1810. 

Martha,  born  1724-5;  married  '30  Sept.,  1754,  Jeremiah 
Brown  of  Reading. 

Jacob,  born  24  April,  1720;  of  whom  below. 

James,   born    10    May,   1723;   died    18   Dec,   1808;   married   8 

3  She  probably  was  of  Reading. 

*  Their  cousin  Jacob  Wellman  also  removed  to  Attleboro. 


568  APPENDIX  IV 

Nov.,  1750,  Sarah  Barnard.  He  graduated  at  Harvard 
in  1744  and  was  minister  at  Sutton,  Mass.,  and  Cornish, 
N.  H. 

Jacob  Wellman  (Abraham,  Abraham,  Thomas),  born  24  April, 
1720,  in  Lynnfield,  removed  to  Lyndeboro,  N.  H.  His  intention  to 
marry  with  "  Jenne  Johnson,  a  Scotchman,"  was  entered  9  Jan., 
1742-3. 


Children : 


Jacob  (Captain),  born  13  May,  1746,  at  Dunstable,  Mass.; 
died  20  April,  1834,  at  Lempster,  N.  H.  He  responded  to 
the  alarm  of  19  April,  1775;  was  present  at  the  battle  of 
Bunker  Hill  and  was  wounded  on  that  occasion.  He  left 
descendants. 

James,  born  1747,  at  Lyndeboro;  died  in  the  army  during  the 
Revolution. 

Anna,  born  28  March,  1748,  at  Litchfield,  N.  H.;  married  19 
April,  1775,  John  Hewes.     See  page  142. 

Abraham,  born  at  Lyndeboro;  died  about  1825;  married  Re- 
becca Parsons.  He  served  in  the  army  during  the  Revo- 
lution. 

John,  died  about  1825;  married  Ann  Thissell.  He  served  in 
the  Revolution. 

Elizabeth,  married  Joseph  Robeson. 


COGSWELL  FAMILY 

The  early  history  of  the  Cogswells  of  Westbury  Leigh,  Wiltshire, 
England,  is  as  yet  unknown.5  From  parish  registers  and  testamentary 
evidences  the  descent  of  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Abraham  Wellman,  is 
proved  from 

Robert  Cogswell  of  Westbury  Leigh,  a  clothier  in  a  large  way  of 
business,  who  was  buried  7  June,  1581,  leaving  a  widow  Alicia,  the 
mother  of  his  children,  who  was  buried  1  August,  1603.  Robert  Cogs- 
well left  a  will  dated  1  June,  and  proved  14  July,  1581. 

Edward  Cogswell  (Robert),  married  Alice.  He  succeeded  his 
father.  His  will  dated  23  June,  was  proved  12  Jan.,  1615-6.  The 
will  of  his  widow  Alice  was  dated  25  June,  1615,  and  was  proved  11 
[May,   1616. 

John  Cogswell  (Edward,  Robert)  married  10  September,  1615, 
Elizabeth  Thompson,  daughter  of  Rev.  William  Thompson,  the  vicar 
of  Westbury,  by  Phillis  his  wife.  Mr.  Thompson  died  in  1623.  His 
wife  Phillis  was  buried  19  July,  1608.  Their  daughter  Elizabeth,  who 
married  John  Cogswell,  was  baptized  in  1604.  John  Cogswell  in- 
herited the  woolen  manufacturing  business  of  his  father,  and  had  a  good 
estate  in  England,  which  he  disposed  of  in  1635,  preparatory  to  emi- 
gration to  New  England.  With  his  large  family,  he  sailed  from  Bris- 
tol on  the  Angel  Gabriel,  23  May,  1635.  Off  Pemaquid  on  the  Maine 
coast  the  vessel,  after  experiencing  a  terrible  storm,  was  wrecked,  and 
many  of  the  company  lost  their  lives.  The  Cogswells  reached  shore 
with  the  wreckage,  and  eventually  succeeded  in  reaching  Ipswich,  their 
destination.  The  goods  on  the  Angel  Gabriel,  estimated  at  a  value  of 
,£5000,  were  a  total  loss.  John  Cogswell  was  welcomed  to  Ipswich,  and 
liberally  treated  in  the  way  of  a  land  grant.  On  the  records  he  is 
styled  "  Mr.,"  evidence  of  the  social  position  held  by  his  family.  He 
died  29  Nov.,  1669,  aged  77  years.  His  wife  died  2  June,  1676.  She 
was  sister  of  Rev.  Samuel  Thompson,  D.  D.,  of  London,  whose  son 
William  lived  with  his  uncle  and  aunt  for  many  years  in  Ipswich. 
John  Cogswell  was  admitted  a  freeman  3  March,  1636.     His  son, 

John  Cogswell,  Jr.  (John,  Edward,  Robert),  was  born  in  1622, 
and  died  27  Sept.,  1653,  on  the  homeward  voyage  from  England, 
whither  he  had  gone  the  preceding  year,  after  the  death  of  his  wife, 
whose  name  has  not  been  recovered. 

5  See  "  The  Cogswells  in  America,"  by   E.  D.  Jameson. 

569 


570  APPENDIX  IV 

Children : 

Elizabeth,  born  1648;  died  10  May,  1736.  She  was  brought 
up  by  her  grandparents,  and  3  June,  1676,  gave  receipt  as 
having  had  of  her  grandmother,  a  gold  ring,  a  suit  of  child- 
bed linen  and  thin  laced  hand  cuffs.  She  married  Abraham 
Wellman  of  Lynn. 

John,  born  1650;  married  Margaret  Gifford,  and  died  in 
1724. 

Samuel,  born  1651;  married  Susanna  Haven. 


APPENDIX  V 
THE  LAST  SPIKE* 

Thomas  Hill's  painting,  "  The  Last  Spike,"  is  intended  to  com- 
memorate a  splendid  achievement  of  engineering  science,  and  a  mem- 
orable event  of  history.  It  vividly  illustrates  the  last  act  in  the  build- 
ing of  the  Overland  Railroad,  "which,  in  the  face  of  natural  and  finan- 
cial difficulties  thought  insurmountable,  was  thrown  across  a  continent, 
connecting  twTo  oceans  by  a  thread  of  steel,  and  uniting  a  great  nation 
to  what  had  hitherto  been  a  remote  dependency.     *     *     * 

The  first  gold-hunters  went  as  into  an  exile  which  they  never  dreamed 
of  prolonging  beyond  a  day  fixed  for  return.  Their  homes  were  still 
somewhere  near  the  rising  sun,  and  there  intervened  pathless  deserts, 
and  mountains  that  pierced  the  clouds.  Faint  echoes  of  the  world 
scarcely  reached  them.  They  formed  a  narrow  ribbon  of  civilization 
on  the  western  border  of  the  great  continent.  To  the  west  of  them 
expanded  an  almost  unexplored  ocean.  Two  thousand  miles  of  distance 
separated  them  from  the  Missouri  river — a  thousand  miles  of  sand 
and  sagebrush,  useless  except  to  hold  the  world  together,  and  a  thou- 
sand miles  more  of  unreclaimed  wilderness  ribbed  by  two  lofty  moun- 
tain ranges.  Central  Asia  was  hardly  farther  from  New  York  as 
regarded  space  and  means  of  transport.  The  Argonauts  of  '49  came 
either  in  slow  sailing  vessels  around  Cape  Horn,  or  by  those  cumbrous 
"  ships  of  the  desert,"  that  crept  at  a  snail's  pace  across  the  Plains. 
Both  routes  represented  from  four  to  six  months'  weary  and  dangerous 
travel.  In  June,  1819,  the  sea-passage  was  shortened  to  thirty  days 
by  the  establishment  of  a  line  of  steamers  from  New  York  to  San 
Francisco  by  way  of  the  Isthmus  of  Panama.  For  awhile  this  line 
confined  itself  to  a  monthly  service  of  mails  and  passengers,  shortly 
increased  to  semi-monthly,  by  increased  travel  and  traffic.  And  still 
San  Francisco  was  thirty  days  from  New  York!  In  thirty  days,  by 
improved  means  of  conveyance,  a  traveler  could  complete  half  the  cir- 
cuit of  the  world.     *     *     * 

The  interval  of  two  barren  weeks  between  the  steamers  made  the 
arrival  of  each  an  event  in  the  annals  of  San  Francisco.  Its  approach 
was  heralded  by  signals  from  hill-top  to  hill-top.  The  hill-sides  were 
lined  with  spectators  as  it  entered  the  Golden  Gate,  and  when  it 
reached  its  wharf,  three-fourths  of  the  entire  population  of  the  city 
were  there  in  eager  waiting.     Never  was  a  post-office  so  beset  by  ex- 

*  Excerpts  from  "  The  Last  Spike,"  a  painting  by  Thomas  Hill,  illustrating 
the  last  scene  in  the  building  of  the  Overland  Railroad,  with  a  history  of  the 
enterprise.     San  Francisco,  January,  1881. 

571 


572  APPENDIX  V 

iled  fathers,  husbands,  and  brothers,  as  that  beside  the  little  block  of 
green  called  Portsmouth  Square,  whose  business  it  was  to  receive  and 
distribute  the  messages  from  Eastern  homes.  There  was  a  line  of 
anxious  men  stretching  further  than  eye  could  reach,  places  of  prece- 
dence in  which  were  held  at  a  king's  ransom.  The  steamer  seemed 
the  single  bond  that  held  the  gold  hunters  to  their  homes.  In  the 
days  of  waiting,  the  links  severed  only  to  be  welded  again  when  the 
next  appeared.  This  state  of  isolation  continued  for  eight  years,  or 
until  the  establishment  of  the  overland  stage  line,  whose  time  from  the 
Missouri  was  thirty  days,  but  whose  daily  mail  service  made  it  seem 
like  a  veritable  annihilation  of  space  and  time.  The  trip  by  stage 
through  the  wildernesses  of  Nebraska  and  Wyoming,  Utah  and  Nevada, 
had  some  of  the  romance  of  danger,  and  not  a  little  real  peril  from 
flood,  precipice,  and  Indians,  who  were  still  sovereigns  of  the  mid- 
continent.  A  little  later  came  the  Pony  Express,  the  enterprise  of 
a  wealthy  company,  whose  method  was  that  of  couriers,  mounted  on 
fleet  horses,  relieved  at  regular  stations  by  new  relays  and  fresh  riders. 
It  was  the  longest  courier  service  ever  known,  and  attended  with  as 
much  hazard  from  savages,  and  scarcely  less  barbarous  highwaymen, 
as  if  it  were  war-time  and  the  route  lay  through  a  hostile  country 
thickly  beleaguered  by  flying  outposts  of  the  enemy.  Its  time  was  ten 
days  from  the  Missouri  river,  and  its  lowest  price  for  postal  service 
five  dollars.  All  these  efforts  to  shorten  time  and  abbreviate  routes 
between  California  and  the  Atlantic  States  were  the  outgrowth  of 
characteristic  American  enterprise,  and  made  in  the  face  of  numerous 
risks  and  hardships.     *     *     * 

It  still  required  a  month  of  time  to  reach  San  Francisco  either  from 
New  York  by  the  ocean,  or  across  the  plains  from  the  Missouri.  In 
a  month,  wars  might  begin  and  end,  kings  be  driven  from  their  thrones, 
and  nations  annihilated.  California  was  defenseless  if  attacked  by  a 
foreign  enemy.  Her  forts  might  be  demolished,  and  her  territory 
occupied  before  troops  could  reach  her,  or  munitions  of  war  come  by 
the  Isthmus,  the  only  possible  route  for  bodies  of  men  or  quantities 
of  war  material.     *     *     * 

This  was  the  situation  in  1860  when  the  war  of  the  rebellion  began, 
and  the  threat  of  secession  by  friends  of  the  South  on  the  Pacific  coast, 
quickened  the  sense  of  danger  in  the  country  at  large,  without  making 
more  than  a  few  thoughtful  men  conscious  of  the  only  remedy.  That 
remedy  was  the  uniting  of  the  two  shores  of  the  continent  by  a  railroad. 
...  It  is  not  known  from  whom  the  first  suggestion  came.  It  prob- 
ably occurred  to  many  of  those  who  in  early  times  toiled  through  the 
great  American  desert  by  the  law  of  mental  association  that  brings  vis- 
ions of  green  groves  and  sparkling  fountains  to  the  brain  of  the  thirsty 
traveler  in   Sahara.     How  pleasant  to   the  imagination  of  these  voy- 


'  mm  r. 


THE  LAST  SPIKE  573 

agers  must  have  been  the  vision  of  the  lightning  train,  which  brought 
a  hundred  of  their  day's  journeys  within  the  limits  of  twenty- four 
hours !     *     *     * 

The  time  demanded  not  only  men,  but  the  man,  and  found  him  in 
the  person  of  Leland  Stanford  of  California,  without  whose  calm 
forethought  the  overland  railroad  would  never  have  been  begun,  and 
without  whose  intellectual  force  and  untiring  physical  energy  it  would 
never  have  been  completed.  He  was  then  living  at  Sacramento.  He 
saw  the  future  of  the  Pacific  coast,  appreciated  the  need  of  the  road, 
and  associated  with  him  a  few  energetic  business  men  who  afterwards 
formed  the  Central  Pacific  Raliroad  Company.     *     *     * 

A  reconnoissance  of  routes  had  already  been  made  by  Mr.  Theodore 
D.  Judah,  who  had  vainly  endeavored  to  interest  the  people  of  San 
Francisco  in  the  project.  He  chanced  to  be  then  in  Sacramento,  and 
having  been  introduced  to  Mr.  Stanford  by  Mr.  James  Bailey,  was 
asked  to  be  present  at  the  meetings  in  whose  discussions  Mr.  Charles 
Crocker  had  now  begun  to  participate.  As  the  result  of  many  con- 
ferences Mr.  Judah  was  sent  to  make  a  more  thorough  examination  of 
the  Sierra,  money  to  defray  his  expenses  having  been  contributed  by 
the  few  gentlemen  interested.  He  fixed  upon  the  route  which  forms 
part  of  the  present  line.  It  was  approved  by  the  little  group  of  pro- 
jectors at  Sacramento,  and  a  bill  was  drafted  in  their  office,  which 
formed  the  basis  of  that  afterwards  passed  by  Congress.  While  these 
preliminaries  were  in  progress,  the  crisis  had  come  which  at  once  fur- 
nished to  the  country  the  impelling  motive  for  building  the  road,  and 
at  the  same  time  impaired  its  ability  to  accomplish  so  vast  an  under- 
taking. The  original  incorporators  and  Board  of  Directors  at  this 
time  included  Leland  Stanford,  C.  P.  Huntington,  Mark  Hopkins, 
Charles  Crocker,  E.  B.  Crocker,  A.  P.  Stanford,  and  Charles  Marsh, 
Mr.  Stanford  being  President,  Mr.  Huntington  Vice-President,  and  Mr. 
Hopkins  Treasurer. 

TAKING    LEGISLATIVE    FORM. 

The  legislation  which  resulted  in  the  construction  of  the  Pacific 
Railroad  was  passed  after  much  hard  personal  effort,  and  anxious  di- 
plomacy, at  the  second  session  of  the  Forty-second  Congress,  1861-2, 
and  was  largely  due  to  the  exertions  of  Hon.  A.  A.  Sargent,  member 
of  the  House  of  Representatives  from  California,  who  was  inspired 
not  only  with  patriotism,  and  regard  for  the  interests  of  his  State, 
but  with  implicit  confidence  in  the  skill  and  enterprise  of  those  who 
had  undertaken  to  build  the  western  half  of  it,  which  included  the 
engineering  difficulties  of  the  Sierra  Nevada  mountains.  There  were 
many  reasons  why  the  time  chosen  to  begin  the  work  was  unpropitious. 


574  APPENDIX  V 

The  fate  of  the  Union  was  being  decided  on  the  battle  field,  the  treas- 
ury was  subjected  to  an  enormous  strain,  and  the  attention  of  Congress 
was  engrossed  by  the  work  of  constructing  new  systems  of  finance 
and  taxation  to  meet  a  terrible  emergency.  On  the  other  hand,  the 
moment  had  its  advantages.  The  author  of  the  successful  measure 
forcibly  urged  that  the  secession  of  the  South  and  the  danger  of  Cali- 
fornia proved  the  road  to  be  a  military  necessity  to  bind  together  the 
two  coasts  of  the  continent;  the  new  habit  of  great  expenditure  ren- 
dered less  startling  the  amount  required  to  build  it,  and  the  absence  of 
Southern  Representatives  from  the  halls  of  Congress  prevented  a  seri- 
ous contest  in  respect  to  competitive  routes.  The  bill  that  finally 
became  a  law  was  introduced  into  the  House  of  Representatives  by 
Mr.  Sargent  on  the  fourth  of  March,  1862,  and  referred  to  the  Pacific 
Railroad  Committee,  by  whom  it  was  promptly  considered  and  reported 
on  ten  days  later,  and  made  a  special  order  for  March  twenty-fifth. 
Its  consideration  was  not  reached,  however,  until  April  eighth,  when  it 
was  sent  to  the  committee  of  the  whole.     *     *     * 

The  bill  became  a  law  by  the  signature  of  Mr.  Lincoln  on  the  first 
of  July,  1862.  By  this  law  numerous  persons,  with  five  Commissioners 
to  be  afterwards  appointed  by  the  Secretary  of  the  Interior,  were  cre- 
ated a  corporation,  called  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad  Company.  To 
this  corporation  right  of  way  was  given  for  a  railroad  from  the  Mis- 
souri river  to  the  navigable  waters  of  the  Pacific  ocean,  with  five  alter- 
nate sections  of  land  on  either  side  of  the  line.  United  States  six  per 
cent,  currency  bonds  to  the  amount  of  sixteen  thousand  dollars  to  the 
mile,  were  to  issue  to  the  company,  which  aid  was  doubled  and  trebled 
for  certain  difficult  and  mountainous  portions  of  the  route.  These 
bonds  were  made  a  first-mortgage  lien  on  the  road.  The  Central  Pa- 
cific Railroad  Company,  a  California  corporation,  had  a  similar  grant, 
with  leave  to  commence  at  the  Pacific  end,  each  company  to  build 
toward  a  common  point,  that  point  to  be  relatively  east  or  west  in  mid- 
continent,  according  to  the  means,  skill,  and  enterprise  of  the  rival 
corporations.      *      *      * 

In  186  1  Congress  modified  the  Act  empowering  the  companies,  by 
doubling  the  land-giant,  authorizing  them  to  issue  their  own  bonds  to 
the  extent  "f  the  Government  subsidy,  and  subordinating  the  lien  of 
its  own  bonds  to  the  bonds  of  the  company.  Under  this  generous  legis- 
lation, which  was  not  further  changed,  the  two  companies  began  and 
completed  the  Pacific  railroads.     *     *     * 

Senator  Wilson  said,  in  speaking  to  the  bill.  "I  give  no  grudging 
vote  in  giving  away  either  money  or  land.     I  would  sink  $100,000,000 

I,,  build  thr  road,  and  do  it  most  cheerfully,  and  think  tli.it  I  had  done 
a    gnat     thin-    lor    my    country.      What,    indeed,    .ire    $100,000,000    in 

opening  a  railroad  across  the  central  regions  of  the  continent  that  shall 


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THE  LAST  SPIKE  575 

connect  the  Atlantic  and  Pacific,  and  bind  us  closer  together?  Noth- 
ing."    *     *     * 

January  eighth,  1863,  ground  was  broken  at  the  foot  of  K  street  in 
Sacramento,  with  appropriate  ceremonies,  in  which  Mr.  Stanford,  then 
Governor  of  California,  the  Legislature,  State  officers  and  a  large  con- 
course of  people  participated.  The  day  was  pleasant,  but  other  condi- 
tions were  unpropitious.  It  was  during  the  season  of  freshet,  and 
water  stood  over  the  ground  selected  for  the  ceremonial.  Ladies  could 
not  approach  the  speakers'  stand,  but  sat  within  hearing  distance  in 
carriages  whose  wheels  were  half  concealed  beneath  the  surface  of  the 
water,  or  stood  on  the  balconies  of  buildings  that  commanded  a  distant 
view  of  the  scene.  Hardier  male  spectators  hovered  on  the  brink  of 
turbid  pools,  or  perched  on  bales  of  hay  thrown  with  wasteful  ex- 
travagance into  the  quagmire.     *     *     * 

The  Union  Pacific  Railroad  Company  did  not  begin  their  work  until 
1865,  having  waited  until  sure  that  their  more  energetic  rivals  would 
be  able  to  pass  the  Sierra.  That  feat  in  a  fair  way  to  be  accomplished, 
they  thought  the  trans-continental  road  an  engineering  possibility. 
Having  commenced  work  they  pushed  on  in  haste,  and  completed  three 
hundred  miles  across  the  flat  prairies  of  Nebraska  during  the  first 
year,  still  hoping  to  span  the  Great  Desert  and  meet  the  Central  Pa- 
cific at  the  eastern  foot  of  the  Sierra.  The  mountains  were  crossed 
sooner  than  they  expected.  They  had  not  looked  for  such  pluck  and 
energy.  In  the  race  that  ensued  toward  a  point  of  meeting,  they  had 
every  advantage — unbroken  connection  with  the  East,  short  and  easy 
means  of  conveyance  for  their  material,  and  prairies,  plains,  river- 
banks,  and  a  range  of  mountains  of  comparatively  easy  ascent,  over  and 
along  which  to  lay  their  track.  Upon  the  speed  with  which  either 
company  advanced,  depended  not  only  the  amount  of  its  land-grant, 
but  future  questions  of  adjustment  of  rates  of  freight  and  travel,  and 
of  related  lines  of  railroad.  There  followed  some  marvelous  feats  of 
track-laying.  The  Union  Pacific  laid  six  miles  in  one  day.  The 
Central  Pacific  laid  seven.  The  Union  Pacific  surpassed  this  by  half 
a  mile,  beginning  at  three  o'clock  in  the  morning,  and  ending  at  eleven 
at  night,  and  were  exulting  in  their  victory  when  they  received  word 
from  the  rival  superintendent  that  his  people  intended  to  lay  ten  miles. 
A  wager  of  $10,000  was  laid  by  Mr.  Durant  of  the  Union  Pacific, 
that  they  could  not.  The  workmen  of  the  Central  Pacific  made  the 
necessary  preparations,  and  the  feat  was  successfully  accomplished 
on  the  29th  of  April,  1869,  between  sunrise  and  sunset — that  is,  be- 
tween half-past  five  in  the  morning  and  half-past  six  in  the  evening. 
The  attempt  could  not  have  been  longer  postponed,  for  only  fourteen 
miles  remained  to  close  the  gap  between  the  ends  of  the  two  roads. 
The  conditions  were  difficult,  for  the  level  regions  having  been  passed, 


576  APPENDIX  V 

the  ten  miles  that  must  be  used  for  rapid  track-laying  was  on  the 
western  slope  of  Promontory  mountain,  and  had  heavy  curving  grades. 
Work  began  at  sunrise,  the  ground  having  been  graded  and  the  ties 
placed  in  position.  At  a  signal  the  cars  loaded  with  rails  moved  for- 
ward. Four  men,  two  on  each  side,  seized  with  their  nippers  the  ends 
of  the  rails,  lifted  them  from  the  car,  and  carried  them  to  their  place, 
the  car  following  steadily  over  them  as  fast  as  laid.  Behind  came  a 
band  of  men  who  attached  the  plate,  and  put  the  spikes  in  position. 
One  force  of  Chinamen  drove  the  spikes  home  and  another  with  shov- 
els, picks  and  other  implements  ballasted  the  track.  Every  one  was 
on  the  alert,  and  the  work  proceeded  at  the  rate  of  144  feet  of  track 
per  minute.  Eight  miles  was  laid  before  resting;  the  rest  finished 
more  leisurely  afterwards.  To  show  that  the  work  was  solidly  done, 
an  engine  was  run  over  the  ten  miles  of  new  track  immediately  after- 
wards, at  the  rate  of  forty  miles  an  hour.  Even  the  Chinese  laborers 
co-operated  with  enthusiasm,  and  showed  remarkable  powers  of  endur- 
ance. No  such  feat  of  railroad-building  had  ever  been  known.  Ten 
miles  of  railroad  requires  a  vast  amount  of  material.  On  this  occasion 
4,000  men  were  constantly  employed,  who  handled  in  this  brief  time 
25,800  cross-ties,  3,520  rails,  55,000  spikes,  7,040  fish-plates,  and 
14,080  bolts  weighing  4,352,000  pounds.  The  Overland  Railroad 
might  now  be  considered  finished.  It  had  astonished  the  scientific  and 
won  the  admiration  of  the  world.  The  managers  of  the  Central  Pa- 
cific had  builded  better  than  they  knew.  The  little  knot  of  men  that 
met  in  the  Governor's  office,  at  Sacramento,  discussed  questions  of 
policy,  and  trembled  at  difficulties  that  now  a  breath  would  dissipate, 
had  established  rules  that  were  to  be  the  principles  of  the  future.  Had 
they  hesitated  they  would  have  been  lost.     *     *     * 

It  only  remained  to  lay  the  last  rail,  for  which  preparations  were 
made  on  the  10th  of  May,  1869,  at  Promontory  Point,  the  place  of 
meeting,  eighty  miles  west  of  Ogden,  and  804  miles  east  of  San  Fran- 
cisco. Two  lengths  of  rail  had  been  left  by  each  road  for  the  final 
ceremony,  the  ground  being  still  unleveled  and  unprepared.  The  day 
fixed  was  pleasant,  like  the  average  summer  days  of  the  broad  Utah 
deserts.  The  residents  of  Salt  Lake  valley,  and  of  the  neighborhood, 
which  meant  within  a  radius  of  a  hundred  miles,  began  to  gather  early. 
At  a  quarter  to  nine  a  train  arrived  bringing  guests  of  the  Central 
Pacific  from  Nevada  and  California.  Two  trains  came  from  the  East 
a  little  later  bringing  the  officers  of  the  Union  Pacific  with  their  friends 
and  guests  from  Eastern  cities.  The  gathering  gradually  increased 
until  it  numbered  more  than  a  thousand  persons.  At  quarter  before 
eleven  a  detail  of  Chinese  graders  began  to  prepare  the  road-bed  for 
the  ties.  Half  an  hour  afterwards  a  second  train  from  the  west 
reached  the  spot  with  Governor  Stanford  and  other  officers  of  the  Cen- 


THE  LAST  SPIKE  577 

tral  Pacific,  and  those  specially  invited.  They  had  risen  to  the  full 
height  of  the  occasion,  and,  deeming  the  event  worth  special  celebra- 
tion, had  come  prepared  with  costly  ceremonial  ties,  spikes,  and  ham- 
mers, presented  by  enthusiastic  friends,  and  drawn  by  an  engine  gay 
with  tri-colored  flags  and  ribbons.  The  event  had  not  so  deeply  im- 
pressed the  managers  of  the  Union  Pacific.  They  had  never  been 
separated  from  the  East,  and  could  not  feel  the  pleasure  of  long  iso- 
lation ended.  They  came,  therefore,  unprepared  for  celebrating  ex- 
cept by  a  collation,  and  a  little  unpremeditated  eloquence.  To  give 
the  incident  greater  significance  arrangements  had  been  made  to  have 
the  last  rails  of  the  Union  Pacific  laid  by  Europeans,  and  of  the  Cen- 
tral Pacific  by  Asiatics,  the  foremen  in  both  cases  being  Americans. 
When  everything  was  ready  the  engines  of  the  two  roads  moved  for- 
ward till  only  ninety  feet  apart.  In  the  meantime  preparations  had 
been  made  by  electricians  for  the  general  participation  of  the  country. 
Word  was  sent  to  Washington  before  noon  that  the  driving  of  the  last 
spike  which  united  the  two  oceans  would  be  instantaneously  communi- 
cated to  all  telegraph  offices.  A  crowd  at  once  gathered  about  tele- 
graph headquarters  there.  The  general  manager  suspended  a  large 
ball  without  the  building  to  be  detached  and  dropped  in  sight  of  every 
one  at  the  first  tap  of  the  hammer.  Wires  were  extended  to  the  bell 
of  the  Capitol.  Connection  was  made  with  the  main  lines  of  the  coun- 
try, and  the  various  offices  were  notified  that  preparations  were  com- 
plete. New  Orleans,  New  York,  and  Boston  at  once  responded 
"ready!"  The  wires  in  San  Francisco  were  connected  with  the  alarm- 
bell  in  the  great  tower  of  the  Fire  Department,  and  so  adjusted  that 
the  first  stroke  of  the  hammer  on  the  last  spike  should  fire  a  parapet 
gun  at  Fort  Point  at  the  entrance  to  the  Golden  Gate.  (There  were 
two  spikes  of  leading  historical  interest,  one  of  gold  given  by  David 
Hewes  of  Sacramento,  the  other  of  silver,  presented  with  a  silver  ham- 
mer, by  Nevada.)  The  gold  spike  was  about  six  inches  in  length, 
half  an  inch  square,  and  made  of  four  hundred  dollars'  worth  of  Cali- 
fornia gold.  The  first  face  had  inscribed  on  it  the  names  of  the 
officers  of  the  road.  The  second  face  bore  the  names  of  the  directors. 
The  third  had  the  words,  "May  God  continue  the  unity  of  our  country 
as  this  railroad  unites  the  two  great  oceans  of  the  world,"  and  on  the 
fourth,  "The  Central  Pacific  Railroad ;  ground  broken  January  8th, 
1863;  completed  May  10th,  1869."  At  the  end  was  a  nugget  after- 
wards detached,  and  made  into  four  rings  which  were  presented  sev- 
erally to  Oakes,  Ames,  President  Grant,  Secretary  William  H.  Sew- 
ard, and  Gov.  Leland  Stanford.  Each  had  two  facets,  one  with  moss 
agate  to  symbolize  the  Rocky  Mountains,  the  other  with  gold  quartz  to 
symbolize  the  Sierra  Nevada. 


578  APPENDIX  V 


LIP    AND    WIRE    SERVICE 


When  the  engines  had  heen  placed,  the  crowd  fell  back  to  make 
room.  Prayer  was  offered  by  Rev.  Dr.  Todd,  of  Pittsfield,  Massachu- 
setts. Dr.  Harkness,  of  Sacramento,  presented  the  gold  spike  to  Gov- 
ernor Stanford,  saying: 

Gentlemen  of  the  Pacific  Railroad — The  last  rail  needed  to  complete 
the  greatest  railroad  enterprise  of  the  world  is  about  to  be  laid,  the 
last  spike  needed  to  unite  the  Atlantic  and  Pacific  by  a  new  line  of 
travel  and  commerce  is  about  to  be  driven  to  its  place.  To  perform 
these  acts,  the  East  and  West  have  come  together.  Never  since  history 
commenced  her  record  of  human  events  has  she  been  called  upon  to 
note  the  completion  of  a  work  so  magnificent  in  conception,  and  so  mar- 
velous in  execution.  California,  within  whose  borders,  and  by  whose 
citizens  the  Pacific  Railroad  was  inaugurated,  desires  to  express  her  ap- 
preciation of  the  vast  importance  to  her  and  her  sister  states  of  the 
great  enterprise  which  is  about  to  be  consummated  by  your  joint  action. 
From  her  mines  of  gold  she  has  forged  a  spike,  from  her  laurel  woods 
she  has  hewn  a  tie,  and  by  the  hands  of  her  citizens  she  offers  them 
to  become  a  part  of  the  great  highway  which  is  about  to  unite  her  in 
closer  friendship  with  her  sisters  of  the  Atlantic.  From  her  bosom 
was  taken  the  first  soil;  let  hers  be  the  last  tie,  and  the  last  spike. 
With  them  accept  the  hopes  and  wishes  of  her  people  that  the  success 
of  your  enterprise  may  not  stop  short  of  its  brightest  promise. 

The  speech  of  F.  A.  Tritle,  in  presenting  the  silver  spike  to  Dr. 
Durant  of  the  Union  Pacific,  was,  like  the  rest,  epigrammatic: 

To  the  iron  of  the  East,  and  the  gold  of  the  West,  Nevada  adds  the 
link  of  silver  to  span  the  continent  and  weld  the  oceans. 

The  following  was  the  speech  of  Governor  Safford  in  presenting  the 
spike  of  Arizona: 

Ribbed  in  iron,  clad  in  silver  and  crowned  with  gold,  Arizona  pre- 
sents her  offering  to  the  enterprise  that  has  banded  the  continent  and 
welded  the  oceans. 

Then  Governor  Stanford  said: 

Gentlemen:  The  Pacific  Railroad  Companies  accept  with  pride  and 
satisfaction  these  gold  and  silver  tokens  of  your  appreciation  of  the 
importance  of  our  enterprise  to  the  material  interests  of  the  sections 
which  you  represent  on  this  occasion,  and  to  the  material  interests  of  our 
whole  country,  east  and  west,  north  and  south.  These  gifts  shall  receive 
a  fitting  place  in  the  superstructure  of  the  road;  and  before  laying  the 
tie  and  driving  the  spikes  in  completion  of  the  Pacific  Railway,  allow 


THE  LAST  SPIKE  579 

me  to  express  the  hope  that  the  great  importance  which  you  are  pleased 
to  attach  to  our  undertaking  may  be  in  all  respects  fully  realized.  This 
line  of  rails  connecting  the  Atlantic  and  Pacific,  and  affording  to  com- 
merce a  new  transit,  will  prove,  we  trust,  the  speedy  forerunner  of 
increased  facilities.  The  Pacific  Railroad  will,  as  soon  as  commerce 
shall  begin  fully  to  realize  its  advantages,  demonstrate  the  necessity  of 
rich  improvements  in  railroading,  so  as  to  render  practicable  the  trans- 
portation of  freights  at  a  much  less  rate  than  are  possible  under  any 
system  which  has  thus  far  anywhere  been  adopted.  The  day  is  not 
far  distant  when  three  roads  will  be  found  necessary  to  accommodate 
the  commerce  and  travel  which  will  seek  a  transit  across  this  continent. 
In  conclusion  I  will  add  that  we  hope  to  do  what  is  not  now  possible 
on  long  lines:  transport  coarse,  heavy,  and  cheap  products  for  all  dis- 
tances at  living  rates  to  the  trade.  Now,  gentlemen,  with  your  assist- 
ance, we  will  proceed  to  lay  the  last  tie,  the  last  rail,  and  to  drive  the 
last  spike. 

The  blows  of  the  silver  hammer,  held  by  Governor  Stanford,  were 
repeated  on  the  bell  of  the  Capitol  of  Washington  near  the  borders 
of  one  ocean ;  on  the  great  fire-bell  in  the  city  sitting  on  the  borders  of 
another  ocean;  in  the  report  of  the  cannon  that  woke  the  echoes  of 
the  Golden  Gate;  and,  in  telegraphic  accents,  in  all  the  centers  of 
population  North,  South,  East  and  West.  At  2:47  Promontory  Point 
sententiously  said 

DONE! 

and  the  telegraphic  colloquy,  in  which  the  continent  joined,  was  ended 
by  these  messages  of  official  triumph,  dated  at  Promontory  Summit, 
the  first  to  the  general  public,  the  second  to  His  Excellency,  General 
U.  S.  Grant,  President  of  the  United  States: 

The  last  rail  is  laid !  The  last  spike  driven.  The  Pacific  Railroad 
is  completed. 

Leland  Stanford, 

Central  Pacific  Railroad. 
T.  P.  Durant,  "] 

Sidney  Dillon,  >-  Union  Pacific  Railroad. 
John  Duff,        J 
Sir:  We  have  the  honor  to  report  that  the  last  rail  is  laid,  the  last 
spike  is  driven.      The  Pacific  Railroad  is  finished. 

Leland  Stanford, 
President  C.  P.  R.  R.  Co.  of  California. 
T.  P.  Durant, 

Vice-President  U.  P.  R.  R.  Co. 


580  APPENDIX  V 

After  these  ceremonies,  which  were  interspersed  with  cheers  for  the 
national  government,  the  rival  railroad  presidents,  the  "old  flag,"  and 
the  laborers,  the  locomotives  of  the  two  roads  moved  up  head  to  head, 
and  libations  of  wine  were  poured  upon  the  track. 

In  painting  his  picture,  Mr.  Hill  has  selected  the  situation  of  dep- 
est  and  most  serious  feeling,  that  at  the  moment  when  the  officiating 
clergyman  was  just  finishing  his  prayer,  and  the  electricians  were  about 
connecting  the  golden  spike  with  the  trans-continental  telegraph  line. 
The  view  is  eastward,  along  the  track  of  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad, 
toward  the  horizon,  bounded  by  the  snowy  summit  of  the  Wasatch  moun- 
tains. The  massive  figure  of  Governor  Stanford,  leaning  upon  his 
hammer,  arrests  the  eye,  which,  after  a  moment's  pause,  passes  beyond 
him  to  the  locomotive,  half  hidden  by  figures,  and  then  on  into  the 
plains,  covered  with  sagebrush,  and  suffused  with  the  warm  light  of  an 
almost  cloudless  afternoon.  There  are  about  four  hundred  figures  on 
the  canvas,  seventy  of  which  are  portraits.  These  are  placed  in  posi- 
tions pre-arranged,  and  not  easily  varied.  It  was  essential  that  they 
should  be  grouped  according  to  official  prominence,  and  rules  of  sub- 
ordination, based  on  their  relative  importance  to  the  enterprise.  The 
subject  forbade  wide  scope  of  incident.  There  are  introduced,  how- 
ever, some  well-known  characters  of  the  Plains,  and  a  few  incidents 
indicating  the  contrast  between  the  old  life  and  the  incoming  civiliza- 
tion. At  the  left  is  seen  a  stage-coach,  old-fashioned,  effete,  its  oc- 
cupation gone,  its  slow  courses  shamed  by  the  swift  wheels  of  the  fly- 
ing locomotive.  Beyond  are  a  few  wagons  such  as  had  at  that  time 
found  their  way  into  the  desert,  a  wagon-train  that  had  left  the  Mis- 
souri months  before,  and  a  race  in  progress  with  mustangs,  in  whose 
riders  the  gambling  instinct  was  stronger  than  matters  of  national  con- 
cern. Other  incidents  are  a  strap-game,  poker-playing  on  a  barrel- 
head, one  or  two  saloons  improvised  for  the  occasion,  a  few  Indians  in 
their  native  dress,  a  few  venders  of  cigars,  a  company  of  soldiers  that 
chanced  to  be  present,  all  of  which  features  help  to  give  variety  of 
detail,  to  enrich  and  harmonize  the  colors,  and  to  relieve  the  more  for- 
mal groupings.  Minor  groups  are  arranged  in  pyramids,  which  fall 
into  curves  and  semi-circles  leading  up  to  the  cluster  of  important 
personages  that  surround  the  commanding  central  figure.  Kneeling 
at  the  feet  of  Governor  Stanford  is  F.  L.  Vandenburg,  the  chief  elec- 
trician of  the  occasion,  who  is  adjusting  the  wire  which  leads  off 
through  the  crowd  to  the  telegraph  pole  on  the  right.  At  his  left  is 
J.  H.  Strowbridge,  general  superintendent  of  the  work  of  construc- 
tion. The  chief  men  of  the  Central  Pacific  railroad,  C.  P.  Hunting- 
ton, Mark  Hopkins,  E.  B.  Crocker,  Charles  Crocker,  T.  D.  Judah,  are 


THOMAS  HILL 


THE  LAST  SPIKE  581 

all  represented  in  characteristic  attitudes,  and  with  features  accurately 
portrayed.  Near  Governor  Stanford  are  the  President  and  Directors 
of  the  Union  Pacific,  Oakes  Ames,  Sidney  Dillon,  Dr.  Durant,  and 
John  Duff.  Hon.  A.  A.  Sargent,  who  played  so  important  and  honor- 
able a  part  in  the  legislation  that  made  the  building  of  the  road  possi- 
ble, is  shown  by  an  admirable  portrait  at  the  right.  Behind  him  is 
Hon.  T.  G.  Phelps,  his  colleague  in  Congress  while  the  Pacific  Rail- 
road legislation  was  taking  shape,  and  its  friend  throughout.  In  the 
same  part  of  the  canvas  are  S.  S.  Montague,  Chief  Engineer  of  the 
Central  Pacific;  Colonel  George  E.  Gray,  Consulting  Engineer;  the 
two  assistant  engineers,  L.  M.  Clement  and  Charles  Cadwalader;  Judge 
S.  W.  Sanderson,  at  present  chief  legal  adviser  of  the  road;  B.  B. 
Redding  of  the  Land  Department;  A.  K.  P.  Safford,  then  Governor 
of  Arizona;  and  Hon.  Milton  S.  Latham,  United  States  Senator  from 
California  when  the  road  was  begun,  and  at  all  times  its  warm  friend. 
Elsewhere  can  be  found  William  Sherman,  James  W.  Haynes  and  F. 
A.  Tritle,  United  States  Pacific  Railroad  Commissioners;  John  Corning, 
Division  Superintendent,  afterwards  Assistant  General  Superintendent, 
and  E.  H.  Miller,  Jr.,  Secretary  of  the  Central  Pacific  Railroad  Com- 
pany; Robert  Robinson,  Counsel  for  the  Company;  Arthur  Brown, 
Superintendent  of  Bridges  and  Buildings;  E.  Black  Ryan,  Private 
Secretary  of  Governor  Stanford;  Charles  Marsh,  one  of  the  original 
incorporators;  Edgar  Mills,  Master  of  Ceremonies;  Dr.  H.  W.  Hark- 
ness,  of  Sacramento;  Dr.  J.  B.  D.  Stillman,  of  San  Francisco;  A.  P. 
Stanford,  brother  of  Governor  Stanford;  J.  R.  Watson,  Conductor  of 
the  first  passenger  train  on  the  Central  Pacific;  Benjamin  Welch, 
Master  Builder  of  the  Sacramento  Car  Works;  Stephen  T.  Gage,  of 
the  Chief  Executive  Department  of  the  Central  Pacific;  John  Case- 
ment, Contractor  of  the  Central  Pacific,  and  David  Hewes.  The  ladies 
are  Mrs.  Strowbridge,  Mrs.  Ryan,  and  the  wives  of  officers  command- 
ing troops  in  the  vicinity,  who  were  all  present,  helping  to  give  the 
scene  an  air  of  refinement,  and  adding  to  the  canvas  a  picturesque 
quality.  The  Wasatch  Mountains  are  five  or  six  miles  distant.  They 
trend  away  to  the  north,  diminishing  in  height  till  they  become  a  low 
range  of  blue  hills  bounding  the  grayish-green  expanse  of  plains.  The 
foreground  is  filled  with  warm  light,  lending  to  the  pile  of  ties,  the 
keg  of  spikes,  the  grading  implements,  and  even  to  the  fresh  earth,  a 
mellow  radiance  that  raises  them  above  the  commonplace,  and  invests 
them  with  a  portion  of  the  interest  attaching  to  a  scene  in  which  they 
had  played  no  unimportant  part. 

Note. —  Thomas  Hill  was  born  September  11th,  1829,  in  Birmingham,  Eng- 
land, and  died  June  30th,  1908,  at  Raymond,  California.  His  family  came  to 
America  in  1840  and  settled  at  Taunton,  Mass.  His  talent  developed  very 
early  in  life,  and  he  commenced  as  many  great  painters  have  done,  with  orna- 


582  APPENDIX  V 

mental  work.  His  first  pictures  were  painted  in  Boston,  though  nothing  worthy 
of  mention  was  painted  till  about  1853,  when  he  had  settled  in  Philadelphia. 
He  was  then  a  member  of  the  old  Graphic  Club  and  also  of  the  Academy,  and 
studied  in  the  Life  Class  of  which  Rothermel  was  president.  He  took  the 
first  medal  in  Baltimore  at  the  Maryland  Institute  in  1853.  In  1861,  being  in 
poor  health,  he  moved  to  California  and  opened  a  studio  as  a  portrait  painter, 
occasionally  doing  some  figure  work,  notably  the  trial  scene  in  the  "  Merchant 
of  Venice,"  which  was  awarded  the  first  prize  in  the  Art  Union  of  San  Fran- 
cisco in  1865.  Mr.  Hill  went  to  Paris  in  1866  and  studied  with  Paul 
Meyerheim,  who  was  so  much  impressed  by  his  painting  of  the  Forest  of 
Fontainebleau  that  he  advised  the  Californian  to  take  up  landscape  painting 
as  his  life  work.  Mr.  Hill  opened  a  studio  in  Boston  in  1867,  and  there 
painted  his  splendid  picture  of  the  "  Yosemite  Valley,"  which  was  bought  by 
the  late  Charles  Crocker  of  San  Francisco.  His  next  important  work  was  the 
"White  Mountain  Notch,"  bought  by  Mr.  Hamlin  of  Boston.  He  was  very 
successful  in  the  East,  but  his  health  again  failed  and  he  returned  to  Cali- 
fornia, where  he  rapidly  regained  his  strength.  At  the  Centennial  exhibition 
at  Philadelphia,  in  1876,  Mr.  Hill  was  awarded  the  first  medal  for  landscape 
painting,  the  subjects  being  "  Donner  Lake"  and  "Yosemite  Valley."  These 
were  purchased  by  the  late  Leland  Stanford.  One  of  his  best  works,  entitled 
"The  Great  Canvon  of  the  Sierras,"  for  which  he  received  the  New  York 
Palette  Club  medal,  is  in  the  gallery  of  Mrs.  E.  B.  Crocker  at  Sacramento. 
The  "  Heart  of  the  Sierras,"  another  magnificent  picture  by  Mr.  Hill,  was 
purchased  by  E.  J.  Baldwin.  Later  pictures  are:  "The  Driving  of  The  Last 
Spike,"  "  The  Grand  Canyon  of  the  Colorado,"  and  the  "  Muir  Glacier."  Mr. 
Hill  received  thirty-one  medals. 

Although  a  tireless  worker  he  was  devoted  to  his  family.  Because  of  his 
health  he  spent  most  of  his  time  in  the  Yosemite  Valley  and  at  Wawona  in 
Mariposa  County,  California. 

[The  information  above  printed  was  derived  from  a  sketch  of  Thomas  Hill, 
copyright,  1910,  by  Robert  R.  Hill.] 


APPENDIX  VI 
THE  DAVID  HEWES  BUILDING 


THE  DAVID  HEWES  BUILDING 

The  telegram  sent  by  Mr.  Hewes  after  the  great  San  Francisco 
fire  of  1906,  referred  to  on  page  264 — a  message  so  character- 
istic of  his  indomitable  energy  and  optimistic  spirit,  was  brought 
to  its  fullest  realization  in  the  erection  of  the  David  Hewes  Build- 
ing, on  the  site  of  the  older  building,  at  Sixth  and  Market 
Streets,  the  first  of  the  thoroughly  fireproof,  modern  skyscrapers, 
and  one  of  the  best,  to  rise  from  the  ashes. 

The  location,  at  Sixth  and  Market  Streets,  at  the  intersection 
of  Taylor  Street  and  Golden  Gate  Avenue,  makes  the  site  par- 
ticularly desirable,  and  being  in  direct  line  of  travel  from  all 
parts  of  the  city,  and  in  the  immediate  vicinity  of  such  prominent 
buildings  as  the  great  modern  department  store  of  Hale  Bros., 
the  new  Post  Office,  the  U.  S.  Mint,  the  City  Hall,  the  Hibernian 
Bank,  the  James  Flood  Building,  the  Emporium,  etc.,  immedi- 
ately established  for  its  tenancy  a  clientel  in  keeping  with  the 
character  of  the  building.  The  construction  is  the  best  that 
modern  architecture  and  engineering  skill  could  devise,  both  as  to 
fire  and  earthquake  protection. 

The  finish  is  in  keeping  with  the  construction,  white  enameled 
terra  cotta  being  used  for  the  exterior,  and  marble,  mosaic  and 
bronze  predominating  as  materials  for  the  interior  finish. 

The  arrangement  is  such  as  to  make  practically  all  the  offices 
outside  rooms  with  an  abundance  of  sunshine,  and  those  in  the 
upper  stories  have  also  a  particularly  fine  and  unobstructed  view 
of  the  beautiful  harbor  to  the  east,  and  of  the  surrounding  sub- 
urbs and  streets  facing  the  Golden  Gate  park  to  the  west. 

All  modern  appliances  are  provided  for  the  comfort  of  the 
tenants :  offices  being  equipped  with  electric  lights,  gas,  scientific 
plumbing,  steam  heat  and  ventilation.  Lavatories  with  hot  and 
cold  water  and  coat  and  hat  cabinets  are  found  in  each  office.  Fire 
and  burglar  proof  safes  may  be  arranged  for  as  desired. 

The  janitor  service  is  complete,  including  the  modem  vacuum 
system  of  cleaning.  The  elevator  service  is  of  the  best.  In 
everything  pertaining  to  the  building,  the  convenience  of  the  ten- 
ant and  the  artistic  appearance  in  conjunction  with  utilities  are 

found  in  harmony. 

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ADDENDA  ET  CORRIGENDA 
VIRGINIA 

(See  also  pages  468,  469.) 

There  has  recently  appeared  "Early  Virginia  Immigrants,  1623- 
1666,"  a  copy,  alphabetically  arranged,  by  Mr.  George  C.  Greer  of  the 
State  Land  Office,  of  the  lists  of  "  Head  Rights."  About  25,000 
names  were  secured  by  Mr.  Greer  from  the  records.  Head  Rights 
were  the  right  to  take  up  a  certain  amount  of  land  for  each  person 
whose  transportation  was  paid  by  the  person  claiming  the  head  right. 
The  early  lists  are  presumably  fairly  correct,  but  during  later  years  it 
seems  to  have  become  almost  a  custom  to  file  either  false  lists  or  du- 
plications of  former  lists.  Thus  there  are  many  fraudulent  entries, 
and  many  entries  which  cannot  be  relied  upon  to  show  the  actual  place 
of  residence  of  the  person  whose  name  appears.  As  these  lists  have  an 
undoubted  value,  the  names  of  all  persons  bearing  the  name  Hewes, 
Hughes,  Huse,  Hues,  found  in  Mr.  Greer's  book,  are  printed  below. 


Transportation 

Plantation    in 

Name   of   Emigrant 

claimed   by 

county  of 

1650 
1642 

James  Williamson 
John  Garret 

Upper  New  Norfolk 

1639 

John    Pawlev 

Janus    City 

Christopher    Hughes    . . . 

1650 

Anthonv    Elvot 

Christopher    Huehes    . .  . 

1653 

William   Gautlett 

David    Hues     

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Francis  and  John  Smith 

Westmoreland 

Elizaheth    Hughes    

1651 

Arthur    Price 

York 

Elizabeth    Hewes    

1653 

S.    Gaskins 

Lower    Norfolk 

Elizabeth    Hughs    

1653 

James   Johnson 

Nansemond 

Elizabeth  Hues   

1653 

John  Rovser 

Northumberland 

Elizabeth    Hues    

1654 

John    Rosver,   clerk 

Francis    Hues    

1649 
1650 
1646 

Thomas    Dale 

John   Rosier 

Sir  William   Berklev 

Francis    Hues    

Northumberland 

Jefferv    Hughes    

1655 

John  Jenkins 

Northumberland 

James    Hewes    

1652 

Christopher   Robinson 
John   Sturdivant 

Henrico 

John   Hues   

1638 
1647 
1648 
1650 
1653 

Edmund  Scarburgh 
Richard    Stearnell 
Philip    Bennet 
John  Hallawes 
Richard    Well 

Accomac 

John   Hues    

Ixiwer    Norfolk 

John   Huse    

Nansemond 

John  Hughes   

Northumberland 

Northumberland 

John   Hues    

1653 
1654 

Francis   Emperor  et  ah. 
Thomas   Morecock 

Lower    Norfolk 

Jonathan  Hewes    

James   City 

Katherine  Huse 

1652 

Peter    Knight 

Gloucester 

Mangeby  Huges    

1651 

William    Taylor 

Northumberland 

599 


600 


VIRGINIA 


Transportation 
claimed   by 

Plantation    in 

Name   of   Emigrant 

county  of 

Mary  Huse 

1651 
1637 

William    Barber 
Arthur   Smith 

York 

Isle   of   Wight 

1637 

Oliver  Sprege 
John   Robins 

New    Norfolk 

1638 

James   City 

Richard  Hughes   

1639 

Thomas   Symons 

James   City 

1642 

Cornelius   de   Hull 

1642 
1643 

John  Pratt 
Thomas   Symonds 

Henrico 

Richard  Hughes   

1650 
1653 

Nicholas   Perkins 
Francis    Jordan 

Henrico 

Surrey 

Richard  Hewes   

1653 

John    Knott 

1653 

Alexander    Addison 

1642 

Bartholomew  Knipe 

1642 

John  Benton 

Thomas   Hughes    

1643 

Richard    Richards 

Charles   River 

Thomas   Hues    

1650 

Thomas    Mulford 

Nansemond 

Thomas  Hewes    

1652 

Thomas  Steevens 

Lancaster 

Thomas   Husyhes   

1652 

Thomas   Todd 

Thomas  Hughes 

1654 

Humphrey   Haggett 

Lancaster 

Yillemille   Hughes    

1653 

Joseph   Croshawe 

York 

William  Hewe   

1645 

John  Rode 

Warwick 

William  Hewes   

1646 

Samuel   Abbott 

Nansemond 

William  Hughes    

1651 

Rowland  Burnham 

William  Hughes   

1654 

John  Wvre  et  als. 

UNITED  STATES  CENSUS  OF  AUGUST,  1790 

The  pension  schedules  have  been  published  by  Government,  and  are 
obtainable  from  the  Public  Printing  Office,  Washington,  D.  C,  if  not 
accessible  in  the  public  libraries.  Hence  it  is  not  deemed  necessary  to 
reprint  the  schedules. 

Altogether  there  were  407  heads  of  families  enumerated  who  bore 
the  name  Hewes,  Hewe,  Hews,  Hues,  Hugh,  Hughes,  Heugh,  Hughs, 
Huse.  These  407  families  comprised  1955  individuals,  and  were  dis- 
tributed as  follows: 

Maine  4,  New  Hampshire  19,  Massachusetts  26,  Vermont  3,  Rhode 
Island  2,  Connecticut  7,  New  York  14,  Pennsylvania  86,  Maryland  48, 
Virginia  85,  North  Carolina  57,  South  Carolina  56. 

The  spelling  Hughes  prevailed  in  the  Middle  and  Southern  States, 
Hewes  and  Huse  in  the  Northern  States.  The  schedules  are  incom- 
plete for  some  of  the  states,  and  many  families,  especially  in  the  re- 
mote and  pioneer  settlements,  escaped  enumeration. 


ADDENDA  ET  CORRIGENDA  601 

See  pp.  9,  10,  11.     Hewes  of  Chelmsford,  Essex,  England. 

The  register  of  Chelmsford  shows  the  following  marriages: 

Hugh  Crabtree  and  Joan  Jones,  28  Feb.,  1595. 

Michael    Blakeley    and   Margaret    Hews,    24    Jan.,    1602. 

Hugh  Crabtree  and  Mary  Tue,  8  June,  1602. 

George  Hewes  and  Ann  Barrett,  6  Nov.,  1603. 

John  Prentis  and  Ann  Hewes.   1   July,  1606. 

Richard  Foote  and  Judith  Harvye,  5  April,  1619. 

William  Hewes,  widower,  glover,  and  Marie  Crosbie  alias  Crabtre, 
widow,  26  April,   1619. 

Thomas  Hewes,  widower,  of  Colsham,  and  Tace  Jegons,  by  license, 
6  Sept.,  1627- 

The  years   1638-1619  are  missing. 

Chelmsford  is  about  twelve  miles  south  of  Shalford.  John  Hewes 
of  Royston  nominated  his  brother  Thomas  Hewes  as  one  of  the  over- 
seers of  his  will.  George  Hewes  of  Salisbury,  Mass.,  supposed  to  have 
been  a  kinsman  of  Lt.  Joshua  Hewes,  was  certainly  many  years  his 
junior.  It  is  quite  possible  that  the  Thomas  and  George  Hewes  of  the 
above  record  were  brothers.  The  registers  have  not  been  searched  for 
mention  of  their  children.  Lt.  Joshua  Hewes  married,  as  his  second 
wife,  Alice,  widow  of  John  Crabtree.  The  Rev.  Thomas  Hooker  sup- 
posed to  have  been  a  fellow  passenger  with  Lt.  Joshua  Hewes,  had  been 
settled  at  Chelmsford.  His  daughter  Sarah  was  baptized  at  Chelms- 
ford 9  April,  1628  and  was  buried  there  the  following  year.  Terlings, 
Essex,  the  home  of  Rev.  Thomas  Welde  of  Roxbury,  was  within  a 
few  miles  of  Chelmsford,  and  persons  of  the  name  were  living  at 
Chelmsford. 

Page  335.     George  Robert  Twelve  Hewes. 

Two  of  the  missing  names  of  the  fifteen  children  of  George  R.  T. 
Hewes  are  supplied  by  Mrs.  George  P.  Bailey  of  Philadelphia.  Mrs. 
Bailey  writes:  "I  am  Mary  Birkinhead  Bailey,  daughter  of  John  and 
Sybil  (Hewes)  Birkinhead  of  Mansfield,  Mass.  My  mother,  Sybil 
Hewes,  was  the  daughter  of  Walter  and  Olive  (Fuller)  Hewes  of 
Harrisville,  N.  Y.  Walter  was  the  son  of  George  Robert  Twelve 
Hewes,  my  great  grandfather,  who  had  fifteen  children,  but  of  whom 
I  find  the  names  of  nine  only,  viz.,  Solomon,  Robert,  Elizabeth,  Polly, 
George  R.  T.,  Shubael,  Asa  and  Daniel.  Among  the  other  six  I 
expect  is  the  name  of  my  grandfather  but  I  cannot  find  his  name  in 
the  vital  records  I  have  seen.  My  mother  was  born  in  1838.  I  think 
she  was  the  youngest  of  twelve  children.  In  1860  she  married  my 
father,   John    Birkinhead,   which   much   displeased   her   people   because 


602  ADDENDA  ET  CORRIGENDA 

he  was  an  Englishman.  After  that  she  mingled  with  her  people  but 
very  little.  I  knew  only  one  aunt,  Roxana  Mattroon  of  Oswego,  N.  Y., 
and  my  grandmother  Hewes,  who  often  visited  our  home  when  I  was 
a  girl.  My  mother  died  in  1904.  I  have  only  my  memory  to  help 
me  in  this  matter.  I  have  heard  my  mother  speak  of  a  brother  William, 
a  carpenter,  who  went  to  Cleveland,  O.,  before  she  was  born,  brothers 
and  sisters  George,  Ira,  Shubael,  Dewane,  Mary,  Helen,  Roxana, 
Sybil." 

The  names  added  to  our  list  of  children  by  the  information  given 
by  Mrs.  Bailey,  are  Asa  and  Walter. 

Page   137.      Nathaniel   Hewes. 

According  to  the  History  of  Strafford.  Vt.,  in  Orange  County  Ga- 
zeteer,  Nathaniel  Hewes  married  Sarah  Freeman.  Their  son  Moody 
Hewes  married  Susan  Hurlburt  by  whom  he  had  Nathaniel,  of  Thomp- 
sonville,  Conn.,  Newton,  of  the  same  place,  and  Norman  of  Lebanon. 
Moody  married,  second,  Lydia  Chapin,  and  had  Frank,  d.  y.,  Freeman 
Stark,  born  1835  at  Lyme,  and  Susan  L. 

Freeman  S.  Hewes  was  a  farmer  and  millwright.  He  married 
Roxanna,  daughter  of  Hazen  Carr  of  Orford,  N.  H.,  and  had  William 
W.  and  Frank  W.  The  family  removed  from  Orford,  N.  H.,  to 
Strafford,  Vt.,  in   1861. 


CORRECTIONS: 


Page  1 1 ,  twelfth  line :  Roysdon  should  read  Royston. 

Page  86,  last  line  but  one;  Thomas  Dewer  should  read  Thomas 
Davis. 

Page  91,  second  line;  Roysdon  should  read  Royston. 

Page  95,  first  line;  Joshua  Dolbear  should  read  Joseph  Dolbear. 

Page  108,  foot  note:  A  child  of  Joseph  Huse  was  buried  in  Boston, 
19  Jan.,   1709-10. 

Deborah  Hewes  died  in  Boston,  30  July,   1733,  aged  25  years. 

Page  141,  ninth  line;  Strubridge  should  read  Sturbridge. 

Page  151,  No.  15;  Lydia  Hawes  should  read  Lydia  Hawkes. 

Page  231,  last  line,  foot  note:  blank  paper  should  be  bank  paper. 

Page  355,  No.  160.  Alice,  Arthur,  Sadie  Jewell,  should  read  Alice, 
Arthur,  Sadie   Sandborn. 

Page   131.      The  second  and  third  lines  should  be  transposed. 

Page  545,  chapter  title;  the  name  Ruth  should  read  Ruthe. 

Pages  547,  548;  in  the  ancestral  lines  in  italics  insert  the  name 
Gilbert  before  Stephen. 

Page  547,  sixteenth  line:  The  year  of  marriage  of  Joseph  Tapley  and 
Margaret  Masury  should  read  1712. 


INDEX 


INDEX 


Places  are  not  indexed  except  when  the  residence  of  a  Hewes,  Hughes  family,  or 
some  historical  fact  is  stated.  For  place  names  see  also  under  the  state  in  which 
located.     See  also  page  655. 


Abar,  Rev.  E.  J.,  217,  218 
Abbot,  J.,  449 

Abbott  Female  Seminary,  228 
Abbott,  Alexander  H.,  189 
Alice  B.,  189 
August,    526 
Betsy,  186 
Capen,  189 
Carl  H.,  214 
Ebenezer,   186 
Ebenezer  T.,  151,  152,  186,  525, 

535 
Ethel  W.,  189 
Florence,  213 
Granville  S.,  186,  213,  214,  215, 

255,  257,  261 
George,    186 
George  W.,  189 
Hannah,   269 
Henrietta  J.,   189 
Hortense  S.,   188 
Lucretia,   189 
Mary,  151 
Milicent  B.,  189 
Pauline,  211. 
Philip  F.,  214 
Ruthe,  186,  214,  525,  526,  531, 

539 
Samuel,  586 
Sarah,  547 

Sarah  H.,  213,  215,  217 
T.   Grafton,   189 
Thomas,  211 
Abercrombie,  Gen.,  145,  146 

James,  459 
Aborn,  163 
Adams,  C.  F.,  49 
Hannah,  565 
Jesse,  504 
John,    197,   300 
John  Q.,  339 
Jonas    P.,   469 
Mary,  416 
Mathew,  319 
Nathaniel,  416 
Sarah,  504 
Adamson,  Cordelia  F.,  334 
Emma  R.,  334 


Adamson,  Jane  G.,  333 
John,  333 
Mary,  334 
Rebecca,   333 
Robert,  333,  334 
Addington,  75 
Addison,  Alexander,  586 
Affleck,  Gilbert,  416 
Ainsworth,  Capt.,  244 
Alabama,  168,  504 
526,  Catawba,  360 

Coosa  Co.,  485 
Green  Co.,  491 
Mobile,  502 
253,  Shelby  Co.,  484 

Albany   Female  Academy,  507 
Female   Hospital,  513 
Orphan   Asylum,   513 
Alcock,  30,  474 
Constance,  92 
George,  25 
John,  76,  80,  92,  105 
Alden,   Alma  P.,   617 

John,  367 
Aldrich,  Julia  A.  F.,  369 
Nathan,  344 
532,      Alexander,  John,  470 

Alfred  the  Great,  553,  554 
Allen,  168 
Capt.,  56 
Judge,  212 
Rev.,   519 
Abraham,  417 
Ann,  312 
Benjamin,  312 
Bozoon,   93 
Elizabeth,  420,  454 
Elizabeth  D.,  224 
Ethelind  F.,  177 
Eunice,  402 
F.  W.,  207 
Florence  E.,  177 
Frank   H.,   177 
Frederick,  224 
Frederick  W.,  224 
Gordon  H.,  224 
Henry,  420 
James,  93 
605 


606 


INDEX 


Allen,   Jeremiah,  312 
Joseph,  312 
Lawrence  W.,  224. 
Mary,  312 
Myrtle,  177 
Maynard  C,   177 
Nathaniel,   270,   271,   273,   276,   277, 

278,  279,  295 
Rebecca,  561 
Richard,  312 
Sarah,   271,   273,   278 
William,  312,  400,  401,  561 
Allerton,  Isaac,  420 

Remember,  420 
Alline,  Rebecca,  87 
Ailing,  Mary,  434 
Allyn,  John,  83 
Alvord,  Mary  E.,  517 
America,   privateer,  385 
American    Revolution,    280,    282,    286, 
291,  298;  events  of,  303-309,  340, 
491.     See     Pension     declarations; 
also  Joseph  Hewes,  the  "signer." 
Ames,    Hustis,   344 
Oakes,  577,  581 
Sally,  344 
Amherst,  Gen.  J.,  145 
Amorage,   George,  238 
Amy,   John,   72 
Anderson,   Allen,  398 
John,  474 
Rev.   W.  C.,  243 
Andrews,  James,  450 

John,  403  ' 

Susan,    354 
Thomas,   15 
Andre,  Major  John,  347 
Andros,    Gov.,   312 
Angel,   Lt.,   341 

Israel,   453 
Angier,   Edmund,   48 
Samson,   450 
Sarah,  450 
Anthony,  James,  236 
Antigua,  417,  418 
Appleton,   Daniel,  456 
Martha,  224 
Nathaniel,   117,   332 
Rachel,  117,  332 
Aquidnessett    (Wickford),    79 
Ancient  and  Honorable  Artillery  Co., 

41 
Archer,  Lawrence,  118 

Sarah,  547 
Armed  Vessels,  Committee  on,  1775, 

274 
Armstrong,   Albert,  365 
Clarence,  365 


Armstrong,  Clifford,  365 

Frank,  365 

Harris,  365 

Rosetta,  365 
Arnold,    Benedict,    136,    140,    390 

Jonathan,   327 

Joseph  A.,  331 
Armour,  A.  Watson,  185 
Artillery   Company,  40,  41 
Artillery  Co.  of  London,  41 
Ashbury,   Bishop,  154 
Ashley,  Col.,  349 

Thomas,   428 
Ashworth,    Elizabeth,    6 
Aspinwall,    61 

William,   60,   67,   68 
Assawanescock,  103 
Assistants,   33 
Assistants,    Court   of,    45 
Asten,  Elizabeth,  383 
Atherton  Company,  81,  82 

Humphrey,   78,   79,   184 
Atkins,   Elizabeth,  432 

Emily,  407 

Joshua,    407 

Mary,   200 

Thomas,  428 
Atkinson,  James,  500 

John,  451 
Attbury,   William,    73 
Atwater,  Sarah,  435 
Atwood,   Herman,  555 

John,  555 

Sarah,    555 
Averhill,   Ephraim,   153,  548 

Sally,   548 
Avery,  Helen,  219 

Babcock,   George,   340 
Backer,    Rebecca,   128,    131 
Bacon,  Adelaide  J.,  359,  366 

Robert  C,  351,  359 
Badger,  446,  527 
Bagger,  523 
Baglev,  Jonathan,  455,  456,  457,  458, 

"460 

Mehitable,    380 
Bailey,   Capt,,  501 

Abigail,   444 

Benjamin    F.,  444 

Betsy,  334 

G.   M.,  334 

James,  573 

Orsamus,  444 

Ward,  442,  443,  444,  445 
Baker,  Alexander,  97 

Abigail,   131 

Anna,  430 

Dorcas,  383 


INDEX 


607 


Baker,  Micah,  131 

Rosanna,  412,  423 
Balcom,  Lois,  494 
Balden,   Capt.,  441 
Baldwin,   Col.,   446 
Caleb,  139 
E.  J.,  582 
Jeduthan,    456 
Mabel,   435 
Ball,  Joseph,  468 

Mary,  468 
Ballou,   Olive,  354 
Balser,  Francis  W.,  137 

Sarah,  137 
Band,  Nathaniel,  413 
Bancroft,  Capt.,  519,  524,  527 
George,  519,  538 
James,  184 
John,   147,   184 
Rachel,  151 
Raham,  184 
Ruth,  184 

Thomas,  148,  184,  538 
Bansford,   Martha,   109 
Baptists,  treatment  of,  403 
Baptist    Female    Institute,    Indianap- 
olis,  190,   219 
National    Sunday    School    Question- 
book,  255 
Publication    Society,   215 
Barbadoes,   62,   434 
Barber,   George,  266 
Hannah,   269 
William,   586 
Bard,  Thomas  R.,  212 
Barge,    277 
Barker,  Dorcas,  383 
Edward,   323 
Phebe   P.,   548 
Richard,  403 
Barnard,  John,  556 
Marv,  268 
Peter,  324 
Sarah,   568 
Barnes,   214 

Hannah,  493 
Barnett,   Deborah,   108 
Barnev,   Capt.,  341 
Barrett,   Alice,   189 
Ella,   189 
John,   478 
William,    189 
Barricklo,  Amy  B.,  178 
Charles   B.,  'l78 
James  R.,  178 
Joseph  E.,   178 
Louise   J.,    178 
Barry,  John,   109 
Bartholomew,    58 


Bartholomew,   Henry,  48 

William,  77 
Bartlett,  Franklina  C,  193 
Lewis,  396 
Mary,    396 
William  S.,   193,  259 
Barton,   Elizabeth,  384 
Bass,   Elizabeth,  345 

Samuel,  406 
Batcheldor,    John,   227 
Bate,   Ben j  amin,   315 
Bates'    Brook,    Lynnfield,    148 
Bathorne,   Roger,  422 

Wrath,  422 
Baudouin,    Mary,   418 
Baxter,   John,   135 
Beach,  John,  138,  139 
Beal,  W.  L.,  127 
Beale,   G.   W.,   468 
Bealer,    Benjamin,    487 

Jacob,  487 
Bean,  Molly,  389 
Beardsley,   Katherine  P.,  195 
Bedell,   Col.,   141 
Belcher,   Andrew,    184 

Elizabeth,    184 
Bellamy,   Samuel,    120 
Bell,    George,    478 
John,   185 
Richard,   126 
Thomas,  55,  61 
Belling,   Col.,   357 
Bellingham,    Gov.    Richard,    44 
Bendall,   Freegrace,   78,  87 
Bennet,  Philip,  585 
Bennett,    Elizabeth,    563 
Henry,    465 
Lydia,  404 
Richard,  61,  468 
Rozina,   465 
William,    563 
Benton,    Rev.,    236 
J.   A.,   235 
John,  586 
Berkley,  Sir  William,  585 
Bermid,  George,  166 
Berry,  536 
Bett,  Capt.,  436 
Bezar,   John,   267 
Bezer,  Edward,  268 

Sarah,  268 
Bill,  Sarah,  108 
Billings,  Frederick,  244 

Library,  244 
Billroth,  Dr.,  253 
Billups,  Richard,  473 
Bingham,  J.  F.,  232 
Bingley,  106 
Nathaniel,   561 


608 


INDEX 


Black,   William,   154 
Blackborne,    William,   CO 
Blackstone   (Blaxton),  William,  73. 
Blair,  Mrs.,  276,  308 

George,  278 

Helen,   276,   278 

Nellie,  275 

Peggy,    278 
Blanchard,   J.,   384 

Mary   A.,  404 

Miles  404 

Rhoda  A.,  396 
Blake,  Edward,  465 

John,   101,   103 
Blanco,  Island,   120 
Blanter,  Rebecca,  481 
Blany,  W.   O.,  165 

Blav,     Hannah,     109,    122,    123,    558, 
'559 

Richard,   100,  109 
Bleigh,    Nathaniel,    127 
Blevins,   Lucy,  488 
Bleythn    ap    Cynyn,    262 
Bliss,   Rebecca,  514 
Blizard,  Col.,  417 
Block  Is.  expedition,  1636,  42 
Blount,  Ann,  421 

Anthony,  423,   424 

I.   B.,  279 

Jane,  424 
Bloss,  Glory  T.,  212 

Henry   A.,   212 

Katherine  J.,  212 
Blue,  Capt.,  496 
Boardman,    Clarinda,    358 

Emma  S.,  224 

Eugene  S.,  224 

Harold   H.,  224 

Lucy  E.,  244 

Richard,   154 

William  D.,  224 
Bocking,     Essex,    Eng.,    10 
Bodwell,   Abraham,  391 

Bethia,   377 

Daniel,  459 

Henry,   377 

John,   382 

Ruth,    377 

S.,    382 
Boles,  John,  49,   71 
Bolton,   Mary,   451 

Ruth,  451 

William,   451 
Boulton,  Ruth,  451 
Bond,   Charles,   279 
Bonighton,   John,  450 
Bonum,   Elizabeth,  468 

Samuel,  468 
Boone,   Nicholas,   112 


Booth,  James,  471 
Borst,   Marion   L.,  494 
Boston,  Abigail,  566 

Prudence,  566 
Bostonian  Society,  72 
Boston  in  1633,  23;  church  members, 
1635,  33;  first  tavern,  24;  fortifi- 
cations, 25,  35;  great  fire  of  1760, 
114;  Hanover  St.,  93;  houses  to 
be  covered  with  slate  or  tile,  105; 
Long  Wharf,  114,  126;  Devon- 
shire St.,  127;  Oliver's  Dock,  114; 
rebuilding,  1760,  115;  records,  50; 
siege  of,  332;  school  committee, 
1765,  114;  first  shop  in,  24,  56; 
tanyards,  320;  tax  list,  105;  town- 
house,  71. 

Massacre,  337 

Tea  Party,  335,  337,  357 

&  Lowell"  R.  R.,  526,  529 

Neck,  80,  114 
Boswell,    Capt.,   357 
Bosworth,  Alice,  552 
Boulogne,    Counts   of,   553,   554 

Faramus  de,  553 

Geoffrey  de,  553 

Sibilla  de,  553 

William    de,   553 
Boutineau,   Elizabeth,   418 

James,  418 

Mary,  418 

Stephen,  315,  418 
Boutwell,  Mary,  184 
Bowden,   166 

Benjamin,    145 
Bowdish,   Mary,   355 
Bowen,   Nathaniel,  122,  123,  558 
Bowlsly,   Eliza,  494 
Bowser,    Margaret,    6 

Robert,   6 
Boys'  Clubs,  221 
Boyer,   Daniel,   351 

Mary  L.,  351 
Brabant,  Dukes  of,  554 
Brackenbridge,   Capt.,   118 
Brackett,   Florence,  213 

Joseph   G.,  214 

Susan    M.,   214 
Braden,  431 
Bradbury,   311 
Bradford,   Gov.,  400 

Moses,  93 
Brading,  James,  86 
Bradstreet,   Col.,   146 

Simon,  52,  69,  98 
Bragg,   Sophia   E.,  220 
Bramhall,  Anna,  430 

George,   430 

Joshua,  430 

Martha,  430 


INDEX 


609 


Brarahall,  Samuel,  430 

Thankful,  430 
Brandon,    Col.,   486,   491 
Brattle,   Edward,   556 

Mary,  556 

Thomas,  99 
Bray,   Hannah,  402 

Nathaniel,  402 
Brazen   Head  tavern,   114 
Briand,  520 
Brickett,  John,  385 
Bridgham,  Henry,  319,  320,  561 

James,  319 

John,  319 

Joseph,  319 
Brier,   Rachel,  391,  448 
Briggs,    James,    478 

M.    C,    (Rev).,   236 

W.  C.   (Rev).,  243 
Bright,  Abigail,  38 

Anna,  38 

Beriah,   38 

Elizabeth,  38 

Henry,  38 

John,  38 

Mary,  38 

Nathaniel,  38 
Brimblecom,   Samuel,   152 
Brimmer,    Andrew,   127 
Brocas,  Matilda,  552 

Sir  John,  552 
Bromsall,  John,  416 
Brooke,  Elizabeth,   11 

Margaret,   12 

Joane,  12 
Brooks,  173 
Brousseau,  Mary,  465 

Browen,   Catherine,   265 
Brown,  Browne,  Capt.,  379 

Al,  393 

Allison,  460 

Arthur,  581 

Blanche  V.,  224 

Burntfoot,  491 

Calista,  355 

Dorothy,  175 

Edgar  A.,   224 

Emilius,  355 

EUzabeth,   160 

Hannah,  108,  427 

H.    Elizabeth,    175 

Henry  M.,  224 

Henry  Y.,  457,  460 

James,  160,  427 

Jeremiah,  567 

John,    80,    108,    355,   371,    392,    428, 
441 

Joseph,  175 

Josiah,  455,   566 


Brown,  Jonathan,  456 

Joshua,  389 

Lydia,  160 

Maria,  393 

Martha,   118,   567 

Martha   H.,   224 

Mary,  355,  373,  418 

Nabby  W.,  382 

Nathan,  379,  380 

Peggy,   392 

Rebecca,   160 

Ruth,  371 

Sarah,  567 

Silas,  382 
Browning,  Prudence,  118 
Bruce,  Elizabeth,   184 
Brunt,  Hugh,  479 
Bryant,  524,  530,  533 

Alice  A.,  164 

Jonathan,   164 

Sarah,  374 
Buchanan,  Edward,  504 
Buck,  Edward,  228 

Reuben,  141 
Buffington,  N.,  401 
Bugbee,  Nathaniel,  140 
Bugg,  William,  484 
Bulkeley,  102 

Edward,  184 

Mary,  351 

Peter,  184 
Buckley,   William,  265 
Bullard,  Seth,  132 
Bullock,  Ensign,  136 
Bull,  Eliza,  113 
Bumpus,  Job,  431 
Bunch,  Edward,  504 
Buncombe,   Mrs.,  307 

Richard,  296 
Burditt,  Edward,  162 

Mary,  162 
Burgoyne,  Gen.,  140,  308,  350 
Burke,  Gov.,  488 
Burnap,  Ruth,  373 

Samuel,  373 
Burnham,  Rowland,  586 
Burritt,    Salmon,    138,    139 
Burroughs,  Mary  C,  388 
Burrowes,    Jeremiah,    430 
Burrows,  Montague,  553 
Burr,  Aaron,  465 

Peter,  104,   105 
Burso,   see   Busso. 
Burt,  Lilly  B.,  365 

Orlando*  E.,  365 
Busch,  Adolphus,  198 
Bushell,  John,  100 
Bussell,  398 
Busso,  Charles,  108,  122,  123,  557,  558 


610 


INDEX 


Busso,  Hannah,  108,  122,  123,  557,  558 
Buswell,   Joanna,  387 

Mehitable,  447 
Butcher,   business    of,   1697,   109 
Butler,  Gen.,  463 

Mary  A.,  367 
Buttend,   Elizabeth,  425 

Samuel,  425 
Button,  Shubael,  141 
Buxton,  527,  532 

Amos,  547 

Benjamin,   153,   523,  548 

Elizabeth,  547 

Phebe  P.,  548 
Byers,  Peter  S.,  228 

Cabarrus,   Stephen,   296 
Cadwalader,  Charles  581 
Cadv,   Abigail,  343 
Caldwell,  337,  499 

Elizabeth  S.,  397 
Calef,  John,  316 

Joseph,   321 

Martha,  313,  317,  318 

Mary,  318 

Robert,  315,  316,  317,  318,  321 
Calhoun,  Emily,  368 

John  C,  368 

Simeon  H.,  368 
California,  165,  206,  232,  477,  529,  571; 
conditions  of  travel  to,  234;  dis- 
ease attacks  vineyards,  259;  emi- 
gration to,  233;  first  raisins  made 
in,  259;  gold  coinage  of,  234; 
first  locomotive  built  in,  242; 
Presbyterian  paper  established, 
244,  246;  Quakers  in,  259;  State 
University,   244,   245,   246 

Anapauma,  195 

Benecia,  200 

Brighton,  237 

College  of,  244,  245,  246 

Downieville,   243 

El   Modena,   259 

Hewes   Hill,   198 

Hewes  Park,  196,  197,  198 

Los   Angeles,  213 

Napa,  191 

Oakland,   256;   water    front,   257 

Orange,    195 

Sacramento,  166,  230,  234,  535; 
great  fire,  203;  Queen  City  Hotel, 
235;  fire  of  1852,  235;  churches  of, 
235;  conditions  in  1850,  235; 
Steamer  Union,  236;  first  Sab- 
bath school  at,  236;  dedication 
of  Congregational  church,  236; 
Methodists  of,  236;  flood  of  1852, 
237;  squatter  war,  237. 


California,  San  Francisco,  161;  grad- 
ing of,  203,  238;  high  school,  209; 
in  1850,  234;  vigilance  committee, 
240;  Congregational  church,  243; 
first  Presbyterian  church,  243; 
Palace  Hotel,  246;  earthquake, 
247;  visits  of  Presidents  Hayes 
and  Grant,  256;  first  Baptist 
Church,  258;  City  Hall,  264 

Santa    Ana,    168;    valley    of,    196; 
Presbyterian    church,    258 

St.   Helena,   191 

Sutterville,  237 

Tustin,    192 
Campbell,  Mr.,  526 

Col.,  487 

Hannah  M.,  177 

Margaret,  447 

Richard,  471 

William,  447 
Campion,  Clement,  61 
Campton,   Canada,   348 
Caner,  331 

Cape  Ann,  fishing  at,  399 
Capen,  Edward  A.,  189 

Helen   M.,   189 

Lucretia,    189 
Capron,   Joseph,  455 
Carl,  Amos,  206 

Earl  R,,  206 

Ernest   E.,  206 

Grace,  206 

Laura  A.,  206 

Natalie  R.,  206 

Ruth  H.,  206 
Carmack,  Capt.,  487 
Carnegie,   Andrew,   200 
Carnev,  Charles,  188 

Clarissa,   188 

Hortense   A.,  188 

Hortense   S.,   188 

James  G.,  188 

Philip  D.,  188 

Sidney  H.,  188 
Carolina,    North,   481 ;   declares    Inde- 
pendence, 293;  armed  vessels,  301 

Abercorn,  484 

Bath  Co.,  431 

Burke   Co.,  472,  484 

Caswell  Co.,  463,  488 

Cleveland,  481 

Edenton,    274,   295 

Newbern,  301 

Orange  Co.,  489 

Raleigh,  474 

Roanoke   Island,   274 

Warren  Co.,  488 
Carolina,  South,  485 

Charleston,  484 


INDEX 


611 


Carolina,  South,  Chester  District,  490 
Newberry   Dist.,  486 
Ninety-Six  Dist.,  491 
Pickens  Dist,  463,  490,  496 
Carpenter,  7,  336,  422 
Carpentier,  257 
Carr,  Elizabeth,  380 
Rosamon,  451 
William,  315 
Carrington,  C,  476 
Carson,  Luella  Clay,  200 
Carter,  Mary,  389 
Nathaniel,    163 
Robert,   185 
Sarah,  529 
Carypen,  Capt.,  501 
Casement,  John,  581 
Cassedy,  Martin,  467 
Caswel,  Gen.,  489 
Caswell,  Thomas,  297 
Catey,  S.  F.,  198 
Causton,  484 

Caution,  see  Warning,  123 
Caverly,  Margaret,  448 

William,  448 
Census,  U.  S.,  of  1790,  600 
Central     Pacific     Railroad,    248,    249, 

250,  573,  574 
Chamberlain,  Aaron,  376 
Joshua,  493 
Mary,  376 
Mellen,  49 
Champion,  Capt.,  435 
Chandler,   Lt.,  394 
Alfred  D.,  224 
Edmonds  H.,  213 
Henry  E.,  213 
Jonathan,   138 
Mabel  W.,  213 
Mildrisd  G.,  224 
Myra, ,  224 
Channing,   Edward,  49 
Chapin,  Lydia,   137 
Chaplin,   Ann,  16 
Chapman,  Mary  E.,  485 

Simon,  485 
Charlemagne,  Emperor,  553,  554 
Charles,  Duke  of  Lorraine,  553 
Charles   II,  97 
Charlton,  Michael,  61 
Chase,  Col.,  387 
Charles,  459 
Helen  I.,  367 
Hosea,  367 
Joshua,  343 
Julia  H.,  367 
Molly,  379 
Sarah,  343 
Seth,  342 


Chase,  William,  25 

Checkley,  John,  422 

Chenery  E.,  132 

Cherokee   Indians,  463,  472,  476,  487, 

491 
Chesley,  Lena  M.,  137 
Cherry  Burton,   Eng.,  516 
Chester,  Col.,  438 

Sir  Robert,  11 
Cheever,   Ezekiel,  417 

Thomas,  455 
Chichester,  Jennie,  362 
Childers,    261 
Chipman,  171 
Chisam,  Arietta,  210 

Samuel,  210 

Sarah  M.,  210 

William,  210 

William  H.,  360 
Cholera,   167 
Chotard,  Capt.,  494 
Church  members,  number  of  in   1635 
in  Boston,  Salem,   Roxbury,  33 
not  freemen,  51 
Church,  Col.,  453 
Cilley,  Col.,  139 
Clapp,  Capt.,  102 

Abigail,  331 

Charlotte,    331 

Joseph  H.,  331 

Lucretia,  330,  331 

Lydia  C,  331 

William  J.,  331 

William   T.,  331 
Clark,  Capt.,  357 

David,  132,  495 

Edward,    315 

Gilbert,  326,  344 

James,  371 

John,   271 

Sally,  326,  344 

Truelove,  326,  344 
Clarke,  George  R.,  477 

John,  79 

Jonathan,   116 

Matthias,  110 

M.  G,   190 

Thomas,  56,  67,  488 
Clement,   L.   M.,    581 

Susannah,  376 
Cleveland,   487 
Clay,  Gen.,  357 

Henry,   163 
Clarey,  Jude,  422 
Clift,  Emily,  185 

Mary   B.,   185 

William  S.,  185 
Clinton,   Gen.,  467 
Coach,  old  Spanish,  201 


612 


INDEX 


Coale,  James,  428 

Coat  armor,  see  also  Seal,  4,  6,  7,  8,  13 

Coats,  Thomas,  441 

Cobbitt,  Mr.,  403 

Cochran,    407 

Codner,    557 

Coddington,  William,  52 

Coe,  Julia,  355 

Coffin,  350 

George  W.,  127 

Joseph,  458 

Peleg,  127 
Cogan,  John,  24,  56,  84 

Maiy,  84 
Cogswell   Family,  569 

Col.,   385 

Alice,  569 

Alieia,  569 

Edward,  569 

Elizabeth,  567,  569,  570 

John,   403,   567,   569 

Margaret,  570 

Robert,  569 

Samuel,   570 

Susanna,    570 
Colby,    John,    393 

Lizzie  M.,  393 
Cole,  Robert,  25 

Samuel,  24 

Thomas,   455 
Coleman,  412 
Coles,    Capt.,   488 
Collicott,   Richard,   41. 
Collier,   Capt.,   495 

Col.,  485 

D.,   503 

Daniels,   496 
Collins,   Abel,  436 

C.  Walter,  164 

Edward,  48 

Eli   D.,   393 

Mary  E.,  393 

Mercy,  436 
Collimer   vs.   Marshall,   109 

Peter,  109 
Colson,   Capt.,   496 
Comer,  John,   101,   103,    104 

Mary,  103 
Commissioner  to  try  small  causes,  47 
Conant,   Roger,  400 
Condit,  530 
Coney,    Amy   Frances,   178 

Charles  W.   H.,  178 

Clara  J.,   177 

Edwin  S.,  177 

Elizabeth,   526,   530,   532,   536 

Emily,  176 

Fletcher,   176 

Florence  E.,  177 

Francis  A.,  177 


Coney,  Frances  O.,  177 

George  B.,  178 

Jeremiah,   151,   176,   526,  533,  535 

Jeremiah   W.,   178 

Kate  E.,  176 

Louise  J.,  178 

Mary,   176 

Rebecca   W.,   176 

Sarah,  177 

Sophia,   176,   178,   533,   537,  539. 

Sophia  A.,  176 

Sophia  M.,  178 
Congress,    Continental,    303 
Connecticut,   48,  433 

Fairfield,  100,  438;  title  to,  102 

Groton,    43 

Guilford,   433,  434 

Killingly,  438 

Lyme,  434 

Mansfield,    129 

New  Haven,  69,  434,  435,  438 

Newtown,  138,  139 

Norwich,  435,   437 

Pettypogne,    358 

Saybrook,  357 

Thompson,  438 

Tolland,  345 
Connelly,  Grace,  135 
Constable,  office  of,  46;   character  of 
men   holding  position   of,  48;   his 
authority,  51 ;  how  appointed,  51 ; 
chosen    by    towns,   48;    duties    of, 
46 
Continental  Congress,  303;  election  of, 

280;  declaration  of,  282 
Converse,  Jonathan,  438 

Zerviah,  438 
Cook,  Cooke,   Caleb,  349 

Clara   L.,   362 

Jemima,   349 

John,  478 

John   C,  362 

Middlecott,   113 

Richard,   76,    77 

Ruth,  213 

Sherwin  L.,  362 
Coolidge,  James,  406 

Nathaniel,   38 
Coombs,    Fields,    392 

Lucy,  392 
Cooper,  Elizabeth,  352 

Sarah,    15 
Coowate    (Newton  Lower  Falls),  101 
Coplin,    166,   172 
Copp,  Family,  555 

David,  555 

Elder,  94,  107 

Joanna,  555 

Jonathan,  555 


INDEX 


61$ 


Copp,  Judith,  555 

Lydia,  555 

Ruth,  555 

William,  555 
Copper   ore,   66 
Corey,  Capt.,  394 
Corlett,    Elijah,    54 
Cornell,  Emily,  363 
Corning,  John,  581 
Cornwall,  James,  417 
Cornwallis,   Lord,   489 
Correl,   Archibald,  278 
Cotton  factory  at  Lynnfield,  147 
Cotton,  333 

Charles  B.,  334 

Jennie  M.,  334 

John,  35 
Cottrell,  D.   W.,  212 

Emily,  212 

Gertrude,   212 

Pamelia,  392 

Sylvester,  392 
Covell,  S.,  348 
Cowell,   Capt.,  335 
Covington,   Capt.,   480 
Cox,  166 

Capt.,   455 

Col.,   522,   524,   525 

Adelaide,  185,  532 

Benjamin,   152,    184,   226,   531,   533, 
535,  539,  540 

Clarissa,   184 

Daniel  P.,  186,  527,  530,  531 

Emily   B.,    186 

Francis  W,  185 

George,   520,   538 

John,  467 

Le  Roy  B.,  185,  186,  531 

Mary  Ann,   184,  527,  530,  533,  535, 
536 

Mary  B.,  185 

Mary   Ellen,    185 

Matthew,   152,   184 

Scobey,   530 

Susannah,   184 

William,   468,   522,   523 

William  Emerson,  166,  167 
Coxeall,  58 

Counties  established,  48 
County    organizations,   46 
Crabtree,   Alice,   72,   91,   601 

Deliverance,   91 

John,  72,  79,  80,  81,  83,  91 
Cradock,  Mathew,  32,  37,  52 
Craft,  Col.,  349 
Crafts,  Elias,  549 

Miranda,  549 
Craig,   Robert,  487 
Crane,  30 


Crane,  Col.,  413,  467 
Robert,   75,  76,  77 
Sarah,    529 
Crapo,  William  W.,  232 
Crawford,  Capt.,  504 

Charles,   485 
Creamer,  Thomas,  500 
Creek  Indians,  503 
Creeke,   Edward,   93 
Cress,  Delilah,  500 

George,  500 
Crippen,  J.,  343 
Crocker,   Capt.,  347,  348 
Betsy,  493 

Charles,  236,  249,  573,  580,  582 

E.  B.,  236,  249,  573,  580,  582 
Cromwell,  Oliver,  27,   97 
Crosby,   George,   470 

Hannah,   150 

Mary,  470 
Cross,  John,  97 

Levi  S.  K.,  177 

Lydia,  396 

Mary  E.,  176 

Sarah,    388 

Ralph,   388,   396 
Crow,  Christopher,  87 
Crowshawe,  Joseph,  586 
Cruft,   Foster,  345 
Crump,    Benjamin,   469 

Elizabeth.   P.,  469 

Mary,  469 
Chaddock,   Martha,   118 

Thomas,    118 
Chagres  river,  233 
Cumberland,   Fort,  146 
Cummings,  Joseph,   389 

Molly,  389 
Cunningham,   199 

Bill,  491 

Frank,  237,   238 

James,  203,  238,  239,  240,  247 

Nathaniel,   319,   320 
Cupp,   John,  467 
Currier,    Abigail,    142 

Ezra,  447 

William,  142 
Curtis,   Abigail,   434 

Almira,  350 

Calvin,  350,  359 

Celia,  359 

Charles    W.,  232 

Jonathan,  434 

Mercy,  496 
Cushing,   Capt.,   349 
Cushman,    Abigail,    345 

Joseph,  347 

Sarah,    345 
Cutler,  David,  420 


614 


INDEX 


Cutler,  Eliza,  552 

Hannah,    552 

Samuel,   552 
Cutter,   Ephraim,  232 

W.    R.,  389 

Daby,  Asa,  393 
Dabnev,  Col.,  476 
Daggett,   Eunice,  343 
Dale,  Thomas,  585 
Dammartin,  Counts  of,  553,  554 

Renaud  de,  553 
Damon,  Annie  H.,  361 

Harriet  A.,  361 

James   E.,   361 

Joseph    N.,   361 

Mary   L.,   361 

Samuel  F.,  361 
Dana,  Richard,  116 
Dandridge,  William,  478 
Danforth,   150,   518 

Agnes,  368 

Arthur    P.,    208 

Charles  H.,  208 

Clara  E.,  208 

Dora   P.,   208 

Elizabeth,  184 

Emily,   368 

Galen  B.,  368 

Helen  E.,  208 

Henry,  518,  527,  536,  538 

John,  208 

Raymond    H.,   208 

Samuel,   75,   77 

Sarah   H.,  208 

Samuel,  27 
Daniel,  Julian,   6 
Daniels,  Capt.,  135 
Danskin,  Althea  L.,  211 

George  M.,  212 
Dare,  Virginia,  274 
Darrow,  Ernest,  356 

Frank   A.,   356 

Mary,   356 
Dauson,    George,   103 
Davenport,  Col.,  499 

William,  459 
David,  William,  428 
Davidson,  Samuel,  483 
Davie,   Deborah,  431 

Elizabeth,  431 

Robert,  431 
Davis,  Benjamin,  213 

Catherine,  213 

Elizabeth,  489 

Eliza   W.,  215,   548 

Enoch,  372 

Gustavus  S.,  215 

Israel,   456 


Davis,  James,  314,  560 

Julia  H.,   367 

Mary,  372 

Rose   L.,  211 

Sarah    Hines,   213 

Thomas,   89,    91,    120 

Truman,    130 

Trustrum,   458 

William,   121 

William   P.,  211 
Davison,  James,  483 
Dawes,   William,  95,  414 
Dawson,   Mrs.,   308 

George,   101 
Dav,  Sarah  E.,  164 
Daviess,   Capt.,   503 
Dealev,    Dodair,   220 

Edna  E.,   220 

George  L.,  220 

James    E.,   220 

Richard   U.,  220 

Sophia   E.,   220 
Deane,   ship   of  war,  438 
Dearborn,   Henry,   140 

Samuel,   391 
Debtors,  treatment  of,  409 
Decker,  Jessie,  364 
Declaration     of     Independence,     299, 

300 
Deer  Island,  311,  312 
Deering,  Elizabeth,  319 

Henry,  319 
De  Hull,  Cornelius,  586 
Delaware  Expedition,  66 
Delaware  Indians,  487 
Delaware  regiment,  134 
DeLancy,   Ellen,   497 
Delano,   Amasa,  457 
Delany,    Prudence,   99 
Deming,    Mary,    117 

Samuel,   117 
Dennison,   Daniel,    27,   49,   80,    81,   83 

Edward,  49 

George,  27,  49 

John,  381 

Rebecca,  381 

William,  27,  49,  58 
Deputies   to   General    Court,   34,   45 
Devonshire,  Eng.,  545 
Dew,   Nathaniel,  410 
Dewer,  Thomas,  86 
Delphi,   Greece,   199 
Dick,   Christiana,   268 

Elisha,    268 
Dickinson,   Col.,  504 
Dickson,   Maj.,  463 
Dill,   a  slave,  547 
Dillon,   Sidney,  579,  581 
Dimick,   Sarah,   142 


INDEX 


615 


Dimon,  Capt.,  438 

Dinon,   Capt.,  489 

Dinwiddie,  Robert,  192 

Dixon,  H.   H.,  276 

Doane,  James  C,  332,  333,  334 

Susanna  W.,  334 
Dobson,   Polly  M.,  477 
Dodge,   Capt.,  390 

Ellen,  497 
Dohertv,   Gen.,  504 
Dolbea'r,   Deborah,   108,   559 

Elizabeth,   108,   122,  558 

Edmond,    100,    108,    122,    123,    556, 
557    558    559 

Edmund  G.,  108,  122,  123,  558,  559 

Edward,  94 

Hannah,   94,   95,   107,   108,   557,   559 

Joseph,  94,  95,  107,  108,  556,  558 

Sarah,   108 
Dolbier,   Joseph,   556 
Dolland,  Mary,  94 

William,   94,   557 
Dollar,   William,   557 
Doolittle,  Col.,   133,  426 
Dolly,  John,  489 
Dominoquilo,  173 
Dorchester  Company,  32,  400 
Dotev,  Edward,  431 

Thomas,  431 
Doubleday,  Ann,  109 

Roger,   420 
Douglas,  Capt.,  435,  436 

Archibald,  415 

James,  414,  415 

Jennet,  414 

Mary,  414 

Patrick,  414 
Dow,  Capt.,  378,  379 
Dowd,  Mary,  433 
Dowdall,  Sophia,  469 
Downer,   Mary,   371 
Downing,  Emanuel,  61 
Drake,  A.,  447 

Mary    E.,   142 
Draper,  John,  130 

Richard,   107 
Dresser,  167 
Drew,   I.,  493 
Drury,  Col.,  340,  341 
Dvre,  Barrat,  119 
Dubois,  Col.,  466,  467 
Dudley's   Defeat,   357,   483 
Dudley,  Catherine,  27 

Gov.  Joseph,  102,  103 

Gov.  Thomas,  27,  28,  29,  31,  40,  44, 
52,  55,  100 

M.,  449 
Dudley  Street  Terminal,  28 
Duell,' Joseph,  364 

Louisa,   364 


Duell,  Phoebe,  364 
Duff,  John,  579,  581 
Dukinfield,  Sir  Nathaniel,  296 
Dummer,  36 
Dunbar,  234 
Duncan,  58 

Levi,   494 

Nathaniel,  41 

Robert,  415 
Dunmore,  Lord,   134 
Dunnell,   Sarah,  425 
Dunn,  Deborah,   268 

Zacheus,  268 
Duquesne,  Fort,  146 
Durango,  173 
Durant,  575 

Henrv  M.,  245 

T.  P.,  578,  579,  581 
Durham,    Rhoda,   500 
Durkee,  Maj.,  435 
Dutch  on   the  Delaware,  68 
Dwight,  H.  E.,  232 
Dver,   Elizabeth,   432 

Fulke,  432 

Rachel,  432 

Easley,  Myrtle,  177 
Eastman,   Charlotte   W.,  387 

Emma  J.,   368 

George  W.,  368 
Eaton,  147 

Adeline,  396 

Ellen,   165 

Maria,  366 

Nancy  V.,  396 

Peter,  211 

Sallv,  424 

Sarah,  211 
Eccleston,  Capt.,  233 
Eddy,  Eliza,  355 

Mathewson,  342 
Eden,  Gov.,  274 
Edes,   Sarah,   443 
Edward,   a   negro,   114 
Edwards,  Joseph,   478 
Eells,   Rev.  James,  243,  244,  245 
Eliot,    Rev.   John,   <2%   25,   28,   29,   55, 
101 

Philip,   28 

Sir  Thomas,  551 
Ellis,  Ellice,  Capt.,  446 

A.,   132 

Jabez,  347,  348 

James,  132 

Sarah,   99 
Elmore,  Col.,  438 
Elv,   Capt.,   436 
Elyot,  Anthony,  585 
Emerson,  536 

Clarissa,  184 


616 


INDEX 


Emerson,    Ebenezer,    184 

Elizabeth,  184 

Hubbard,  524 

Joseph,   132,   184 

Lydia,   383 

Mary,  184 

Oliver,   153,   160,   525 

Ruth,   184 

Thomas,   184 
Emery,  Bethia,  377 

John,  372 

Judith,  372,  375 

Mary,  372 

Stephen,    376 
Emperor,  Francis,  585 
Endicott,  545 

Gov.,   John,   30,   32,   37,   39,   44,   50, 
52,  66 
English,   Philip,  313 
Ephraim,  Peter,  an  Indian,  102 
Essex   Mining   and   Trading   Co.,    165 
Etheridge,  Alsa  C,  333 

Elizabeth,  333 

John  A.,  333 
Evans,  Jane,  462 

Joanna,  15 

Martha  J.,  485 
Everett,  341,  350 

Jesse,  321,  322 

Sarah,  321,  322 
Ewins,  John,  478 
Ever,   Peter,  312 

Samuel,  312 
Extortion,  57,  59 

Fabiola   Hospital,   Oakland,  219 
Fagg,  398 
Fairchild,   Molly,   139 

Philo,   138 
Fairweather,   John,   421 

Mary,  421 

Penelope,  421 

Thomas,  421 

Capt.,  416 
Fancher,   Harriet   A.,  363 
Fanning,  Col.,  485,  488 
Farlev,   Hannah,  375 

Michael,  375 
Farnum,  Jonathan,  417 
Farrington,  Sarah,  547 
Farris,   Hattie  E.,  368 
Farwell,   John,   406,   407 

Mary,  406,  407 
Faulkner,  John,   499 
Fay,  Rev.,  521 

Sabia,  369 

William   B.,  369 
Fellows,  Mary,  514 
Felmare,  Mary,  113 
Felton,   Elizabeth,  563,  564 


Fenwick,  John,  266 
Ferguson,  472,  487 

Archibald,  558 

Walter,  279 
Fernay,  Capt.,  464 
Few,  Benjamin,  484 

Ignatius,  484 
Fienles,   Fiennes,   family,   554 

Ingelram,  553 

William  de,  553 
Filmore,   James,  316 

Thankful,  316 
Fisher,  John,  338 

L.  P.,  228 

S.,  348 
Fiske,  John,  53,  338 
Fitch   &   Pickering,   235,   236 
FitzHenry,  James,  451 
Flack,  Thomas,  463 
Flemming,  Major,   134 
Flint,  525,   532 

Charles,  527 

Daniel,  211 

Edmund,    549 

Francis  E.,   181,  211 

Frank  P.,  212 

Gertrude  C,  212 

Katherine,   212 

Katherine  J.,  212 

Mary,  547,  548,  564 

Motley  H,  212 

Priscilla,   211 

Samuel,  548 

William,  212 
Flint,  Peabody  &   Co.,  212 
Flower,  Capt.,  348 
Fogg,  Ann  M.,  549 
Follansbee,    George    W.,    396 

Nancv  V.,  396 
Follet,  168 

Fontaine,  William,  470 
Fones  record,  80 

John,  84 
Foot,  Abiel,   138 

Betsy,  138,  139 

Ebenezer,  507 

George,  139 

Senator,  231 
Foote,  pedigree  of,  12 

arms  of,  13 

Anne,  10  » 

Caleb,  38,  61,  63,  74 

Dorcas,  10 

Elizabeth,  10,  74,  75,  76 

Joan,  11,  12 

John,  11 

Joseph,  9,  10 

Joshua,  12,  19,  27,  29,  30,  60,  61, 
62,  63,  65,  72,  73,  74,  75,  76,  78, 
80 


INDEX 


617 


Foote,  Margaret,  12 
Mary,  10,  11,  12,  20 
Nathaniel,  38 
Robert,  10,  11,  12 
Samuel,  74 
Sarah,   13 

Sir    Thomas,    13;    Lord    Mayor    of 
London,  20 
Ford,  Capt.,  408 
Daniel,  137 
Mary,  137 
Phiiieas,  346 
Forrest,   Henry,   473 
Fortifications  "in  Mass.,  1633,  35 
Fort  Nassua,  68 
Fort   Deposit,   504 
Fort  Strother,  504 
Fosdick,  John,  126 
Foster,  A.,  422 
C.   F.,  356 
Charlotte,  356 
Georgetta,    356 
Judson,  356 
Samuel,  459 
Sarah,  402 
"William,  110 
Fowle,  Isaac,  38 
Fowler,  167,  174 
Henrv,   73,  80 
Mary'  A.,  396 
Rebecca,  80 
Sarah,  93 
Thomas,  93 
Foxle,   Constantia,  552 
Sir   John,   552 
Matilda,    552 
Thomas,  552 
Francis,  Col.,  390,  452 

John,  105 
Franklin,    Benjamin,   98 
Franklvn,  Gen'.,  309 
Fraser,'   R.   G.,   196,   198 
Frasier,   Col.,   309 
Freake,  56 
Freeman,  Mary,   137 
Freemen   of   Mass.,   I2'2,  32;   qualifica- 
tions of,  31;  number  of,  1638,  40; 
not  church  members,  51 
Fremont,  Gen.,  250 
French,  Amaziah,  385 
James,  191,  192,  193 
James  H.,  193 
Junius  B.,  193 
Marcellus,  192 
Matilda  C,  191 
Rosa,  193 
Sallv,  443,  445 
Sarah   S.    B.,   192 
Frend,  Capt.,  119 


Freth,  James,  11 
Frey,  Ann,  322 
Friends  in  California,  259 
Friends'  records,  266,  267 
Fry,  Col.,  455 
Isaac,  445 
Martha,  330 
Fur  trade,  44,  64,  67 
I 

Gage,   Gex.,  304,  418 
Benjamin,  382,  394 
Stephen  T.,  581 
Gale,  Jacob,  380 
Gallagher,   Jennie   M.,   334 

William  D.,  334 
Gallop,  John,  23 
Gallup,  James  A.,  228 
Gardner,   Capt.,  340 
Amy,  513 
Eunice,  353 
Jacob,  412 
John,   127 
Jonathan,  514 
Joseph,   116,   127 
Marv,  514 
Nathaniel,  319 
Thomas,  48 
Garford,  Gervase,  48 
Garland,  Capt.,  482 
Garley,  Abner,  504 
Garret,  John,  585 
Garrett,  Elizabeth,  479 
Garrison,  William  Llovd,  337 
Gaskins,  S.,  585 
Gates,  Gen.,  378,  476 

Samuel,  444 
Gautlett,  William,  585 
Gav,  Mary  Ann,  208 
Gavle,  Thomas,  473 
Gee,  Thankful,  421 
Geiger,    Margaret   W.,   360 
General  Court,  session  of,  1641,  45 
Generv,   Lambert,   426 
Mary,  426 
Thamasen,  426 
Gentland,  Capt,  482 
George,  Anne,  38 
John,  38 
Marv,  453 
Mary  M.,  397 
Samuel,  460 
Georgia,  503 

De  Kalb  Co.,  474 
Franklin   Co.,   486,   490 
Gwinnett  Co.,  464 
Habersham   Co.,   486 
Macon,  496 
Murray  Co.,  464 
Oglethorpe  Co.,  496 
Surrey  Co.,  477 


618 


INDEX 


Gerrv,   Elbridge   F.,   147 
Gerrish,  Col.,  385,  390,  391 

Eliza,  387 

Eunice  M.,  137 

Jacob,  388 

Joseph,  457 

Joseph   W.,  137 
Gibbah,   daughter   of   Edward,   a   ne- 

gress,  114 
Gibbs,  Robert,  403 
Gibbons,  John,  127 
Giddings,  Andrew,  457 
Gifford,  565 

Charles  E.,  465 

Margaret,  570 
Gilbert,  Sir  Humphrey,  545 

John,  121,  199 

Priscilla,    129 
Gile,  John,  277,  278 

Joseph  H.,  277,  278 
Giles,  Capt.,  379 

Elizabeth,  270 

James,  270 

Sarah,  269,  270 
Gilispe,  167 

Gilkinson,  William,  478 
Gillet,  Loel,  494 
Gillett,  Charles  W.,  185 
Gillis,  Capt.,  304 
Gillom,  Benjamin,  61 
Gilman,  Capt.,  379,  446 

Col.  D.,  141 

Daniel   C,  232 

Moses,   72 
Gilmore,   Sally,   344 
Gingrich,  Amos,  224 

Violetta  J.,  224 
Gladstone,  261,  262;  Golden  Wedding 

of,  261 
Glass-making,  324 
Glover,  Rev.  Jose,  37,  56 

Samuel,  456 
Goad,   Goard,   see   Gorde 
Goddard,    Edward,    12 

William,  12,  13 
Goelet,  Capt.,  115 
Goffe,    123 
Col.,  457 

Edmund,  556,  557,  558 

Edward,   48 

Mary,  556 
Golden  Spike,  The,  249,  577 

Rings   made    from,   577 
Goldstone,  pedigree  of,  38 
Ann,  38,  91 

Henrv,  38,  91 

Marv,  38,  91 
Good,  Sarah,  401 
Goodale,    Ann,   312 
Elizabeth,  563 


Goodale,  Robert,  563 
Goodell,  Capt.,  395 

Abner  C,  49 
Goodes,  Capt.,  469 
Goodrich,  Hiram,  507 
Goodridge,  Samuel  G.,  231 

Samuel  I.  G.,  234 
Goodwin,  J.  J.,  10 
Gookin,  Daniel,   101 
Gookins,   Capt.,   55 
Gorde,   Benjamin,   16 

Hannah,  15 

Joseph,  15,  16 

Lvdia,  15,  16 

Phebe,  15,  25 

Richard,    14,   15,   25 

Sarah,   16 
Gore,  John,  15,  55 
Gorman,   Caroline,  465 

Margaret,  465 

Rozina,  465 
Gorton,  Samuel,  69,  70,  83 
Gould,   Anna,   356 

Carrie,  356 

Frank,  356 

Harris  P.,  209 

Lawrence  P.,  209 

Martha  A.,  356 

Marv,  162 

Minnie,  356 

Sarah,  162 

Stanley  W.,  209 
Gowerd,  Myra,  224 
Gowing,  Joseph,  147 

Mehitable,  567 
Grafton,  Elizabeth,  419 

George,  190 

Rosanna,  190 

Rosanna  M.,  190 

Rosa  M.,   152 
Grannis,  Lucy,  435 

Marv,  435 
Grant,"  President,  201,  256,  577,  579 
Graves,  Capt.,  26 

Ebenezer,  177 

Hannah   M.,  177 

Sarah  J.,  177 
Grav,  Betsv,  142 

Franklin'  C„  191 

Franklina  C,  193 

George  E.,  581 

Marv,  129 

Matilda   C,   191,   193,   254 

S.  C,  249 
Great  Lakes,  64,  69 
Great    Britain,   Aristocracv   of,   20 
Greaton,  Col.,  133,  347,  426 
Greely,    Greeley,   Andrew,   312,   315 


INDEX 


619 


Greely,  Greeley,  Horace,  227 

Joseph,  313,  315 
Green,    Greene,    503,    521,    523,    530, 
538 

Gen.,  474,  479 

Anapel,  117 

Christopher,  453 

Hannah,  386 

Jeremiah,  113,  454 

John,  301 

Nathaniel,  92,  93,   105,  117 

Phehe,  454 

Welthian,  453 
Greenwood,  Sukey,  353 
Gregg,   Anna,  447 
Gregory,   John,   470 

Ebenezer,  447 
Grey,  Harrison,  419 

Mary,  419 

Sophia,  419 
Greyhound,   steamship,   174 

tavern,   Roxbury,   30 
Grice,  Edmund,  95 

Sarah,   95,    100,    122,   123,   556,   557, 
558 
Gridley,  Richard,  460 
Griffes,  Anne,  377 

John,  377 
Griffin,  Martha,  407 
Griffin,  a  ship,  23,  515 
Grimes,  Agnes,  447 
Griswold,  195 
Groom,  Edmund,  211 

Mary  Ann,  211 
Grush,  170,  173 
Guest,  Gen.,  476 
Guild,   Capt.   A.,.  133 
Guile,  Elias,  349 

Gwaithvovd,   7;   lord  of   Powis,  5 
Gwaith  Vaed  Hawr,  262 
Gwryde,  prince  of  Cardigan,  5 
Gwynn,  James,  473 
Habe.  167 
Hagborne,   Catherine,  27 

Samuel,  27,  53 
Haggett,   Humphrey,  586 
Hagood,  Esther,  494 

Robert,  494 
Haight,  Gov.,  245 
Hale,  Abigail,  375 

Betsv,  385,  386 

Elizabeth,  377 

Moses,  375 
Halev,  Ambrose,  482 
Halifax,  N.  S.,  422 
Hall,  Abigail,  445 

Elizabeth,  425 

Enoch,  443 

Gershom,  430 


Hall,  Lotty,  483 

Martha,  430 

S.,  501 

Sarah,  93 

Tharp,  483 

William,  93 
Hallawes,  John,  585 
Hallowell,  Benjamin,  457 
Hamilton,  Andrew,  478 

William,  478 

Hamlin,  582 
Hammersmith  (Lynn),  64 
Hammond,   Sarah,   353 
Hampden  family,  554 

Anne,  551 
Hancock,  Ebenezer,  385 

John,  274,  337,  338,  385,  388 

Nabby,  406,  407 

Sarah,  385 

Solomon,  406,  407 

Thomas,  114 
Hannah,  Eliza,  351 
Harad,  Daniel,  485 

James,  485 
Hardenburgh,  Col.,  465 
Harding,  John,  267 

Robert,  555 

Thankful,  360 
Hardy,  Bernice,  359 

Dan,  358 
Harkness,  H.  W.,  578,  581 
Harlakenden,  Roger,  40 
Harper,  Col.,  466 

Althea  C„  485 

Arvilla  K.,  387 

Benjamin,  485,  486 

Elizabeth,  370 

Elizabeth  A.,  485 

Heryette,  486 

James  H.,  485 

Lewrana,  485 

Mary  A.,  486 

Martha,  486 

Rebecca  I.,  485 

Sarah  E.,  485 

Svlthia,  485,  486 

William,  485 
Harrington,  Alice,  407 
Harris,  Benjamin  W.,  228 

Elizabeth,  412 

Marietta,  359 

Phvlinda,  365 

Thomas,   73 

Victor,  365 

Vining,  365 
Harrison,   Gen.,   228 

Col.,  476 

Effie  H.,  211 

Gladys  H.,  211 


620 


INDEX 


Harrison,  John,  41 
Ralph,  211 
Ruth  R.,  211 
Thomas,  136 
William,  101 
Harrod,   Benjamin,  417 
Hart,  525 
Capt.,  401 
Mayor,  158 
Betsy,  548 
Daniel,  153,  548 
George  D.,  548 
Hannah,  328 
John,  548 

Joseph,    153,   328,   524,    548 
Lydia,  548 
Mary,  312 
Moses,    145,    458 
Polly,  548 
Thomas,  312 
Thomas  N.,  158,  548 
Hartshorn,   Abigail,   437 
David,  437 
Zipporah,  437 
Harvard    College,    Establishment    of, 

56    (See   Indian   College) 
Harvey,  John,  297,  555 
Mary,  555 
Martha,  555 
Thomas,  555 
William,  555 
Harwood,  John,  105 
Haskell,  Abbie,  360 
Andrew  D.,  331 
Ezekiel,  443 
Haskins,  Capt.,  322 

John,  322 
Hassenameset    Indians,   97 
Hastings,  Walter,  38 
Hatch,  Capt.,  304 
Abigail,  429,  430 
Deborah,  114,  127 
Elizabeth,  127,  128 
Hannah,  127 

Jabez,  114,  115,  126,  127,  128,  324 
Jeremiah,  429 
Lucretia,  127 
Mary,  127,  128,  429, 
Phebe,   429,  430 
Samuel,  127,  128 
William,   429 
Hauek,  Donald  P.,  209 
Margaret,   209 
Marion  C,  209 
William,  209 
Haud,  de  la,  3 

Atte,  3 
Haven,   Susanna,   570 
Haw,  Hawes,  2 


Haw,  de  la,  3 

Atte,  3 
Hawes,  Col.,  132,  335 

Benjamin,   135,   340,  348 

Isaac,  116 

Stephen,  460 

William,  343 
Hawkes,  149 

Adam,  149 

Ann,  356 

Daniel,  356 

David,  356 

Eliza,   150 

John,  151 

John  P.,  140 

Moses,  558 

Rachel,   151 
Hawkins,   Elizabeth,   503 

Esther,  416 

Robert,   416 

Sarah,  314,  327 

Thomas,    41 
Hawley,  Gideon,  507 
Haws,"  Col.,  474 

Nathaniel,  129 

Susannah,  129 
Hav,   Peter,  373 

Hannah,    373 

Thomas  de  la,  550 
Havden,  John,  425 

Mary,  109 
Hayes,  President,  201,   256 
Haynes,  Gov.,  35 

.fames  W.,  581 

John,  36,  37  i 

Hay  ward,  John,  48,  103 
Haywood,  Joshua,   141 
Hazard,  Martha,  434,  453 

Thomas,  433,  434 
Hazzen,    Hazen,    Hazon,    John,    419, 
440,  457 
Moses,  443,  445 
Heath,  Col.,  471 

James,  394 

Joseph,  452,  459 

William,   46 
Hearsey,  Levi,  413 
Hebra,   Dr.,  253 
Heirn,  Capt.,  134 
Hemenway,   Elizabeth,    14,   15,  25 

John,   14,  15 

Joshua,   14,  15 

Marah,  15 

Marv,  15 
Ralph,  14,  25 
Ruth,  14,  15 
Samuel,   14,  15 
Henly,  Col.,  395 
Henry  families  of  Virginia,  192 


INDEX 


621 


Henry,    Emperor    of    Germany,    553, 
554 

Alexander,  192 

Edward  H.,  192 

G.,  497 

Hugh,  192 

John,  193 

Martha,  192 

Patrick,  134,  192 

Sarah  S.  B.,  191 
Henderson,  Anapel,  117 

Elizabeth,  117,  547 

John,  117,  332 

Mary,   117 

Mehitable,  401 

Rachel,  117 
Henfield,  Maiy,  526 

Mary  E.,  528 
Herald  of  Truth,  215 
Heraldic  Visitation,  6 
Heron,  James,  443 
Herrick,    Capt.,    457 
Herrin,  William  F.,  231 
Heughes,  Elizabeth,  420 

Sarah,  417 
Hcusc   3 

Hewe,'  William,   600 
Hewes,     see     Hew,     Hugh,     Hughes, 
Hughs,     Heughes,     Hue,     Hues, 
Hewghs,  Huse,  etc. 
Hewes,    Origin    and    distribution    of 

name,  1 
Hewes,  Hughes,  variants  of  name,  1 
Hewes-Hughes,    as    found    in    Great 

Britain,  1 
Hewes-Hughes,  Huges,  etc.,  strangers 

in  London  bearing  name,  5 
Hewes  in  Heraldic  Visitations,  6 
Hewes  of  Kent,  7 

of  Jamaica,  18 

characteristics  of,  12 

of  Guilford,  Conn.,  3 

of  New  Jersey,  3,  265 
Hewes  Building,  247 
Hewes  Market,  263 
Hewes   Ranch,  259 
Hewes,  399,  406 

Aaron,  269,  271,  272,  273,  277,  278, 

Aaron  T.,  151,  155,  158,  182,  226, 
526,  532,  533,  535 

Abbie,  360,  363 

Abigail,  124,  129,  130,  137,  143,  163, 
318,  319,  326,  331,  333,  343,  345, 
350,  431,  439 

Abraham,  406,  407 

Albert,   364 

Adolphus,  143 

Agnes,   10,   11,  368 

Alanson  M.,  307 

Albert  G.,  151,  176 


Hewes,  Albert  P.,  357 
Alice,  84,  85,  91 
Alice  B.,  362 
Almira,  343,  350 
Alpheus,  128,  133 
Althea  C,  181 
Althea  L.,  211 
Amelia,  421 
Andrew  J.,  359 
Andrew  W.,  451 
Ann,    95,    126,    131,    322,    356,    363, 

364,  406,  411,  412 
Ann  R.,  359 

Anna,   146,  263,  329,   349,   568 
Anna  F.,  330 
Anna  I.,  367 

Anna  M.    (Lathrop),  262,  263,  517 
Anne,  9,  11,  35,  369 
Arethusa,  350 

Arthur,  400,  440,  450,  451,  455 
Asa  M.,  358,  364 
Augustus  L.,  363 
Bandwell,   436 
Barbara,  357 
Barzilla  B.,  343 
Belle,  137 
Benjamin,    95,    100,    106,    111,    117, 

119,   131,   132,   123,   124,  128,   132, 

135,   144,   150,   162,  269,  314,  315, 

317,  327,  328,  329,  349,  350,  449, 

559 
Bernice,   359 
Bessie  B.,  368 
Bessie  C,  210 
Bethel,  433 

Betsy,   138,   142,  343,  344,  449,  493 
Blanche  V.,  224 
Bodwell,  436 
Caleb,  152 
Candus,  358 
Caroline,    210,    355 
Cassius  M.  G.,  364 
Celia,  142,  359 
Celia  G.,  213 

Charles,  358,  364,  412,  421 
Charles  E.,  421 
Charles  F.,  224 
Charles  J.,  357 
Charles  L.,  219 
Charles  O.,  366 
Charles  W.,  152,  158,  176,  190,  191, 

219,   226,  228,  253,  520,  523,   526, 

530,  536,  539 
Charlotte  C,  356 
Charlotte  E.,  207,  224 
Charlotte  L.,  362 
Chloe,  343,  454 
Christiana,  268 
Clara,  364 
Clara  A.,  363 


INDEX 


Hewes,  Clara  E.,  208 
Clara  L.,  362 
Clarinda,  358 
Constant,  433 
Cynthia,  141 
Cyril,  142 
Cyrus,  137,  142 
Cyrus  E.,   142 

Daniel,  161,  162,  271,  273,  313,  315, 
316,   317,  319,  321,  326,   328,   333, 
334,  345,  353,  358,  360,  421,  422, 
431 
Daniel  H.,  346,  358 
David,   of   Orange,   Calif.,   xiii,   xv, 
143,   149,    152,    155,    157,   158,   162, 
176,   178,   190,   191,   195,  202,   206, 
207,   212,  215,  218,  219,  225,  545, 
548,  577,  581,  583 
David   Hewes    Building,   San   Fran- 
cisco, 247,  583 
David, 

develops  Anapauma,  259 
classmates  at  Andover,  228 
builds   an   art    gallery,   260 
advocates    an    Atlantic   to   Pacific 

Railroad,  248 
invited  to  participate  in  building 

of  Central  Pacific,  248 
presents  a  golden  spike  and  laurel 
tie    toward    completion    of    the 
Pacific  railroad,  249 
billhead  of,  248 
business  cares,   252 
first  business   venture  in   Califor- 
nia, 232 
first   thoughts   of   California,   232, 

533 
sails   for  California,  233 
canvasses   for  magazine   subscrip- 
tions,  230,   231 
a  clerk,  227 

church  affiliations,  236,  243,  258 
visits  Europe,  253 
second   visit  to   Europe,  255 
purchases     Egyptian     antiquities, 

261 
third   visit  to  Old  World,   261 
gifts  to  Mills  College,  200,  201 
gifts  to  Stanford  Univ.,  199 
begins       collecting       genealogical 

data,  263 
letters  to  1850,  518 
begins  grading  San  Francisco,  2^8 
erects    Hewes    market,    Los    An- 
geles, 263 
visits  Lynn  field,  252 
settles  in  Los   Angeles,  263 
investments    in    Los    Angeles,   264 


Hewes,  David,  marriage  of,  255,  261, 
509 
revisits   New   England,   252,  263 
settlement  in   Oakland,  256 
elected      to      Oakland      Common 
Council,    256;     position     of    on 
railway    grant   of   water    front 
by  Oakland,  257 
visits   Palestine,   255 
purchases  ranch,  259 
plants  citrus  fruits,  260 
retires  to  his  ranch,  264 
helps      organize      first      Sabbath 

School  in  Lawrence,  229 
enters     business     in     Sacramento, 

234 
erects    the    Queen    City    Hotel    at 

Sacramento,  235 
schooling  of,  225,  226 
removal    to    San    Francisco,    237, 

260,  263 
investments  in  real  estate  in   San 

Francisco,  247 
rebuilds     after    the    fire    in    San 

Francisco,  264 
develops  the  Seattle  Coal  Co.,  253 
presents    Sec.    Seward    with    gold 

ring,  252 
restores    Taplev    tomb    at    Lynn- 
field,  263 
settles  at   Tustin,  258 
student  at  Yale  College,  228,  229 
vouth  of,  225 
death       of      Mrs.       Matilda      C. 

Hewes,  260 
death    of   Mrs.    Anna   M.    Hewes, 
263 
David  A.,  358 
David  D.,  368 
David  F.,  348 
David   H.,  356,  362 
David  X.,  348 
Deborah,    113,    114,    115,    126,    127, 

267,  268,  322,  411,  425 
Debby,  422 
Deliverance,   410,   433 
Derby,  422 
Derrick,  349,  359 
Dorr,  358 
Ebenezer,  313,  319 
Edith  M.,  367 
Edwin   S.,  367 
Edmond,   Edmund,  406,  454 
Edna  E.,  220 

Edward,  268,  269,  364,  422,  471 
Edward  B.,  364 
Edward  S.,  360 
Edwin  L.,   163 
Eleanor,  405 


INDEX 


623 


Hewes,    Eleazer   J.,   351 
Eleazer  W.,  137 
Eleven,  355,  356 
Elihu,  269,  456,  493 
Elijah,  144,  148,  149,  160,  161, 

343,   422 

Eliza,   150,  208,  351,  360 
Eliza  J.,  151 

Elizabeth,  9,  11,  14,  25,  100,  108, 
113,   114,   115,   117,   125,   126, 
149,  266,  269,  314,  315,  327, 
334,  354,   405,   406,  409,  410, 
424,   558,   599 
Elizabeth  A.,  161 
Elizabeth   H.,  353,  370 
Elizabeth  V.4  135 
Elsie  R.,  368 
Ella  F.,  164 
Emelie  M.,  219 
Emilv,  144,  363 
Emily  M.,  208 
Emma  G.,  191 
Emma  J.,  368 
Emma  S.,  206,  224 
Ermina,  362 
Esther,  350,  416 
Eunice,  137,  343,  359 
Eunice  E.,  137 
Eva,  366 
F.  W.,  358 

Fannie,  Fanny,  350,  358,  367 
Fannie  E.,  360 
Fanny  M.,  344 
Fannv,   365 
Fifteen,  335 
Flora,   366 
Fluvila  B.,  364 
Frances  E.,  163 
Frances  M.,  179 
Francis,  11,  191,  468 
Frank,  210 
Frank  O.,  206,  224 
Frank  S.,  365 
Franklin  F.,  364 
Franklin    N.,    366,   368 
Frederick  A.,  421 
Fred   C,  137 
Frederick  H.,  366 
Fremont,  364 
Geffrey,   6 

George    xiii,    xv,    3,    10,    106, 
142,   311,  313,   315,  318,  319, 
363,  364,  369,   404,  422,  423, 
525,  533,  601,  602 
George   B.,   206 
George  C.  C,  357 
George  O.,  359 
George  R.,  355,  361,  362,  364 


329, 


109, 
137, 
333, 
419, 


137, 
329, 
456, 


Hewes,   George   R.   T.,   319,   328,   334, 
335,  337,  351,  357,  363,  601 
George  W.,  161,  179,  206,  224,  232, 

343 
Grace,   135,  452 

Hannah,    84,    92,    94,   99,    100,    104, 
106,   107,    108,   109,   110,   111,   119, 
122,   124,    125,   128,   135,   136,   150, 
268,   269,   314,   315,  329,   343,  346, 
351,   406,  423,  442,   556,   557,  558, 
559,  561,  562 
Harriet,   353,   360 
Harriet  A.,  361,  363 
Harriet  E.,  162,  209 
Harriet  V.,  151 
Harrison  D.,  362 
Hattie  E.,  368 
Helen,  176,  602 
Helen  I.,  367 
Helen  E.,  368 
Henrietta,   363 
Henry  A.,  179,  210 
Henry   C,   361 
Henry  E.,  360 
Henry  G.,  353 
Henry  H.,   131 
Henry  J.,  368 
Henrv  M.,  354,  362 
Henry  X.,  368 
Henrv  W.,  206,  357 
Herbert,  346 
Hester,  9 
Hiram,  358 
Horace,  358 
Horace  G.,  xiii,  xvi,  311,  337,  361, 

367 
Igene,  365 

Ira,  142,  345,  358,  602 
Isaac,  3,  326,  410,  423 
Isabel,  176 
Isabella,  361 

Joel,    Col.,    of    Lvnnfield,    11,    151, 
152,  196,  225,  541,  550,  554;  home- 
stead,   153;    estate,    159;    will    of, 
158. 
Joel,    144,    158,    179,    180,   226,   526, 
528,   532,   533,   535,   536,  537,   538, 
539,  548 
Jabez  F.,  354 
Jacob,  268,  346,  410 
Jacob  W.,  143,  566 
James,    6,    144,    148,    150,    151,    164, 
166,   235,   269,   322,   327,  344,   401, 
408,  410,  411,  429,  522,  599 
James  A.,  164,  210 
James  H.,  354,  363 
James  M.,  344,  357 
Jane,  124,  269,  415 
Jane  W.,  124 


624 


INDEX 


Hewes,  Janette  L.,  366 

Jared,  363 

Jean,  406 

Jemima,  269,  349,  359 

Jennie,  362 

Jennie  D.,  362 

Jesse,  364 

Joanna,  351,  429 

John,  of  England,  6,  10,  11,  91 

John    of    Lynnfield,    143,    145,    146, 
196 
site  of  house  of,  149;  farm,  148 

John   of  Royston,  Herts.,  9,  11,  91 

John  of  Shalford,  Essex,  10 

John,  118,  124,  13T,  142,  144,  145, 
147,  151,  161,  163,  265,  266,  268, 
322,  329,  348,  368,  370,  399,  402, 
405,  410,  411,  412,  413,  426,  428, 
430,  457,  458,  568 

John  B.,  351 

John   F.,  137 

John  H.,  163,  164,  333,  353 

John  J.,  370 

John  M.,  354,  361 

John  P.,  448 

John  O.,  359 

John  R.,  137 

John   W.,  364 

Jonathan,  9,  14,  265,  405,  406,  410, 
599 

Jonathan  B.,  161 

Johanna,   10 

Jone,  428 

Joseph,  The  "Signer,"  265;  letters 
of,  303 

Joseph,  129,  130,  137,  140,  265,  269, 
271,  272,  273,  295,  303,  309,  314, 
316,  317,  319,  322,  325,  326,  327, 
329,  343,  344,  346,  352,  410,  454, 
459 

Joseph  A.,  358 

Joseph  F.,  162,  353 

Joseph  W.,  343 
Hewes,  Joshua,  Lt.,  of  Roxburv,  xiii, 
xv,  3,  9,  19,  28,  41,  71,  91,  96,  98, 
99,  122,  197,  202,  262,  311,  318, 
331,  399,  404;  admitted  freeman, 
24,  31 ;  homestead,  26 ;  contribu- 
tion toward  defence,  36;  marriage, 
38,  72,  91;  sergeant,  41,  42;  ensign, 
42;  a  founder  of  the  Artillery 
Co.,  42;  military  service,  39;  an 
official,  43;  deputy,  44;  constable, 
49;  selectman,,  49,  71;  witnesses 
will  of  Hagborne,  53;  feoffee  of 
free-school  at  Roxbury,  55;  house 
robbed,  66;  contribution  to  buy 
type  for  Harvard  College,  56; 
fined   for   undue  profits   in  trade, 


Hewes — Continued. 

59;  as  merchant  and  factor,  59, 
60,  63;  lawsuits,  59,  72,  79;  part- 
ner in  trading  company,  67; 
commissioner  to  Shawomet,  69;  at 
Wickford,  71,  78,  82,  83;  land  at 
Exeter,  N.  H.,  72;  removes  from 
Roxbury,  72;  of  Boston,  72;  sub- 
scriber to  fund  for  erection  of 
town  house,  72;  prisoner  for  debt, 
72;  settles  estate  of  Joshua  Foote, 
73;  former  homestead  passes  to 
Nathaniel  Rogers,  77;  redeemed 
from  Crane's  heirs,  78;  selectman 
at  Wickford,  79;  member  of  Nar- 
ranganset  Company,  80;  signs  pe- 
tition to  government  of  Conn.,  81; 
returns  to  Boston,  83;  death,  84; 
character  of,  84,  85;  inventory  of 
estate,  85;  land  at  Quinnebaug, 
86;  debts  of,  87;  charges  for 
burial,  87;  seal,  4,  87;  interest  in 
the  Nipmug  country,  93;  grave- 
stone, 111,  318 

Joshua,  Jr.,  84,  91,  92,  94,  95,  96, 
101,  103,  104,  106;  cordwainer,  94, 
95,  106;  innkeeper,  104;  claims 
land  at  Fairfield,  Conn.,   102 

Joshua,   gunsmith,   110 

Joshua,  28,  61,  95,  98,  100,  106,  108, 
109,  110,  111,  122,  121,  122,  123, 
124,  128,  131,  133,  144,  161,  226, 
441,  531,  532,  537,  555,  556,  558, 
559,  601 

Joshua  D.,  362 

Josiah,  271,   124,  273,  277,  278,  279 

Jude,  422 

Julia  A.  F.,  369 

Julia  F.,  163 

Fa ura,  348,  349 

Lawrence  L,  368 

Lavinia,   206 

Lelia   B.,  363 

Lena  M.,   137 

Lettice,  11 

Levant,  358 

Lillie  B.,  365 

Lilla  E.,  366 

Lillie  F.,  220 

Lizzie,  179 

Lorenzo  C,  366 

Lorenzo   X.,  359,  366 

Lorilla,  363 

Lovica,  142 

Louis,  426 

Louisa,  142,  364,  181 

Louisa  J.,  355 

Lucretia,  331 

Lucretia  W.,  361 

Lucy,   406 


INDEX 


625 


Hewes,   Lucy   A.,   152,   156,   158,   205, 
226,   520,   526 
Lucy  J.,  357 
Lulu,  364 
Luman,  350 

Lydia,  9,  122,  128,  137,  533 
Lydia  D.,  137 
Lydia  H.,  151 
Lydia  M.,  357 
Lyman,  349 
I\Iabel,  176 
Mabel  W.,  213 
Manueletta,  364 
Margaret,  11,  130,  142,  424 
Margaret   X.,   131 
Margaret  W.,  360 
Margaretta,  11 
Margeria,  11 
Marietta,  359 
Marland  S.,  181,  213 
Marshall  J.,  142 
Martha,   6,   118,   121,   142,  265,   315, 

319,  328,  330,  358,  363 
Martha  A.,  356 
Martha  C,  357 
Martha  G.,  365 
Martha  M.,  359 
Martin,  415 

Mary,  6,  9,  13,  14,  20,  92,  94,  95, 
106,  109,  129,  130,  137,  141,  142, 
266,  268,  269,  272,  313,  314,  315, 
317,  321,  327,  330,  343,  344,  350, 
351,  355,  357,  364,  404,  412,  416, 
419,  421,  429,  454,  468,  602 

Mary  A.,  152,  158,  184,  208,  226, 
353,  357,  367,  404,  522,  525 

Mary  A.  B.,  351,  359 

Mary  B.,  131 

Marv  C,  155,  162,  208,  368,  538 

Mary  E.,  176,  208,  355 

Mary  F.,  165 

Mary  G.,  362 

Mary  J.,  142 

Mary  J.  P.,  364 

Marv   L.,   351 

Man-  P.,  370 

Mary  S.,  334 

Mary  T.,  361 

Mathew,  208 

Mathew  S.,  162 

Matilda,  359 

Matilda  C,  193,  258 

Medora,  359 

Meriam,  324,  326 

Mida,   163 

Milton,  176 

Milton  F.,  361 

Minnie  T.,  364 

Miriam,  129,  137 


Hewes,  Molly,  163,  454 
Moody,   137 
Morris,  415 
Moses,  128,  133,  268 
Moses  W.,  162 
Myra,  176 
Myra  P.,  365 
Mvrtle  L.,  224 

Nancy,  125,  131 

Nancy  E.,  163 

Narcissa,  151,  163 

Nathaniel,  94,  100,  109,  111,  121, 
122,  123,  124,  125,  128,  129,  130, 
137,  138,  142,  424,  435,  458,  556, 
557,  558,  559 

Nathaniel  H.,  361 

Nellie   G.,   210 

Nicholas,  433 

Nora,  365 

Olive  H.,  364 

Olive  M.,  355 

Oliver,  137 

Oliver  W.s  334 

Ollev,   448 

Orpha,  345 

Orrin,  151,  175 

Otis,  346 

Paoli,  392 

Parnell,  403 

Patty,  331 

Pearl  M.,   142 

Peter,  426 

Phebe,  9,  14,  15,  25,  142 

Phebe  S.,  366 

Phvlinda,  365 

Polly,  130,  343,  349 

Pris'cilla,  424 

Providence,  269,  271,  277,  349 

Prudence,  118,  121,  559 

R.  V.  A.,  364 

Rachel,  410 

Ralph,  311,  357,  366,  416 

Raphael,  364 

Ray  F.,  368 

Raymond,  364 

Rebecca,  128,  131,  333,  410,  424 

Rebecca  A.,  353 

Rebecca  B.,  161,  207 

Remember,  420,  421 

Reuben,  129,  141 

Rhoda  A.,  356 

Richard,  11,  433,  468,  600 

Richard  B.,  331,  351 

Richard  H.,  163,  209 

Robert,  313,  318,  319,  321,  322,  323, 
326,  327,  330,  331,  333,  344,  352, 
356,  358,  363,  425,  459,  468 

Robert  P.,  356,  364 

Robert  W.,  364 


626 


INDEX 


Hewes,  Roger,   6,   10,   11 

Rosa  G.,  157 

Rosa  M.,  190 

Rosamond,  175 

Rosannah,  370 

Rosetta,  365 

Rowland,   6 

Rufus   K.,  163 

Rufus  M.,  348 

Ruth,  137,  142,  268,  346,  405,  451 

Ruthe,  151,  152,  155,  158,  160,  186, 
226,  540 

Ruthe  T.,  518 

Ruthe  Taplev,  royal  descent  of,  554 

Sabia  A.,  369 

Sabra,  348 

Sallie,  334 

Sally,  344,  349,  357,  359,  363 

Samuel,  94,  95,  100,  106,  110,  111, 
113,  114,  115,  116,  118,  121,  123, 
125,  126,  127,  129,  130,  131,  138, 
139,  140,  144,  318,  322,  323,  330, 
350,  357,  359,  378,  405,  408,  419, 
426,  433,  441,  449,  556,  557,  558, 
559,  56:2 

Sarah,  9,  94,  95,  106,  137,  142,  151, 
179,  268,  271,  272,  273,  314,  327, 
328,  332,  333,  334,  343,  345,  350, 
353,  370,  410,  425,  450 

Sarah  A.,  358 

Sarah  D.,  142 

Sarah  E.,  210 

Sarah  H.,  361,  362 

Sarah   I.,  164 

Sarah  M.,  210 

Sarah  R.,  180,  210 

Sarah   S.,  359 

Sarah  T.,  131,  344,  353 

Sargent,  448 

Seriall,  142 

Selah,  142 

Sewall,  142 

Shubael,  318,  322,  328,  330,  335,  351 

Shubael   E.,  355,  363 

Shubael  S.,  355 

Sidney,  364 

Silas,  366 

Solomon,  311,  312,  313,  319,  320,  328, 
332,  334,  353,  442 

Sophia,  151,  158,  176,  206,  348,  520, 
522,  523,  527,  528,  529 

Sophia  B.,  137 

Spicer,  327,  454 

Spurr,  454 

Squire  D.,  358,  359 

Suky,  353 

Sukey  S.,  354 

Sumner  J.,  357 

Survine,  328 


Hewes,    Susan,    354 

Susan  A.,  361 

Susan  M.,  163,  361 

Susanna,  150,  269,  326,  345,  425,  346 

Susanna  W.,  334 

Sylvanus,  137 

Sylvester  C,  483 

T.  Sidney,  364 

Tabitha,  269 

Thankful,  319,  328,  360 

Theoda,  137 

Thomas,  9,  11,  126,  269,  419,  425, 
430,  450,  460,  469,  600,  601 

Thusa,  350 

Truelove,   343 

Violetta  J.,  224 

Virgil,  353 

Virgil  H.,  354,  360 

Virgil  M.,  360 

Walter,  142,  602 

Walter  R.,  366,  368 

Walter  W.,  363 

Warren,  356 

Warren  W.,  348 

William,  6,  11,  118,  123,  266,  268, 
269,  272,  312,  313,  314,  315,  316, 
321,  322,  329,  343,  344,  350,  403, 
419,    421,    442,    449,    600 

William  G.,  131 

William  K.,  360 

William  L.,  206 

William  W.,  151,  361 

Winslow,  162 

Winslow  B.,  165 
.    Winslow  C,  208 

Zeehariah,  421 

Zephaneal,  132,  135 

Zephaniah,  128 
Hewghs,  5 

Hews  of  Wiltshire,  7 
Hews,    See    Hewes,    Hughes,    Hughs, 
Huse,  etc. 

Abigail,  408,  425,  454 

Abigail  M.,  408 

Alice,  407 

Anna,  406,  407 

Augustus  H.,  407 

Benjamin,  455 

Bodwell,  436 

Catherine,  407 

Catherine  C,  407 

Celinda,  408 

Charles,  406,  407,  426 

Christopher,  401 

Daniel,  421,  422,  456 

Eli  i  ah,  456 

Eli'sha,  456 

Elizabeth,  454 

Ellen  M.,  407 


INDEX 


627 


Hews,    Emily,    407 

Eunice,  403 

Franklin,  407 

George,  407,  408 

Grace,  452 

Hannah,  402 

Henry,  465 

Henry  A.,  407 

Horace,  408 

Horatio,  408 

James,  378,  408,  438,  466 

John,   401,   406,  407,   410,   423,   437, 
438,  441 

Joseph,  458 

Joshua,  458 

Lucy,  407 

Margaret,  465 

Marshall,  408 

Martha,  407,  408 

Mary,  407,  408,  465 

Mary  F.,  408 

Mary  S.,  407 

Miranda,  408 

Nathaniel,  458 

Nathaniel  P.,  424 

Parley,  438 

Ralph,  468 

Richard,  467 

Robert,  424,  425 

Rozina,  465 

Sally,  406,  407,  424 

Samuel,  407,  459,  460 

Samuel  C,  407 

Smith  W.,  407 

Sophronia,  408 

Sukey,  406,  407 

Susanna,  401,  408 

Thamasen,  426 

Thankful,  421 

Thomas,  408 

William,  425,  440,  454,  460,  465,  466 
Hewson,  John,  555 
Hichborne,  419 
Higginson,  Rev.  John,  32 
Hill,  Capt.,  479 

Elizabeth,  125,  314,  317,  328 

Huldah,  314 

James,  314,  317 

Joseph,  527 

John,  116 

Lucy,  385,  386 

Rebecca,  377 

Sarah,  328,  385 

Thomas,   571,   580,   581,   582 

Tynge  &  Co.,  69 

Valentine,  67 
Hilton,  Mary,  371 
Hiltzheimer,  Jacob,  277 
Hinckley,  Elizabeth,  345 


Hinckley,    Esther,    345 

Hannah,  345 

Robert,  345 

Susanna,  345 

Susanna  H.,  345 

Thomas,  345 

Thomas  H.,  345 
Hind,  sloop  of  war,  423 
Hindle,  534 
Hinkson,  Col.,  498 

Thomas,  499 
Hinman,   Harvey,  444 
Hirley,  Glory  T.,  212 
Hirst,  William,  110 
Hise,  Mary,  497 
Hitchcock,  Col.,  453 

W.   H.,  496 
Hoar,  Leonard,  56 
Hobart,  Col.  D.,  141 

Edmund,  430 

Elizabeth,  430 

Mary,   430 
Hobbs,  Alice,  208 
Hobby,  Sir  Charles,  457 
Hockins,  Caleb,  495 
Hoe,  How,  2 
Hodges,  Capt.,  488 

Polly,  343 

Sarah,  343 
Hodgins,  Houlden,  473 
Hoese,  Constantia,  552 

John  de  la,  552 
Hoffman,  Capt.,  497 
Holbrook,  Elizabeth,  14,  15 
Holden,   Abigail,  406 

Randall,  83 
Holgrave,  John,  58 
Holladay,  Georgiana  C.  O.,  517 
Holman,   John,  372 

Judith,  372 
Holmes,  Col.,  465,  467 

Joseph,    102 
Holms,  Lt.,  428 
Holstein,  Hannah,  462 
Holt,  Benjamin,  211 

Betsey,  211 

Joseph,  211 

Mary,  373 

Oliver,  373 
Hone,  Alice,  164 

Bvron  S.,  164 

Edward  P.,  164 

Ella,  164 

Eva  N.,  164 

Narcissa,  163,  164 

Philip  P.,  151,  163 

Rachel  B.,  164 

Sarah   E.,   164 

Winslow  P.,  164 


628 


INDEX 


Hoo,  2 

Hooker,   Rev.  Thomas,  23,  25,  601 

Hook's  Ferry,  377 

Hooper,  Henry,  420 

Mary,  94,  556,  557 

Sam,   94 

Samuel,  556 

William,  276,  297 
Hopkins,  Elizabeth,  447 

Ezek,  274 

John    44*7 

Mark,  236,  249,  262,  573,  580 
Hopkinson,  Caleb,  374 

Francis,  274 

Sarah,  374 
Horn,  Lt.,  340 
Horsburgh,  L.  E.  A.,  517 
Plose,  2 
Hosmer,  Harriet  B.,  361 

Sarah  H.,  361 

Sophronia  H.,  361 

William  A.,  361 
Houghton,  168 

Mary,  393 

Stillman,  393 
House,  Howse,  2,  7 

Mrs.,  277 

Hannah,  427 

John,  140 
How,  2 

Abraham,  15 

David,  395 

Joseph,  92 
Howard,  Capt.,  141 
Howe,  Howes,  2 

Abraham,  552 

Daniel,  41 

George,  127 

Love,  552 
Howell,  Rebecca,  436 

Thomas,  436 
Hue,  Hu,  Huee,  Hues,  5,  441,  448 
Hubbard,  Almira,  393 

Jeremiah,  393 

S.  Isabelle,  517 

William,  399 
Hudson,  Elizabeth,  555 

Ens,  63 

John,  555 

William,  78,  79,  80,  82 
Hue,  Catherine,  448 

John,  441 

Margaret,  448 
Hue's  Cross,  429 
Hues,  427 
Hues,  Major,  452 

Abigail,    438 

Catherine,  490 

David,  489,  490,  599 

Deborah,  453 


Mues,  Elizabeth,  489,  599 

Frances,  453 

Francis,  599 

George,  311 

Grace,  437 

Isabella,  490 

James,  489,  490 

Jemima,  452 

John,   266,   405,   412,   440,   452,   599 

Jonas,  438 

Jonathan,  438 

Joseph,  453 

Joshua,  110 

Lewis,  434,  453 

Mary,  453 

Martha,  434 

Richard,    600 

Rachel,  489,  490 

Robert,  452 

Thomas,   450,   600 

Zerviah,  438 
Huges,  E.,  438 

Mangeby,  599 
Hugh,    see    Hughes,    Hughs,    Hewes, 

Hews,   Hue,   Hues,   Huse,  etc. 
Hugh   of  Yorkshire,  7 
Hugh,   derivatives   from,   2 

Abigail,   444 

Ellis   ap,   470 

Henry,    474 

Jeremiah,  457 

Jesse,    444 

John,  438,  440,  445,  451,  457,  458 

Timothy,   449 

William,  471 
Hughe,    Richard,    600 
Hughes,    see    Hugh,    Hughs,    Hewes, 
Hews,  Hue,  Hues,  Huse,  Hughes, 
etc. 
Hughes,    German    and    French    forms 

of  name,  2 
Hughes   of   Connectivut,   xv 
Hughes,  of  Ireland,  7 
Hughes,   Lt.,   438 
Hughes,  443 

A.    J.,   499 

Aaron,   502 

Abigail,  433,  434,  435,  436,  444,  445, 
484,  493 

Abner   A.,  485 

Absolom,  470,  480 

Alexander,   471 

Allen,  599 

Amy,   438 

Andrew,   463 

Ann,  412,  421 

Ann  L.,  473 

Ann  P.,  477 

Anna,   436,   447 


INDEX 


629 


Hughes,  Anne,  419,  463 
Anderson,  500 
Andrew,  6,  463,  488,  489 
Andrew  J.,  494 
Anthony,  469 
Anthony  B.,  423 
Archelaus,  469,  477 
Arthur,    599 
Ashford,  470 
Barhet,   447 

Benjamin,  413,  414,  415,  481 
Bethia,  410 
Billy,  482 
Birkett,  483 
Bodwell,  435 
Bolan,   500 
Bulah,   484 
Bur  well    B.,   481 
Calvin,  445 
Camden   R.,  496 
Catherine,  415,  463 
Catherine  M.,  498 
Charity,  482 

Charles,  421,  442,  464,  480,  500 
Christopher,   599 
Clement,  441,  442 
Collins,  436 
Constant,  265 
Cornelius,   502 
D.   Darwin,  436 
Daniel,  421,  435,  437,  447,  494 
David,  456,  469,  471,  482,  488,  498, 

499,  502 
Dennison,  493 
Dennison    S.,   494 
Doffus,   470 
Dolly  E.,  462 
Dorothy,   494 
Edmund,  438,  454 
Edward,  423,  469,  470,  484,  494,  497, 

500 
Edward  P.,  500 
Effie,  496 
Eleven,  356 
Elias,  471 
Elias  R.,  497 
Elijah,  437 
Ellis,  480 
Elizabeth,    266,   410,   412,   416,   417, 

419,  423,  438,  440,   447,  469,  473, 

479,  483,  489,  495,  496,  499,  502, 

503,  504,  599 
Elizabeth  P.,  480 
Eliza   J.,   494 
Emmanuel,  450 
Emily,  498,  499 
Emily    N.,    496 
Enis,  503 
Esther,   488,   494 


Hughes,   Eunice,  437,  451 

Evert,   465 

Francis,  471,  472,  473,  483 

Francis   A.,  471 

Freeman,  435,  437,  438 

Gabriel,   472,  473,  474 

Garland  A.,  475 

George,  422,  423,  445,  488,  497,  599 

Grace,  435 

Greenbury,   484 

Hannah,  411,  423,  437,  441,  442, 
447,  451,  462,  493 

Harriet,  445 

Henry,  414,  415,  435,  437,  480,  493 

Henry   F.,  435 

Hetty,   495 

Hewson,  431 

Hugh,  462,  463 

Humphrey,   265 

Isaac,  462,  500 

Isaac  R.,  496 

Israel,   436 

James,  6,  402,  409,  411,  413,  414, 
419,  437,  438,  440,  442,  443,  456, 
466,  474,  488,  489,  490,  495,  496, 
497 

James   M.,  462 

Jane,  406,  447,  462,  481,  482,  495, 
497 

Janus,   503 

Jasper,  469 

Jasper  N.,  494 

Jedediah,  265 

Jeffery,  599 

Jeptha,  485 

Jennet,  414 

Jeremiah,  497,  501 

Jesse,  413,  443,  475,  480,  499,  503 

Joab,   443 

Joanna,  431 

Jonathan,  447,  478 

John,  3,  6,  265,  398,  400,  401,  403, 
404,  410,  411,  412,  413,  416,  423, 
432,  433,  435,  437,  438,  440,  442, 
443,  444,  445,  446,  447,  448,  451, 
456,  457,  462,  466,  469,  476,  477, 
478,  480,  488,  489,  490,  493,  494, 
495,    496,    498,    501,    599 

John   A.,  477 

John  M.,  482,  494 

John   S.,   482 

Joice,   500 

Jonathan,  478 

Joseph,  415,  423,  436,  453,  466,  486, 
490,   496,   501 

Joseph    F.,   501 

Josephine,    453 

Joshua,   424 

Judith,  482,  500 

Judith  N.,  478 


630 


INDEX 


Hughes,  Kasia,  463 

Laura,  445 

Lavina,    496 

Leander,  477 

Leonard,  6 

Letitia,  501 

Letitia   D.,   477 

Lewis,  434,   501 

Lois,   494 

Lorzilla,   494 

Lucretia,   437 

Lucy,   411,   435,   487,   488 

Lydia,   445 

Mabel,   435 

Madison   R.,  503 

Mann  P.,  473,  474 

Marcy,  417 

Margaret,  425,  445,  447,  497,  498 

Margaret  A.,  424 

Martha,  462,  489,  494,  495 

Martin,  415 

Mary,  412,  415,  416,  417,  419,  424, 
433,  434,  435,  445,  453,  464,  470, 
473,  482,  483,  497,  498,  503 

Mary  A.,  421,  494 

Mary  M.,  501 

Mathew,  424 

Mathew    M.,   477 

Mehitable,   398,   447 

Mercy,   417,   436,   496 

Michaell,  6,  466 

Miles,   466 

Millie,  496 

Nancy,  464,  474,  481,  488,  500,  501 

Nancy  A.,  494 

Nancy   E.,    490 

Nathan,  463 

Nathaniel,   421 

Nelson  B.,  475 

Nicholas,  433,  434,  452,  484 

Owen,  424 

Parley,  438 

Paul,*  402 

Permelia,   445,   500 

Peter,  426,  487,  488,  501 

Phebe,  454 

Philip,   416 

Pollv,  447,  482,  483,  501 

Polly  M.,  477 

Pratt,  483 

Priscilla,  494 

Rachel,   435 

Ralph,  470 

Rebecca,   436,  481 

Reuben,  483 

Rhoda,  445,  500 

Richard,  6,  408,  416,  417,  424,  433, 
445,  451,  480,  481,  600 

Richard  C,  462 


Hughes,    Robert,    404,    450,    459,   463, 

469,  495,  503 
Robert  B.,  494 
Rosanna,  412,  423 
Rowland,  416 
Ruth,  451 

Sally,  443,  445,  483,  485 
Samuel,  378,  417,  418,  419,  433,  434, 

438,  442,  489,  495,  498,  501 
Sarah,  402,  424,  425,  435,  447,  462, 

469,  473,  481,  482,  488 
Sophia,   469,   483 
Stephen,   470,   479,   480,   498 
Susan,  474 

Susanna,  411,  419,   421,   501 
Sylthia,  486 
Tabitha,  479,  480 
Taylor,  496 
Tharp,  482,  483 
Timothy,  466 
Thomas,    6,    7,    265,    402,    425,    430, 

438,   453,  466,   469,  471,   473,  480, 

482,  496,  497,  498,  501,  600 
Thomas  S.,  486 
Villemille,  600 
Walter,  425 
Welthian,   453 
William,  6,  416,  419,  420,  421,  442, 

447,   451,   457,  460,  461,   462,  466, 

467,  469,   480,  481,   482,  483,  484, 

485,  488,  489,  495,  499,  501,   502, 

503,   504,   600 
William  S.,  494 
Young,   481 
Zachariah,  496 
Ziporah,   437 
Hughs,    see    Hughes,    Huse,    Hewes, 

Hews,  Hue,  Hues,  etc. 
Abigail,   430,   438 
Abner,  500 
Andrew,  425 
Ann,  431 
Anna,  443 
Christopher   S.,   424 
Dorothy,    467 
Edward,   431 

Elizabeth,  425,  431,  470,  599 
Emmanuel,  428 
Emery,  504 
Esther,  416 
George,  404 
Henry,  463 
James,  470 
John,   401,   426,  428,   430,   441,   470, 

476,  484 
Marv,  430 
Peter,  487 

Robert,  425,  458,  479 
Samuel,   430,   479 


INDEX 


631 


Hughs,  Sarah,  401,  504 

Thomas,  460,  467 

William,   435,   470 
Huge,  5 

Huges,  Jonathan,  478 
Huggins,  Elizabeth,  269 
Huguenots,   5 
Hull,  Capt.,  92;   Capt.  John,  106 

John,  87,  92 

William,   11 
Humphrey,   Clarinda,  358 

Helen,  'l76 

John,  33,  37,  52 

Susan,   37 
Hungerford,    Hannah,   434 

Sarah,  434 

Thomas,  434 
Hunkins,   Robert,  390 
Hunneman,   Abigail  H.,  352 

Ann  F.  H.,  352 

Elizabeth,  352 

Elizabeth  C,  352 

Hannah,  351 

Hannah   H.,  352 

John  J.,  352 

Joseph   H.,  330,  352 

Mary  C,  352 

Nicholas,  352 

Samuel  H.,  330,  352 

Sarah  C,  352 

William    C,   331,   351,   352 
Hunnewell,    Miss,    339 
Hunt,   Antionette,  356 

Dorcas,   420 

Elizabeth,   332 

J.   F.,  356 

James   M.,  356 

Jedidah,    161 

John,  332 

Judith,  420 

Marv,  161,  549 

Matthew,   161 

Rhoda  A.,  356 

Sarah,  332 

Thomas,  424 

William,  360 
Hunter,    Benjamin,   495 

J.,  451 

Hetty,   495 

John'  P.,    495 
Huntingdon,    Capt.,    514 

C.  P.,  249,  573,  580 
Huntoon,  170,  173,  235 

David,  168 
Huse,    see    Hewes,    Hughes,    Hughs, 

etc. 
Huse;  see  Sybthorpe;  2 
Huse  family  in  England,  3 
Huse,  a  prisoner  of  war,  438 


Huse,  Maj.,  452 
Aaron,  383,   398 
Abel,  xv,  3,  371,  372,  373,  374,  375, 

376,  380,  382,  383,  442,  448,  459 
Abigail,   599 
Adeline,  396 
Abiah,   389 
Abigail,  375,  376,  382,  386,  389,  392, 

448 
Abigail  J.,  387 
Alden,  396 
Alice,   380 
Alfred,  384 
Almira,   393 
Amelia,  381 
Amos,  378 
Amy,  372 
A  mi,   373 
Ann   C,  388 
Ann   E.,  404 
Anna,  381,  382,  398,  446 
Anna  L.,  404 
Anne,   377 
Arvilla  K.,  387 
Benjamin,  329,  387,  455 
Betsv,  382,  386 
Betty,  446 
Bezeleel,  384 
Caleb,   387,   397 
Carr,  379,  380,  387,  455 
Charles   H.,  393 
Charles  W.,  393 
Charlotte,  393,  397 
Charlotte  A.,  397 
Charlotte   W.,  387 
Clarissa,  381 
Clarissa  M.,  396 
Cyrene,  446 
Cyrus,  381 
Daniel,  383,  389,  398,  436,  440,  455, 

456 
Delia   C,   396 
Dennison,   393 
Dorcas,  383 
Dorothv,   384,   393 
Ebenezer,    373,    373,    377,    379,    380, 

384,  386,  387,  391,  448 
Edward,   403,   431 
Elbridge,  392 

Eleanor,   371,   375,   376,  396 
Eleanor   E.,  392 
Elihu,  375,  381 
Elipbalet,  377 
Eliza,  387,  401,  448 
Eliza   G.,  387 
Elizabeth,   373,    375,   378,   379,   380, 

383,  384,  389,  397 
Elizabeth   S.,  397 
Elizabeth  T.,  397 


632 


INDEX 


Huse,   Ellen  M.,  387 
Enoch,  375,  377,  378,  381,  384,  385, 

386,  387,  389,  393,  397 
Esther,  3K1 
Everett  B.,  390 
Kranlc     V.,    JMM) 
George,  404 
George  M.,  387 
George  ( ).,  398 
George  W.,  392 
Grace,  436 
H.,  459 
Hannah,  373,  375,  376,  377,  378,  380, 

382,  383,  385,  386,  391,  396,  446, 

448 
Harvey,  396 
Helen  E.,  398 
Henry,  436 

Isaac,  371,  383,  394,  448 
Israel,  373,  377,  378,  440 
Jacob,  387 
James,  373,  376,  377,  378,  379,  389, 

440,  442,  446,  488 
James  E.,  396 
Joanna,  387 

John,  148,  371,  372,  374,  375,  377, 
378,  380,  381,  382,  384,  386,  387, 
389,  390,   393,  397,  398,  401,  433, 

441,  442,  452,  457,  599 
John  D.,  381,  392 
Jonathan,  377,  382,  447 

Joseph,  373,  377,  378,  379,  380,  382, 

388,  389,  390,  391,  397,  423,  438, 

446,  458 
Joseph  L.,  398 
Josiah,  383,  396 
Judea,   376 

Judith,  372,  375,  376,  377 
Julius,  381 
Katherine,  599 
Keziah,  374 
Lizzie  M.,  393 
Lucinda,  381 
Lucy,  381,  386,  392 
Lydia,   376,   383,  396,  404,  446,  448 
Lydia  C,  397 
Mary,  371,  373,  374,  375,  376,  382, 

38*3,  386,  387,  388,  389,  391,  393, 

393,  397,   600 
Ma  it   A.,  396 
Mary  E.,  393 
Mary  F.,  404 
Mary    K.,   396 
Mary  M.,  397 
Marston,  396 
Martha,  375,  378,  379 
Matilda,   381 

Mehitable,  380,  384,  398,  401 
Mercy,  391,  392 


Huse,  Merriam,  375,  376 
Moody,   386,   396 
Molly,  379,  380,  383,  389 
Moses,  376,  384,  386,  440,  448,  458 
Nabby  W.,  382 
Nancy,  382 
Nancy   P.,  398 
Nancy  V.,  386 
Nanne,  383 
Nanny,  398 

Nathan,  373,  378,  380,  381,  391,  458 
Nathaniel,  94.,  375,  376,  382,  383 
Nicholas,   434 
Obadiah,  386 
Olive,  396 
Olive  P.,  396 
Orlando,  396 
Pamelia,  392 
Paoli,  381,  392 
Peggy,  392 
Persis,   383 
Peter,   426 

Rachel,  380,  389,  391,  448 
Rebecca,  377,  381,  392,  393,  385 
Reuben,  142 
Rhoda  A.,  396 
Richard,  433 
Richard  P.,  396 
Robert,  384,  459 
Roxanna  M.,  393 
Ruth,  371,  373,  377,  382,  383 
Salla,  383 

Sally,  382,  385,  388,  389,  397 
Sally  T.,  397 
Samuel,  372,  376,  378,  379,  380,  383, 

388,  396,  397,  437,  448,  459,   460, 

556 
Samuel  A.,  404 
Samuel   I.,  397 
Samuel   T.,  404 
Sargent,  380 
Sarah,  343,  371,  372,  374,  375,  377, 

378,  380,  385,   386,  387,  389,  391, 

397,  446 
Sarah   C,  387 
Sarah  M.,  389 
Seth,    446 
Shua,  396 
Simon,  389 
Sophia,  397 
Stephen,  372,  375,  380,  381,  382,  389, 

393,  394,  397,  436,  437 
Stephen  D.,  393 
Stephen   W.,  398 
Sukey,   393 
Sumner,  396 
Susanna,  382 
Susannah,  375 
Theophilus   N,  391 


INDEX 


633 


Huse,  Thomas,  265,  3T1,  372,  373, 
376,  377,  379,  383,  386,  446,  448, 
460 

Thomas  C,  397 

William,  371,  373,  374,  376,  380,  382, 
386,  388,  389,  391,  392,  394,  396, 
397,  403,  435,  448 

William   G.,  390 

William   H.,   404 

William  K.,  398 
Hushes,  Peter,  418,  419 
Husse,   Hussey,   2 
Hussey    2 
Hutchins,  Flora,  366 

George  D.,  366 

L.,   494 
Hutchinson,   Gov.,  418 

Mrs.    Anne,   28,   40 

Alice,  552 

Edward,  79,  80,  82 

Elizabeth,  552 

Richard,  552 
Huy,  James,  471 
Huxham,  Deborah,  453 

Thomas,  453 
Huxley,  Margaret,  551 

Wiliiam,  551 
Hwfa   ap  Cynddela,  6,  262 

Igguldex,  widow,  29 
Illinois,   Chicago,  207 

Hillsboro,  494 

Lawrence  Co.,  463 

White  Co.,  498 
Ilsley,  Capt,  385 
Inches,   Henderson,   117 
Indiana,  499,  500,  503 

Charlestown,  356 

Delphi,   495 

Indianapolis,   190 

Jefferson  Co.,  478 
Importations  from  England,  1647,  62 
Indian   College  at   Cambridge,   102 
Indians,   69,   70,   79,   100,   168 

Christian,  number  of,  102;  Court 
of  at  Coowate,  101 ;  defence 
against,  96;  trade  with,  44 
Indian  wars.  (See  also  Cherokee  In- 
dians.) 42,  43,  95,  478,  480,  491, 
501 
Ingalls,  Abigail,  448 

Nathaniel,  448 
Ingell,  Joseph,  457 
Ingersoll,   Col.,  455 

George,  450 
Ingraham,  Jonah,  145 
Inhabitants  not  proprietors,  51 
Ipswich,  Eng.,  Port  books  of,  23 
Iredell,    Annie,  307 

George,  275 


Iredell,  Helen,  308 

Isabella,  275 

James,  273,  274,  279,  295,  296,  297, 
302,  303,  304 

Nelly,  307 
Ireland,   413,   423 
Iron,  houses,   galvanized,   232 
Iron,  manufacture,  66;  established  in 

Mass.,  64 
Iron  mines,  60 
Iron  ore,  45 
Iron  works,  565 
Iron  works   adventurers,  73 
Iron  works   at  Lynn,  202 
Iron  works,  Undertakers  of,  64 
Ironmongers  Company  of  London,  19 
Irwin,   Abbie,  363 

Jared,  363 

Lilias  P.,  363 

Jacobs,  Col.,  322 

Ann  M.,   189 

George,  189 
Jackson,  Ma.j.,  476 

Edward,   13 

George,  450 

George  E.,  228,  232 

John,  101,  103 

Mary,  114 

Michael,  394 

Thomas,  420 
James,  son  of  Edward,   a  negro,  114 

William,  428 
Jameson,  Grace,  452 

Hannah,  448 

Jane,  495 

John,  448 

Robert,  452 
Jean,  daughter  of  Edward,  a  negress, 

114 
Jebber,  a  negro  slave,  117 
Jefferson,   Thomas,   478 
Jefford,  Joseph,  147 
Jemison,   Capt.,   463 
Jenkins,  Capt.,  391 

Harriet,   535 

John,  585 

Martha,  374,  375 

Richard,  410 

William,  375 
Jennings,   Thomas,  451 
Jennison,  Abigail,  406 

Lucy,  406 

Samuel,  406 
Jenny,  negro  slave,  117 
Jerat,   Robert,  279 
Jethro,  an   Indian,  101 
Jewell,   Capt.,  390 

Juliett,  355 


634 


INDEX 


Jewet,  Capt.,  463 
Jewett,  David,  438 

Elizabeth,   438 
Jillson,   Abel,  343 

Mary,  343 
Johnson  Family,  .500 
Johnson,   147 

Col.,  502 

Capt.,  467 

Abigail,   386 

Edward,   26 

Elisha,  389 

Elizabeth,  389 

George,  454 

Hannah,  110,  382,  560,  561 

Humphrey,  429 

Isaac,  496 

James,  145,  147,  148,  561,  585 

Jenne,  568 

John,  27,  36,  41,  44,  46,  49,  55,  60, 
71,   74,  76,  468 

Joseph,   126,   127,  562 

Mary,  111,  468,  498,  560 

Nicholas,  375 

Peter,  560 

Rachel,  389 

Rebecca,  560,  561 

Samuel,  87,  111,  316,  321,  382,  504, 
560,  561,  562 

Sarah,  375 

Sophia,  397 

William,   148 

William  P.,  232 
Johnston,  308 

Hannah,   275 

Isabella,  275,  309,  310 
Johnstone,    Jennie,    143 

John,  275 

Samuel,  296,  298,  301,  304,  309,  310 

Gov.  Samuel,  275,  279 
Johonnot,  Daniel,  321,  411 
Jolly,  Capt.,  486,  491 

Benjamin,  491 
Jones,'  166,  254 

Anne,  25 

Cadwallader,  275 

Charles,  465 

Debby,  422 

Edward,  419,  422 

Helen  I.,  367 

Henrv  A.,  367 

Isabella,  275 

John  Paul,  274,  275 

Lewis,  25 

Martha,  462 

Rozina,  465 

Sarah,   462 

Theodore,  465 

Thomas,  296 

Thomas   N.,  182 


Jones,  Willie,  301 

Jordan,  Francis,  586 

Josias,  Wompatuck,  an  Indian,  102 

Jouatt,  Matthew,  471 

Judah,  Theodore  D.,  573,  580 

Judson,  Charlotte  C,  356 

Lizzie,  356 

L.  Carroll,  265 

Marv,  356 

Solon,  356 

Thomas,  356 
Julian,   John,   121 

Kade,   Drury,   484 
Keayne,  Robert,  40,  41,  71 
Keen,  Abel,  459 
Keep,  Capt.,  426 
Keith,  James,  395 
Kelley,  Abbie,  365 

Charles,  365 

Etta,  365 

Gladys,  365 

Harry,  365 

Igene,  365 

John,  365 

Perry,  365 

Richard,  458,  460 

Ruth,  365 
Kemball,  Henry,  105 
Kemble,  Thomas,  61 
Kendall,  Charles  W.,  228,  232 
Kendrick,  Sarah,  425 
Kenney,  John,  138 

Samuel,  107 
Kent,   Richard,   374 
Kentucky,  498,  499,  500 

Cynthiana,  357 

Flat  Rock,  499 

Henderson,  488 

Lincoln  Co.,  482,  483 

Pulaski,  490 

Wayne  Co.,  490 
Kepler,  William,  498 
Kerr,  Martha,  494 
Kester,  Thomas  S.,  495 
Kidder,  Lydia  H.,  151 
Killworth,"  Edmund,  108 

Elizabeth,    108,    122,    123,    557,   558, 
559 

Matthew,   108 

William,  100,  108,  122,  557,  558,  559 
Kimball,  Caleb,  372,  385 

Daniel  C,  444 

Ebenezer,  374 

Henry,  105 

Jane,*  124 

Martha,  374 

Rosanna,  493 

Sarah,  372 


INDEX 


635 


Kimball,    Thomas,    61,    124 
Kincaird,    Xancy,   501 
Kind,   Arthur,  410 

Jane,  410 
King  Philip's  War,  95 
King,  Abigail,  429 

Daniel,  153 

Daniel  P.,  526 

John,  130 

Thomas,  429 

Thomas  Starr,  243 
King's  Mountain,  Battle  of,  487 
King's   Province,   82 
Kingman,  Susanna,  150 
Kingston,   Ontario,   146 
Knapp,  Capt.,  413 
Knight,  Benjamin,  334 

Richard,  95,  99 
Knipe,  Bartholomew,  586 

Peter,  585 
Knott,  John,  586 
Knowlton,    Col.,  438 
Knox,  Col.,  349 

William,  426 

Laborers.  Wages  of,  45,  57 
Laboratory,  The,  394 
Lack,  James,  463 
Lackey,  Abigail,  124 
Ladd,"  Elizabeth,  388 
LaFayette,  Gen.,  474 
Lake,  Capt.,  56 
Lamb,  Col.,  438 

Isaac,  55 

Man-,  92,  93,  99,  100 

Thomas,  25,  60 

William,  92,  93,  99,  104,  105 
Lambert,  Samuel,  13 
Lamson,  Capt.,  406 

Mary,  351 
Lamprey,  Delia  C,  396 
Land  Bank,  316,  321 
Landon,  James,  503 
Lane,  Levi  C,  253 
Langley,  Harriet  O.,  224 

Morgan  W.,  224 

Myrtle,  224 
Larcom,  Lucy,  547 
Larned,  Ruth,  137 
Lash,  Ann  P.,  477 

William  A.,  477 
Lassell,  Caroline,  210 
Last  Spike,  578 
Latham,  Milton  S.,  581 
Latimer,  arms  of,  557 

Christopher,  556,  558 

Jane,  556 
Lawson,  Elizabeth,  567 

George,  567 


Lawton,  Bulah,  484 

Lathrop,  see  Lowthroppe,  Lothrop. 

Arms  of,  512 

Amy,  513 

Amv  G.,  195 

Anna  M.,  195,  260,  507,  513 

Ariel,  195 

Catherine  P.,  195 

Charles  G.,  195,  263 

Daniel  S.,  195 

Dver,  195,  513 

Elizabeth,  515 

Harriet  M.,   195 

Henry  C,  195 

Horace,  343 

Israel,  514 

Jane,  195 

Jane  A.,  513 

Jane  E.,  195 

Jedidiah,  513,  514 

Jennie  S.,  263 

Jennie  W.,  195 

John,  195,  262,  515,  516 

Mary,  514 

Rebecca,  514 

Robert,  516 

Samuel,  514 

Thomas,  515 

Tiena  D.,  195 
Leach,  Eunice,  437 

Jeremiah,  437 
Leager,  Hannah,  409 
Leavens,  John,  31 
Leavenworth,  Col.,  490 
LeBour,  Louis,  a  pirate,  120 
Lech  ford,  Thomas,  60 
Ledger,  Capt.,  466 
Lee,  Daniel,  347 

Jesse,  154 

John,  390 

Morris,  344 

Sarah  T.,  344 

William,  408 
Leeds,  Susannah,  184 
Leftwich,  Capt.,  476 
Legg,  Capt.,  556 

Marv,  556 
Leigh,*  William,  501,  502 
Leland,  233 
Leland  Stanford,  Jr.,  University,  195, 

261 
Lenwood,  James,  11 
Lewis  and  Clark  Exposition,  242 
Lewis,  403 
Lewis,  A.  N.,  232 

Charles,  471,  482 

Francis,  274 

Isabella,  13 

Sir  John,  13 
Leverett,  Hudson,  97 


636 


INDEX 


Leverett,    John,    561;    Gov.    John,    9T, 

100;  letter  of  Charles  II  to,  97 
Lindly,  John,  136 
Little,  Col.,  463 
Elizabeth,  375 
Moses,  388 
Lincoln,  214 

Abraham,  214,  574 
Earl  of,  37 
Susan  M.,  214 
Link,  J.,  501 
Listin,  Emily,  355 
Littlebury,  Capt.,  477 
Livermore,  Daniel,  445 
Livingston,  Col.,  486 

Noel  B.,  117 
Lochart,  James,  279 
Locomotive,   first   built   in   California, 

242 
Locomotive,  first  built  in  Oregon,  242 
Lodge,  Jane,  269 
Logan,  James,  268 
London,  Guilds  of,  19 
citizens  of,  19 
Friends'  records  at,  266 
Ironmongers'  Company  of,  19 
Port  books,  23 
Lossing,  B.  T.,  265 
Lothrop,    see    Lowthroppe,    Lathrop, 

Rev.  John,  515 
Lothropp,  Samuel,  514 
Lottery,  114 
Louisburg,  NT.  S.,  146 
Louisiana,  496 
New  Orleans,  465 
Union  Parish,  465 
Louther,  William,  471,  480 
Lovell,  Capt.,  348 

Betsy,  382 
Loveless,  William,  486 
Low,  a  pirate,  120,  121 
Lowder,  William,  112 
Lowthroppe,  John,  195,  516 
Robert,  516 
Thomas,  515 
Loyalists,  139,  331,  418 
Lucas,  Capt.,  476 
Luddam,  429 
Ludgate,  Mr.,  317 
Ludlow,  Lt.,  Gov.,  35 

Roger,  52 
Luscomb,  John,  561 

William,  401 
Luther,  John,  453 
Nathaniel,  453 
Lvford,  400 
Lynch,  Col.,  487 
Lynde,  Simon,  13 
Lyscom,  Ebenczer,  561 


Lyscom,  Hannah,  561 
John,  561 
Mary,  561 

McCain,  Mary,  503 
McCallers,  Mathew,  485 
McCarty,  A.,  502 
MacCartee,  Agnes,  470 
McChesnev,  James,  365 

Mvra  P.,  365 
McClarv,  David,  398 
McCley*  168 
McCloy,  169,  172 
McCoiinell,  Mathew,  445 

Samuel,  446 
McClure,  Robert,  211 

Ruth,  211 
McCobb,  Col.,  452 
McCrearv,  William,  495 
McCulland,  Jannet,  451 
McCulloch,  Henry  E.,  295 
M (Cully,  Lawrnce,  232 
McDonald,  Ann,  355 
Benjamin,  355 
Columbus,  355 
Hiram,  355 
Louisa,  355 
Maria,  355 
Martha,  355 
Olive,  355 
Olive  M.,  355 
McDugal,  Gen.,  141 
McDougal,  Gen.,  341 
McDougall,  Alexander,  466 
McDowell,  487 

Gen.,  472 
McGaffv,  174 
McGill,  Capt.,  498 
McKall,  John,  437 
McKenzie,  Rev.  Dr.,  261 
McLane,  Eliza,  360 
McLaughlin,  Capt.,  446 
McMichael,  Eunice  G.,  360 
Fannie  E.,  360 
George  C,  360 
George  R.,  360 
Gretchen,  360 
Henrv  E.,  360 
Mary'  H.,  360 
McNav,  Barbara,  357 
McNaught,  M.,  497 
McNeil,  Hector,  485 
McNitt,  Barnard,  130 
McPherson,  George,  504 

Robert,  259 
McRee,  Griffith  L.,  303 
McRiver,  Capt.,  496 
Maban,  Col.,  463 
Macenter,  533 


INDEX 


637 


Maddox,  Virginia  K.,  517 
Magistrates,  46,  52 
Maguire,  Capt.,  497 
Maine,  Augusta,  360 

Belfast,  392 

Biddeford,  450 

Charlotte,  493 

Cushonage,  428 

Hermon,  493 

Hewes  Point,  392 

Islesboro,  381 

Kennebec  River,  428 

Kittery,  451 

Merrymeeting  Bay,  428 

North  Yarmouth,  452 

Pepperrellboro,  451 

Pownalboro,  452 

Saco,  440,  450 

Waldoboro,  360 

Wiscasset,  362,  452 
Malcom,  Col.,  462,  466 
Mai  Ion,  James,  394 
Manderson,  Robert,  441 
Mann,  Capt.  Sabin,  133 

Widow,  127 

Deborah,  113 

Ebenezer,  460 

Gideon,  359 

Jemima,  359 

Jeremiah,  314,  328,  348 

John,  409 

Olive,  314,  328 

S.,  132 

Sabin,  135 

Sarah,  113 

Simeon,  136 
Mansfield,  Maj.,  529 

Capt.,  538 

Andrew,  148 
Manson,  Jane  G.,  333 

Lewis  C,  333 
Manufacturers,  subsidies  to  withdrawn 

by  Mass.,  45 
March,  Daniel,  375 

Mary,  375 
Marck'land,  Capt.,  495,  496 
Marion,  491 
Marks,  James,  476 

John,  470,  471 
Marrabel,  Edward,  470 
Marsh,  Althea,  185 

Charles,  249,  573,  581 

Lucius  B.,  179 

Manuletta,  364 

Sarah,  151,  179 

Thomas  H.,  179 
Marshal,  duties  of,  47 
Marshall,  Col.,  426 

Francis,  109 

Frank,  109 


Martin,  Gov.,  304 
Marston,  Joseph,  479 

Olive,  396 

William,  72 
Maruith,  daughter  of  Ynes,  6 
Mary,  Queen  of  Scots,  551 
Maryland,  69,  495,  496;  regiment,  134 
Mason,  Ames,  132 

Charity,  482 

Ebenezer,  132 

Henry  C,  489 

Irenea  A.,  489 

James  E.,  489 

Capt.  John,  52 

John,  132 

Marinda,  489 

Martha  W.,  489 

William,  489 
Mason,  William,  489 
Massachusetts,  Amesbury,  380,  389 

Attleboro,  345 

Beverlv,  145,  401 

Blanfo'rd,  426 

Block  Island,  42 

Boston,  23,  24,  25,  33,  35,  50,  52,  53, 
56,  71,  72,  80,  93,  105,  114,  115, 
123,  124,  126,  320,  332,  335,  337, 
351,  357,  360,  361,  362,  381,  385, 
394,  406,  410,  421,  529 

Braintree,  64,  74,  102,  367 

Brimfield,  129,  145 

Cambridge,  31,  45,  48,  50,  52,  360, 
437 

Charlestown,  25,  48,  50,  52,  412 

Chelmsford,  408 

Chesterfield,  426 

Concord,   48 

Danvers,  145 

Dedham,  48,  135,  412 

Dorchester,  25,  48,  50,  52,  53,  433 

Dorchester,    Xew  Grant,  314,  315 

Dunstable,  408 

Fitchburg,  426 

Foxboro,  348,  369 

Franklin,  360 

Gloucester,  402,  408,  431 

Grafton,  384 

Granville,  426 

Groton,  404,  443 

Harvard,  381,  392 

Haverhill,  397,  448 

Hingham,  428 

Ipswich,  35,  52,  381,  403 

Lawrence,  first  Sunday-school  in, 
202,  229;  Lawrence  St.  Congrega- 
tional church,  229 

Lexington,  405,  430 

Lowell,  526 

Lynn,  35,  52,  64,  145,  403 

Lvnn  End,  147,  153 


638 


INDEX 


Massachusetts,  Lynnfield,  153,  155, 
161,  518,  526,  566;  company  in 
War  1812,  152;  church  at,  524; 
erection  of  Methodist  church  at, 
155;  factories,  147;  library,  175; 
old  mill,  150 

Maiden,  145,  221;  Rifles,  221;  Sal- 
vation  Army  in,  223 

Marlboro,  98,  100 

Marblehead,  145 

Medfield,  123,  124,  136,  384 

Med  ford,  362,  408 

Methuen  (see  Descendants  of  Abel 
Huse)    381,   382,   393 

Montague,  426 

Natick,  100 

North   Abington,  176 

North  Reading,  182,  526 

Newbury  (see  Descendants  of  Abel 
Huse),  145,  371,  379,  398,  402 

Newburvport,  386,  388,  396 

Plymouth,  428,  431 

Quinnebaug,  86,  94 

Raynham,  520 

Readinjr,  147,  153,  206,  408 

Rehoboth,  425,  454 

Rochester,  431 

Roxburv,  24,  26,  52;  records  of,  27, 
28;  free  school,  27,  53,  54,  55;  lo- 
cations in,  28;  estates,  28;  dwell- 
ings in,  1640,  29;  proprietors  of, 
29;  extent  of,  29;  church  mem- 
bers in  1635,  33;  train-band,  39; 
Latin    school,   54,   55 

Rovalston,  133 

Russell,  436 

Salem,  30,  35,  37,  49,  52,  145,  147, 
317,  400;  church  members  in  1635, 
33;  free  school,  56;  train  band,  39; 
records  of,  50 

Salisbury,  311,  384 

Saugus,  35,  64,  565 

Scituate,  428,  514 

Sherburne,  123 

Springfield,  404 

Stoneham,  227 

Stowe,  404 

Sturbridge,  130 

Sudbury,  48,  404 

Sutton,  98,  384;  grant  of,  103 

Taunton,  iron  works  at,  64 

Truro,  432 

Wachusett,  Mt.,  96,  100 

Watertown,  48,  52,  405,  430 

Wenham,  53,  145 

Wessaguscus,  52 

Westfield,  436 

Weston,  406 

Weymouth,  52 

Williamsburg,  426 


Massachusetts,  Williamstown,  425 

Wrentham,  124,  315 
Massachusetts     Bay,     Gov.     and     Co. 
of,   33;   surrender  of  charter   de- 
manded,   37;    General    Co\irt,   34; 
depreciation    of    property,    I64O, 
44;  freemen  (q.  v.)  of,  22,  32,  40; 
land  grants,  29;  Military  Co.,  41; 
military    organization,    39;    popu- 
lation  of,  1634,  33;   proposed  re- 
sistance to  the  home  government, 
35;  troops,  1759,  146 
Masters,  Sarah,  332 
Masury,  Margaret,  547 
Mather,  Increase,  317 
Mathews,  Myra,  176 

Permelia,  500 
Maverick,  557 

Elizabeth,  419 

Moses,  420,  558 

Nathaniel,  419 

Remember,  420 
Mavberry,  Capt.,  452 
Mayers,  'Arietta,  210 
Mavhew,  58 
Maxwell,  Gershon,  189 

Mary,  185 

Thompson,  338 
Mazatlan,  Mexico,  174 
Meacham,  John,  347 
Mead,  Michael,  493 
Meade,  30 
Med  ford,  52 
Medley,  I.,  500 
Meigs,'  Gen.,  499 
Mellen,  Col.,  460 
Menard,  Daniel,  449 
Mercer,  473 

John  F.,  472 
Meredith,   Col.,  476 
Merrick,  Moses,  383 

Ruth,  383 
Merrill,  Eunice,  451 

John,  444 
Messenger,  Daniel,  345 

Esther,  345 

Mary,  345 

Susanna,  345 
Metcalf,  Lt.,  136 
Methodist  Church  in  Mass.,  154 
Mexico,  Journey  across,  166 
Miantonomo,  70,  78 
Michigan,  Grand  Rapids,  206 

Hastings,  363 

Springport,  357 
Middleton,  Arthur,  274 

Mary,  278 
Miles,   Benjamin,  12 

Elizabeth,  12 


INDEX 


639 


Miles,  Rev.  Joseph,  12 
Miliquet,  Margaret,  130 
Military  officers,  how  elected,  42 
Militia,'  138 
Milner,  333 
Milton,  William,  31 T 
Miller,  Elizabeth,  417 
E.  H.,  249,  581 
Francis,  460 
James,  338 
M.,  498 
Stephen,  455 
Mills,  539 
Dr.,  200 
D.  O.,  236 
Edgar,  581. 
Mrs.  Susan,  200 
Susan  L.,  200 
Mills  College,  191,  200 
Campanile,  200,   201 
Cyrus  T.,  200 
Mines,  discovery  of,  44 
Minnesota,  Minneapolis,  207 
Mississippi   Company,   170 
Missouri,  501 
Cooper  Co.,  479 
Platte  Co.,  477 
Mitchell,   150,  336 
Abigail,  398 
Robert,  482 
Monopolies  granted  bv  General  Court, 

44 
Montague,  S  S.,  249,  581 
Monteath,  Harriet,  195 
Montgomerv,   Rebecca,  424 

Robert,  424 
Moody,  Eliezer,  107 
John,  446 
Sarah,  386 
Mooers,  Edmund,  458 
Moor,  Daniel,  446 
Moore,  Col.,  440 
Capt.,  461 
Ann,  477 
Catherine,  407 
Charles  W.,  407 
David,  396 
Edmund,  460 
James,  484 
John,  446 
Mathew,  477 
Olive  P.,  396 
Steven,  489 
Moors,  George  A.,  228 
More,  J.  O.,  342 
Morecock,  Thomas,  585 
Morey,  Daniel,  94,  106 

Israel,  142 
Morgan  Line  of  Steamships,  233 


Morgan,  233 

Col.,  478 

Gen.,  491,  497 

Charles  Poe,  220 

John,    422 

Haynes,  476 

Helen  L.,  220 

Lillie   F.,   220 

Thelma  Scott,  220 
Morrell,  Isaac,  55 
Morrill,  Caleb,  488 

Jonathan,  393 
Morris,  Ann,  363 

Dwight  E.,  363 

J.  O.   342 

Richard,  39,  60,  72 

Robert,  274 
Morrison,  Bradbury,  389 

Betsy,  334 

Daniel,  389 

Robert,  398 

Sally,  334,  389 

Wiliiam,  334 
Morse,  Betty,  328 

Elizabeth,'  314 

Ella,  189 

Hannah,  375 

James,  182 

Joseph,  376 

Joshua,  132 

Lydia,  376 

Maria,  132 

Mary,  132 

Mary  E.,  219 

Noah,  314,  328 

Parker,  374,  375 
Moses,  532 

Mottey,  Rev.  Joseph,  148,  155 
Mott,'Capt.,  466 
Moulton,  Hannah,  380 

Jonathan,  380 

Josiah,  436 
Rebecca,  436 
Muncreef,  Abigail,  484 

John,  484 
Mudd,  Anthony,  98 
Mudge,  Daniel,  351 

Joanna,  351 
Mulford,  Thomas,  586 
Mumford,  William,  101,  103 
Munjoy,  George,  450 
Munro,  Mary,  454 
Murphy,  340 
Murray,  Sarah,  482 
Murrel,  Capt.,  496 
Museum,  Golden  Park,  201 
Leland  Stanford,  Jr.,  199 
Mills  College,  200 
Myers,  Frank  E.,  262 
Mynne,  Francisca,  6 


640 


INDEX 


Mvnne,    Nicholas,    6 
Myrick,  Mary,  376 

Nader,  Garrett,  467 

Namocock,  80 

Nancy,    daughter    of    Edward,    a    ne- 

gress,  114 
Narragansett  Proprietors.    See  Ather- 

ton  Co. 

Proprietors  of  the,  79,  80 

Indians,  70,  96 
Natascott    (Higham),  52 
Natick  Indians,  101,  102 
Navy,  American,  274,  298,  301,  340,  341 

Secretary  of,  302 

in  Revolution,  369 
Nay,  Frank  W.,  362 

George  M.,  362 

Ira  A.,  362 

Mary  G.,  362 
Naylor,  Peter,  203,  232 
Neal,  Louis,  426 

Thomas,  426 
Neale,  Deborah,  411 
Nealy,  Col.,  491 
Ned,  negro  slave,  117 
Needham,  Arthur,  163 

Molly,  163 
Negroes,  114,  117 
Neil,  Jesse,  490 
Nelson,   Charles,  141 
Nevin,  Capt.,  466 
Nevada,  577,  578 
Newcomb,  Elizabeth,  423 
Newdigate,  Hannah,  13 

Isabella,  13 

Nathaniel,  13 

Sarah,  13 
Newell,  Abigail,  333 

Increase,  52 
New  England,  Council  for,  32 

Migration  to,  21,  22,  32 

religious  element  in  migration  to,  21 

ships  trading  for,  22 
Newhall,  167,  170,  173,  522 

Asa  L.,  159 

Eli,  534 

Joseph,  455 

Lucy  E.,  224 
New   Hampshire,  Amherst,  445 

Bath,  441 

Bedford,  96,  116 

Chester,  398 

Derryfield,  395 

Dover,  45,  441 

Dunbarton,  446 

Enfield,  389 

Epping,  390,  391,  448 

Exeter,  72,  440 


New    Hampshire,    Goffstown,   448 

Hampstead,  378,  448 

Haverhill,  441 

Kingston,  378,  440,  448 

Lempster,  143 

Littleton,  389 

Londonderry,  414,  441,  447 

Lyme,    130,    137;    records   of,    130 

Manchester,  448 

New  Boston,  116 

Newcastle,  451 

Newchester,  387 

Newington,  448 

Or  ford,  138 

Henniker,  448 

Plaistow,  378,  442,  444 

Plymouth,  445 

Portsmouth,  45,  314,  440,  450 

Richmond,  344,  349,  359 

Sanbornton,  389 

Sandown,  447 

Strafford,  391 

Stratford,  444 

Strawberry  Bank,  45 

Swanzey,  '348,    349,    350,    359,    366, 
408 

Temple,  324 

Weare,  396 

Windham,  398,  447 
New  Jersey,  troops,  135 

Newark,  134 

New  Salem,  69 

Salem,  266 
Newman,  Samuel,  384 
New  York,  Albany,  507,  513 

Brooklyn,  366 

Harmony,  363 

Hebron,  437 

Lansingburgh,   190 

Lebanon,  135 

Lima,  442,  444 

Mavfield,  363 

Mayville,  363 

Mendon,  494 

Pom  fret,  141 

Richfield,  334,  335,  336,  337,  338 

Richfield  Spa,  366 

Richfield   Springs,  364 

Schenectady,  365 

Schuyler,  494 

Springfield,  346,  358 

Stedman,  363 

Ticonderoga,  135,  146 

"Warren,  364 
Nichol,   Ebenezer,   459 
Nichols,  540 

Col.,  141 

Isaiah,  536 

Lydia,   160 


INDEX 


641 


Nichols,  Moses,  398,  447 

Rebecca  W.,  176 

Robert,   134 

William,  536 
Nicholson,  Col.,  466 

Major,  134 

Joseph   H.,  496 

Susannah,  401 
Nipmug  Country,  93,  96,  100,  101 
Noble,  James,  436 
Non-Importation    agreement,   286 
Norden   family,   123,  555 

Arms  of,  557 

Abigail,  556 

Benjamin,  555 

Elizabeth,  555 

Goody,   95 

Hannah,  93,  555 

Isaac,  556 

Joanna,  555 

Joseph,  555 

Joshua,  556 

Man',  556,  557 

Nathaniel,  93,  94,  107,  121,  122,  555, 
556,   558 

Samuel,  95,  555 

Sarah,   555 

Susannah,  555 
Norman,  Thomas,   75 
Norris,  Rev.  Mr.,  53 

Nicholas,  451 
North,  Alsa  C,  333 

John,  456 
Northern  Pacific  Railroad,  244,  254 
Northend,   Hugh,  555 
Northup,  Blanch,  185 

Charles   W.s   185 

Emily   B.,  185 

George  T.,  185 

Richard  C,  186 
Norton,  Francis,  67 

Jerusha,  314,  328 
Norwood,  Sarah,  359 
Noyes,  394 

Anna  L.,  404 

Nathaniel,  334 

Rebecca,   334 
Nowanit,  an  Indian,  101 
Nurse,   Nathaniel,   145 

Oakes,  Edward,  48 

Urian,  48 
Oberammergau,  261 
Odlin,  Elisha,  38 
Offley,  David,  60 
Ohio,  500 

Adams  Co.,  495 

Antwerp,  493 

Cincinnati,  175,  496 


Ohio,   Cleveland,   494 

Clinton  Co.,  495,  499 

Gallia  Co.,  478 

Jackson  Co.,  474 

Neville,  496 

Paulding  Co.,  493 

Scioto  Co.,  474,  495 

Shelby,  495 

Springfield,  498 

Utica,  471,  497 

Washington,  498 
Old  Planters,  50,  51 
Old,  Capt.,  497 

Benjamin,  Jr.,  130 
Oldham,  400 

George,   489 

John,  489 
Oliver,  Abigail,  561 

Elizabeth,    503 

James,  56,  61,  71,  99 

John,  13,  41 

Peter,  13 

R.,  426 

Thomas,  560,  561 
Olnev,  Jeremiah,  453 
Onslow,  Arthur,  13,  20 

Baron,  20 
Ord,  Gen.,  251 
Orleans,  172 
Orne,  John,  147,  150 

Samuel,  147,  149 
Oregon   Steam  Navigation  Co.,  242 
Oregon's  first  locomotive,  242 
Oregon  Pony,  The,  242 
Osborn,  Edmund,  356 

Helen  G,  356 

Louisa  E.,  356 

.Mabel  E.,  356 
Osburne,  Sarah,  401 
Osgood,   Benjamin,  382 

John,  457 

Judson   R.,  190 
Otis,  Harrison  G,  419 
Overacker,   Carrie,  356 

James,  356 
Overland   Pony   Express,  250 
Overland  railroad,  completion  of,  251 
Overland  routes,  571 
Owsa  Gwynedd,  263 


Pacific  Railroad,  251 
Pacific   Newspaper,  The,  250 
Packer,  Jesse,  130 
Page,  S.,  342 

Rowena,  548 
Paige,  Enoch,  386 

Marv,  386 
Pain,  Robert,  76 


642 


INDEX 


Paine,  Hannah,  127 

William,   403 
Palace   Hotel,   San   Francisco,   23 
Palmer,  Capt.,  486,  491 

Sarah,  397 
Panama,  233,  571 
Papillion,  Peter,  120 
Parcher,  Elias,  448 

Katherine,  448 
Park,   Betsy,  344 
Morris,  344 
William,  77 
Parker,  106 
Lt.,  390 

Abigail,  322,  328 
Althea,   185 
Augustus  A.,  185 
Charlotte,  397 
Daniel,  322,  328 
Dinah,  392 
Eleazer,  392 
Elizabeth,   185 
Elsa,  185 

Frank  Augustus,  185 
Gideon,  459 
John,  428 
Lois,  181 
Mary  E.,  185 
Rebecca,  392 
Richard,  41,  474,  475 
Thomas,  428 
Parks,  Anna,  355 
Donald,  355 
Horace,  355 
Josiah,  436 
Louisa,  355 
Parraz,  Mex.,  170 
Parsons,  Capt.,  501 
Widow,  148 
Ebenezer,  155 
Emily,  176,  520,  537 
Nabby,  208 
Ruth,  560 
William,  560 
Partridge,  John,  450 
Pastow,  Emblme,  546 
Patrick,  39 

Capt.  Daniel,  59 
Patten,   David,  395 
Patton,  Sarah,  489 
Patterson,   James,  447 

Hannah,   447 
Paucatuck,  79 
Pawley,  John,  585 
Pawtuxet,  69 
Paxton,  J.,  501 
Peabody,   Col.,  378,  379 
Alice  C,  209 
Alice  H.,  209 
Dorothy,   175 


Peabodv,   Enoch,  208 
John*  Capt.,  390 
Lawrence  H.,  208 
Lawrence  P.,  209 
Mable  L.,  209 
Marion  C„  209 
Mary  C,  155 
Stephen,  391 
Susan,  208 

William  L.,  162,  208,  209 
Peacock,  Ann,  364 
Pearce,  267 
Pearson,  127,  525,  526 
Peas,  John,  95 
Pease,  389 
Lt.,  341 
Peaslee,  Eliza,  448 
Pedrick,   Roger,  267 
Peirse,   Capt.,  400 
Pelton,   Capt.,  466 

J.  C,  511 
Pell,  Edward,  557 
Pendleton,  Col.,  480 
Penland,  Capt.  472 
Penn,  James,  36,  52 

William,  273 
Penne,  Bucks,   Eng.,  550 
Pension    declarations    (see    pages   399 
et   seq.,  493,   etc.) : 
Absolom  Hughes,  470 
Benjamin  Hewes,  349 
Daniel   Hewes,  346 
Edward    Hughes,   470 
Eleven  Hughes,  357 
Elias   Hughes,  471 
George  R.  T.  Hewes,  339 
John  Huse  of  Sanbornton,  390 
John  Huse,  398 
Isaac  Huse,  394 
Samuel  Huse,  378 
Samuel    Huse    of    Kingston,    378 
Samuel   Huse,  388 
William   Huse,  391 
Pennsylvania,  301,  495,  497,  498 
Carlisle,   498 
Lancaster,  463 
Marion,  462 
Rush,  497 
Pentelow,  Martha  G.,  356 

William  J.,  356 
Pepper,   Eliza,  401 
Pequots,  expedition   against,  42 
Perdue,  486 

Perkins,   Capt.,   437,   503,   529 
A.   S.,  523 
Alexander  T.,   142 
Annie   S.,   177 
Catherine,    177 
Charles  A.,  176 
Deacon,  524 


INDEX 


643 


Perkins,  Frances  O.,  1T7 

George  C,  177 

Harland  A.,  176 

John,  94,  177,  421 

John  H.,  177 

John  W.,  177 

Mary,   94,    100,   122,    123,   556,   557, 
558,   563 

Nicholas,  586 

Rachel,  268 

Remember,   420,  421 

Rosa  A.,  176 

Sarah,  94,  97 

Sarah  H.,  208 

William,  60,  563 
Perrv,  Arthur,  41 

Huldah,  314,  328 
Person,  Emily,  538 
Peter,  545 

Elizabeth,  545 

Rev.  Hugh,  53,  60 

Margerie,  545 
Pettingell,  John,  376 

Judith,  376 
Peyton,  John,  473 
Phelps,  Joane,  545 

T.  G.,  581 
Philbrick,   Shua,   396 
Philbrook,  Alice,  208 

Carrie  A.,  207 

Clarence  G.,  208 

David  S.,  207 

George  W.,  207 

Wallace  H.,  208 
Phillips    Academy,   Andover,   228;   li- 
brary, 229 
Phillips,    Hannah,  409 

Henry,  41 

Moses,  401 

Sarah,  401 

Thomas,   112,  422 
Phippeny,  Deborah,  113 

Israel,  113 

Sarah,  113 
Piambow,  an   Indian,  101,  102 
Pickering,  236 
Pickney,  Col.,  497 
Pierce,'  Capt,  364,  413 

Frances,  364 

James  P.,  200 

Martha,  407 

Sarah  J.,  364 

Schuvler,  364 

William,  476 
Pike,  346 
Pile,  Hannah,  278 

John,  277,  278 

Joseph  H.,  277,  278 
Piles,  Robert,  267 


Pillings  Pond,  Lynnfield,  147 

Fillings,  Jonathan,  147,  150 

Pillsbury,  Capt.,  140 

Pioneer,   The,   locomotive,   242 

Piper,  Mary,  402 

Pipkins,  Capt.,  503 

Pirates,  119,  120 

Pitman,  425 

Pitt,  William,  558 

Pittimel,  Andrew,  Indian,  102 

Pittime,  John,  101 

Pittman,  William,  119 

Pittom,  Elizabeth,  104 

John,  104 
Pitts,  John,  109 
Plaisted,   John,  458 
Plantagenet,   Edmund,   550 
Plantations,  how  settled,  51 

number  of,  1633,  52 
Plimpton,  Capt.,   132 

Lt.,  135 
Plvmpton,  Ezekiel,  135 
Plymouth   Colony,  428 
Poindexter,  Ann,  131 
Pollard,  Benjamin,  113 

Deliverance,  410 

John,   60 

George,  60 
Poole,  Capt.,  412 

Lt.,  500 
Pollok,  Mrs.,  307 
Pond,  Rev.  — ,  243 

Oliver,  346 
Ponv  Express,  572 
Poor,   Col.,  379,  447 

Gen.,  139 

Abigail,  386,  387 

Abigail  J.,  386,  387 

Adelaide  S.,  367 

Charles  G.,  367 

Clarence  H.,  367 

Harriet,  367 

Henrv,  386,  387 

J.,  385 

Joseph  H.,  387 

Marv  A.,  367 

Marv  B.,  367 

Sally,  387 

Virginia  S.,  367 
Pormont,   Elizabeth,   555 

Philemon,  53,  555 
Port  books  of  London,  etc.,  23 
Porter,  Anna,  356 

Alexander,  474 

George,  356 

Love,  552 

Lvdia,  547,  552 

Olive  H.,  364 

Samuel,   552 
Post,    Jeremiah,    141 


644 


INDEX 


Potter,  Phoebe,  364 
Potts,  Richard,  105 
Potwine,  John,  420 
Pow,  William,  450 
Powell,   Benjamin,  503 

Henrietta,  485 

Lavina,  496 

Robert,  472 
Powis,  princes  of,  6 
Prask,  100 

alias  Wampus,  Ann,  100 
Pratey,  Andrew,  558 
Pratt,  Edward,  101,  103,  104 

Charles,  163 

Chloe,  343 

Daniel,  343 

John,  211,  586 
Preble,  Col.,  457 
Prendergast,    Antoinette,    356 

James  H.,  356 

John   H.,  356 
Presbyterian    church    in    Calif.,    258, 

259 
Presbyterians  in   Calif.,  243,  244,  245 
Prentice,  Samuel,  384 
Preston,   Margaret   N.,   131 
Pressy,   Charles,   380 

Molly,  380 
Price,  Arthur,  585 

Ezekiel,  332 

Walter,  112 
Prichard,  Hugh,  55 
Prior,   Sarah  J.,  365 
Prince,  166,  167,  172 

Heirs,  348 

Gov.,  428 

John,  417 
Printing-press      and     type,     first     in 

N.  E.,  56 
Printz,   Gov.,   69 
Pritchett,  Margery,  92 
Privateers,  275,  340,  341,  347 
Privatt,  H.  C,  279 
Proctor,   Edward,   417 

Elizabeth  H.,  417 

Joseph,  447 

Polly,  447 
Promontory   Point,   576 
Property,   depreciation   of,   44 
Providence,    privateer,    275 
Pumham,  70,  71,  78 
Purchase,  Capt.,  49,  71 

Thomas,  428 
Puritan   party   in   England,   21 
Putnam,  see  Puttenham 

familv,  550,  554 

Daniel,  211 

Eben  xiii,  545,  553 

Elizabeth,  552 

Francis,  551 


Putnam,  John,  551,  552,  574 

Henry,   551 

Gen.  Israel,  130,  551 

Israel,  435 

Lydia,  547 

Margaret,  551 

Nathaniel,  551,  552 

Nicholas,  550,  551 

Phoebe,  547,  550,  552 

Priscilla,  551 

Richard,  551 

Rufus,  394,  395 

Gen.  Rufus,  136,  551 

Thomas,  551 
Puttenham,  Herts,  Eng.,  550 
Puttenham,  550 

Agnes,  550 

Alina,  550 

Edmund,  551 

Galo  de,  550 

George,  551 

Sir  George,  551 

Henry,  550,  551 

Henry  de,  550 

John  de,  550 

Richard  de,  550 

Sir  Roger,  550 

Robert,  550 

Simon   de,   550 

Wale  de,  550 

Walter  de,  550 

William,  550,  551 
Pyle,  Esther,  268 
Pynchon,  William,  25,  52 


Quakers  (see  Friends),  431 

in  Calif.,  259 
Quansagomack,  98 
Quarterlv  Courts,  45 
Quebec,  146 

Quimbv,  Capt.,  378,  379 
Quincy,  Elizabeth,  127,  128 

Samuel,  128 
Quinnebaugh,  Quinabaug,  86,  94 
Quinsigamond  Pond,  98 


Raisixs,  259 

Raleigh,  Sir  Walter,  274 
Ranger,   Abigail,   567 
Rankin,  Harvev,  365 

Lily  B.,  365 
Rasbach,  Fanny  H.,  358 
Rawlins,  Benjamin,  374 

Nicholas,  374 

Thomas,  25 
Ray,  Caleb,  323 

Deborah,  323 
Raynolds,  Emily,  368 


INDEX 


645 


Read,  Benjamin,  329 

George,  274 

Jacob,  347 

Sarah,  417 

Thomas,  36,  417 
Redding,  B.  B.,  581 
Reed,  Col.,  132,  346 

Rev.  Mr.,  523,  524 

Cloe,  454 

Elizabeth,  122,  123,  558 

James,  532,  533 

John,  109,  122,  454,  558 

Joel,  347 

Samuel,  210 

Sarah,  416,  417 

William,  405 
Reid  Brothers,  of  San  Francisco,  248 

James,  329,  446 

James  W.,  248 

Merritt  J.,  248 
Rennick,  Maj.,  478 
Renton  Coal  Mines,  254 
Reynolds,  Capt.,  489 

D.,  379 

W.  A.,  232 
Rhea,  Samuel,  488 
Rhode  Island,  69,  70 

Aquidnessett,  79 

Barrington,  454 

Kingstown,  79 

Lonsdale,  190 

Narragansett  Bay,  69 

Newport,  453 

Paucatuck,  79 

Pawtuxet,  69 

Providence,  454 

Shawomet,  70,  71,  78 

Rochester,  (Kingstown),  79 

Warwick,  70 

Westerly,  82 

Wickford,  71,  79,  82;  troubles,  at,  83 
Rhodes,  William,  225 
Rice,  Lucv,  129 

Marv,  130,  141 

Robert,  61 
Richards,  540,  560 

Alice  B.,  205 

Capt.,  457 

Charles  F.,  206 

David  E.,  205 

Edward,  119 

Fannie,  H.,  205 

Francis  T.,  206 

George,  521 

George  C,   152,   205,  523,   525,  532, 
536,  539. 

George  L.,  205,  220 

Grace,  206 

Helen  R.,  220 

Jeremiah,  145,  458 


Richards,  John,  97,  102,  120,  428 

Lucy  A.,  205,  521,  523,  525,  531,  532, 
536,  539 

Mary,  435 

Richard,  586 
Richardson,  518 

Capt.,  336,  501 

Miss,  225 

Alice  G.,  362 

Amos,  78,  80 

C,  346 

Caleb,  340,  347,  348 

Edward  G.,  362 

George  E.,  361 

Isabel,  176 

Phebe  S.,  366 

Moses,  538 

S.,  348,  422 

Stephen,  347 

Susan  M.,  361 

Wyman,  366 
Rideout,  Dolly,  393 
Rilev,  496 
Ritchie,  Albert  M.,  211 

Effie  H.,  211 

Katie  M.  W.,  211 

Nettie  H.,  211 

Rose  L.,  211 

Rose  M.,  211 
Roach,  333 
Roberts,  12 

John,  55 
Robertson,  Enoch,  346,  347 

Jean,   192 

William,  192 
Robeson,  Elizabeth,  568 

Joseph,  568 
Robbins,  Betsey,  211 

Charlotte,  39*3 

Daniel  M.,  393 
Robins,  John,  586 
Robinson,  167 

Capt.,  380 

Christopher,  585 

Col.,  133 

Helen  R.,  220 

Isaac,  426 

Obed,  342 

Robert,  558,  581 

Roswell  R.,  220 
Robishaw,  Mary,  314,  328 
Rode,  John,  586 
Rogers,  30 

Major,  309 

Abraham,  415 

Ezekiel,  77 

Gamaliel,  415,  416 

Jane,  415 

Jean,  415 


646 


INDEX 


Rogers,  John,  76 
Katherine,  77 
Lydia,  415 
Margaret,  76 
Nathaniel,  75,  77 
Peter,  379 
Samuel,  76,  77 
Sarah,  415 
Simon,  416 
Timothy,  77 
William,  385 
Romanoek,  Sachem,   100 
Rooke,  George,  402 
Root,  Blanch,  185 
Rose,  Roger,  409 
Rosier,  John,  585 
Ross,  George,  393 

Rebecca,  393 
Roswell,  Sir  Henry,  32 
Rosyer,  John,  585 
Rounday,  520 

Rough  and  Ready  Company,  170 
Rowe,  Abigail,  435 
Allen,  227 
Stephen,  435 
Rowlee,  Anna,  355 
Caroline,  355 
Earl,  355 
Ernest,  355 
Jane,  355 
John,  355 
John  C,  355 
Julia,  355 
Virgil,  355 
Royal,  Isaac,  110 
Royal  Commissioners,  81 
Royser,  John,   585 
Royston,  Herts,  4,  9,  11,  19 
Rucker,  Capt.,  480 
Ruffe,  H.  S.,  496 
Ruggles,  Col.,  455 
George,  31 
Samuel,  38 
Rule,  Margaret,  317 
Runnell,  Capt.,  398 
Russell,  Ann,  373 
Benjamin,  533 
Elizabeth,  184 
Judith,  482 
Levi,  H.,  520,  533 
Mary,  482,  483 
Polly,  482 
Samuel,  110 
William,  482 
Rutherford,  463 
Gen.,  472,  485 
Rutherun,  Rachel,  490 
Ryan,  E.  Black,  581 

Sabia,  an  island,  120 


Sabin,  James,  425 

Warren,  499 
Saceneneco,  70 
Safford,  H.  K.  P.,  578,  581 
Sage,  Sarah,  200 
Salt,  manufacture  of,  44 
Salter,  Charles  C,  232 
Saltonstall,  Sir  Richard,  52 

Richard,  69,  145,  460 
Salvation  Army,  223 
Sampson,  Benjamin,  526 
Sanborn,  Andrew,  333 
J.  Andrew,  333 
Elizabeth,  333 
Nathaniel  N.,  333 
Sarah,  333 
Solomon  H.,  333 
Sandborn,  Abijah,  355 
Alice,  355 
Arthur,  355 
Calista,  355 
Eliza,  355 
Jane,  355 
Juliett,  355 
Mary  E.,  355 
Sadie,  355 
Volney,  355 
Sanderson,  F.  W.,  581 
Isaac,  407 
Lucv,  407 
San  ford,  Capt.,  500 

Robert,  95 
Sankikan,  68 
Sanxay,  Frederick,  354 

Mary,  354 
Sard,  Anne,  185 
Sargent,  Col.,  394,  401 
A.  A.,  573,  574,  581 
Adelaide  J.,  366,  367 
Alice,  381 
Anna  H.,  367 
Arthur  H.,  366 
Dorothy,  384,  393 
Edith  A.,  366 
Elijah,  395 
Elizabeth,  380 
Emilie,  366 
Emilie  H.,  366 
George  D.,  366 
George  W.,  367 
Joanna,  366 
John,  384,  393 
Joseph,  380 
Margaret,  366 
Maria,  366 
Marie,  366 
Mary  A.,  367 
Marv  W.,  367 
Paul  D.,  395 
Rachel,  380 


INDEX 


647 


Sargent,  Tappan,  366 

Virginia  A.,  367 
Sassomitt,  Simon,  an  Indian,  103 
Satle  (see  Sawtell) 
Savage,  Maj .,  92,  409 

Habijah,  119 

Thomas,  75,  95,  96,  102 
Sawtell,  John,  405 

Ruth,  405 
Sawyer,  Priscailla,  211 
Scammell,  Alexander,  445 
Scarburgh,  Edmund,  585 
Sehaff,  Philip,  255 
Schaiek,  Goose  van,  466,  467 
Schoolmasters,  45 
School,  Collection  of  funds  in  England 

for,  55 
Schools,  establishment  of,  53,  54 
Schuyler,  P.,  467 
Scott,  Gen.,  476 

Rev.  W.  A.,  246 

Cecill,  355 

Frank,  355 

John,  81,  355 

Stella,  355 
Scottow,  John,  413 
Scudder,  Elizabeth,  515 
Scruggs,  Capt.,  503 
Seal,  of  Joshua  Hewes,  87 
Searl,  William,  130 
Searles,  Mrs.,  262 
Sears,  Marv,  371 

Thomas,  *371 
Seattle  Coal  Co.,  253,  254 
Seaver,  William  W.,  352 
Seccomb,  Jane,  124 

Richard,  124 
Sedgwick,  Maj.,  65 

Robert,  41,  67,  99 
Selby,  Thomas,  422 
Selden,  Maj.,  514 
Selectmen,  33 
Selleck,  David,  62 
Sellers,  Horace  W.,  355 
Seneca  Indians,  491 
Servants,  30 
Sevear,  Valentine,  471 
Sever,  Abigail,  318 

Shubael,  319 
Sevier,  Capt.,  484,  487 

John,  472 
Sewall,  Samuel,  111 
Seward,  H.  L.,  369 

Secretary,  W.  H.,  251,  252,  577 
Sexton,  Samuel,  424 
Shailer,  Rachel,  435 
Shakespeare,  551 
Shalford,  Essex,  10 
Shannon,  533 


Sharp,  George,  214 

William  H.,  214 
Sharpe,  Samuel,  39 
Shattuck,  254 

George  O.,  228 
Shaw,  75 

Eleabe,  219 

Emelie  M.,  219 

Mary  E.,  219 

Sarah,  486 
Shawe,  Abraham,  45 
Shawnee  Indians,  487 
Shawomet,  70,  71,  78 
Shay,  Anson,  141 
Shead,  Col.,  493 
Sheafe,  Jacob,  74 
Shedd,  Lucretia,  361 

Samuel  A.,  361 

Susan  A.,  361 
Shelby,  487 
Sheldon,  Arthur  T.,  365 

Martha  G.,  365 

William,  74 
Shell,  H.,  497 
Shelton,  J.,  502 
Shepard,  Amos,  139 

Lewis,  348 

Olivia,  348 
Sheppard,  Col.,  413,  426 

Samuel,  315 
Sheerness,  Ship  of  War,  417 
Sheriff,  Martha,  434 

Thomas,  434 
Sherman,  Daniel,  145 

William,  581 
Ship  Grand  Monarch,  390 

Griffin,  23,  515 

Norfolk,   233 

Whiddo,   121 
Shields,  Jane,  195 

Jane  A.,  513 
Shrimpton,  Samuel,  75 
Shrvmpton,  Henry,  74 
Shute,  533 

Sibley, -,  401 

Sigourney,  Daniel,  414,  415 
Sikes,  William,  295 
Silly,  Benjamin,  328 

(Sealey),  Sarah,  328,  329 
Simonds,  Francis,  537 
Simmons,  J.  B.,  190 
Simpson,  Anne,  185 

Edward  M.,  185 

George,  185 

Howard  S.,  185 

Jane,  424 

Mary,  185 
Sims,  Zachariah,  454 
Sinclair,  484 


648 


INDEX 


Sinclair,    William,    120 
Sizer,  John,  475 
Skinner,  Samuel,  152 
Slaves,  114,  117 
Slegg,  109,  110 
Sloan,  Samuel,  415 
Small,  Lydia,  547 
Smedley,  Capt.,  341 
Smith,  Arthur,  586 

Family,  563 

Capt.,  426 

Col.  J.,  135 

Prof.,  229 

Abigail,  493 

Abraham,  563 

Amos,  563,  564 

Asa,  563,  564 

David,  563 

Deacon,  524,  534 

Eleazer,  563 

Elizabeth,  563,  564 

Frances,  585 

Frank  M.,  200 

Hannah,  108 

J.,  132 

James,  103,  406,  428 

Jesse,  564 

John,  101,  563,  564,  585 

Levi,  533 

Lois,  181 

Louisa,  151,  181 

Martha,  495 

Mary,  151,  412,  547,  548,  563,  564 

Nathan,  563,  564 

Nathaniel,  547,  548 

Richard,  78,  80,  81,  83,  84 

Robert,  276,  295 

Ruth,  564 

Sarah,  563 

Stephen,  563 

William,   181 
Smith's  Trading  House,  R.  I.,  78,  79 
Snyder,  Frank,  365 

Mabel,  365 

Martha  M.,  359 

Nora,  365 

Zela,  365 
Somerby,  Sarah,  388 
Somers,  Capt.,  488 
Somes,  John,  385 
Southcot,  Thomas,  32 
Southern  Pacific  Ry.,  grant  of  water 

front  by  Oakland,  257 
Southworth,   Thomas,  428 
Sowers,  J.  H.,  500 
Spaulding,  L.,  446 
Spence,  Mary  A.,  353,  360 
Spencer,   Col.,  476 
Gideon,  470 


Spencer,   Thomas,   6 

William,  41,  58 
Spenser,  Gen.,  347 
Spike,  The  Last,  571,  576 
Spink,  Robert,  84 
Spinney,  Eliza  J.,   151 

George,  151 
Sprague,  Homer   B.,  232 

James,  383 

Persis,  383 
Sprege,  Olivia,  586 
St.  Paul's,  Boston,  95,  97 

Shadwell,   London,  266 
Stabblefield,  Capt.,  476 
Stacy,   Elizabeth,  424 

Thomas,  340 
Stak,  John,  447 
Stamp,  Capt.,  496 
Stanbank,  John,  267 
Standard,  Thomas,  6 
Standish,  Miles,  367,  400 
Stanford  University,  195,  199 

A.  P.,  249,  581 

Jane  E.,  195 

Leland,  195,  201,  236,  249,  251,  252, 
508,  573,  575,  576,  577,  578,  579, 
580,  581 

Leland  DeWitt,  195 

Leland,  Jr.,   Museum,  199 
Stanley,  Ella  H,  363 

Solomon,  346 
Stanton,  Capt.,  474 

Thomas,  80,  83 
Stark,  Gen.,   141 

John,  446 
Starling,  Nancy,  488 
Steamship  Crescent  City,  233 

Unicorn,  233 
Steamships,  Morgan  line  of,  233 
Stearn,  237 

Stearnell,  Richard,  585 
Stearns,  Ezra  S.,  389 

Hannah,   343 

Joshua,  343 
Stebbins,  30 

John,  76,  77 
Steevens,  Thomas,  586 
Stephen,  King,  553 
Sterns,  John,  405 
Stevens,  Gen.,  134,  476 

Dr.,  525 

Rev.,  154 

Annie,  177 

Dorothy,  314 
Elizabeth,  383,  438 

James,  402 

John,  311,  312,  314 

Mary,  318 

Mary  K.,  396 


INDEX 


649 


Stevens,  Samuel,  316,   318 

Timothy,  316,  321 

William,  36 

William  M.,  230,  231,  232 
Stewart,  Senator,  230,  231 
Stickney,   Col.,  446 

Anthony,  455,  459 
Stillman,'j.  D.  B.,  581 
Stilwel,  Elias,  438 
Stirling,  Lord,  134 
Stoddard,  56 

Stone's  Meadow,  Lynnfield,  147 
Stone,  Almira,  343 

Eliab,  180,  211 

Francis  M.,  180 

John,  428,  433 

Mary,  433 

William,   433 
Storrer,  Melancthon,  232 
Stoughton,  102 

William,  100 
Stowe,  Thomas,  41 
Strahan,  James,  557 
Streeter,  Abigail,  131 
Strieker,  Daniel,  334 
Stringer,  Lydia,  128 
Strong,  Leo,  61 
Strowbridge,  J.  H.,  580 
Sturdivant,  John,  585 
Sullivan,  Gen.,  140,  308,  341 
Sullivan,  Richard  H.,  478 
Sumpner,   Katherine,  74 
Sumpter,     Thomas,     his     election     as 

partisan  leader,  491 
Sumner,   Benjamin,  334 

Mercy,  334 

Sallie,  334 
Summers,  Sir  George,  185 

Emily,  185 
Sundav     School,     first     at    Lawrence, 

Mass.,  202 
Sunday  School  Library,  first  in  Calif., 

204 
Surcum,   Richard,   124 
Surcumb,  Jane,  124 
Surrinam,  119 
Sutton,  Mary,  111,  561,  562 

William,  111,  562 
Swain,  Benjamin,   151,  524 

Betsey,  151,  186 

Caroline  151 

Clarissa,  151 

Howard,  151 

John  P.,  176 

Lizzie  P.,  176 

Marv,  151 

Oliver,  151,   156,  225,  226,  524,  526, 
531,  533,  535 

Rosa  A.,  176 


Swain,  Ruthe,  151,  156,  518 
Swedes   on  the  Delaware,   68 
Sweetman,  Thomas,  410 
Sweetser,  518 

Catherine,  177 
Swett,  Charlotte,  206 

Lavinia,  206 

Samuel,  206 

Sophia,  206 
Swinford,  James,  486 
Sybthorpe,  alias  Huse,  7 
Symmons,  Thomas,  119 
Symms,  Mary,  407 
Symonds,  Thomas,  586 
Symons,  Thomas,  586 

Tabb,  Philip,  473 
Taft,  Mary,  344 

Nathan,  344 

Robert,  101 
Talcott,  North,  465 
Talbot,  Jean,  406 

Hannah,  406 

Roger,  406 
Tallbut,  Jean,  406 
Tanning  industry  in   Boston,  319 
Tapley  Family,  545 

Family  reunion,  263 

Genealogy,  202 

Tomb,  157,  263 

Aaron,  548 

Ann  M.,  549 

Betsy,  548 

Charles,  545 

Clarissa,  153,  549 

Edward,  545 

Eliza  W.,  548 

Elizabeth,  547 

Emblme,  546 

Fellows,  226 

Friswide,  546 

George,  158 

George  F.,  226 

George  W.,  548 

Gilbert,  545,  546,  547,  550,  552,  554 

Gustavus,  226 

Harriet  S.,  563 

Jesse,   153,   160,  215,  548 

Jesse  F.,  548 

John,  547 

Joseph,  151,  153,  532,  538,  546,  547, 
548,  554,  564 

Josias,  546 

Julian,  546 

Lucy,  549 

Lydia,  547 

Margaret,  547 

Margarie,  545 

Man-,  151,  547,  549,  564 


650 


INDEX 


Tapley,  Miranda,  549 

Phebe,  550,  552 
Phoebe,  547 

Phoebe  P.,  548 

Philip,  545 

Polly,  548 

Rowena,  548 

Ruthe,  548,  550,  554 

Sarah,  547,  548 

Sarah,  A.,  549 

Stephen,  545 

Thomasine,  546 

Titus,  546 

William,  547 
Tappen,  John,  457 
Tarbox,  Mary,  149 
Tariff,  the,  227 
Tarleton,  Col.,  473,  491 
Tash,  Col.,  398 
Tate,  Wadsworth,  463 
Taylor,  167 

Capt.,  487 

Archibald,  487 

Betsv,  406,  407 

Elizabeth,  567 

Hannah,  150 

John,  406,  407 

Richard,   134 

Samuel  H.,  228 

William,  87,  585 

Zaehary,  234 
Taxes,   collection   of,  46,  47 
Teal,  Abigail,  454 
Tehauntepec,  233 
Temple,   444,   523,   527 

Alice  B.,  362 

Robert,  460 
Ten  Eyck,  Sally,  359 

Sarah  A.,  358 

William,  358 
Tennessee,  472,  502,  503,  504 

Blount   Co.,  484 

Green  Co.,  472 

Lawrence  Co.,  489,  490 

Lincoln  Co.,  490 

Maury  Co.,  489 

McMim  Co.,  484 

Sullivan  Co.,  487,  488 
Tenney,  Elizabeth,  397 
Tenny,  Josephine  H.,  208 
Terise,  Nicholas,  60 
Tew,  Elizabeth,  113 

Henry,  113 

Mary,  113,  117 
Tewksbury,  Henry,  558 
Tewxsbery,  555 
Texas,   503 

Jasper  Co.,  495 
Thatcher,  Samuel,  48 


Thatcher,  Thomas,  424 
Thawyt,  Alexander,  428 
Thayer,   Richard,   102 

Sally,  359 
Thayre,  Capt.,  136 

Richard,   101 
Thissell,  Ann,  568 
Thoman,  Arthur  G.,  177 

Ethelind   F.,  177 

Evelyn  M.,  177 
Thomas,  Benjamiin,  211 

Betsey,  211 

Helen  M.,  189 

John,  491 

Lavinia,  211 

Mary  Ann,  211 

Pauline,  211 

Ruth,  211 
Thompson,  Capt.,  488 

Gen.,  308 

Abigail,  434 

Elizabeth,  569 

George,  476 

John,  434,  451 

Joseph,  145 

Phillis,  569 

Robert,  97,  100 

Roger,  476 

Samuel,  569 

Sarah,  482 

William,  569 
Thompson's  Island,  53 
Thrall,   Nancy   A.,  494 
Threeneedle,  Bartholomew,  410 

Demaris,  410 
Throckmorton,   Francis,   551 

Sir  John,  551 

Margaret,   551 
Thurman,  Allen  G.,  295 
Ticknor,   John,   79 
Tie,  Laurel,  578 
Tiffany,  Hosea,  347 

Thomas,  347 
Tiken,  Capt.,  502 
Tilden,   Hannah,  447 

Thomas,  447 
Tilly,  323 
Tilton,  P.,  447 
Tingley,  343 
Tipton,  Jacob,  484 
Titabe,   an   Indian,  401 
Titcomb,  Capt.,  390 

Col.,  348 
Tocomino,  80 
Todd,  Rev.  Dr.,  578 

Thomas,  586 
Toppan,  Abraham,  374 

Jacob,  374 

Mary,  375 


INDEX 


651 


Toppan,  Sally,  397 

Samuel,  375,  457 

Sarah,  373,  374 
Toppesfield,  Eng.,  11 
Tories,  308,  341,  478,  489,  491 
Towles,  Elizabeth,  469 

Stokeley,  469 
Town,  A.   N.,  214 
Town  system  of  New  England,  33 
Towns,  development  of,  49;  incorpora- 
tion of,  47;  local  government,  50; 
magistrates   in,   52;   meetings,  50, 
51;  military  officers  in,  52;  origin 
of,   49;   proprietors,   50,   51;   pru- 
dential   affairs,    52;    residents    in 
"warned,"  123 
Townsend,    539 

Hannah,  437 

Harriet  E.,  210 

Nathaniel,  437 
Townsmen,  33 
Trade,  57,  58,  59 
Trading  Co.  incorporated,  69 
Train   bands,  37,   138 
Trask,  39 

William,  52 
Tray   (Indians),  101 

Anthony,    101 

Ephraim,   101 

Thomas,  103 

Tom,  101,  102 
Trerice,  Nicholas,  61,  62 
Trenton,  Battle  of,  134 
Trescott,  Marv,  15 
Tritle,  F.  A.,  578,  581 
Trumbull,  Edwin  B.,  228 
Trumbull,   frigate,  436 
Tryon,  Gov.,  309 
Tuberculosis  in  Lynn,  156 
Tucker,   Fluvilla  B.,  364 

Lizzie,  179 

Marv,  557 

Mary  A.,  225,  226 

Sarah  E.,  210 
Tupper,  Col.,  452 
Turner,  Col.,  380 

Capt.,  58,  430 

Emily,  419 

James,  190 

Nathaniel,  52 

Richard,  60 

Robert,  421 

Sarah,  421 

Sophia  N.,  419 

William,  456,  457 
Tustin,     First     Presbyterian     Church, 

258 
Tuttle,  David,  437 

Lydia,  435 


Tuttle,  Noah,  435 
Twelve,  Abigail,  318 

Edward,  318 

Judith,  318 
Twichell,  Joseph,  16 
Twigg,  Gen.,  496 
Tyler,  Pres.,  228 
Tyley,  Samuel,  119 
Twiss,  Sally,   164 
Tynge,  Edward,  48 
Tyngrie,  Sibilla  de,  553 

Ulmer,  Capt.,  451 
Uncas,  70 
Underhill,   39 

Mrs.,  406 

Capt.  John,  41,  42 

Robert,  190 
Underwood,  Alexander  L.,  219 

Elizabeth,  405 

Fannie  H.  A.,  219 

Helen  A.,  219 
Union  Pacific  R.  R.,  250,  251,  571,  574 
Upham,  Tamson,  149 
Upton,  Arthur,  165 

David  G.,  165 

Hannah  E.,  165 

Lucia,  165 

Marv  F.,  165 

Paul  H.,  165 
Usher,  87 
Utah,   Ogden,  576 
It  lev.  Amy,  438 

John,  438 

YanBuren,  Daniel,  355 

Helen  C,  356 

Louisa  E.,  356 

Louisa  J.,  355 

Mary  E.,  355 

Martha  G.,  356 
Vandenburg,    F.    L.,    580 
Vanderbilt,  Commodore,  233 
Vanderling,  Charles  E.,  232 
VanMeter,  John,  495 
Van  Schaick,  Goose,  466,  467 
Van   Vliet,  Cynthia   B.,  205 
Varnum,  Ovid,  340 
Vather,  Capt.,  467 
Vaughn,  Col.,  314 
Verbeck,  Sarah  M.,  389 
Vermont,  Averill,  443 

Canaan,  442 

Essex  Co.,  442 

Maidstone,  443 

Milton,  350,  449 

Newbury,  441 

Orange,'  391 

Putney,  378 


652 


INDEX 


Vermont,    Waterbury,    391 
Vernon,   Ind.,  493 
Viers,  Gilson,  500 

Bowman,  152,  164 

Sally,   164 

Sarah  J.,  164 
Vigilance  Committee,  240 
Villard,  Henry,  241,  244,  248 
Virginia,  regiments,  134 
Virginia,     Settlers     in     by    name    of 

Hewes,  Hughes,  599 
Virginia,   62,   134,   402,  463,   468,   500, 
501,  504 

Abingdon,  503 

Amherst,  474 

Black  Walnut,  480 

Botetourt  Co.,  479 

Brunswich  Co.,  476 

Charles   City,  479 

Campbell  Co.,  504 

Charlotte  Co.,  481 

Clarksburgh,  471 

Culpepper  Co.,  480 

Fayette  Co.,  479 

Fluvana  Co.,  476 

Gotchland  Co.,  474 

Hampshire  Co.,  478 

Hanover  Co.,  475,  479 

Harrison  Co.,  479 

Kingston,  473 

Jackson  Co.,  480 

Jefferson  Co.,  477 

Prince  William  Co.,  479 

Lunenburgh,  482 

Orange  Co.,  480 

Overwharton  parish,  470 

Powhatan  Co.,  477 

Richmond,  362 

Washington  Co.,  488 

Westmoreland  Co.,  474 

Winsburg,  134 
Virginia,  West,  501,  502 
Vosburgh,   Rev.,  217 

Wabax,  an  Indian,  101 
Wrade,  N.,  390 
Wadsworth,  Gen.,  514 
Wages,  57,  58 
Wait,  Nathaniel,  444 
Waite,   Benjamin,   142 

Deborah,  323,  425 
Wakley,  Daniel,  450 
Walch,  Patrick,  340 
Waldron,  Grace,  6 
Wales,  462 
Wales,  princes  of,  263 

Nathaniel,  72 
Walker,  widow,  87 

Col.,  346 


Walker,  Abigail,  127,  128 

Dexter  H.,  xiii,  xvi,  265,  273 

John,  128,  129,  427,  488,  489 

Joseph,  128,  129 

Lucy,  128 

Mary,  417 

Oliver,  128 

Priscilla,  128 

Reuben,  128 

Richard,  41,  417 

Sarah,  128 

Susannah,  128 
Walkup,  John,  500 
Wallace,  463 

Capt.,  340 
Walton,  166,  167 

George,  274 

Shadrack,  451,  455 
Walworth,  James  C,  342 
Wampus,  Ann,  95,  97,  99,  100 

John,  93,  95,  97,  100,  101,  102,  103 
Warbleton,  John  de,  551 

Margaret,  550 

Thomas  de,  552 

William  de,  552 
Ward,  James,  56 

Rev.   Nathaniel,  56 
Ware,  Benjamin,  321 

Daniel,  314 

Jerusha,  314 

Mary,  314,  321 

Nathaniel,  451,  455 

Olive,  314 
War,  King  Philip's,  95 

Queen  Anne's,  104 

of  1812,  483,  493 
Warner,  Capt.,  438 

Alonzo,  213 

Celia  G.,  213 

Daniel,  441 

John,  98 

Nicholas,  98 

Ruth,  213 
Warning  by  Towns,  123 
Warren,  Hooper,  334 

Dr.  Joseph,  318 

Mary,  318 
Washington,  Col.,  491 

Augustine,  468 

George,  298,  308,  468 

Mary,  468 

William,  485 
Wasson,  John,  341 
Waterman,   Richard,  73 
Waters,  Capt.,  236 

Henry  F.,  9,  468 

William  C„  166,  167,  171,  174 
Watrus,  Mary,  357 
Watson,  Capt.,  426 


INDEX 


653 


Watson,  J.  R.,  581 
Jennie  S.,  263 
Walter  C.  R.,  263 
Webb,  Christopher,  102 
Henry,  65,  560 
Sarah  M.,  142 
Weber,  Thomas,  428 
Webber,  Harriet,  354 

Thomas,  560 
Webster,  Prof.,  525,  526 
Anne,  382 
Hannah,  373 
Israel,  373 
Jacob,  378,  379 
John,  440,  455 
Mary,  372 
Stephen,  395 
Wedding  A,  of  1779,  139 
Welch,  428 

Benjamin,  581 
Weld,  Capt.  Joseph,  27 

Rev.  Thomas,  25,  28,  29,  56,  60 
Joseph,  41,  46,  55,  56 
Thomas,  27,  28,  29,  55,  76,  77 
Well,  Richard,  585 
Wellington.  Catherine  C,  407 

Samuel,  407 
Wellman   farm.  Lynfield,  147 
house,  Lynnfield,  150 
Family,  565 
Wellman,  148,  565,  566,  567 
Abigail,  566,  567 
Abraham,    147,    148,    149,    150,    565, 

566,  567,  568,  569,  570 
Ann,   143,   568 
Anna,  568 
Elizabeth,    565,    566,    567,   568,    569, 

570 
Hannah,  566 
Isaac,  565,  566 
Jacob,  143,  566,  567,  568 
James,  566,  567 
Jedidiah,  150 
Jennie,  143 
Jenne,  568 
John,  567,  568 
Jonathan,  148 
Lulu,  364 
Martha,  567 
Marv,  565,  566,  567 
Mehitable,  567 
Sarah,  565,  566,  567,  568 
Stephen,  149,  150,  565,  566 
Thomas,  148,  565,  566,  567 
William,  565 
Wells,   Francis,   414 
Horace,   354 
Sarah,  387 
Sarah  H.,  354 


Welsh,  435 

Nathaniel,  480 
Welstead,  William,  556,  557 
Wendell,  Jacob,  332 

John,  457,  458 
Wentworth,  Alice,  261 
Edith  H,  361 
Edward  S.,  361 
Horace,  361 
Lucretia  W.,  361 
Lydia  G.,  361 
Wesson,  Col.,  384 
West,  Ammi,  211 
Charles  E.,  211 
Francis  E.,  211 
George  H,  211 
Lavinia,  211 
Rose  L.,  211 
Thomas   P.,   180,  211 
Westbrook,  Thomas,  452,  459 
Weston,  Col.,  395 

Susan,  208 
West  Reading  Academy,  227 
Westwood,  William,  48 
Wethersfield,  Essex,  10 
Wevman,  Lucv,  392 

William,  392 
Wheaton,  Laban,  344 
Whedon,  Grace,  435,  436 
Wheeler,  Lt.,  134 
Abijah,  378 
Moses,  342 
Rev.  O.  C,  243 
Wheelock,  Col.,  135,  348 
Wheelwright,  John,  460 
Whetcomb,  Simon,  32 
Whiddo,  ship,  121 
Whig  Party  campaign,  228 
Whipple,  Amelia,  354 
Elizabeth,  354 
Emily,  354 
Francis  J.,  354 
George  M.,  339,  354 
Harriet,  354 
John,  76 
Julia,  354 
Mary,  354 
Olive,  354 
Olive  B.,  354 
Preserved,  334,  354 
Sarah  H,  354 
Stephen,  456 
Sumner,  354 
William,  274 
Whitcomb,  Jonathan,  329 
White,  Daniel,  502 
Ellen,  366 
Emilie  H,  366 
Garrett,  486 
Hannah,   314,  317,  327 


654 


INDEX 


White,  Henrietta,  363 

Henry,  304 

Rev.  John,  32 

John,  428 

Isaac,  314,  317 

Mary,  502 

Polly,  502 

Ralph  H.,  366 

Samuel,  498 

Simeon,  486 

Rev.  William,  277,  294 

alias  Wampus,  John,  97 
Whiting,  Mr.,  403 

Col.,  435 

Capt.  M.,  133 

Capt.  Samuel,  437 

Lyman,  229 
Whitsett,  Emily,  498,  499 

Joseph,  499 
Whittemore,  Aaron,  406,  407 

Dorothy,  384 

Lucy,  406,  407 
Whittier,  David,  382,  394,  395 

Mary,  382 
Whittredge,  Lydia,  159 

William,  524 
Wiatt,   Bartholomew,   265 
Wicker,  Adelbert  A.,  205 

Adele  H.,  205 

Alice  B.,  205 

Cynthia  B.,  205 

Ira  B.,  205 

Richard  Van  V.,  205 
Wier,  Lorilla,  363 
Wiggin,  Laura  A.,  206 
Wilder,  214 

Capt.,  133 

John,  354 
Wiley,  540 

Capt.,  401 

Benjamin,  159,  160 

Eli,  549 

Eliza,  208 

Frederick,  520 

Jacob,  208 

Lucy,  549 
Nabby,  208 

Samuel,  153 

Samuel,  549 
Wilks,  a  pirate,  119 
Will,  curious,  325 
Willard,  Josiah,  113 
Willett,  Thomas,  80 
Willey,  S.  H.,  244 
William,  Gibbon,  190 
an  Indian,  101 
Joseph,  456 
Williams,  49,  71 
Capt.,  484 


Williams,  Ann,  411 

G.,  348 

James,  120 

John,  429 

Joseph,  145,  457,  458 

Joshua,  109 

Martha,  192 

Mary,  473 

Roger,  69,  70,  78 

Samuel,  14,  472 

Thomas,  470 
Williamson,   Capt.,  477 

Gen.,  491 

James,  585 

Secretary,  97 
Willmarth,  Capt.,  336 
Wdloughbv,  John,  387 
W ilson,  Lt,  349 

Senator,  574 

A.,  501 

Agnes,  447 

Benjamin,  350,  471 

Elizabeth,  104 

Everett,  162 

James,  447 

Jane,  447 

Rev.  John,  75,  76,  78 

John,  447 

Nancy  E.,  490 

Sarah,  350,  447 

Thomas,  502 
Windsor  Castle,  552 
Wingate,  Col.,  378,  379,  446 
Winn,  Ann  M.,  189 

Edward,  189 

Henrietta  J.,  189 

William,  189,  469 
WTinslow,  37 

Gen.,  460 

John,  116 

Josias,  80 

Kenelm,  367 

Samuel,  44 
Winston,  Joseph,  477 

Letitia  D.,  477 
Winter,  Benjamin,  125 

Hannah,  111,  115,  117,  122,  123,  125, 
558,  559 

Mary,  125 

Samuel,  125 

Stephen,   111,   122,   125,   559 
Winthrop,  Adam,  61 

Gov    John,    23,    24,    31,   32,    35,   52, 
428,  560 

John,  Jr.,  40,  52,  60,  64,  66,  78,  97 

John  Still,  129 

Stephen,  61 
Wisconsin,  Kennawha  Co.,  443 
Wise,  Joseph,  76 


INDEX 


655 


Wiswall,  John,  76 
Witchcraft,  317 

Salem,  400 
Witt,  Benjamin  F.,  499 
Wittor,  Abigail,  425 
Wittredge,  George,  520 

William,  520 
Woampus,  alias  Wampus,  Old,  101 

John,  101 
Wolf,  Minnie,  356 
Wolfe,   Gen.,  146 
Woodbury,  John,  52 

Joseph  T.,  208 

Josephine  H.,  208 
Woodcock,   Abigail,   350 

Jonathan,    350 
Woods,  Richard,  425 
Woodson,  Capt.,  477,  485 
Woodward,  I.  D.,  476 
Woody,  John,  28,  84 

Richard,  76,  99 
Woolen  Mills  at  Lynfield,  147 
Woolridge,  58 

Woolsev,  Theodore,  228,  231 
Work,  Mr.,  230 
Worth,  Anne,  269,  270,  272 

Benjamin,  270 

Elizabeth,  270 

Giles,  269 

James,  270 

Joseph,  269,  270,  272 

Mary,  269 

Providence,  270,  272,  273 

Samuel,  270,  272 

Sarah,  269,  270 

Ursulla,  270 

William,  270,  272 


Wright,   Rev.   Mr.,  534 

Milcah,  99 

Miriam,  137 

Rozina,  465 

William,  465 
Writs,  Clerk  of,  47 
Wyard,  Robert,  97 
Wyeth,  journey  to  the  coast,  250 
Wykeham,  William  de,  552 
Wyles,  Judith,  318 
Wyman,  Simeon,  425 
Wynkoop,  Col.,  467 
Wyre,  John,  586 

Yabsley,  545 

Yale,    College,    231;    student    life    at, 

232;  Class  of  '52,  232 
Yaney,  Capt.,  474 
Yeager,  Althea,  185 
Yeales,  Timothy,  409 
Ynes,  King  of  Gwent,  6,  7 
Young,  521,  527,  528,  530,  539 

Col.,  496 

Betsy,  483,  527 

Clara  A.,  207 

George  W.,  207 

Sir  John,  32 

Joseph,  489 

Marv,  454 

Rebecca   B.,  207 

Thomas,  483 

William,  233 

William  W.,  207 

William  S.,  207 

Zippora.  negro,  420 


SUPPLEMENTARY  INDEX 

Names  omitted  in  above 


Bailev,  George  P.   601 

Marv,   601 
Barrett,   Ann,  601 
Birkenhead,  John,   601 
Blakeley,  Michael,  601 
Carr,    Hazen,   602 

Roxana,   602 
Chapin,    Lydia,   602 
Chelmsford,  Eng.,  601 
Crabtree,  Hugh,  601 

Mary,  601 
Crosbie,  Marie,  601 
Foote,  Richard,  601 
Freeman,  Sarah,  602 


Fuller,  Olive  601 
Harvye,  Judith,  601 
Hewes,  Dewane,  602 

Frank,  602 

Frank  W.,  602 

George  R.  T.,  601 

Lt.   Joshua,   601 

Lydia,   602 

Moody,  602 

Newton,  602 

Norman,    602 

Olive,  601 

Roxana,   602 

Sarah,  602 


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Hewes,  Shubael,  601,  602 

Susan,  602 

Susan  L.,  602 

Walter,  601 

William  W.,  602 
Hooker,   Rev.   Thomas,  601 

Sarah,  601 
Hurlbutt,   Susan,  602 
Jegons,  Tace,  601 


Jones,  Joan,  601 
Lynne,  N.  H.,  602 
Lebanon,   N.   H.,   602 
Matroon,   Koxana,   602 
Strafford,  Vt.,  602 
Terlings,    Eng.,   601 
Thompsonville,  Conn.,  602 
Welde,   Rev.  Thomas,  601 


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